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Apple shareholder meeting in Cupertino California has just wrapped up and seen at senior writer char chick who was inside Apple had a record quarter with iPhone sales did we hear anything from team about future products areas of interest that Apple is working on so there's always a question that relates to something about the future you know this year I was surprised nobody asked about an Apple car augmented reality artificial intelligence we also had some questions about how Apple views iPads versus Macs Tim said that he sees them as separate but he sees the iPad stealing more share from computers but he was quick to say not the Mac because the Mac is different than other computers and does more Tim also talked about how important the pro community is to Apple so Apple revised its laptops last fall for the first time in about four years but they haven't made any changes to desktop computers in in years basically he reiterated that Apple really cares about creators it really cares about creative professionals it's just because we aren't seeing anything yet it doesn't mean that they're not working on things so I think it was his way of saying hold on we're gonna come out with new products for you soon just wait we really care about you last year's shareholder meeting was focused around obviously the big discussions around privacy and the FBI investigation into the San Bernardino case what was the mood like this year now those discussions are mostly wrapped up yeah so we didn't really hear a lot about encryption Tim Cook mentioned it you know in terms of politics there were questions about net neutrality so this is the treatment of all content over the internet being treated the same Tim Cook made some comments about how they don't like politics but they know it's important to be involved in the conversation about policy I think this also kind of speaks to Tim meeting with Donald Trump Tim was basically trying to say we think it's important to have a seat at the table you know to have sort of influence in some way one of the notable people in the room was Reverend Jesse Jackson he was here last year as well several hundred billion dollars in offshore monies that must be some plan to repatriate those monies it's it's Apple or Cisco it's it's Microsoft and other companies they get the money back - in two targa the investment for reconstruction of the urban cities and rural areas about country sharra thank you very much for the inside scoop on everything Apple at the shareholders meeting and make sure to stay tuned to see net for all Apple coverage