Cook talked about everything apart from the one thing that matters - when are we going to see new Macs?
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks Immigration, Human Rights, Privacy, Apple News and More in New Interview
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Of course. That’s why you always see white nationalists with swastika arm bands cheering/applauding and giving stiff-arm salutes whenever a democratic candidate speaks at a rally. Oh, wait, sorry...wrong party.
Cook should leave Apple and run for election as he obviously cares more about these issues than he cares about the Mac.
You mean like this Democrat?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
Ku Klux Klan
In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia.[10][11]
According to Byrd, a Klan official told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob ... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd later recalled, "Suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[17] Byrd became a recruiter and leader of his chapter.[11] When it came time to elect the top officer (Exalted Cyclops) in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously.[11]
In December 1944, Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore G. Bilbo:
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944[11][18]
In 1946, Byrd wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation."[19] However, when running for the United States House of Representatives in 1952, he announced "After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." He said he had joined the Klan because he felt it offered excitement and was anti-communist.[11]
That's not what he says he's doing in this interview.
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Immigrants aren't slackers, and we don't need to bend over backwards for them. Get rid of socialism, and also get rid of market fudgeries like minimum wage and tenure, problem solved. Then we can bring in tons of immigrants. These people know how to work more than anyone born here, and we still get the advantages of speaking English, knowing the country, etc.
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Nice deflection. I’m talking about today and the white nationalists in swatstikas that show up at rallies for the current president, and stiff/arm salute what he stands for, like he’s their messiah. Why are you not able to address what happens today?
Sure, you can go back decades and find klan members, and other hateful people from both parties. Are you really that surprised?
Okay, but what is your point? Are you suggesting that private individuals should not be allowed to have their own political opinions and/or should not be allowed to contribute to campaigns?
Tim Cook is a businessman, yes, but he is also a human, a US citizen, a California resident, a taxpayer, and so on. Tim Cook contributing to a campaign is completely different from Apple contributing to a campaign.
Tim's policy on when it's best to speak out is simple. If he thinks it will at least help sales (say among LGBTQ groups) and if it affects him personally, he's going to speak up! Given his own preference, it makes sense. But when it comes to making sales and deals in places like Saudi Arabia, he's STONE SILENT. Why? It would hurt sales there big time to promote the LGBTQ agenda. Now some of us see this as the worst kind of hypocrisy (only speak out against things you know to be wrong when it doesn't hurt the bottom line???) while others think Tim is such a great leader. Yeah, he's been great for making the Mac so relevant these days, whose new slogan might as well be, "Make the Mac Crappy Again!" If seems like if it's not a phone, Apple doesn't care. Other companies a tiny fraction of Apple's size manage to put out new model computers every single quarter. Apple can't even manage to make a new Mac Pro in a half decade after killing the design that at least let people upgrade it themselves while Apple was busy doing almost nothing but phones (and watches, it helped to kill in the first place with the iPhone).
Good for you, you know something about Wikipedia. Now go look up the Southern strategy, where the Republican Party worked very hard (and quite successfully) to get all the racists, Ku Klux Klan members and similar folks to move from the Democratic Party over to the Republican side. Republicans like to trumpet about being the "party of Lincoln". I care more about what the parties are now, not what they were 150 years ago.
Southern strategy:
In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South that had traditionally supported the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. It also helped push the Republican Party much more to the right.
New Republican slogan: "Republicans - we used to have the moral high ground".
A company is a collection of people, as Tim Cook says, so his claim that Apple doesn't donate to any political orgs is true but not the whole truth. Also, Apple's success impacts how much money goes to those people. There's no "should" here, just a fact to point out for anyone really bent on supporting or boycotting certain orgs.
But, rainbow bands aren't a niche product? $17k Gold Apple Watches? Or, how about Apple Watches as a whole? HomePods? AI cars?
Apple seems to find time and money to accomplish their priorities. So, when they say the Mac is a priority, yet we see little happening, it's not crazy to notice the discrepancy in talk and behavior.
Wow... get out of your bubble much? For every Christian become atheist, I can show you an atheist become Christian. Your thesis holds no water.
There are atheists I take seriously (even if I disagree), but whenever I hear the whole 'fairy tales' thing, I know I'm dealing with someone who hasn't even broached the subject matter.
That's the thing. Most countries actually have immigration policy that they enforce. When we moved from USA to Canada, we had to go through a long, expensive process (and prove education, financial responsibility, etc.). We didn't just hop the border.
I'm often left a bit speechless that so many in the USA don't seem understand this... especially from the 'left' who talk so much about the benefits of being traveled, etc.
Good post, but this sentence is especially on point. This isn't about real diversity, it's about using a term that sounds good 'diversity' to promote a like-think environment that is anything but diverse.
Who knows what his actual beliefs are, but you make a good point in showing how crazy the left and MSM are on this one.
So some of his best friends are Jewish? I bet they were really upset at his support of nazis marching in Charlottesville then.
Umm, most of the Charlottesville people weren't Nazis. (There was like one guy with a Nazi armband and flag, probably paid to be there, who seemed adept at getting in all the photo-ops.) But, that's a whole other rabbit-hole.
But, where did you get this idea that Trump supported one side or the other?
(It's kind of a rhetorical question, as I suppose one would get this impression from the MSM if they did no actual critical thinking or research of their own.)
No doubt. He has gotten and answered those kind of questions... but here we are, still waiting.
And, you also bring out a point where I really fault Apple. It's fairly well known that if you want to get interviews and attention from Apple, you kinda have to be a fanboy. That really sucks.
Not sure how strong of a CEO it takes to parrot political talking points that are shared almost unanimously in the tech world and will be lauded by the vast majority of those in the media. Seriously, agree or disagree, it's not as though there's much risk taking these positions today when people like Peter Fonda are hailed for the things he's said.
I admittedly do miss the days when the CEO really WAS bold in creating products that everyone around him said were not necessary and would never be accepted. Remember the iMac when Apple stocks were <$4/share? THAT was CEO strength!
What SJW causes? I don't see him pushing that stuff.
If you want to complain about that, Google is actually guilty of it, based on their New Year's ads full of protest videos. They even showed in a positive light some violent protests, possibly those literally terrorist groups that've been assaulting people and damaging property in my hometown.
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By the way... who developed the Jim Crow laws? Who enforced them?
Based on Sarah Sanders’ experience of not being served at the Red Hen restaurant recently, Democrats are getting back to their roots.
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We need a meritocracy not forced diversity.
That would mean the end for Timmy The Tyrant.
He really is the king of hypocrisy, attending gay parades and preaching about human rights, when he's got slave laborers putting his iToys together.
And because such a website exists, that automatically means that every person at a protest that you either don't agree with, or who shows "your side" in a bad light, is necessarily a paid fake protester? Okay, got it.
That certainly makes it easy to dismiss any idea or information you don't like. Very convenient.
Oh, no, not at all. I'm sure they are used by all sides to some extent. That said, some of these supposed 'grass roots' movements are anything but. There are some signs (pun intended) that often indicate it.
(Also, in context here, I was referring to what the other comment had said... go watch footage of Charlottesville, especially the independent smartphone shot stuff, and tell me how many nazi symbols you see.)
Same can be said for the MSM. If you do a bit of digging, you'll run across compilations where news people on dozens of different programs and networks will use the same exact wording (they aren't even creative enough to take a concept and put it in their own words).
This isn't accidental. There are well-funded organizations, including the US government, who have writers to get particular messages in the media, movies, TV shows, etc. as well as similar to organize many protests and 'movements.' As to which side of a particular issue is more guilty of this, I'd have to leave to you in terms of research and following them money.
As for dismissing, no. That would be the genetic fallacy. I'm happy to give other reasons for why I agree/disagree with any particular position. I'm just trying to expose some of the influences going on somewhat behind the scenes.
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There’s an entire industry and infrastructure of professional organizers behind “progressive” marches and rallies. It’s driven by big money. These aren’t “organic” in the slightest.
I personally know some organizers. They stand in the background with their clipboards, bus vouchers and meal tickets.
For sure... not unlike a movie, there are the actors and then the extras. Then, i'm sure, they also attract real people who are interested in the cause, too.
The iPhone IS a computer. There's plenty else being left on the table because of Tim. They should've been a trillion dollar company years ago.