Apple CEO Tim Cook Cook met with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on Tuesday and said that Apple wants to further boost quality investment and cooperation activities in the country, according to state-owned media VTV.
Quynh Nguyen for Bloomberg News:
Vietnam has seen about a fourfold increase in companies assembling Apple products over the past decade.
The Cupertino, California-based company, in a statement, said the company is increasing its commitments to Vietnam by an unspecified amount. Apple has spent nearly 400 trillion dong ($16 billion) in the country since 2019 through its supply chain partners, the company said.
Cook, who landed in the capital city of Hanoi Monday morning, has visited with Vietnamese programmers, content creators and singers during his two-day visit to the nation’s capital of Hanoi, local media reported.
Developers CollaNote & ELSA Speak walked me through how they use Apple products to help customers boost productivity and learn. Bootloader Studio shared the new app they’re working on for Vision Pro. All three are fantastic examples of Vietnam’s fast growing developer community! pic.twitter.com/YjOxyB6qTJ
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 15, 2024
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MacDailyNews Take: More from Cook about his visit to SRV via X:
Halo Indonesia, apa kabar? Sate Ayam with iPhone photographer Sofyan Pratama was a perfect way to start my time in Jakarta! Looking forward to meeting even more of Indonesia’s creative community and developers while I’m here! pic.twitter.com/jh8NnCHctJ
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 16, 2024
Hanoi Star School is a shining example how educators are incorporating iPad into the classroom in meaningful ways. Thank you Principal Nhan, educators, students & Giang Oi for letting me join your environment lesson where we learned ways we can reduce, reuse and recycle. pic.twitter.com/Qpe5LHZmtA
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 16, 2024
Thanks to the very talented VietMax for showing me how iPhone and iPad fit into his dance and street art workflows, and to rapper Suboi for sharing her newest song in Spatial Audio! It was incredible to see the energetic Vietnamese hip-hop culture! pic.twitter.com/OrckdJSZV3
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 15, 2024
Phuong Vu and his team are wildly creative. They showed me how they use iPhone, iPad, and Mac to bring everything and anything from their imagination to life in Nirvana Space – an artistic workshop like no other! pic.twitter.com/jpsjLsnv6O
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 15, 2024
Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi is as beautiful as it is iconic! It was amazing to spend time with Duy and see his creative process using Cinematic mode on iPhone 15 Pro. pic.twitter.com/5INkRcew1r
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 15, 2024
Xin chào, Vietnam! Thank you to the very talented musicians My Linh and My Anh for such a warm welcome. And I loved the egg coffee! pic.twitter.com/vBGwatuXG1
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 15, 2024
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Two words…cheap labor.
The country is still communist no matter how much PR and word scrubbing they do. And it’s a shame that Apple wants to get into bed with another dictatorship.
Though it isn’t news to me, it is yet another reason to tell Apple to **** off. I used to proudly put Apple stickers on my car; now I am ashamed and throw them away. That Apple is still the lesser of evils is ludicrous. Tells you how bad the alternatives are, and just how far this company has fallen in a mere ten years. There is no such thing as ‘good’ tech in 2024. Someone, please, create an alternative, because this boosheet. Straight up.
The spirit of independence in tech is dead, and web 2.0 sh
**s like Zuckerberg or Schiller who became enamored of Hollywood killed it. Given the extent to which we rely on technology in the 21st century – this might well be a crime against humanity, and Steve was the exact opposite. His wife is an idiot.
Whoo, boy.
No, Apple, my desktop is not dead, not in the least (you privileged laptop idiots need to get out of your holes now and again; coughMacworldcough) as some have been saying, and I no longer know what to say about this company. Could they have done worse than Tim Cook? I really don’t think so. He is like a mirror image of Sculley, but with social justice highlights. We know you are gay, Tim, we don’t care, like, at all. What about the company?
If I am wrong, then show me. Somebody please create a viable alternative, because at present, the clown show that is modern Apple is still the lesser of evils, and that is just sad. Very sad, in fact.
Idiot cook learned absolutely nothing. Stop putting production into antagonistic communist s-holes
Apple should be investing in Taiwan.