On a visit to China that comes amid a drop in iPhone sales, Apple CEO Tim Cook touted China’s importance in the firm’s supply chain as he met suppliers including BYD Electronics on Wednesday.
Reuters:
In a post on his Weibo social media account, Cook said he spent the morning walking along Shanghai’s historic Bund river with Chinese actor Zheng Kai and that he had eaten a local breakfast. He did not disclose, however, what other plans he had for this China visit.
The China Daily reported that Cook had said in an interview that “there’s no supply chain in the world that’s more critical to us than China”.
Cook also met Wang Chuanfu, founder and president of Apple supplier BYD Electronics, as well as officials from Lens Technology at the firm’s Shanghai office, the China Daily added.
Cook made at least two visits to China, Apple’s third-largest market by revenue, last year. He also travelled to Beijing around the same time last year, where he visited an Apple store and attended the China Development Forum.
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MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, good luck with that, Tim.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple is set to open its Jing’an retail store on March 21st in Shanghai.
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Makes you wonder if Apple may make another investment there, say half a billion dollars or so. Nice to have that kind of money to cover such expenses.
Went to kiss his masters a**
What a failure. He should have been fully diversified out of China a decade ago.
what part of ethic genocide, slave labor and state sanctioned organ harvesting, of prisoners of concise for profit, does Apple not get? How can they be so tone death, since by their own self declaration they are here to make the world a better place.
“Apple CEO Cook visits Shanghai with iPhone sales under pressure in China”
Economy is hurting in China, it’s not that complicated.
If its not that complicated, then explain your inference, say nothing post…