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Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Technology Can Change the World for Better in Open Letter
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Me, I guess and the hundreds in my contacts that do.
Who says they didn’t live up to the press release….understanding that is subjective.
It’s clear that Tim understands far more than those who MR gives the ability to criticize him.
Especially when it increases shareholder value.
You know, like shipping a phone without a charger, in the name of environmentalism, yet providing a USB-C cable incompatible with the previous USB-A charging brick.
Solution? Sell the customer a new charging brick, shipped in a separate package! Nope, no contradiction here and wow, look at that amazing P/L sheet!
You know, like shipping a phone without a charger, in the name of environmentalism, yet providing a USB-C cable incompatible with the previous USB-A charging brick.
Solution? Sell the customer a new charging brick, shipped in a separate package! Nope, no contradiction here and wow, look at that amazing P/L sheet!
It's never the tool, it's what is done with it that makes it a useful one.
Technology is no exception. Like other things, it has a great potential to be used for positive changes, as well as for negative ones.
Technology is no exception. Like other things, it has a great potential to be used for positive changes, as well as for negative ones.
Nice straw man. The story and my post wasn't about Apple making good products. It was about my assertion that people vociferously taking a stand against Apple's alleged bad practices not making the world better are complicit giving their dollars/currency to the company when purchasing Apple products.
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Have you learned nothing from Hollywood? Self aware AI will enslave/exterminate humanity. This is the only thing Hollywood got right about computers. Blinking lights, weird sounds, breaking in to a network after 30 seconds of furious typing? Hahahahaa.. but killer robots. Yeah, they got that part right.Create self-aware AI and let it clean up the corruption. All from the iPhone
Look at every example of learning AI field tested thus far. Where is the greatest repository of human knowledge today? The Internet. AI will learn about humanity from the Internet and it will either turn racist/homophobic or turn murderous.
Tim has only been doing this in recent years after the Watch launch there was a few months/years of just regular updates.
Tim isn't envisioning innovative products, that goes to the team sub-ordinates below VP level. I'd like to see any patent submissions and whom is submitting them while working at Apple.
New iPhone every year is not environmentally friendly. Apple needs to cut down on useless yearly upgrades maybe a new iPhone every 3 years.
Modern internet fully agree - but not the repository of human knowledge like it once was years ago.
Now like you've stated its filled with racism/homophobia/or any other phobias and ridiculous memes and other junk.
I wonder how you feel about your own comment when it comes to Apple's vision of implementing CSAM? Would you feel the same - that information of your photos is free and should be shared:
intimate photos of your spouse (meant for your eyes only),
innocent nude photos of your new born child or up to 2yrs old, I'm sure you don't want pedophiles thinking that information is meant to be free and what they'll do with it? Let alone child pornographers, diddlers etc. I know I would NOT!
see where I'm getting at? public domain sourced information should or could be free yet the source of that information, the context and should everyone be able to have access to it despite education/financial/corporate/social status' ei:
Tax information,
Provisional budget information,
child sex offenders list of those convicted,
Road/natural gas construction, or build construction or highway closures,
murders involving the police,
get the gist?
Just read this interesting fact in Wired magazine-“99%-percentage of air passengers arriving in US whose identities are checked by Customs and Border Protection using facial recognition technology.”
Even better Derekuda you just need to have standard communication on your smartphone that works with networks global standard for SMS - short messaging system - which is the green bubbles on your iphone.
SMS has been a network standard since calls could be made on GSM or CDMA globally.
that being unencrypted or open is part of the standard and has NOTHING do do with Apple.
Apple created iMessage - it was intended to broaden what is offered by MMS and had no focus for Android. Their platform their choice - Apple has no need nor incentive nor should be force to move their infrastructure to Android.
Android OS tried many iterations (over 7) for something similar and turns out Android users didn't care much for it and ALL died.
RTS being the new mobile network standard needs uptake by all carriers. Until then deal with basic SMS or have your contacts use WhatsApp or any other 3rd party application to communicate with you just like @I7guy stated.
Well, it’s hard to come out with entirely new product categories EVERY year but the one thing that many of us are looking forward to is the Apple car which may be released in only a few years.
I’m sure that Tim (and his VPs) have many other products that they’re envisioning and may release over the coming years especially if Tim’s recent pay package is designed to incentivize such innovation.
'See we have China make all our products, that way we are not on the hook for their environmental atrocities. I can continue to have photos taken of myself, mouth open and people will think we really give a damn!' -Tim Cook
I believe it has unfortunately ruined democratic systems world wide. Facebook, Twitter etc. set the narratives. Conservative voices are silenced. Discussions over the pandemic were censored. You either have freedom of speech or not. Team blue thinks it’s great but it’s all fun and games until the shoes on the other foot.
Three things going on in the world just now:
1. Pandemic
2. Climate change (read the IPCC report published today)
3. Russia attacking its neighbor; worst armed conflict in Central Europe since the WWII.
Number 1 will fade at some point. But I see no real reference to #2 and #3 apart from some file words with no real meaning.
So empty, so meaningless. Tim, stop collaborating with violent dictators. Get out of Russia.
Slava Ukraini!
1. Pandemic
2. Climate change (read the IPCC report published today)
3. Russia attacking its neighbor; worst armed conflict in Central Europe since the WWII.
Number 1 will fade at some point. But I see no real reference to #2 and #3 apart from some file words with no real meaning.
So empty, so meaningless. Tim, stop collaborating with violent dictators. Get out of Russia.
Slava Ukraini!
While I fully respect all the admirable work Tim Cook has done for Apple and his ability to move the company forward following the loss of Jobs (not an easy task), man, do I find him boring. Like a politician he just keeps on repeating the same "tagline"-messages again and again without any flavour whatsoever. Give us some edge, please.
So, you owning a knife can be used to enslave you. Don't see it. Maybe you meant something different?
While Tim Cook is busy releasing non-sense marketing letters about their service to the humanity, Elon Musk provides real services helping to save a whole country.
Stuff that matters!
No /s!
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Stuff that matters!
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Guys, don't think too deep into this. This is just a speech to promote the Apple Developer Academy. Basically so Apple can have access to more (and cheaper) coders in the future.
Yup. A hammer can build house or bash a skull. It has so much more to do with the caliber human on the other end of the tool. Social media tools are an extraordinarily powerful tool bursting with potential good and catastrophic harm. That potential and power comes with great responsibility. And from what I have seen, few are proving capable of navigating that kind of power and responsibility. Damn shame.
I'm so tired of Apple pretending they are the protector of human rights and savior of climate change and support of all that is good in the world - I swear Apple wants you to believe that every time you buy an iPhone, less plastics end up in the ocean and a baby kitten gets an extra chin rub. They literally treat people like they are absolute morons - treating people like they are clueless robots even filters down to how they handle you when you visit an Apple store - it's downright patronizing.
Of course the CEO of a technology company thinks their technology can be used for the betterment of society - and they absolutely want to convince you of that as well - so you buy more of it and feel warm and fuzzy about the thousands of dollars jumping out of your bank account (or accumulating on your credit card)
If Tim Apple really cared about human rights abuses and making the world a better place, they would refuse to operate in countries that time and time again abuse their own citizens, recklessly contribute to climate change and infringe on their citizens "human rights" on a daily basis.
Or - you could just knock off the "I'm here to save the world act" and just be honest - you care about making money and reducing any potential risk to impact making money. You care about showing shareholder value and increasing profits quarter over quarter. If what you do in the process of making more money adds meaningful value in someone's life, then great - but quit pretending to be something you aren't.
Of course the CEO of a technology company thinks their technology can be used for the betterment of society - and they absolutely want to convince you of that as well - so you buy more of it and feel warm and fuzzy about the thousands of dollars jumping out of your bank account (or accumulating on your credit card)
If Tim Apple really cared about human rights abuses and making the world a better place, they would refuse to operate in countries that time and time again abuse their own citizens, recklessly contribute to climate change and infringe on their citizens "human rights" on a daily basis.
Or - you could just knock off the "I'm here to save the world act" and just be honest - you care about making money and reducing any potential risk to impact making money. You care about showing shareholder value and increasing profits quarter over quarter. If what you do in the process of making more money adds meaningful value in someone's life, then great - but quit pretending to be something you aren't.
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