By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Apple CEO Tim Cook made his first visit to Toronto, Canada. Cook surprised students at the popular Apple Store in the Eaton Centre, one of the country's busiest malls. The unnanounced visit took staff, customers and students by surprise. Cook also thanked app developers, who were running a coding clinic for their contributions to the Apple ecosystem.
The students in question were a class of Grade 7 Students in Toronto's east end who were programming robots dancing on tables using Apple's Swift Playgrounds app on the iPad. Apple opened its Everyone Can Code initiative late last year and this focuses on making technology accessible so virtually anyone can create apps and solutions.
Canada is an extremely important market for us. We have a great team in Canada," Cook said in an interview with The National Post.
There are 120,000 Canadian jobs directly related to Apple's iOS and App Store ecosystem, the company said.