Proposed cuts for paying for the tax reductions include eliminating 401k, state tax, and mortgage payment deductions. These would be brutal for the middle class. The tax plan overwhelmingly favors the ultra-rich and corporations. Do a little research.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks Russian Election Interference, Fake News and Tax Reform in Nightly News Interview
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Proposed cuts for paying for the tax reductions include eliminating 401k, state tax, and mortgage payment deductions. These would be brutal for the middle class. The tax plan overwhelmingly favors the ultra-rich and corporations. Do a little research.
Honestly dunno not really qualified to guess.
I'll leave that to other people.
Also I wish him well, despite not agreeing with him on a lot of things, but just making an observation. He looks-- off
Considering that Apple was dragged in front of Congress this week it’s an obvious question.
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They most hit people like me who are lower upper class. The true middle class benefits. As for lower corporate rates they are a long time coming. Our tax code discourages American companies from investing their foreign earnings in the US. That needs to change.
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Mortgage interest and state income tax deductions mostly benefit the rich, who often live in high-tax states and buy expensive houses.
Doubling the standard deduction benefits the true middle class.
Trump does not want to change the 401k rules.
Didn’t it though? Remember those days before Apple set in motion the concept of a high functioning usable computer in everybody’s pocket and all we had were horrendous UI super limited “smart” phones? Revolutionary difference.
Do you honestly imagine 501knlikits and mortgage deductions would go anywhere? Please.
Didn’t it though? Remember those days before Apple set in motion the concept of a high functioning usable computer in everybody’s pocket and all we had were horrendous UI super limited “smart” phones? Revolutionary difference.
So all they did was put on a touch screen w/ a virtual keyboard & steal RIMs smart phone technology. Look at how many corporations & WH reporters kept Blackberry for day to day use FOR the physical keyboard & advanced functionality & encryption. It wasn't until iPhone OS took off & overwhelmed RIM to find advancement that it finally crawled in a corner & died.
Ah, the rewriting of history. All praise glorious original iPhone, no copy & paste warts & all.
Damn, Tim Cook got old.
I hope he asks Forstall to replace him to troll all the other execs at Apple.
I hope he asks Forstall to replace him to troll all the other execs at Apple.
Did you use a Blackberry before the iPhone? I did, and there was no comparison. Fundamentally different user interface, and it blew away BB with web browsing, maps, video playing, photo viewing, conference calling, and in many other ways. Played around with the BB years later and nope, no rewriting history. BB stuck around for many reasons, indeed the keyboard being one of them as they were excellent. BBM played a huge role too. But it was in a different league functionality-wise from the iPhone from day one.
In defence of Tim, the lighting in the studio makes his eyeglass shadows wrap perfectly around his eyes. He doesn’t look much different then he did a month ago... He looks stressed, though, which brings me to this:
Really solid points. You can tell he’s getting pissed that people can’t comprehend a pretty clear cut, profusely explained feature, among other things. I think ruthless, visionary Tim is about to be born.
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Really solid points. You can tell he’s getting pissed that people can’t comprehend a pretty clear cut, profusely explained feature, among other things. I think ruthless, visionary Tim is about to be born.
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I did as well. It’s something I have a hard time telling people about even 5 years younger then me. The iPhone really has shaped the 21st century.
I suspect, and I admit that this is just a guess, it was the last time Russian political interference ads were viewed on McDonalds and PepsiCo products.
His fundamental principles is shining through. I’m beginning to like him for his views more and more. I still think he need to show off his personality of HIM not principles but that maybe something the Baird has cautioned against for publicity reasons that could affect the stock.
And they should continue to reiterate this as well as their end use privacy stance; always!
Agreed. BB was a big contender but prior to the iPhone was already showing its age. I personally banked on BB10 on launch and felt it was great except the App Store. Web alternatives to services continued to shrink in support - mainly due to App Store apps for competitions ecosystems for assured security and UI control.
Even with WebKit first debuting in the Nokia N80 which had a 3.2” screen and the Browser was amazing by those standards in 2005-7 the bulk, too many buttons, movable parts (slider) to fail just couldn’t serve the market.
The best innovation of the iPhone was simply it was a PHONE first and did so very well easily.
Loved the telling story of how Zion’s hated that guy at Microsoft that kept pushing in Jobs face Microsoft was great at phones. That they figured it out. LOL 10yrs later the juggernaut bowed out globally from phones. Priceless.
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Lol teeth.
I also noticed he doesn’t look well also - purplish tint in the lips very pale skin. This could be a balance of makeup against severely bright studio lights, who knows.
I’m sure his health is fine beyond his teeth. He is old after all so spending $10K on teeth may not be a priority.
Ok then, when will Lester be interviewing the CEO of Samsung or Google?
Didn’t it though? Remember those days before Apple set in motion the concept of a high functioning usable computer in everybody’s pocket and all we had were horrendous UI super limited “smart” phones? Revolutionary difference.
It changed phones. Correction , the way you interacted with the phone. Same features already existed in clunky implementations
Actually I think you're being slightly naive and have fallen for this "security theater" puff piece. What Tim Cook is saying is because your Face ID data is stored on the phone via the secure enclave there is no point attempting to hack Apple's servers or, via government means, requesting Apple hands over your data.
All this does is remove Apple from any liability. It does not guarantee that through malicious means, lax security, rouge apps, unintentional back-doors that there is not a way to access your data via the device itself. Apple is simply saying "don't look at us for help because we can't help you". That's different from saying "what you are requesting is impossible to achieve".
Don't get me wrong I applaud Apple's stance but don't confuse it with absolute security.
Sorry, but why does a CEO of ANY tech company need to offer an opinion on any of this, with exception to tax reform? I mean Tim Cook has about the same right to an opinion as any other American, but because he is rich and heads the richest company in the US somehow his opinion matters more?
Also the head of Apple talking about tax reform while Apple evades billions in US tax payments, even if its within the razor's edge of the law, is pretty ironic. Like Tim is going to support Apple paying more taxes because of some new reform bill, I bet Apple is paying millions to lobbyists right now to ensure whatever new tax "reform" has no impact on Apple's bottom line except to grow their profits.
Tim Cook can talk all day about what Apple is doing, their products, where the company is going, trying to justify the pricing of their products, failures, successes, etc, but when it comes to politics he is just an "empty barrel" adding opinions on top of a pile of other empty barrel opinions.
It's not really Tim's fault, I mean TV news is so whorish for political commentary and sound bites so obviously the news anchor is going to ask everybody with a pulse about Trump and scandals and policies just to get a rise out of the viewers, but it just waters down rhetoric and doesn't add anything meaningful to the conversation.
Today the only CEO of a tech company that should have any opinion or comment about Russian electron interference is Zuckerberg, Tim lending his opinion is meaningless.
Unfortunately for most Americans, especially millionaires and billionaires, they have forgotten that "No comment" is always an option, until they are charged with a crime.
Also the head of Apple talking about tax reform while Apple evades billions in US tax payments, even if its within the razor's edge of the law, is pretty ironic. Like Tim is going to support Apple paying more taxes because of some new reform bill, I bet Apple is paying millions to lobbyists right now to ensure whatever new tax "reform" has no impact on Apple's bottom line except to grow their profits.
Tim Cook can talk all day about what Apple is doing, their products, where the company is going, trying to justify the pricing of their products, failures, successes, etc, but when it comes to politics he is just an "empty barrel" adding opinions on top of a pile of other empty barrel opinions.
It's not really Tim's fault, I mean TV news is so whorish for political commentary and sound bites so obviously the news anchor is going to ask everybody with a pulse about Trump and scandals and policies just to get a rise out of the viewers, but it just waters down rhetoric and doesn't add anything meaningful to the conversation.
Today the only CEO of a tech company that should have any opinion or comment about Russian electron interference is Zuckerberg, Tim lending his opinion is meaningless.
Unfortunately for most Americans, especially millionaires and billionaires, they have forgotten that "No comment" is always an option, until they are charged with a crime.
What Tim is really saying is that other opinions are allowed to be heard and that causes people that disagree with him to be heard. He would prefer everyone think like him and share in his ideology. It’s easy to say people are manipulated and that’s why they don’t think like him. Maybe, Tim...not everyone wants to live in a world with all your crazy ideas. Maybe there are groups out there that don’t want to live in the Tim Cook social justice warrior world.
I was waiting for another post first. Tim does not look healthy at all. Hopefully it's just massive stress.
