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Tim Cook and Jimmy Fallon Talk iPhones and Hot Dog Predictions

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In a lighthearted walk-and-talk around New York City, The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon caught up with Apple CEO Tim Cook on Friday to chat about the new iPhone 16 and Cook's love for the iconic Fifth Avenue Apple Store. Fallon – wearing Apple Vision Pro – met Cook with mock disbelief while picking up his new iPhone, with Cook personally handing him the device.

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As they strolled to Apple's Upper East Side store, Cook explained that he tries to visit the Fifth Avenue location during every major launch. Fallon joked about Cook's rockstar-like reception from fans, but Cook humbly attributed it to people's love for Apple.

The two discussed Cook's 27-year journey at Apple, during which Cook admitted he never expected to become CEO. On the tech front, Cook expressed excitement about Apple Intelligence, which is set to begin rolling out next month. Cook talked up upcoming features like automatic email summarization and fun new creative tools such as Genmoji and Image Playground.


The chat ended on a playful note, with Fallon showing off his "psychic" skills by guessing Cook's mustard preference on hot dogs, before gifting him some New York-themed swag — though not all of it made the cut for Cook's local look. You can watch the five-minute walk-and-talk in the video embedded above.

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It’s mind-blowing to think that Tim might retire after the 20th anniversary of the iPhone and the second AVP. He’s been with the company for an incredible 27 years. Will he make it to 30 or even 35 years before he decides to step down?
 
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This is one time where you'd want Fallon and not Carson. Carson would just joke about how he doesn't know how to use his phone.
 
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nfl46 said:
It’s mind-blowing to think that Tim might retire after the 20th anniversary of the iPhone and the second AVP. He’s been with the company for an incredible 27 years. Will he make it to 30 or even 35 years before he decides to step down?
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And after seeing Jobs die in the role, would he want to stick around so long and find himself in the same position? What's the point of making all that money if you can't just quit your work and enjoy it. Tim's stake in Apple is minuscule compared to what Jobs' was.
 
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He's always been a closed book, but he used to have energy to sort of fake enthusiasm during small talk. But now he seems exhausted and like he's lost a step.

When he was asked what he liked the most to say, "All of it." And then "You can do Genmojis, you can do Image Playgrounds." (PLURAL)

It sounds like someone doing a book report who didn't read the book. Or the way older people say things like "My Google is broken."

The laundry list is like a mattress salesman saying, "The bed's great. It's got springs. It's got fabric. It's got batting."

Except, most don't even know what Image Playgrounds [sic] is, so it's even worse than a laundry list.

It didn't even seem like he was thinking. He used to be, while extremely boring, even somewhat piercing in his ability to carefully answer while not saying much of anything.

Now he just seems sloppy and tired.

I noticed the same thing in an MKBHD interview he did a while back. He didn't seem deft and prepared to navigate the questions.
 
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That was good. How come Timmy is so stiff in their presentations?
I thought Timmy was bigger and Jimmy was smaller.
 
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And after seeing Jobs die in the role, would he want to stick around so long and find himself in the same position? What's the point of making all that money if you can't just quit your work and enjoy it. Tim's stake in Apple is minuscule compared to what Jobs' was.
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Jobs left the CEO role before he died.

abcnews.go.com

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

After several years of failing health and medical leaves of absence, Steve Jobs today announced he is stepping down as CEO of Apple.
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swingerofbirch said:
He's always been a closed book, but he used to have energy to sort of fake enthusiasm during small talk. But now he seems exhausted and like he's lost a step.

When he was asked what he liked the most to say, "All of it." And then "You can do Genmojis, you can do Image Playgrounds." (PLURAL)

It sounds like someone doing a book report who didn't read the book. Or the way older people say things like "My Google is broken."

The laundry list is like a mattress salesman saying, "The bed's great. It's got springs. It's got fabric. It's got batting."

Except, most don't even know what Image Playgrounds [sic] is, so it's even worse than a laundry list.

It didn't even seem like he was thinking. He used to be, while extremely boring, even somewhat piercing in his ability to carefully answer while not saying much of anything.

Now he just seems sloppy and tired.

I noticed the same thing in an MKBHD interview he did a while back. He didn't seem deft and prepared to navigate the questions.
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Nah. He looked and sounded great! Have an awesome day.
 
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He's always been a closed book, but he used to have energy to sort of fake enthusiasm during small talk. But now he seems exhausted and like he's lost a step.
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Every Tim appearance feels like a performance for stakeholders first, then the average consumer, and last — nerds. On one hand, I get it, that’s his job. But the enthusiasm seems so artificial.

I forgot which appearance it was, but it was this year where the interviewer mentions Fruit Ninja on Apple Vision Pro, and Tim smiled and was like “yeah, I play it!” Yeah, sure you do, Tim.
 
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mrat93 said:
Every Tim appearance feels like a performance for stakeholders first, then the average consumer, and last — nerds. On one hand, I get it, that’s his job. But the enthusiasm seems so artificial.

I forgot which appearance it was, but it was this year where the interviewer mentions Fruit Ninja on Apple Vision Pro, and Tim smiled and was like “yeah, I play it!” Yeah, sure you do, Tim.
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Yeah, it was never interesting stuff. Like Steve Jobs would get into the weeds of things and really seemed to understand and care. Like I remember one of the first keynotes after he came back to Apple, he had a sit down Q&A and got into the weeds of why they were getting rid of HyperCard. He once e-mailed to a customer who disliked the new iTunes icon. Stuff that would be kind of esoteric for as big of a company as Apple has become.

But I just noticed Tim Cook doesn't even seem as good at the superficial patter he's known for as he used to be. I wouldn't be good at it either. I don't know how you're supposed to sell something as amorphous as Apple Intelligence, which in reality is just a hodge-podge of feature updates that their operating systems have always gotten. There's no pithy explanation for some amazing new thing, both because it's a lot of things and none of them are amazing.

I had the same issue when I worked for Apple Sales trying to upsell MobileMe. That was a very difficult product to push because how do you explain what it does? It makes a lot of little things work a little bit better and nicer.
 
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Is anyone else getting tired of the blind cult-like attitude that has been developing for some time now around this company? And this is coming from an Apple fan.

The fake “reviews”, the very scripted “interviews” from 17 year old “influencers”, the constant gloating over most minuscule details, the vomit inducing virtue signalling, etc.

It all feels like a colossal cesspool of nonsense to me. Maybe I’m just getting old.
 
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swingerofbirch said:
Yeah, it was never interesting stuff. Like Steve Jobs would get into the weeds of things and really seemed to understand and care. Like I remember one of the first keynotes after he came back to Apple, he had a sit down Q&A and got into the weeds of why they were getting rid of HyperCard. He once e-mailed to a customer who disliked the new iTunes icon. Stuff that would be kind of esoteric for as big of a company as Apple has become.

But I just noticed Tim Cook doesn't even seem as good at the superficial patter he's known for as he used to be. I wouldn't be good at it either. I don't know how you're supposed to sell something as amorphous as Apple Intelligence, which in reality is just a hodge-podge of feature updates that their operating systems have always gotten. There's no pithy explanation for some amazing new thing, both because it's a lot of things and none of them are amazing.

I had the same issue when I worked for Apple Sales trying to upsell MobileMe. That was a very difficult product to push because how do you explain what it does? It makes a lot of little things work a little bit better and nicer.
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If the attention to detail is still there, a whole bunch of minor improvements that make lots of things more pleasant to use can actually be a selling point.

At least to me, but I guess I’m not quite normal.
 
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It's impossible for me to love or hate Tim Cook as I still feel I've never seen any of his non-corporate, genuine personality, or seen any flaws or oddities in him.

It's funny how everyone goes after Zuckerberg for being "a robot", when I've always felt that he just is that sort of enthusiastic awkward that I've seen in a lot of other people who are just your regular smart but very nerdy guy.

Tim Cook just seems completely closed off at all times and much less human. I guess that's maybe a way to guard yourself in a World that's so hostile to LGBT people?

I'm not complaining as I much rather have more Tim Cooks than Elon Musks.

And I don't have to know more about Cook. But I wish I did.
 
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