Tim Cook Charity Lunch Auction Earns Over $680,000 for RFK Center

[Shirasaki]

Lunch with Warren Buffett often goes for more than $2 million and last year went for almost $3.5 million.

But I dare assume the actual outcome of having a lunch with Buffett is greater than with Tim Cook.

 

[atmenterprises]

It must hurt to know that your attacks on gay people are no longer in favor. Poor you.

Pretty sure that wasn't an attack on gay people...do you always go around making bigoted remarks?
[doublepost=1495023525][/doublepost]If this charity partners with human rights leaders, why would they want to meet with Cook, who continues Apple's push into China?

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

A transcript of the lunch conversation between the auction winner and Tim Cook:

Tim Cook: ...I realized it's time for Apple to stop leading and start copying. Therefore, I agreed to get rid of the highly user-friendly skeuomorphic design that Apple pioneered and instead start copying Microsoft and Google by using flat design...

Apple did "flat" with iOS 7 in 2013. Google followed with Lollipop in 2014. You could argue that Microsoft beat both of them to it with Windows Phone 7 in 2010, but it's not really a good comparison.

Nice try though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Lollipop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_7

 

[doelcm82]

Pretty sure that wasn't an attack on gay people...

I'd say it was an attack on people who speak out for LGBT rights. As long as they know their place and keep their mouths shut, they're fine.

 

[atmenterprises]

I'd say it was an attack on people who speak out for LGBT rights. As long as they know their place and keep their mouths shut, they're fine.

I think you are blowing this out of context. I believe the OP was saying how under Jobs Apple wasn't all about social issues and social justice - or at least it wasn't trumpeted - like it is under Cook. LGBT was used as an example by the OP, not a group to bash. But people look for ways to be offended these days I suppose.

 

[groove-agent]

I admire Tim's philanthropy but charity starts at home. He should be steering the ship known as USS Apple. He let it drift into a field of icebergs and now they're having to slowly navigate out. If they're not careful, the USS Apple will sink like the Titanic.

I still think Tim is more of a figurehead than a CEO. If this is true, who is actually steering the ship? Maybe this is why Apple is a mess, stocks aside.

 

[alphaod]

Some people have to much money to waste.

What would you have done?

 

[ThomasJL]

Apple did "flat" with iOS 7 in 2013. Google followed with Lollipop in 2014. You could argue that Microsoft beat both of them to it with Windows Phone 7 in 2010, but it's not really a good comparison.

Nice try though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Lollipop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_7

Google was using flat design on their various websites before Apple released iOS 7. Apple jumped on the bandwagon instead of sticking to their innovative vision that places user-friendliness (though making things intuitive) as a top priority.

 

[oftheheavens]

What would you have done?

Invested in a charity that would allow me to do something more "fun" with my money. For example, any children charity, any charity that gave me something more fun to do than lunch with Cook for ~1 hour, any cancers charity, any donation that could help our country's people directly pretty much.

Now if I didn't donate it I would have invested it simple as that.