Sure, but I also think all religions should be banned instead of believing in fairy tales.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks Immigration, Human Rights, Privacy, Apple News and More in New Interview
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All that this thread shows me is that the ceiling of 1000 members you can ignore on macrumors.com is way to low.
Hold on, you have no idea what you're talking about. Study the subject before preaching. The "beating" is explained as a very light slap with a twig or cloth, and not something that could leave any bruise. And it is the last resort after leaving them and not sharing their bed. Regardless, should Bible apps be banned as well for violence? Hosea 13:16 The Bible has multiple times more violence that the Quran. I'm not here to start an argument but to fight ignorance.
Nobody's saying they shouldn't be allowed to, the point is that the statement claiming that Apple doesn't donate to political parties or campaigns is misleading.
Still, one the open secrets to Jobs' success was his focus on the products and the way he delegated all of the things he wasn't all that great at to people like Cook and focused on the products. I'd say it's more than clear that now that Cook is at the helm is that his style is similar that he's delegated what he's not good at to other people, but he doesn't quite seem to have been able to find someone as good at fostering the development of good products quite like Jobs.
Why did this journalist ask Tim about current state of Macs and all the controversies, lawsuits and defects?
This is what you do when you have no product. You virtue signal for yourself and your company, to keep disappointed customers feeling good about poor service.
Facts is - while the Obama administration was separating children, NOBODY cared. When the Obama administration was sued over the conditions it was keeping children under, Obama fought it (and is still fighting it) in court. NOBODY cares.
If Democrats think this can be used as a divisive issue to get people to vote for them (and not actually help those suffering) and the loyal media beats it up for them - not only is there (virtue signalling) moral outrage, but Timmy Cook jumps on the bandwagon to build Apple's public image. Just wait until after the mid-terms, NOBODY will care about separated children again, and NOBODY will even notice, because really… nobody cared! (And don't give me 'we didn't know about it' or 'it's worse now' - you were being sued in court over it!!!)
Ever since Apple's roadmap became a train wreck, we've known more about Tim Cook's politics than Apple's products, and if you want to get morally outraged about something…
get morally outraged about Cook using identity politics or imprisoned children to further his business interests - that's the effing disgrace!! It's bad enough what the government has been doing, no matter who is in power, but to use that suffering to promote your business is despicable.
I don't recall and believe Tim Cook should not do it either.
But that's just my opinion.
Probably, just a good guess, because all questions must be curated by Apple Marketing before the journalist gets to interview Cook. And those questions would never get vetted, with the journalist expeditiously quarantined by Apple like malware.
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Wow, dude. R.E.L.A.X.
The only thing missing from your rambling post is the use of exclamation signs modeled after your numpty-in-charge.
Ohhhh... you did include exclamations and upper case liberally, to make your inane post.
Good job! /s
I believe that Tim is just using his time at Apple to prepare for running for political office.
True, Jobs didn't reveal anything in his rare interviews. He also avoided public pontification and preferred to instead lead by example. Cook is the prototypical do-gooder who thinks words and money can change the world. He appeals to a small group of like-minded travelers, while most see him as shallow and hypocritical because the way Apple spends its money often doesn't match the lofty sentiments he expresses at the drop of a hat.
Only racists and bigots who think all "black people think the same", or "all women think the same", would think diversity is about targets and representation, based solely of ones physical traits. True diversity is that of character, opinion, and thought, not "stamp collecting" physical traits into your neighbourhood. Apple and Tim need to stop this cultivation of racial thinking and start making computers again. Because all it is doing is fostering group think, and group think limits inovation. Not what colour or gender the engineer is. But their ideas.
If children were taught analytical thinking skills before being indoctrinated, religion would die in a generation. Sadly the people pushing those fairy tales know this and work very hard to get the indoctrination in as early as possible.
Children have to take what their parents say as faith. They have no more reason to believe "if you go in the forest the wolves will eat you" than "if you don't say your prayers you'll burn for eternity". It's important for survival that children believe what they're told. Unfortunately, religion is a perversion of that survival trait.
If you found an average adult who had never heard of religion and tried to explain to them, they'd laugh their heads off at you for the absurdity of it all. You have to infect them as children.
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We have hundreds of hours of videos on YouTube of Steve Jobs making very visionary pie in the sky statements about computing, its direction and where he saw things going. Even some dumb things like "nobody wants a stylus" and "watching video on an iPod will never happen" didn't hold up long-term but Steve made technological statements that were really good. He was a dreamer, a visionary and while he never wrote a line of code or did CAD work or molded metals with Jony, he contributed something to the grander vision of technology.
Tim can be best summed up as a steward/ trustee of Steve Job's Apple. Apple University, created and developed by Steve with various ivy league professors is the way to ensure Apple doesn't go the way of HP after the founders died. The Apple Way is instilled in everyone. Tim does a great job taking Steve's company and steering it with efficiencies, partnerships, acquisitions and of late, humanitarian and greater good messaging.
But how long can someone Steward Steve's company? We're not owed another Steve but we are owed a visionary the steers things I I think Jony only has about half of that story. He is a design visionary and continues to push us forward by removing features simply for the sake of design. There is no product visionary to keep Jony in check and continue to evolve Apple's technological greatness.
We'll never know how Steve would have handled the iPhone's explosive growth both in sales and in quarterly earnings impact but I want to believe we'd have more than just 4 different iPhones and an Apple watch made of gold.
If you’re going to curate mid-term election articles, hopefully the conservative viewpoint will be on equal terms. Except the infowars and breitbart type stuff....
So h reality being what it is, Tim is a visionary in his own right. You can disagree and we can “argue” hypotheticals all day long about Steve. But in answer to your question, Tim can steward Apple for as long as he likes.
One more thing, it’s Tim’s company now, not Steve’s.
I think the Mac line would fare better if Apple split it off onto some subsidiary company, with its own Mac oriented engineers and a CEO dedicated to the Mac line of products. Macs always fared better prior to Apple's branching into being primarily a smart phone company.
Did they ask about Apple’s investment in Communist China and its human rights record? Seems that the questions were sanitized first.
If all he did was spout on about how wonderful the products were, these interviews would dry up in pretty quick time. These programmes do not want to be used for free advertising. You have to pay the stations lots of $$$ for that. So, these interviews do everything but talk about products.
Which is fine for me.
I think the 50% of us Independents have had enough of the conservative viewpoints to last a life time. Besides the conservative party as we know it, is dead, it is now the party of Trumptism.
And why shouldn’t they? Companies are there to make a profit, not benefit mankind.
I think what your complaining about is capitalism... that’s just the system we have... get used to it...
