China is Apple’s third marketafter the United States and Europe. But sales are biting, 17% in 2024, due to the sanctions and veto of the United States to Chinese companies. Tim Cook is touring the country. He has announced donations, investments, and has praised Deepseek.
North American companies live a nightmare with Donald Trump’s tariffs. Because, paradoxically, they are the ones who sell the most abroad, but rates and vetoes make Affected countries also impose obstacles to US companies.
Worse, the Anti -American feeling It grows in many countries, and that can make people stop buying their products, even if there are no tariffs.
What Tim Cook has done in China
The main reason for the CEO of the Apple company to Asia, has been to participate in the China Development Forum (CDF) in Beijing, a developer forum.
Tim Cook’s efforts have focused on Facilitate Chinese programmers to continue creating applications for iOS.
According to the local media SCMPSteve Jobs’s successor has socialized with a well -known Chinese influencer, as well as singer Henry Lau. He has also said that Depseek is «excellent», although he has not deepened.
«Cooperation with Chinese companies will allow Apple to take advantage of its resources to boost innovation and maintain its global leadership,» Wang Peng acknowledged.
Apple has made a donation to the Chinese Foundation for development research aimed at teacher training programs in rural areas.
Tim Cook He has also traveled to Hangzhouthat many call the Silicon Valley of the Chinese AI, since there they have their Depseek and Alibaba headquarters, the Aliexpress parent company, and an emerging power in AI.
For 10 years, Apple has collaborated with the University of Zhejiang through a Apple mobile apps incubation fund, endowed with almost eight million euros, which aims to train students to create apps for iOS.
«We believe that the code is a powerful tool to create, communicate and solve problems of completely new ways. We are honored to deepen our collaboration of a decade with the University of Zhejiang to empower the next generation of developers,» said Tim Cook in his speech.
That the Apple CEO has visited the city where it has its headquarters Alibaba, it is not coincidence. The two companies have reached an agreement to The iPhone use Alibaba’s AI in China. But the approval of Chinese regulators still is missing.
Apple fights for its market in China not to be absorbed by Huawei, Xiaomi and Vivo. It will not have anything easy, if the tension between the Asian giant and the United States continues.
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