NEW DELHI: “What’s in a name”, wrote William Shakespeare, in his classic Romeo and Juliet, before adding “a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” Well, if last week was anything to go by then there is lots in a name. US president Donald Trump during a conference ‘accidentally’ referred to Apple CEO Tim Cook as Tim ‘Apple’. Everyone wondered whether it was a slip of tongue or a genuine mistake but now we have an explanation behind Tim ‘Apple’ straight from Trump’s Twitter account.

Trump tweeted, “At a recent round table meeting of business executives, & long after formally introducing Tim Cook of Apple, I quickly referred to Tim + Apple as Tim/Apple as an easy way to save time & words. The Fake News was disparagingly all over this, & it became yet another bad Trump story!”

So it wasn’t a slip of tongue but the US president was actually “saving time and words.”

Here’s what exactly where and how Trump called Cook, Tim ‘Apple’. “We're going to be opening up the labor forces because we have to. We have so many companies coming in," Trump said. "People like Tim -- you're expanding all over and doing things that I really wanted you to do right from the beginning. I used to say, 'Tim, you gotta start doing it here,' and you really have, you've really put a big investment in our country. We really appreciate it very much, Tim Apple.”

Cook or Apple didn’t make any public comment on the name gaffe made by Trump. However, Cook took the joke in a lighter vein as he changed his name from Tim Cook to Tim ‘Apple’ – as in he put the Apple logo next to Tim – on his official Twitter account. Wonder what Donald Trump would have to say to that? Perhaps Cook was trying to ‘save’ a word on Twitter!

Source: gadgetsnow.com