Apple CEO Tim Cook and Corning CEO Wendell Weeks on the future of American innovation

Chairman and CEO Wendell Weeks, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. But we had a lot more to talk about. So take a look, gentlemen, got some good news from the FDA. Our Apple Watches will be the way we can measure hypertension, the leading killer of people in the world. Now, I don't know, Wendell. I know that's your glass. That's my wife. That's your glass. But you've got to be proud of what you guys have created with the Apple Watch.

We're so excited about being able to participate in something that is actually going to help people's health as well.

That is your mission.

That's absolutely right. You know, we think we're going to notify 1 million people in the first year alone that they have hypertension, and to get them to reach out to their doctors to come up with a regimen.

Do people do it? Do people use a lot of the different health care things you've got involved with it?

Right now? It's unbelievable. Jim, I get notes every day from people who maybe they fell and was incapacitated, and the watch called out emergency services for them. Maybe they were in a crash and the same thing transpired. Maybe they have AFib and didn't know it. And the doctor told them that they would have died if not having reached out. And so all the time I'm getting notes.

Well, let me just go back to Harrodsburg and just touch on kind of like the Our town perception here. There are a lot of towns that had factories in them. We all know them. Some of us grew up in them. And then the factories left because there was a bargain. We had cheap goods, but they got the jobs. China got the jobs. Why did Corning stay?

So we view it as our responsibility as an American company and as management that when we dedicate a plant in a community, we view that as a social contract. For instance, we opened this plant in 1952 actually to do some Cold War products, but then we shifted it to ophthalmic, a new invention from ourselves to do photochromics. But then that product had its inevitable maturity and cycle. So then we brought another of our inventions here, LCD. And then when Steve came to us and Apple came to us for the very first Gorilla Glass, we brought that innovation here. So for us, what we have to be able to do is view communities and our people as we'll do whatever products here that we innovate and we're committed to it. So that's why when you walk around the factory, you'll meet people who are third generation Corning employees in this factory. But what the people today are doing has nothing to do with what their grandfather did.