Commentary: At the China Development Forum, Microsoft is the sponsor, and, well, wouldn’t you showcase your device? Especially if Apple’s CEO were there?
After the conference, Cook gets a look at Twitter.
He’s likely inspected it in private.
After all, he did once criticize it as being « diluted. » As well as calling it a cross between a fridge and a toaster.
But there was Apple CEO Tim Cook at the China Development Forum , which concluded Monday. And there was the sponsor placing a free laptop at the seat of each of the 300 attendees.
Well, when I say « laptop, » I mean Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4. This is the machine that Microsoft uses in ads to mock the iPad Pro.
Still, on Twitter there has emerged a picture of Tim Cook’s nameplate with the Surface perched enticingly by it.
Hyken Wong, who posted the image, added this helpful thought: « Haha, All the SP4 there in Development Forums, even Tim Cook has to use it. »
I contacted Apple to ask whether Cook actually did use his competitor’s product.
