Apple CEO Tim Cook to Attend China's World Internet Conference Next Week

[nt5672]

It appears to me that Tim should spend more time with his QA team, if he even knows where they are located.

 

[jonnysods]

World Intranet Conference

Nice one! Extremely accurate.

 

[DeepIn2U]

Tim wants to give the phone away. Get the market share. Then, change the rules.

He’s not making good on giving the phone away since the iPhone 5C.

That would mess the industry if the next iPhone had incredible bells and whistles and launched in the 2yr carrier pricing of $299/399/499, while the SE launched for $0/2yr contract. Maybe full retail for a 256GB model under $950US.

I think getting back 12.x billion for Apple Park expenditure is first before we see an iPhone released for $0 on contract.

 

[MH01]

Do you also demand every other company do this, and are all of your clothes made in the USA and your food grown domestically? If not, whatever.

If other companies goods I bought also tried to lecture me on social issues while being massive hypocrites, yeah I would also call them out. Blame time
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Do you also demand every other company do this, and are all of your clothes made in the USA and your food grown domestically? If not, whatever.

If other companies goods I bought also tried to lecture me on social issues while being massive hypocrites, yeah I would also call them out. Blame tim
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It’s almost like he ... supports China more than US? 😵

He supports anyone who will give him $$$, and he is a smart man who knows the potential of China , in relation to sales .... huge . Money comes first

 

[Naraxus]

To what extent Cook will voice concerns about Chinese law at the summit is unclear....

Oh it's EXTREMELY clear what Cook will do. It's the same thing he's done ever since he became CEO - he'll keep his mouth shut and won't "rock the boat" in China.

Cook is such a hypocritical pos. He talks tough about protecting privacy and personal freedoms but is more than happy to bend over to Chinese authoritarianism if it means he can manufacture his products on the cheap with what amounts to slave labor.

 

[Kaibelf]

No, but Apple, especially during Cook's CEO reign has publicly inserted itself into social & political debate with regards to equality, neutrality, opposing built-in backdoors for authorities, and maintaining 100% encryption... Most other companies are either not vocal about it, or just don't care.

But all of that goes out the window when they try to invest in China and get their devices manufactured there because of cost. They have a massive amount of resources, so if they really wanted to, they could set up manufacturing in various countries around the world.

But they won't, because the board of directors would never allow it, because they represent the shareholders and not people's rights. It's all about the benjamins, much of which is never taxed properly because of Apple's various tax avoidance schemes.

Apple is perfectly within its rights to lecture the US as it’s a US company. Also what exactly is properly taxed? You mean more than the law demands? Or enough to personally make you feel good?

 

[RickInHouston]

He’s not making good on giving the phone away since the iPhone 5C.

That would mess the industry if the next iPhone had incredible bells and whistles and launched in the 2yr carrier pricing of $299/399/499, while the SE launched for $0/2yr contract. Maybe full retail for a 256GB model under $950US.

I think getting back 12.x billion for Apple Park expenditure is first before we see an iPhone released for $0 on contract.

Sorry. I mean giving the phone away in remaining markets they want to enter.

 

[HiVolt]

Apple is perfectly within its rights to lecture the US as it’s a US company. Also what exactly is properly taxed? You mean more than the law demands? Or enough to personally make you feel good?

The law is questionable, since "Tax Havens" are currently being examined by many countries, and a lot of companies/individuals are in hot water, Apple included.

 

[iReality85]

The irony of China holding an internet conference on “openness.” 🙄

 

[dogslobber]

An internet conference in one of the most repressive regimes in the world that censors the internet and invades the privacy of its citizens. The leader of the world's largest company is to attend.

How about asking the Chinese communists about freeing Tibet, or about their terrible human rights record? Or even ask them when they'll stop pointing their WMD at Taiwan.