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3. Well I like Tim Cook too. But ...
Sun Dec 1, 2019, 11:01 AM
Dec 2019

But he's been going easy on Trump. Perhaps he's pretending to be a friend of Trump for business reasons.
Here's an interesting recent article about this from Forbes.
[link:https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamjeakle/2019/11/25/how-apples-tim-cook-mastered-donald-trump/#438ddf687c3f|

From the article:
Apple CEO Tim Cook has received some criticism recently about his reticence in the face of a slew of erroneous self-serving statements by President Donald Trump as they toured an Austin, Texas manufacturing plant which will be assembling Apple’s upcoming Mac Pro. Trump claimed that he was there to open the plant (a falsehood, the plant opened in 2013), as Cook stood by quietly, not correcting or refuting Trump’s self-serving statements.
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For all of Trump’s bluster and tariff talk, his actions have been selective, and his results have been mixed. Cook has diligently forged a special relationship with Trump that has largely allowed Apple to avoid the brunt of the tariffs, thus buoying Apple’s significant investment in China and calming the fears of investors who might otherwise worry about Apple’s future.

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