{"id":964619,"date":"2025-09-26T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964619"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:42:53","slug":"tim-cook-meets-pikachu-heres-why-the-apple-ceo-is-in-japan-after-iphone-17-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/26\/tim-cook-meets-pikachu-heres-why-the-apple-ceo-is-in-japan-after-iphone-17-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook meets Pikachu: Here\u2019s why the Apple CEO is in Japan after iPhone 17 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after revealing the iPhone 17 series to the world, Apple CEO Tim Cook arrived in Japan, embarking on a high-profile tour that blends technology with local popular culture. Cook\u2019s visit to Japan was primarily down to preparing for the grand reopening of a historic Apple Store in Ginza. However, instead of just preparing, Cook had a memorable encounter with the iconic Pok\u00e9mon character, Pikachu, thus highlighting the deep integration of Apple\u2019s platforms with the country\u2019s dominant gaming industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after revealing the iPhone 17 series to the world, Apple CEO Tim Cook arrived in Japan, embarking on a high-profile tour that blends technology with local popular culture. Cook\u2019s visit to Japan was primarily down to preparing for the grand reopening of a historic Apple Store in Ginza. However, instead of just preparing, Cook had a memorable encounter with the iconic Pok\u00e9mon character, Pikachu, thus highlighting the deep integration of Apple\u2019s platforms with the country\u2019s dominant gaming industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}