Tim Cook's day in France and summary of the interview with E. Macron at the Elysée (Updated 6)

Updates throughout the day with report of the interview with e.
Macron at the end of the article

As we have
mentioned this weekend, Tim
Cook, the boss of Apple, is currently visiting Europe and his first
stop is thereFrancewith the aim of meeting the
French President, Emmanuel Macron, but not only.

Indeed, the newspaper Ouest France reports that Tim Cook began his visit
in France this morning by visiting the premisesof Eldimclose
de Caen, a French company with 42 employees which suppliesa technology
used for iPhone X facial recognition, which will come out
next November 3.

Thissmall French businessbased
in Hérouville-Saint-Clair in Calvados, specializes among other things in
optical analysis of the angular properties of light. It provides a
technology that is used by Face ID, the recognition system
facialiPhone X.

Tim Cook came to congratulate them for their work, certainly for the
to highlight (it’s a success!) and perhaps also to discuss other
projects with this French company for whom this collaboration is “a
incredible adventure" as indicated by Thierry Leroux, the boss of Eldim.

Later today,Tim
Cook is received at the Elysée to meet E. Macron.

We didn't know the agenda this morning but the taxation of giants
of the Internet should be on the agenda. Apple must pay 13
billion euros to the Irish tax authorities, after the European Commission ruled
that the apple firm had benefited from preferential treatment from
the Irish state. The Cupertino company appealed. At the same time, this money
should have been collected last January, but this is still not the case,
as a result, the European Commission recentlyattacked Ireland in
justicefor not having fulfilled his obligations.

Visits that are increasing

We then followed the steps of Tim Cook's visit during the
daytime :

Updated 10:30 a.m.: Tim Cook goes to one of the
cemeteries of the landing soldiers in Normandy and pays homage to them.

Updated 3:00 p.m.: Tim Cook ate with the teams
from MyLittleParis, famous newsletter and publisher of several applications on
l’App Store

Updated 3:30 p.m.: between two visits, Tim Cook had
time to answer questions from Grazia.fr, which should soon publish
l’interview !

Updated 4:00 p.m.: Tim Cook meets
app developers, including those of
Coach Guitar, an appwith 6 million downloads!

Updated 6:00 p.m.: Tim Cook, as expected, met
E. Macron at the Elysée. We know a little more via the Twitter account of
journalist from Europe 1,G.
Martinez:

First of all, this interview which lasted45 minutes, has been
programmed on the initiative of Tim Cook. A subject at the heart of concerns
of Apple was discussed: development education, with a possible
deployment of the “Code accessible to all” program. Discussions with
National Education would have already taken place.

Regarding theeconomy, it was a question of evaluating
how Apple could work with more suppliers
French(like Eldim seen above and visited that same morning by the
executive of Apple) while the subject of theApple installation in
Xavier Niel's incubator "Station
F", recently inaugurated in Paris, was also discussed.

Finally, the subject that everyone has in mind, namely tax optimization
has not been put aside: "There is no impasse in dialogue", indicates
the Élysée concerning the regulation of taxation for large groups.
The objective being to better regulate taxation according to the states or have
place the profits, rather than where the “tax” seats are established. There
A solution would be expected from European regulation.

Source

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