TREE NEWS update: Apple executive chairman and former CEO Tim Cook visited Shanghai game studio miHoYo on the afternoon of October 16, spending about 45 minutes with the Zenless Zone Zero team. Cook tried the foldable iPhone Duo as a player, with producer Zhenyu explaining alongside, starting the game on the outer screen before unfolding to the inner display for combat. Zhenyu said Zenless Zone Zero’s optimization for Apple devices is continuous.
Tim Cook Visits miHoYo, Tests Foldable iPhone Duo With Zenless Zone Zero
The significance lies less in the device demo than in the venue: a senior Apple figure spending time inside a Chinese studio signals how central mobile game optimization has become to hardware positioning, particularly for a foldable whose appeal depends on a seamless outer-to-inner transition. The audience that matters is developers building for Apple silicon, who read such visits as a cue about where platform attention is going. Whether that translates into deeper tooling or co-development support for Chinese studios is the open question.
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