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Apple CEO Tim Cook Meets Pikachu During Japan Visit

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Apple CEO Tim Cook is in Japan this week to celebrate the reopening of Apple Ginza in Tokyo on Friday.

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So far, Cook has met with Japanese boy band Number_i, and hugged Pokemon character Pikachu. Cook also said that he connected with App Store developers, and visited Bandai Namco to play iOS game Dragon Ball Gekishin Squadra.


Apple Ginza was Apple's first retail store location outside of the United States when it opened in 2003. The flagship store included a 27-foot Genius Bar, an 84-seat theater, and an internet cafe for customers to visit.

The Sayegusa Building where Apple Ginza was located needed to be updated, so in 2022, Apple moved the store to a temporary location. Apple is now ready to reopen Apple Ginza, and the new store has received a number of upgrades.

There is an Apple Pickup station for customers to pick up online orders, a Genius Bar, a seating area for one-on-one Apple Vision Pro demos, and a space for Today at Apple sessions.

Customers in Japan can attend the store opening on Friday, September 26 at 10:00 a.m. local time, and Cook will be in attendance. The store will be selling special-edition Apple Gift Cards for the reopening, and Apple also shared special wallpaper designed for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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Simmias
12 months ago
This is the type of hard hitting news we expect.
Score: 26 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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ThomasJL
12 months ago
That is a coincidence since both Pikachu and USB 2.0 are over 25 years old. Pikachu was released in the first half of 1998. USB 2.0 was released in the first half of 2000. So both were released over a quarter century ago. Tim Cook still uses the quarter-century old USB 2.0 technology on the newly released 2025 iPhone 17 and iPhone Air. Read the following thread for more information on how much Cook is disrespecting and cheating customers by doing that:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/will-iphone-14-be-usb-2-0-probably-since-cook-is-mediocre.2341197/
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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TracesOfArsenic
12 months ago
I'm sorry you had to go through that, Pikachu.
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subjonas
12 months ago
I don't think that's the real Pikachu. Probably a lookalike.
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digimc
12 months ago

That is a coincidence since both Pikachu and USB 2.0 are over 25 years old. Pikachu was released in the first half of 1998. USB 2.0 was released in the first half of 2000. So both were released over a quarter century ago. Tim Cook still uses the quarter-century old USB 2.0 technology on the newly released 2025 iPhone 17 and iPhone Air. Read the following thread for more information on how much Cook is disrespecting and cheating customers by doing that:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/will-iphone-14-be-usb-2-0-probably-since-cook-is-mediocre.2341197/


Things took a dark turn there.
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mozumder
12 months ago
Is there an Apple-Nintendo collab coming?
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