Apple's Tim Cook attends dinner party with Bollywood celebrities
In the middle of his ongoing trip to India, Apple CEO Tim Cook attended a dinner party on Wednesday night hosted by actor/producer Shah Rukh Khan, where several other Bollywood celebrities were also present.
Among these were members of the famous Bachchan family, including Amitabh, Jaya, Abhishek, and Aishwarya, Rediff said on Thursday. Some others were actor/director Aamir Khan, and musician A.R. Rahman, best known to Western audiences for his soundtrack to Slumdog Millionaire.
The party was hosted at Khan's bungalow. Photos show Cook arriving at the event, and later posing with guests.
The CEO is on a whirlwind tour of India, negotiating business deals and participating in various other meetings. The trip should culimnate this Saturday in a talk with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Apple has simultaneously used the tour to announce a Design and Development Accelerator in Bengaluru, and an Apple Maps development office in Hyderabad.
Cook has identified India as an important market for Apple, given its size and untapped profit potential. The iPhone has struggled to gain more than a 2 percent share of the local smartphone market though, something Cook has suggested could improve once new 4G networks go live in the region later this year. The main issue is likely price, since most smartphones sold in India cost $150 or less, and even Apple's latest "budget" iPhone -- the iPhone SE -- is almost four times as expensive.
Among these were members of the famous Bachchan family, including Amitabh, Jaya, Abhishek, and Aishwarya, Rediff said on Thursday. Some others were actor/director Aamir Khan, and musician A.R. Rahman, best known to Western audiences for his soundtrack to Slumdog Millionaire.
The party was hosted at Khan's bungalow. Photos show Cook arriving at the event, and later posing with guests.
The CEO is on a whirlwind tour of India, negotiating business deals and participating in various other meetings. The trip should culimnate this Saturday in a talk with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Apple has simultaneously used the tour to announce a Design and Development Accelerator in Bengaluru, and an Apple Maps development office in Hyderabad.
Cook has identified India as an important market for Apple, given its size and untapped profit potential. The iPhone has struggled to gain more than a 2 percent share of the local smartphone market though, something Cook has suggested could improve once new 4G networks go live in the region later this year. The main issue is likely price, since most smartphones sold in India cost $150 or less, and even Apple's latest "budget" iPhone -- the iPhone SE -- is almost four times as expensive.
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I would assume so. If they do, then how come we have never seen any pictures or articles about it. Does it have Apple logos on it?
http://airplanelife.blogspot.com/2014/09/steve-jobs-private-jet-n2n-gulfstream.html
Steve Jobs' plane looked like this:
It is now registered N586GV and owned by Jony Ive:
The replacement N2N is a newer model with more windows shown in the following video:
Tim Cook has also taken chartered flights, they just hire a private jet for a specific trip:
Apple might own more than one private jet, they'll likely work out whether hiring or using one of their own jets is most cost-effective for each journey. A single international chartered flight can be as much as $100k so that adds up pretty quickly.