Tim Cook got the red carpet treatment during his last big trip (AAPL)
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Apple CEO Tim Cook visited both India and China in the past week, and everywhere he went, people rolled out the red carpet for him.
He was there on business, not pleasure, but even still his trip seemed more fitting for a diplomat or a head of state than a corporate CEO.
That's not surprising. Apple's almost like a country in and of itself. It has 115,00 employees, and claims that it's responsible for creating and supporting 1.9 million jobs when you count its developer ecosystem. It pulled in $234 billion in revenue last fiscal year — a figure similar to the GDP of Portugal.
Here's what his trip looked like:
Cook's trip started in Beijing, the capital of China. He met with the president of Didi Chuxing, which Apple recently invested $1 billion into. Didi Chuxing is the "Uber of China," and of course, Cook started his trip by getting into a Didi taxi.
Tim Cook/TwitterHe took the Didi Taxi to an Apple Store in Beijing, where he met with several high-profile Chinese app developers, including the founders and CEOs of of Tap4Fun, DayDayCook, Meitu, and Toutiao.
AppleHere's the whole story from state-run China Daily.
Cook also took an afternoon and jammed with Singaporean singer JJ Lin to show off some of the new instrument samples Apple added to Garage Band, its music production software.
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