The iPhone's future is in AI, says Apple's boss

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Cook talks with children learning how to code Mac apps at an Apple store in Tokyo on Oct. 13. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)

WAICHI SEKIGUCHI, Nikkei senior staff writer

TOKYO Apple will celebrate the iPhone's 10th anniversary next year, but in chief executive Tim Cook's view, the technology is anything but mature. The Nikkei Asian Review caught up with Cook aboard a bullet train in mid-October and asked him about artificial intelligence, his plans for Asia and the experience of succeeding Steve Jobs.

Cook, who was visiting Japan for the first time as CEO, said Apple will open a research and development base in Yokohama, near Tokyo, later this year. The facility -- the first of its kind outside the U.S. -- will develop new component technologies. Cook described it as a center for "deep engineering" and said it will be "very different" from the R&D base Apple plans to build in China.

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