© Reuters. Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner walks outdoors the Apple Fifth Avenue retailer as clients queue to purchase Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, in Manhattan in New York Metropolis, U.S., February 2, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/file picture
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner mentioned he’s at present visiting Shanghai, in response to a publish on his Weibo (NASDAQ:) account on Wednesday.
Cook dinner mentioned he spent the morning strolling alongside Shanghai’s historic Bund river with Chinese language actor Zheng Kai and having a neighborhood breakfast however didn’t disclose what different plans he had for this China go to.
His go to comes after the iPhone maker introduced that it could open a brand new retail retailer within the coronary heart of the Chinese language monetary hub on Thursday, and as Apple (NASDAQ:) battles falling iPhone gross sales in China and rising competitors from home rivals resembling Huawei.
Cook dinner made at the very least two visits to China, Apple’s third-largest market by income, final 12 months. He additionally travelled to Beijing across the identical time final 12 months, the place he visited an Apple retailer and attended the China Improvement Discussion board.