During the day of Yesterday there was a meeting between the top leader of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and the current CEO of Apple, Tim Cook. As it happened before, shortly after Trump was sworn in last year, the president of the United States met yesterday with the heads of the 20 most important companies in the country.
In this meeting, Tim Cook's intention was to show him his point of view on the different issues that concern the American leader, eager to modernize government and save technology industry costs.
Cook participated in this meeting, surrounded by important industry figures such as the CEO's of Amazon, Alphabet, IBM, Intel, Adobe, Microsoft or Qualcomm. According to the White House, there is a real opportunity to cost savings of about $ XNUMX trillion, but this figure is hardly credible by some of the participants to the event.
Apparently, Cook used the occasion to present his point of view on issues that concern the CEO of Apple. On the one hand, the issue of immigration, which due to the conservative and xenophobic policies of the president-elect, is putting the search for talent in Silicon Valley in check and companies in the sector, which largely rely on foreign labor.
In addition, according to Axios yesterday, data encryption and device security It is something that the head of the Californian company also took advantage of to stage.
Finally, Cook also wanted to put on the table how to ensure compliance with human rights, not only in the American country, but throughout the world. Although Trump had no intention of signing any amendments or promoting any laws, it was positive for everyone that there is this type of conversation to try to reach a beneficial consensus for the country and allied countries.
