Apple CEO Discusses Regulation, Immigration and Education

Apple Inc. chief executive officer Tim Cook appears to be a good sport. Making the trip from Silicon Valley to New York for Time 100’s first summit, the tech titan laughed along with the audience when President Trump accidentally referring to him as Tim Apple at the end of a meeting was brought up. It wasn’t so easy, but he responded when probed on the subject of his dealings with the president, leading to a pregnant pause, during which it was just the audience who laughed. He finally answered that he would never talk about private conversations publicly — no doubt disappointing those in attendance, but making backstage small talk less awkward as the next speaker was none other than White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. Cook did give a taste of what might have been said behind closed doors, though, as he spoke passionately about the big issues on his mind. One of those was regulation, telling the audience that he’s been on a “regulation kick” for a while now because, at this point, he doesn’t see another path forward. “Even though I am deeply a free-market person and believe that some unexpected things can happen in regulation, I think we all have to be

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