Tim Cook has shared photos from his recent trip to China where the Apple CEO spoke to media about upcoming initiatives in the country and visited new Apple retail stores opened in the region. The photos (above and below) were posted to Cook’s new Weibo account. The head Apple exec started posting to the Chinese microblogging site, much like he does on Twitter, earlier this month.
Cook spent much of his trip discussing new environmental initiatives announced by the company this month. Apple announced plans for responsibly managed forests in the country through a partnership with World Wildlife Fund, as well as new solar operations to help power manufacturing.
Other big topics of conversation during Cook’s China trip: The CEO stressed that the company “very much wants to get Apple Pay in China”— it has has reportedly been in talks with Chinese retailer Alibaba regarding the payments platform— in addition to touching on growth in the country and recently passing Xiaomi in the Chinese smartphone market.
The pictures above and below come from Tim’s tour of Apple Stores mostly, including the Xidan Joy City store, the West Lake store in Hangzhou, the Nanjing East Road location, as well as a trip to visit students at the Communication University of China Primary School:
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he is not wearing an Apple Watch?
Hard to tell. If I was a conspiracy theorist I would be suspicious of the fact that every one of these has his hand placed just so that we cannot tell.
http://youtu.be/hwQ3d9tcbBk
Yes he is. He gave an interview to CCTV and specifically mentioned he was wearing one. You can find the interview on YouTube. In all but one of these photos he has long sleeves on most likely covering up the watch.
He just gave his watch for our lust, so one person can have his/hers before they come to the stores!
One of the other posters below showed a picture of Tim Cook wearing the Watch at that event, but even if he wasn’t I wouldn’t be surprised. Yes, he’s the CEO and he was on a business trip in a very important market, but the Watch loses some of its appeal after a while. I’ve had mine since “launch day” and wore it every single day until yesterday. I got tired of simply looking at my other watches, including one I JUST got in April as a gift that I wore for the first time yesterday.
I’m assuming Tim Cook has a lot more (and more expensive) watches than me, so I do expect to see him wear non-Apple Watches in the near future in public. I will start alternating between wearing my Apple Watch and my mechanical watches. I won’t be surprised if CEO Cook does the same.
Here’s a photo from Instagram. Cook wearing what looks like the black sport band.
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Needless to say, the Chinese market is going to have huge impact on Apple, much more than the introduction of not one–but two–gold colours for their products. The next 5 years are going to be massively transformative for Apple, and if you think the company is profitable now, we haven’t seen anything yet!
Will these changes be “good” for Apple? It’s hard to say. Will these changes redefine Apple from what we once new? Definitely.
But… but… but no one in China can afford Apple products because they’re too expensive. /s
Whenever I hear some jackass statement like that from analysts and pundits living in the U.S. it always makes me laugh. I wonder if it’s some form of arrogance saying that the Chinese consumer is too stupid to know good products from so-so products. The Chinese consumers really like Apple products and they’re willing to pay a premium. That’s their choice. Tim Cook has obviously formed some good alliances with top people in China. At least they respect him and Apple even if the crooks on Wall Street don’t. The idiots running Wall Street simply don’t get it. They think the Chinese consumers only aspire to cheap junk so it’s claimed only companies like Samsung, Xiaomi, Lenovo and Huawei can be successful in China because they mostly sell cheap Android devices. Apple has currently topped all those companies in sales by selling premium, high-margin products. That must really upset the Wall Street geniuses.
Even if Apple is insanely successful in China, Wall Street will somehow find a way to the the stock undervalued for all sorts of vague reasons. They’ll just keep claiming each next quarter will bring lower iPhone growth as the Chinese smartphone market becomes saturated despite that market being in the billion subscriber range. I’m willing to bet the Chinese are going to want AppleWatches, but that’s to be determined. If Apple can pull iPhones, AppleWatches and Apple Pay into one useful set, Apple will really make a killing in China. To hell with Wall Street’s dislike of Tim Cook. I think he’s doing a great job even if he’s not Steve Jobs clone.
Your long rant is ignorant and I stopped reading after “…companies like Samsung, Xiaomi, Lenovo and Huawei can be successful in China because they mostly sell cheap Android devices.”
Let’s face it,
Only in China and overseas, where the general population hasn’t been beaten over the head with hundreds of “I’m a Mac Ads”, is Tim looking cool.
But when you run a company whom brings thousands of jobs to foreign, overseas lands, people sometimes like what you do.
I called AppleCare earlier today about another problem I was having. I was surprised that AppleCare is now based in Ottowa, Canada. You have to listen carefully for them to say ” ‘eh”
When the computer still doesn’t work, and they say you have to go to the Apple Store for help, you can call them a “hoser” and they won’t be offended.
As for the PR pictures in the article. I’d wager US$20 says Tim Cook is actually in the Asian part of New York.
There are a few Canadian hubs for Applecare support, including Ottawa.
Clearly wasn’t there to create jobs for his countrymen… unless he’s Chinese.