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

[bibby]

Hope to take all those evil companies down!
Google first!

 

[powerless]

He was asked about Absher. It's an application developped by the Saudi Arabian government used to manage over 170 government related things (registering drivers license, birth, insurances, etc..) but often criticized because it's also used by Saudi Arabian men to grant (and more often revoke) travelling permission to their wive(s), tracking their wives, etc.. There's a lot wrong with this application that would violate human rights in the majority of countries in the world.

Tim Cook definitely heard about this application before tho.

Thanks for that. I thought something didn't sound right when the congresswoman mentioned the Saudis. It was her accent that that got me confused.

 

[jav6454]

Yes, but then why invite Cook, Pichai, et al. to testify in the first place if they are not interested in what they have to say? If the Members are just going to bloviate, they can do that on floor speeches by themselves and save the witnesses the trouble. This is part of the reason why Congress has such high disapproval ratings.

You are right. Remember that several times congressmen/women try to have several points across. Sometimes to the detriment of the witness trying to answer. It's a shame.