Apple CEO Tim Cook Testifies in U.S. Antitrust Hearing

[MacRumors]

Apple CEO Tim Cook is today participating in an antitrust hearing with the U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee alongside Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The hearing was supposed to kick off at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time or 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time, but it was delayed for a half hour to an hour. It can be watched live through the YouTube stream above.

Cook is expected to be grilled about Apple's App Store policies in regard to app rejection and competition, disputes with the FBI over encryption and law enforcement access to locked devices, Apple's relationship with China, and its App Store fees and subscription policies.

Cook was initially reluctant to participate in the hearing because he does not believe Apple should be grouped with Facebook, Amazon, and Google as an antitrust violator, but he was not able to avoid testifying after a threat of a subpoena from subcommittee chairman David Cicilline, who publicly criticized Apple's App Store fees.

Over the course of the last month, Cook has been preparing for the hearing, and Apple last week commissioned a third-party study on the App Store that found App Store fees to be in line with those charged by other digital marketplaces, which Cook is likely to cite. Cook's opening statement was shared yesterday, and can be read here.

We'll share highlights from the antitrust hearing covering what Cook has to say, but those interested in a complete picture of what happens at the hearing can watch live.

Article Link: Apple CEO Tim Cook Testifies in U.S. Antitrust Hearing

 

[lazyrighteye]

🍿 ready...

 

[ghanwani]

Cook is expected to be grilled about Apple's ...

Cooks, grilling, apples? What's all this talk about food?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Good luck Mr. Cook.

 

[iReality85]

Let's hope the congressional committee members don't sound like a bunch of dinosaurs like they did last time around.

 

[iFan]

If this "hearing" is anything like yesterday vs Barr then we can count on us mostly "hearing" from the politicians and not much from those being questioned. More statements and grandstanding, and not enough difficult questions.

This committee also has no ability to enact change. They can only make recommendations. Lots of talk, little action, is my expectation.

 

[Xavier]

Cooks, grilling, apples? What's all this talk about food?

Author at macrumors must be having a later lunch if on EST

 

[macpro2000]

Jim Jordan is a stud. The partisanship of the tech companies is pathetic.

 

[gugy]

Political theater. NOTHING will come out of this. Both parties don't give a damn for the people and are bought by huge corporations like Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook that are on display today.

 

[td2243]

No joke. He’s coming out swinging.

 

[twocents]

If this "hearing" is anything like yesterday vs Barr then we can count on us mostly "hearing" from the politicians and not much from those being questioned. More statements and grandstanding, and not enough difficult questions.

This committee also has no ability to enact change. They can only make recommendations. Lots of talk, little action, is my expectation.

Politicians in the states operate in what is called the jungle frame of organizational structure. Grandstanding and flinging mud are a given. If you do not grasp tight onto a branch at the top of the tree, another two or four lie in wait to topple you. Opportunities like this are means to show dominance or build name recognition. “You come to our turf, on our terms.” Like Nat Geo, but much more at stake

 

[Rogifan]

Political theater. NOTHING will come out of this. Both parties don't give a damn for the people and are bought by huge corporations like Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook that are on display today.

To no ones surprise Jim Jordan spends his entire opening statement complaining about tech bias/censorship. This is nothing more than grandstanding for the cameras to get footage to use in campaign ads.

 

[itsmilo]

I will need a TDLR of this afterwards. I dont like to watch these kind of things. "Fremdschämen"

 

[macpro2000]

To no ones surprise Jim Jordan spends his entire opening statement complaining about tech bias/censorship. This is nothing more than grandstanding for the cameras to get footage to use in campaign ads.

Maybe because it's completely true.

 

[apple_unreal]

Good luck Mr. Cook.

Good luck? Apple have been buying every start up and wipe them out so they do not have competitors. Every emerging new technology they buy and is never release. Like the oil companies that have been buying every green technology like the hydrogen engines that only emit water. Same thing. Apple is keeping all those invention like liquid metal, so nobody else can use it.

Good luck?

 

[bobbie424242]

Please leave Tim alone ! Come on, Tim is on a mission to save the planet, enrich people's live and more. That's absolutely admirable !

 

[itsmilo]

why do we care about their personal stories?

 

[Rogifan]

Maybe because it's completely true.

This isn’t a PRSI thread so I won’t get into it other than to say this hearing is supposed to be about anti-trust. If some members want a hearing about censorship then schedule something else.

 

[Seanm87]

Tim is treating this like a sales pitch

 

[rp2011]

Wow. Great television for those of us who follow technology. Historic for many reasons, but for mainly for the state of technology at this moment in time where these companies dominate the markets so fully. Like when the railroad barons were building the nation.

 

[aandre]

"My name is Tim Cook." Loved that.

 

[Jimmy James]

Let's hope the congressional committee members don't sound like a bunch of dinosaurs like they did last time around.

We don’t trust your series of tubes!

 

[eqc6]

"My name is Tim Cook." Loved that.

Wow, he's already lying.

We all know his name is Tim Apple

 

[saxondale.]

these questions are already embarrassing...

 

[Baymowe335]

Wouldn't want to have any other person than Cook in that seat. Guy is nails.