Tim Cook visits Spain amid iPhone 15 launch campaign

Cook begins his visit to the sports city of Real MadridLater, at EFTI, the international photography and film center that included the iPhone in its curriculum this year, to try the Madrid stew from the chef. Dabiz Munoz in the restaurant lhardy.

“It’s great to be back in Spain! I’m looking forward to spending time with the dynamic community of incredibly creative developers and students, as well as world-renowned athletes and chefs,” Cook said in a statement from the tech company.

Apple CEO also stated that this visit to Spain It was already an “exciting” week for the multinational company due to the launch of the iPhone 15 series and new Apple Watch and AirPods Pro models.

The company has been operating in Spain since 1985 and opened its first Apple Stores in La Maquinista (Barcelona) and Xanadú (Madrid) in 2010. There are currently eleven Apple Stores across the country in Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Murcia, Malaga, Valencia. Valladolid and Zaragoza.

Moreover, Creates 2,000 direct jobs in Spain; This is 30% more than three years agoIt offers different types of job opportunities in its store network, AIML (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) offices and hardware engineering teams.

The company, which is headquartered in Madrid and will soon open a new engineering office, also supports Spanish developers.. Specifically, the Apple ecosystem facilitates more than 120,000 jobs in Spain thanks to the successful iOS app economy; This represents an increase of more than 30% since 2019.

Applications created by Spanish developers are therefore successful all over the world, and the company stated that almost 90% of its revenues come from users outside Spain, and pointed out educational applications such as LingoKids or other applications focused on sports as success stories. lifestyle like the walking app Wikiloc and health like Cori.