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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Appear on NBC Nightly News Tonight
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Exactly. This entire war on fake news by the “mainstream” media is more about who controls the narrative and distribution of information. Are there fringe trolls and “sources” out there making up stuff? Of course. We’re people turning to these “sources” before the last election. Absolutely. If the government and big media want people’s trust, earn it. Institutional distrust is not new, and is not a Trump, Obama, Republican, or Democrat creates problem.
Yep, and Samsung reps will be scrambling with their retail customers to balance inventory.
I like how our government and media try to manipulate, persuade, and distort the American people all the time but HOLD THE PRESSES if someone else tries. I certainly don't want Russia meddling either but it seems awfully hypocritical to not acknowledge what everyone else is doing here at home.
All true, doesn't mean that they envisioned there would be more at launch though. Apple knows a certain percentage of customers that see a "shipping in "X" weeks" notice equate to lost potential sales; not everyone will wait.
The caveat is that Facebook has a long history of claiming that it's not a media company in order to try and avoid responsibility for certain things.
What does Samsung have to do with this, except for their parts that are inside it.?.
Warren Buffet is a nice example of billionaire who still has very liberal economic views. Buffet believes he and other billionaires should be taxed more than the current 15% on their investments. Cook may be the same.
I don't disagree with that. But the best way for a democracy to work is if the public and private sectors have a healthy set of checks and balances between them. There's way too much "what can the government do to help business owners" and not nearly enough "what can the government do to help the general public" these days. The public sector is not intended to be a servant of private interests.
I fully believe that Russia attempted to interfere, and there's ample evidence now that the Trump campaign colluded. But I'm not so sure that's why Trump won the election.
Honestly, can we not go on and on about these social networks spreading fake news and influencing people and instead start talking about critical thinking skills?
It's almost as if the media and the establishment don't want people to have or need to think critically. Easier to control that way?
It's almost as if the media and the establishment don't want people to have or need to think critically. Easier to control that way?
The problem is that people don't think critically. They will believe anything they see on Facebook and social media, particularly if it confirms their existing bias. I'm not sure if there's a solution, this is the world we live in now.
Thanks a lot. You made me spit up a perfectly good cup of coffee.
Hahahahahahahaha. Now whenever i see Tim i will see Ellens older brother!
Yikes - I think he is more and more looking like Ellen herself and sounding like her!!! To me. he is looking somewhat drawn and gaunt.
Tim is not as Left as you may think. Always be careful in assuming from the "Public Persona." He can be as ruthless, if not more so than SJ ever was.
I think you're in the wrong forum, lol! We're talking about taxes. You can't spend more money on social reform if you want to tax people and corporations less. It's dollar and cents, something Cook is probably pretty good at, so yes, this is a bit of a contradiction.
In the past, Cook has expressed a desire to see taxes lower to bring back money from overseas, so I don't think he's arguing for higher taxes in this interview. If he is, it's still contradictory and problematic as he isn't representing the best interest of the shareholders. So like I said, will be interesting to see his opinion.
Mr. Cook has, in the past, advocated simplifying our corporate tax policies in a revenue neutral way: Eliminating all corporate expenditures, lowering the corporate tax rate, and establishing a reasonable rate on foreign earnings.
(To my mind, a reasonable rate on foreign earnings - i.e., those that are legitimately foreign rather than made foreign through certain accounting tactics - would be 0%. We shouldn't tax them at all; many advanced economies don't. But that's not what Mr. Cook has advocated, just a lowered rate which would make it more feasible for such earnings to be repatriated.)
EDIT: I would add that, though it would of course depend on what the rate was lowered to, such changes may well result in more taxes being paid by Apple. Mr. Cook acknowledged as much, but still believed that such changes would be good policy (and perhaps still good for Apple).
At least under Trump we can see some changes happening in the Middle East best example is Saudi Arabia’s opening up to the world and changing their attitudes toward women and doing some major religious reforms something Bush or Obama never cared for.