Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares Tidbits About His Life

[hans1972]

It’s a non story and really says nothing. No one is taking some relevant questions. I don’t care or am interested in his private life.

It's a food and family podcast! If you aren't interested why even listen to such a podcast or read articles about such a podcast?

The screen refresh rate of an iPhone isn't a relevant question in a podcast about food and family. How hard can this be?

 

[thettareddast]

Market cap is not very relevant to customers, as opposed to shareholders. And selling more products doesn’t mean that the median customer is more happy/productive/whatever with the current product than they were with the 20-years-ago product.

Market cap is relevant in that it expresses shareholders expectation of customer satisfaction. If they expect customers wont be happy, customs wont give the company money, and their economic value will erode.

Everyone has an opinion in the health of the company. Only the opinion of one set of people carry economic risk with it.

 

[nostradumbass]

For those who say he's overpaid, at his base compensation he's making $1000 an hour (given a 60 hour week) - that's an absolute bargain for Apple.

Apple execs are known for not draining the company's accounts for personal benefit like at other companies. They are given reasonable amount of stock and expected to perform well to see their pie grow.

When Steve Jobs left Apple around 1985 he sold all his stock except one share so that he could keep getting the shareholder letters in the mail. He still only had that one share when he returned to Apple and then was given shares again as CEO. If he was alive today he probably still wouldn't make it in the top 20 richest men. Maybe around 35th if he never sold a share (of Apple and Disney).

 

[victorvictoria]

If you only come up with another question instead of answering the first. It’s no use to respond at all.

Then I'll rephrase: the use to customers of Apple increasing its market capitalization means it increases its market share. That makes Apple money. That money is used to conceive, execute and produce successive generations of existing products, and create new products. The more Apple earns, the faster you get your hands on the latest "insanely great" product. The VisionPro is one of those, although it's more a trial balloon, as are all innovations. Better iterations will come as a result of the user experiences of people like you.

 

[9081094]

Then I'll rephrase: the use to cusomers of Apple increasing its market capitalization means it increases its market share. That makes Apple money. That money is used to conceive, execute and produce successive generations of existing products, and create new products. The more Apple earns, the faster you get your hands on the latest "insanely great" product. The VisionPro is one of those, although it's more a trial balloon, as are all innovations. Better iterations will come as a result of the user experiences of people like you.

I’m waiting for years now and began peaking elsewhere already. Wake me up if there really comes something like the macmini out of Apple and not just buggy software and processors swaps.

Edit:
It’s not a money problem at Apple that there isn’t any worthwhile coming from Apple

 

[Wando64]

It would be far more interesting to ask him why Apple isn't performing well

It isn't?

They could have fooled me...

 

[msackey]

The food options at Apple Park are breathtakingly good.

Ah, wish I could visit! I used to know people who worked at Apple, but these were the times before Apple Park.

 

[Naraxus]

Its likes story from Disney. No questions about what he thinks about the state of the hard- and software. No questions about why Siri still hasn’t evolved in 13+ years. No questions about expensive upgrades.

And Timmy really isn’t telling nothing.

You really think he's going to answer questions concerning Apple business in an interview about him?

This isn't a knock on Tim but it's like any other CEO or a politician - the questions are most likely prescreened and the overall tone of the interview is known beforehand.

 

[9081094]

You really think he's going to answer questions concerning Apple business in an interview about him?

This isn't a knock on Tim but it's like any other CEO or a politician - the questions are most likely prescreened and the overall tone of the interview is known beforehand.

So it’s useless in anyway 😊

 

[ApplesAreSweet&Sour]

I’m furious that there’s no Apple product or service named “Apple Jam”.

Not even a single iPhone case or Watch band. Nothing.

I guess Tim ain’t lying when he says he never cooks.

And I bet he doesn’t even like that dumb spiced apple jam made with Macintosh Apple apples from the Apple Park campus apple orchard he shared with the podcast hosts.

Tim Cook? No, Tim sits in the McDonald’s drive through and orders a 20 pcs. chicken McNuggets meal with barbecue sauce and a large vanilla milkshake like the rest of us.

Doesn’t cook. Probably doesn’t like apples. No Apple Jam playlist. Worst CEO ever!! ☹️

 

[Mr. Zarniwoop]

Kistler Chardonnay is generally priced between $75 - $100 a bottle. Not that extravagant for a man of his means.
(and yes, I realize the price of wine does not necessarily correlate with the quality of that wine)

The better Kistler Chardonnays are $105-150/bottle direct from the winery (if you are a member, there's a waiting list) or around 1.4x-1.8x that at retail or more (if you can find them, allocations are small) and are considered at the top of the Chardonnays in the world. They are a benchmark wine producer and cult-status winery.

They make a killer Pinot Noir as well.

The original Kistler family sold the company in 2008 although there was a long transition period through 2017. During that time, in 2011 they started founded Occidental, the new Kistler family winery dedicated to Pinot Noir.

 

[bLackjackj]

(and yes, I realize the price of wine does not necessarily correlate with the quality of that wine)

Then why the comment? That's actually rediculously over priced for a single bottle of Chardonnay. He clearly doesn't know his wines, if his sucking down kistler,..it's probably the most expensive of whats available at his local & that makes it good in his eyes.

Some of the best Chardonnays available from some of the best wineries in the world (in Australia) are in the AU14-AU32 range.

 

[DENZIE]

For all the flak that Tim gets, there's one product that under his stewardship is almost universally loved and has seismically shifted the industry;

AirPods

Every year Billions of dollars are now being wrung out of what was previously a throwaway earbud accessory that came with the phone.

True. They’re great. But they’ve only BECOME throwaway since AirPods thanks to the battery.

 

[lfaa]

It just depends when you go to sleep at night.

 

[iZac]

True. They’re great. But they’ve only BECOME throwaway since AirPods thanks to the battery.

I don't think I ever used the pack-in earpods. All my old iPhone boxes had them in when I went to throw away the box, though I did save them for some non-existent earbud emergency. The battery in the Airpods is part of their insidious genius, user's will just buy another pair once that tic-tac sized battery gives up.

What's more amazing is that now everything is USB-C, where is the wired earbud renaissance? People will still just stick with replacing their AirPods. genius.

(I should disclaim that I am pro-wire)

 

[steve09090]

So it’s useless in anyway 😊

No. I enjoyed the article personally. It didn’t contain the fodder that gets Apple haters all riled up.

 

[steve09090]

It’s a non story and really says nothing. No one is taking some relevant questions. I don’t care or am interested in his private life. I do care about releasing up to date products and how he will handle all the things where Apple is years behind with the competition like the key element Siri. Why no yearly update to all the products (a chip swap and memory upgrade don’t cost Apple much). Why still releasing screens at 60 hz, why the neglect of their prosumer soft- and hardware. How long he thinks Apple will be able to compete with Android, Qualcomm, Google, Microsoft, etc.

It’s a cooking podcast. The questions are absolutely relevant. On a cooking podcast!

Jessie Ware hosts a podcast about food, family and everything in between, direct from her very own dinner table. With a little bit of help from her chef extraordinaire mum Lennie​

Why the hell would they talk about 60Hz screens? 😂

I hear lots of people cheer about Apple is a 4 trillion company. But it’s 3,5 trillion at the moment.

Ummm.. it’s how the share market work?

Apple begins to look like Nokia with their products. And Nokia was a several trillion company too.

What? $40B at their peak. Where doooo you get your facts from? A cooking podcast?

 

[menithings]

His middle name should be “Don’t”

 

[steve09090]

I'm just glad to hear the word "retirement" even entering the discussion

It only happened because they asked about his brothers. He won’t be retiring any time soon. Sorry to burst your bubble.

 

[Harmonious Zen]

I am lucky to have Tim Cook at the helm of Apple! Because of his squeezing customers on monitors and ram upgrades, I passed on the Mac Studio in the summer of 23 and built a machine I named Badass. I threw a 4090 and an i13900k in it with 8 TB and 128gb of ram with a 32” 4k monitor for less than that single upgraded Mac Studio would have cost. I have learned so much in the past year and a half about modern technology because Tim has taken this lifelong Apple customer for granted. I run LLMs locally, record/master some pretty cool stuff, have learned a fair amount of programming and am reaquinted with the cutting edge of the broader technology landscape. Even recently traded in my iPhone for a pixel pro xl which I absolutely love (my wife and kids got16 pros and are jealous!) We’ll see what happens with their chips (which rock but are software and market share starved), but I believe APPL will lost 1/3rd its market cap in the next 5 years. There’s too many forces way too far ahead of them in their core products and far more marketing hype than technical vision within the company. That can only last so long. Thanks Tim!

Why are you still here then?

 

[Ghengis LeMond]

Why are you still here then?

Schadenfreude 😁. I’ve loved Apple for 30 years but now Apple has switched roles in that ‘1984’ commercial that was so poignant at the time. The company is a shell of what it once was and I root against them. Trust me, I’ve earned a place here and still have a Mac SE that boots.

 

[Ghengis LeMond]

It isn't?

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They could have fooled me...

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/16/apple-has-worst-day-since-august-down-11percent-from-december-peak.html

 

[steve09090]

I’ve loved Apple for 30 years but now Apple has switched roles in that ‘1984’ commercial that was so poignant at the time. The company is a shell of what it once was and I root against them. Trust me, I’ve earned a place here and still have a Mac SE that boots.

Steve Jobs himself said they couldn’t keep doing what they were doing. He didn’t want Apple to fail like Xerox. So when you say they are a shell, for all the lives that have been saved with the Apple Watch and fall detection or A-Fib detection, you say that’s a bad thing? How does this pleasure of someone else’s misfortune work?

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

This podcast is weird. Do they put the video up it it's entirety? it doesn't seem like it. Odd given that they obviously film it and upload YT shorts.

 

[Jashar7]

If you've ever wondered what it's like to be the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook recently sat down for an interview with Table Manners podcast hosts Jessie and Lennie Ware when he visited London in December. Cook shared insight into his daily routine, his focus on work, and his retirement plans. He also provided some fun details about Apple and some of his favorite things.

Cook revealed that Apple collects the fruit from the trees that are around the Apple Park campus, using it to make jam. He shared spiced apple jam created from Apple Park trees with the podcast hosts. Apple primarily has apple trees because the land where the Apple Park campus is located used to be an orchard, but there are also cherry trees.

While Cook does intend to retire at some point, it won't be the "traditional definition" of retirement. He doesn't see himself "being at home doing nothing" and "not intellectually stimulated." He says he'll "always be wired in that kind of way and want to work."

Cook said that his upbringing was "centered on work." He had a newspaper route at age 11, and at age 14, he "flipped burgers" at a fast food place called Tastee-Freez. His parents "instilled hard work," and the value of it has stayed with him "for a lifetime."

As Cook has said several times before, he wakes up before 5:00 a.m. to start work. He begins his day answering emails while it's still quiet. When asked why he starts with emails, he said it's the part of the day that has no surprises. "Well, as it turns out, it's the part of the day that I can control the most," he said. "As the day starts to unfold, it becomes less predictable."

The early morning is his favorite time of the day because he can "kind of block out the world and focus on a few critical things, and just be silent for a while."

Cook said that he works from Apple Park four days a week, but on Fridays, he tends to work from home. He said he works at home because "nobody's in the office and it's depressing when there's nobody there." Apple has a hybrid working schedule where employees are allowed to work from home up to two days a week.

There were no real hints of new products, but Cook said that there are "so many things" in the pipeline, as he often does. "We have so many things coming up," he said.

Some other tidbits:

• Cook loves white wine, specifically Chardonnay. His favorite is Kistler.
  
• For breakfast, he eats a protein rich cashew cereal from Whole Foods with unsweetened almond milk.
  
• Cook doesn't cook, and eats most of his meals during the week at Caffé Macs. He takes dinner home.
  
• Ethel's Fancy in Palo Alto is one of his preferred restaurants, where he likes to get the octopus.
  
• He eats a lot of fish.
  
• Cook loves chocolate, especially dark chocolate.
  
• Table Manners has a tradition of asking guests about their last meal. Cook said his would be an appetizer of hamachi crudo with jalapeno, a branzino for a main dish, broccolini as a side, and anything chocolate for dessert.
  
• When not working, Cook likes to hike, and he likes to go to national parks for vacation.
  
• Cook recently went caving in Slovenia.

The full Table Manners podcast with Tim Cook can be listened to through Apple Podcasts on the web, iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

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“Cook doesn’t cook” nice one 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣