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Apple CEO Tim Cook visits Israel, meets with President Reuven Rivlin
Apple Insider ^ | Wednesday, February 25, 2015, | By Katie Marsal

Posted on 02/25/2015 10:50:52 PM PST by Swordmaker

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1 posted on 02/25/2015 10:50:52 PM PST by Swordmaker
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What's Tim Cook doing with German Chancellor Angela Merkel?
2 posted on 02/25/2015 10:54:04 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Apple CEO Tim Cook visits Israel and hobnobs with President Reuven Rivlin, talking about Apple investing in Israel, opening a new office and research centers in that country. — PING!


Apple and Isreal Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

3 posted on 02/25/2015 10:54:46 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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What's Tim Cook doing with German Chancellor Angela Merkel?
Cadie Thompson — February 23, 2015 — CNBC.com

(Photo cannot be linked due to Getty Image copyright nastiness.)

Tim Cook, Apple CEO, during his trip to Belgium, February 23, 2015. Apple's CEO Tim Cook has been making the rounds in Germany. According to a 9to5 Mac report, which cites the German newspaper BILD, Cook met up German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday to talk about issues in tech and other matters.

Privacy was one topic that came up and apparently Cook told Merkel he's a big fan of Germany's strong position regarding data privacy, according to the report.

Cook reportedly told Merkel that Germans "have the same views on privacy as I do."

Read MoreWall Street's 5 burning reasons to buy Apple Data privacy is an issue that tends to get more attention in Europe than in the U.S. Last year, the European Court of Justice that people had the "right to be forgotten" forcing Google to begin removing links to content that people requested be taken down.

Currently, the European Union is working to establish new data-protection rules that will likely make it tougher for tech companies operating in the region to use personal data. Their aim is to create a single digital market that would bring together the varying internet policies of the 28 countries.


4 posted on 02/25/2015 11:00:42 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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That’s gonna piss off a lot of Jew Hating libs.


5 posted on 02/25/2015 11:05:25 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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Tech More: Apple Tim Cook Berlin Germany Apple CEO Tim Cook is in Germany: PHOTOS!
6 posted on 02/25/2015 11:09:01 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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About two years ago, when Eric Snowden first released information about a supposed way of hacking into iPhones called “DropoutJeep” from October 2008, Angela Merkel got rid of her iPhone. Actually DropoutJeep was a “close access exploit” and required that the NSA have had actual possession of the iPhone at sometime to install the exploit spyware. DropoutJeep could not be downloaded or installed remotely to the iPhone. It would not have worked on her newer iPhone at all. Perhaps he was letting her know those facts.


7 posted on 02/25/2015 11:15:43 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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Cook reportedly told Merkel that Germans "have the same views on privacy as I do."
8 posted on 02/25/2015 11:18:10 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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About two years ago, when Eric Snowden first released information about a supposed way of hacking into iPhones called “DropoutJeep” from October 2008, Angela Merkel got rid of her iPhone.

9 posted on 02/25/2015 11:20:40 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Tim Cook commemorates Steve Jobs's birthday on trip to Germany
10 posted on 02/25/2015 11:22:54 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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and required that the NSA have had actual possession of the iPhone at sometime to install the exploit spyware.
You know if German Chancellor Angela Merkel ever left her iPhone someplace or not?
11 posted on 02/25/2015 11:27:51 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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A German glass company is the only company in the world that can produce the curved glass panels that Apple is using on their new headquarters building. There will not be a flat piece of glass on the outside anywhere.


Apple's new headquarters in Cupertino, California,
to be competed in 2016.

The German glass company also supplied the 50 foot tall single panels for Apple's new store in Hangzhou, China. These are the largest single panes of glass ever made.


Apple's new store in Hangzhou, China, with 50 foot tall glass panels
and a free floating second floor.

12 posted on 02/25/2015 11:29:08 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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You know if German Chancellor Angela Merkel ever left her iPhone someplace or not?

That would be like asking if the President of the United States's phone were left somewhere it could be compromised by a foreign agent, don't you think? The really FUNNY thing is that while she did have an iPhone, it was her PERSONAL phone. . . which she did not use for government business. She used a government issued "secure" NOKIA phone for government business:


Angela Merkel using her government issued supposedly "secure" Nokia phone
at the Bundestadt just before the news of the NSA wiretapping came out.

Snowden reported that the NSA and CIA had been tapping the German government phones since 2002. . . and that Obama had specifically authorized tapping Merkel for three years prior to Snowden fleeing. LOL!

13 posted on 02/25/2015 11:41:52 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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It’s ALSO going to PISS OFF the APPLE-HATER TROLL TEAM here on Free Republic, as soon as they get wind of this Apple thread! ... LOL ...


14 posted on 02/26/2015 1:41:45 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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GREAT NEWS! And it’s the ONLY PLACE in the Midfle East where Apple not only finds the best business environment, but also people WHO ARE SMART ENOUGH to work in an Apple facility, PLUS THE FACT that Israel is the ONLY PLACE in the Middle East that respects human rights!!


15 posted on 02/26/2015 2:08:26 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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Apple is definitely a company who LOOKS TOWARDS THE FUTURE!!


16 posted on 02/26/2015 2:10:16 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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Is that a hydrogen bomb going off in the background of the California location?


17 posted on 02/26/2015 5:47:17 AM PST by Patriot777 (Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)
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Thumbs UP, Bump!
18 posted on 02/26/2015 6:22:09 AM PST by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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That’s gonna piss off a lot of Jew Hating libs.

Many of which are Jewish themselves... what a great irony...

19 posted on 02/26/2015 7:11:52 PM PST by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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Kinda cool. :)


20 posted on 02/26/2015 8:17:34 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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