From The Guardian: Donald Trump gets name of tech giant's CEO wrong:
‘We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple,’ the US president, Donald Trump, told the Apple chief executive, Tim Cook, during a meeting at the White House for the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board to discuss technology eduction and jobs. Trump then went on a bizarre rant about crime statistics, the border wall and human trafficking, which, he said, ‘has been going on for a million years’ but no one has done much about it until now.
Cue the video:
My take: More fodder for late-night comedians. In the President's defense, he's been under a lot of pressure lately. Probably hasn't had time to read up on William Wilberforce.
So many people, including the most powerful, live in a sequestered world absent any input from alternative points of view. Cracking a window into that world can only do good.
Bravo, Mr. Cook!
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — To President Donald Trump, it was an awkward slip of the lip. To Apple CEO Tim Cook, it was an opportunity to poke some sly fun at a president who has often clashed with the tech industry.
A day after Trump mistakenly referred to Cook at a White House meeting as “Tim Apple” — an understandable slip, perhaps, coming from the owner of the Trump Organization — Cook quietly altered his Twitter profile , replacing his last name with the Apple logo.
Cook didn’t publicly acknowledge the change, but it didn’t take long for Apple fans to notice and spread the word.
Non-Apple fans, though, may not get the joke. Cook’s Apple-logo icon is only visible on iPhones and Mac computers. On Windows, it’s a blank square; on Android, it renders variously as an X-ed out or blank gray rectangle. (“Tim Square” was probably not the connotation the Apple CEO was going for.)
That’s not wholly surprising for Apple, which famously prefers its own devices and software over others. Apple didn’t respond to a query about the logo misstep (if indeed it was a misstep).
The White House, meanwhile, appears to be engaged in some damage control. In the official transcript of the meeting , the words “Tim” and “Apple” are separated by a dash as if Trump had paused, possibly to thank both the executive and the company.