Tim Cook Attends Secretive Meeting Focused on Stopping Donald Trump
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Posted March 8, 2016 at 6:18am by iClarified
Apple CEO Tim Cook attended secretive meeting where top CEOs and Republicans plotted to stop Donald Trump, reports the Huffington Post.
The meeting took place on a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend during American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum. "The event is private and off-the record, therefore we do not comment further on the content or attendees," said Judy Stecker, a spokeswoman for AEI.
Numerous titans of tech including Cook, Larry Page, Sean Parker, Elon Musk and others attended as did many political figures including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and many more.
"A specter was haunting the World Forum--the specter of Donald Trump," Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard wrote. "There was much unhappiness about his emergence, a good deal of talk, some of it insightful and thoughtful, about why he's done so well, and many expressions of hope that he would be defeated."
Karl Rove gave a presentation about focus group findings on Trump which revealed his greatest weakness is that voters have a hard time envisioning him as "presidential". Much of the conversation is said to have focused on "how this happened, rather than how are we going to stop him."
Another significant topic at the event was Apple's encryption battle with the FBI. Apparently, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and Cook engaged in a fierce debate.
"Cotton was pretty harsh on Cook," the source said, and "everyone was a little uncomfortable about how hostile Cotton was."
Hit the link below for more details about the meeting and its attendees.
Try pulling that off against future elections. This secret meeting is about what Trump,could possibly do to companies that some CEOs may see it as a change for the worse because they're not happy with the idea of what he's doing like trying to get Apple to build their comouters in the U.S. for example.
Tim, Trump said he wants apple to start making the iPhone's here in America and bring back jobs ! Is this another reason your against Mr. Trump ? Tim wants to get in with the establishment .... So they will protect Apple
To build an iphone it cost about $250. give or take some and apple charges $1,000 a phone that's a big profit If built in The USA it'd be around $400-450 a phone and we'll have workers paying TAXES here I'm sure apple could do better on the price of a USA built and thought of in America Iphone !
that's where you and everybody is mistaking, the costs you are showing is production costs, and on top where are the development (engineering and testing) costs? where are the warranty costs? where are all the investment costs? the logistic costs? overhead costs? ... everything on top, the profit for Apple if they get around 10% after expences and taxes is already good. and in USA is not double cost for the production, is from 3x to 4x more, first of all you don't work 7 days per week, 12 hours per day, with 5 days holiday per year. you need more workers to do the same work. a worker in China wins around $300-$400 per months incluing the overtime payment. how much wins a USA production worker? problably as minimum $2500 and 40 hours a week, with 20 holiday days per year ... you can calculate yourself
What I really think about all this is Apple likes to send all its work overseas and then sell here ! Maybe the USA isn't charging them a bigger enough tariff tax and is afraid Trump will increase it !