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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Field Questions at Utah Tech Tour With Senator Orrin Hatch

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Apple CEO Tim Cook will participate in a Q&A session with U.S. senator Orrin Hatch this Friday, as part of the senator's Utah Tech Tour (via AppleInsider).

The event is being held to highlight the state's technology community, and the Apple chief is scheduled to give a short address before taking questions from Hatch and members of the public. An online form has also been set up for submitting questions for possible inclusion in the Q&A.

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It's not clear what topics will be up for discussion during the event, although Apple's run-in with the government over encryption and privacy issues following the San Bernardino shooting case is likely to be on the agenda.

Senator Hatch serves as the Chairman of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, and in April he invited members of the Senate to a special Q&A session with one of the lawyers Apple hired to head its legal team during its dispute with the FBI.

The Utah Tech Tour takes place at the Grand America in Salt Lake City, from 5.30pm to 7pm MDT on Friday, September 30. The event is open to the public. Tickets of limited availability can be ordered online via the Utah Tech Tour website.

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tentales said:
Political? Huh! When are the new Macs coming out of your "pipeline" ?
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I am seeing this said so much here and it reminds me of back in 2014 when people were repeatedly asking about the MacMini, then when it did arrive it was nowhere close to being what everyone appeared to want. I for one went straight out and bought an i7 2012 model.

I really hope I don't feel the same way about the new MBP and Air when they are finally announced.

Sorry for being off topic.
 
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WBRacing said:
I am seeing this said so much here and it reminds me of back in 2014 when people were repeatedly asking about the MacMini, then when it did arrive it was nowhere close to being what everyone appeared to want. I for one went straight out and bought an i7 2012 model.

I really hope I don't feel the same way about the new MBP and Air when they are finally announced.

Sorry for being off topic.
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Ideally they start bothering again and getting the Mac value back on track (I always knew about the Apple premium price, but right now you're paying Apple multitudes)

To be frank, sometimes I'm secretly glad when they DON'T touch something. Seen way too many updates from them that made products worse.

Glassed Silver:mac
 
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Glassed Silver said:
To be frank, sometimes I'm secretly glad when they DON'T touch something. Seen way too many updates from them that made products worse.
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That is such a damning, and revealing statement, although obviously many will say it is subjective. Personally I agree though, demonstrated by my buying an old version of a newly announced product.

Another example is that I would have almost certainly bought an iPhone 7+ for the new camera but I want to be able to both charge and use wired headphones at the same time, so for me it is not fit for purpose anymore.
 
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...and WordPerfect (yes I am old). :)
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I was thinking that too. Also Iomega, We also have a several Microsoft buildings, Universities that are well known in technology, quite a few start-ups... and Comic Con, Fantasy Con, etc.. keep getting better and better :)

Lots of inventors. for example: Inventor of TV was born in Utah

all that aside... I face-palm when I hear Hatch and Technology mentioned in the same sentence.
 
thermodynamic said:
Cook just wants more corporate welfare and doesn't mind if he helps drive the USA into the ground to get it, look at Hatch's vote on an issue that hasn't changed for the better since:

http://www.ontheissues.org/SenateVote/Party_2005-63.htm

http://www.computerworld.com/articl...bill-will-help-destroy-us-tech-workforce.html

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...sor-bill-to-increase-h-1b-guest-worker-visas/

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/2614737-155/op-ed-hatch-should-fix-h1-b-visa
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Agreed on the corporate welfare part, but let me impart a view from the "guest worker" side.

Back in the late 90s, I was transplanted from a middle European country to Silicon Valley by means of an L1-A (similar to H1).
After the sticker-shock, I ended up being payed less in adjusted terms, than at my old job in the same company.
Not to mention, shouldering 80% of the relocation costs. So I discovered the same company that dressed up this "promotion" was paying me 60cents on the dollar of a US citizen and this was during the boom years. Come 2003, after surviving several rounds of company lay-offs I got hit too. Terms of the L1 are such, that you have 30 days to find another job or leave the country. Average application time for a new H1 is somewhere between 6-9 months, so that's a non-starter.

Suffice to say, I have no sympathy for corporate greed. Regardless of residency status, workers in US companies get hired and fired faster than anywhere else in the western world.

Cooks argument that he cannot find enough skilled workers in the US to manufacture locally is bogus.
What he really means is that he cannot find enough suckers willing to work for a lot less than he has to pay US citizens & Green Card holders. Hence, Cook is lobbying to increase said H1 visas to displace more resident workers.

These type of visas are not meant for iPhone assemblers, gosh, they're paid pittance over in China, but for middle-management and technologists. The guy or gal working in Pre-Sales, Tech-Marketing or architecture for around $150K to be "on-shored" for $70-90K instead, then fired when convenient.

FWIW, European companies do similar things by laying off employees and hiring consultants in place, albeit the pay-gap is considerably less and social service structures are far more intact, "still".
 
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