Yeah, those guys only paid $15.7B in income tax on a $60B operating income in their last fiscal year. Only 26% of income?! Oh, the humanity!
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Pokes Fun at Windows PCs in Commencement Address at MIT
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Yeah, those guys only paid $15.7B in income tax on a $60B operating income in their last fiscal year. Only 26% of income?! Oh, the humanity!
"lighten up Francis." - Sergeant Hulka
What has he done that does focus on innovation?
Heh, you could’ve expected the whiny fake outrage to this, when it wasn’t even particularly insulting to “PCs” or PC users, or anything. He used to work at Compaq and made a joke. Somehow, you’ll survive.
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The PC crowd (dual meaning) is up to their usual righteous indignation in this thread.
Nah, marketing is Phill Schiller’s job. Brand development is partially Tim’s job and partially Angela Ahrendts’ job(https://www.apple.com/leadership/). But Tim’s job is also making sure Apple makes good products. That’s what Steve did. In fact, Steve actually halted iPod production once because the headphone jack didn’t make a satisfying clicking sound when headphones were plugged in.
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Yeah, they’re probably using Linux. Though, I’m not sure which distribution and desktop environment. Possibly Debian or Fedora.
I love my windows and my mac, maybe even the windows box more. But this is a hilarious joke, not some insult.
There is a lot of stuff I don't like about Cook, but I think the Windows joke was funny.
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You saw his 2005 tax returns were he paid taxes... Get over it. Take it to the political forum.
Taxes are not charity, which is intended to serve humanity. Taxes support the keeping society together and are a necessary "evil," for citizens. Not paying taxes due is wrong. Scouring the laws to calculate the exact amount owed, not one penny more is not.
The MacRumors groupthink is strong in asserting the belief that the Mac has stagnated. Touch Bar is not the next step in man-machine interface as it offers no real applications beyond gimmicky features. In a mobile device thinness and weight are not an issue and yet they continue to push thinness and weight as if they do matter. Balancing portability and power? No. Power and battery life. I need infinite battery life. I'm on my devices all day. From when I wake to when I'm drifting off to sleep.
Also, Apple charges an Apple tax and yet they don't pay their due taxes. Minimizing their tax burden is disgusting. We need to fund our ongoing wars and Apple needs to pay up.
So: are you saying these forum members are wrong in their estimation of Apple as a company and its product lineup? We predicted the iPod failure. Where is the iPod today? That's right. We were right. It was overpriced and a useless toy. MacBook Air was a joke in 2008. And it's barely updated today. Failure. Apple is too arrogant. Wireless is not the future. My father always told me Wi-Fi was a gimmick. Slower and limited range. Bluetooth is the same.
Apple needs to focus on REAL computers.
MacBook ($500), MacBook Pro ($800)
iMac ($500), MacPro ($800)
All Blu-ray, all SD card slots, all Ethernet ports, all USB, all headphone jacks. Innovation.
Again...Not everything Cook does has to incorporate the abused and overly redundant term "Innovation" on here. WWDC was fairly impressive with all the latest hardware. Not to mention the success of the Airpods, Apple Watch and soon to be HomePod. I couldn't ask for more at the moment.
Totally agree. When I graduated there was no ceremony Nada, nilch. I got my degree (Mech Eng) in the post.
So think yourself lucky.
The speaker is there to entertain. Pure and simple. You guys complaining really need to get a life. A CEO needs time off, time to do other stuff (even if it is to play Golf which IMO is stupid but there you go).
A CEO Delegates things to people below him. If Apple isn't delivering then by all means complain but every time he does something 'non Apple', the complaints are frankly boring and verging on meaningless.
If Apple is not returning value to shareholders (which is his No 1 goal) then by all means complain.
I am sorry but Windows nowadays wipes the floor with MacOS Timmy. My custom build Ryzen build walks all over your tinbox Macs and is user upgradeable
The great thing about Windows and Linux is that they let you choose your hardware vendor.
So what is the future? An awful lot of companies besides Apple are betting that it is.
If it works for you, good for you. If it doesn't, don't troll people who spent buying Apple because they see the value for their money in it. You see in Ryzen and Windows, they see in the synergy and synchronicity between hardware and software and the seamless working between any and all devices within the ecosystem.
People are paying for software and general experience of ownership and usage when they pay for Apple.
No need to lambast.
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Are you sure? Apple's profit margin (not gross income) is currently 38.93%!
https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/gross_profit_margin
Microsoft's is 21.73%
https://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/profit_margin
Google's (Alphabet) is 21.92%
https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/profit_margin
As we can see Apple makes twice as much profit as Microsoft or Google; you're talking rubbish.
The problem with Windows is... Windows. My PC is not a Phone. I spent 20+ years developing software for PC's and TBH, windows sucks especially 8.0/8.1/10. Give me unix/linux any day. No sending what you are doing to the mothership.
The sort of system I built are a real PITA to do with windows. Implementation times went down by 60% when we moved to RHEL. After 40+ years of software development I am so glad that I left Windows behind. It is not the future. It is the past.
are you joking?
you'd rather it sit in a subsidiary somewhere benefiting nobody other than the fund manager who earns millions instead of it buying ambulances, or building schools or infrastructure?
sure there are inefficiencies, but i cannot think of a greater inefficiency than it not doing anything.