Tim Cook Can’t Pronounce Pokemon

Tim Cook Can’t Pronounce Pokemon

Big news of the day: Apple is investing in augmented reality so it can make more games like the extremely popular Pokemon GO. Wow. Wouldn’t have guessed that would happen in a million years.

Image: Getty/The Pokemon Company

The revelation from all this, however, is that the CEO of one of the world’s biggest tech companies cannot pronounce the word Pokemon. Instead he says Poke-man. Here, listen for yourself:

The least Tim Cook could do is pronounce the name of a game that will likely earn his company a cool $US3 billion ($3.9 billion). Moreover, the word Pokemon is PHONETIC.

Also, what does it mean to be “high on AR” and where can I cop?

[The Verge]


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