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Tim Cook Speaks on Steve Jobs, Apple's Interest in TV, and Beats Acquisition in New Interview

Piggie said:
hmmmmm, to be honest, if you need the empty room of a dead guy to remind you to work well, I question your personality in the 1st place.

I'm sure there are many many MANY perfectionists in the world who strive for the very best, FAR better and more critical than Jobs ever was, who don't need an empty office, harking back to old thinking to motivate them.

Let's be honest here. If Jobs were still alive, there would be no iPhone 6 with it's larger screen and certainly no iPhone 6+

For me, that was Jobs greatest weakness, he let his own individual personal bias rule too much. He personally didn't like it, so no-one was having it.

That's a weakness in anyone.

Now that flaw has gone from Apple they are now allowed to think wider and bigger, literally and start exploring products and avenues that they were never allowed to before due to one mans issues.
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Apple is much bigger than it ever was under Steve. Steve was the right guy to get Apple back on its feet and profitable again. But I think Tim's the right guy now that Apple is so big. I've seen some arguments that Steve would only have done one watch with a couple of bands. Maybe, but that would be the wrong way to go. There is no one size fits all when it comes to fashion. And think about all the foot traffic Apple Stores will get with people wanting to come in and try on different watch combinations. And if they're in there looking at watches who knows what else they might look at/buy.
 
Tim is the coolest. People compare his personality to SJ and of course it will seem understated in that comparison. But I love the Mister-Rogers-mafia-boss thing that Tim has going on.
 
sambaman1 said:
http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60444569
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iWe said:
The complete hour long …
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The site (not just the recording) is not found, 404 it's not just me http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.charlierose.com – poor Charlie! – Poor Charlie's ISP! – Munch munch munch, all that bandwidth gone, in less than the time it took Charley to eat a fish.

Rogifan said:
Hmm … "There are products we're working on that no one knows about, yes. That haven't been rumored about yet."
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Yep. There's still the ability to keep things truly secret …
 
what a great interview so far!! i can't even imagine what Apple has in store down the road. look forward to monday's part 2 :apple:
 
ryansimmons323 said:
That thing about the office reminds me of Walt Disney.

Exactly like that, they kept his office untouched for years until they set up the archives and moved it piece-by-piece to Disneyland. Even his notes left on his desk from his final day remained untouched.
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I wonder if Steve had already picked an office location on the Spaceship campus? Since he personally presented the plans to Cupertino, it wouldn't surprise me. Maybe his office will be moved there once complete.
 
SusanK said:
… It a good interview Well worth your time. Cook was relaxed and conversational. …
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Yes, yes and yes. I'm glad that I kept an open mind about Cook and others at Apple.

I could cherry pick umpteen quotes, but better to stick with just the one (above), which was hurriedly picked after less than five minutes of listening for the phrase that was quoted by Rogifan. Maybe my imagination, that impersonal 'choose our words' sentence was the only part where Cook's personal appearance – a smile – was less than sincere. Through listening and watching the whole thing, many of my questions about him and the company were indirectly answered √

To anyone with similar interests: I thoroughly recommend watching, without a break, from start to finish.

(I remain puzzled about the 'WTF?' effects of pre-release Yosemite, but I'm now prepared to accept that Cook is neither primarily nor ultimately responsible for those problems.)
 
Tried to watch it from Rose´s website on my iPhone it bed. Didnt work. Kinda ironic, being a Tim Cook interview.
 
I'm still not sold on Cook's answer about larger screen iPhones. I still think it as the market that forced their hand. Unless it was always the plan to time bigger screened phones with the watch and have the watch take the place of times you'd quickly pull your phone out of your pocket/handbag.
 
Just saw the new lg 55" oled which was almost like seeing hd for the first time compared to DVD quality. Also saw a bunch of 75"+ 4k tvs many looking like they only had the tiniest of bezels with excellent eye popping displays. So don't give me this crap tvs are stuck in the 70s. 4k oled will come out this year and within a few years they should cost low enough for mass consumption, and I will be one of those consumers. I don't think we are going to get better at 4k oled for a very long time.
 
mattkilla420 said:
Just saw the new lg 55" oled which was almost like seeing hd for the first time compared to DVD quality. Also saw a bunch of 75"+ 4k tvs many looking like they only had the tiniest of bezels with excellent eye popping displays. So don't give me this crap tvs are stuck in the 70s. 4k oled will come out this year and within a few years they should cost low enough for mass consumption, and I will be one of those consumers. I don't think we are going to get better at 4k oled for a very long time.
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Don't want to be rude here but based on your off-topic rant about display resolutions either you haven't seen the Cook interview or you missed his point completely...
 
He listened to beats "human curated" playlist and became so excited by its uplifiting effect he stayed up all night, and shortly thereafter--plopped down 3 BILLION for Beats music, Dre, Iovine and the headphones business. Wtf? Is he crazy?

We have now seen what Tim's product pipeline was "full" of. Bulky smartwatches featuring no desired functionality.

But lets not be too fast to judge--this is the man who bought us the iphone 5c
 
KiwiAdventure said:
Why do the Media have to keep going on about Steve Jobs
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This is, by Apple's definition, a historic time for the company so I think it's perfectly reasonable to discuss the most significant person in the company's history.

I wish they would move on and discuss more practicable up to date topics.
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Your wish was granted before you made it; the interviewer did ask a variety of questions.

What did you think of the interview as a whole?
 
KiwiAdventure said:
Why do the Media have to keep going on about Steve Jobs I wish they would move on and discuss more practicable up to date topics.
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In short because Steve Jobs left a void at Apple that no single person will ever be able to fill.
 
grahamperrin said:
What did you think of the interview as a whole?
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I've always liked Tim Cook, and I felt he was unfairly treated along with AAPL for a couple of years. I thought it was a good interview up until the point where he blamed The Fappening on phishing. I do not believe all those celebrities were phished. Besides phishing, if it wasn't the unlimited password guesses, it was the ability to reset a password by correctly answering secret questions, which was still possible to do when I looked at this 10 days or so ago. As I wrote then:

According to the KeePass note field for my Apple ID, my 3 questions are, "Pet", "Book", and "Street". I didn't write the whole things down, and as they usually appear in comboboxes, they aren't copyable, but one word is enough to identify them when challenged, so that's what I recorded. While the random strings that are my answers offer no clues to the full questions, I would guess they were something like, "What was the name of your first pet?", "What's your favorite book?", and "What street did you live on as a child?" Someone who is targeting a celebrity who has given broad-ranging interviews and whatnot could probably find out things like this pretty easily, and birth date is a given. People who know me could answer questions like these.

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I always pick the first three because the questions don't matter - I give random strings generated by Keepass as answers.

I think most people will pick the first three that are easy for them to answer and answer them accurately because they don't know any better. If they did know better, they'd do as I do, and there would be no issue.
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This was a case of setting the user up to fail, and I don't think we've heard the last of it. Obviously, he couldn't apologize for it like he did Maps, but dismissing it as "phishing" rings pretty hollow to me as a shareholder. I can only imagine how it rings to the likes of JLaw and her lawyers. I remain flabbergasted that you can reset a password merely by answering these sekrit questions. Fercrissakes, I can't register an account on most rinky-dink forums without having to confirm an email.
 
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