Apple CEO Tim Cook will meet with President-elect Donald Trump for dinner on Friday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, in response to The New York Times. It’s reportedly Cook’s first time assembly with Trump because the election.
During Trump’s first time period, Cook established a direct relationship with the president that different tech CEOs have needed to duplicate. As Trump prepares for his second time period, Cook could wish to talk about potential tariffs, which may considerably have an effect on Apple’s enterprise.
Cook may additionally wish to talk about the European Union’s actions in opposition to Apple; throughout his presidential marketing campaign, Trump claimed that Cook known as him to complain concerning the fines Apple faces within the European Union, with accusations of anticompetitive conduct in App Store insurance policies and the way it manages platforms just like the iPhone and Mac.
Cook’s go to follows reviews of Trump’s dialog with Google CEO Sundar Pichai yesterday and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos subsequent week. Trump met with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in November.
Tech corporations and leaders, together with Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, have additionally been interesting to the President-elect with $1 million donations to his inauguration fund.