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Tim Cook Named to California's Economic Recovery Task Force
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Turns out I did “has the chance” years ago. Sold years ago. Or do you somehow claim to read minds?
Geez, this thread reminds me of an old Koo-Aid commercial. Tim Cook was an excellent CFO, but since then, he's more of a PR person. I have a slew of Apple products in my home, but the innovation has taken a backseat to boost profits. I grew up back when an Apple was way ahead on anything else.
Clearly Gavin Newsom sees the potential with Tim Cook and his knowledge with the ability to be not also influential, but valued how level-headed he is, and insightful. Tim Cook is a strategic choice made carefully.
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Kinda unsettling for CEOs of big corps like Apple to be involved in an "economic recovery task force."
Maybe he was still mad at Tim for the butterfly keyboards back in 2018. 😆
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Not really. Companies like Apple have the largest number of employees. So yes, they know about things like hiring, firing, employment, adjusting salary wages, employee benefits, business expansion, opening up new offices and buildings in other cities (and thus creating new jobs), etc.
But to address your point: did you also expect a few members of the task force to come from owners of small businesses? Yes, I agree. A few of the task force members should have come from small business owners. They need to have a voice too.
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My god.
I would not even agree if Steve Jobs himself was appointed to this task force.
Cook is the head of a greed driven company that sources to a foreign country to evade taxes and max profit.
That in itself is fine in a capitalistic society.
But to head a task force aimed at helping THIS country recover without some kind of biased opining can't be expected, can it?
I would not even agree if Steve Jobs himself was appointed to this task force.
Cook is the head of a greed driven company that sources to a foreign country to evade taxes and max profit.
That in itself is fine in a capitalistic society.
But to head a task force aimed at helping THIS country recover without some kind of biased opining can't be expected, can it?
Well it's good to see this story about an Apple exec being involved in a government/political group aiming to help the economy recover, which totally doesn't need to be in PRSI because it's clearly unrelated to Politics or Social Issues, has had no comments that are at all about politics or social issues.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
A highly mediocre guy who got lucky. That’s Tim Cook in a nutshell.
The CEO of a campany that sells 4 small desktop wheels for US$700 on economic recovery task force? Not a good fit at all.
This is all wrong! CEOs are no experts in macro economy, CEOs are experts at getting themselves more profit while micromanaging. There are experts in macro economy, serious people who really know their stuff but problem is they will step on CEOs toes and that's why CA and Federal goverment don't want cause they will loose financial and social endorsements.
What else is wrong? Appointing CEOs whose corporations utilize every possible loophole to avoid paying taxes that you know go to maintain and improve civil infrastructure such as education, transportation, utilities, ecology and many other things. Appointing CEOs who are in position to bully their small vendors into not paying them, not obligating contracts and straight out mobbing them.
These companies are socially irresponsible and their leaders have no honest intention at fixing something without that benefiting them or God forbid proposing something that could financially dent their conglomerate. That' why this is so wrong.
Hey Tim you wanna fix this? Great just propose that all tax loopholes you have been using to be patched and then make everyone who utilized those loops to pay retro taxes. There you helped the economy.
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No. None of them should be from business small or big. People that should be part of the team are people who are experts at writing the game and creating or adjusting the game, not those who play the game. Yes there are people like that but those people pose a threat because they will have to reset few things and upset fat cats who are comfortable as is. So instead they hired the fat cats to do that job.
What else is wrong? Appointing CEOs whose corporations utilize every possible loophole to avoid paying taxes that you know go to maintain and improve civil infrastructure such as education, transportation, utilities, ecology and many other things. Appointing CEOs who are in position to bully their small vendors into not paying them, not obligating contracts and straight out mobbing them.
These companies are socially irresponsible and their leaders have no honest intention at fixing something without that benefiting them or God forbid proposing something that could financially dent their conglomerate. That' why this is so wrong.
Hey Tim you wanna fix this? Great just propose that all tax loopholes you have been using to be patched and then make everyone who utilized those loops to pay retro taxes. There you helped the economy.
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No. None of them should be from business small or big. People that should be part of the team are people who are experts at writing the game and creating or adjusting the game, not those who play the game. Yes there are people like that but those people pose a threat because they will have to reset few things and upset fat cats who are comfortable as is. So instead they hired the fat cats to do that job.
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Nope. Just trying to understand venomous vitriol. Thought I’d found a reason. Guess not. A rejected childhood friend, perhaps? Maybe that’s why you’re familiar enough with him to call him “timmy.”
Also on a QWERTY keyboard the S and the D are adjacent. You seemed not to know this.
But why would companies pay off their long term debt when every time there's a little hiccup, the government pays it off for them?
Better (from a selfish, greedy business point of view) for the rich to pocket all the profit during the good times via dividends and share buybacks, and let the government give them free handouts of tax money during the bad times.
The government should not be bailing out any companies, but if they are, at the very least they should force the companies into bankruptcy first and cancel all outstanding shares. Why should the shareholders who pocketed all of the profits get the bail out propping up their shares of the company that really is bankrupt. Of course they'll never do that, because the government **wants** to transfer trillions of dollars directly to the richest billionaires.
It's why people are leaving the state. Meanwhile foreigners replace those that left.
The only ones flocking here from the states are "actors" that hold daytime jobs of barista and barback.
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So much subjectivity. You and the president have much in common.
Cute. He also sells an iPhone with their most advanced smartphone SoC for only $399. He also seems to be one of the more civic-minded major CEOs out there, was voted World Greatest Leader by Fortune Manazine, pledged through Apple to donate $2.5 billion to affordable housing, and his company is an economic powerhouse based in California. Seems like a pretty good fit to me.
Oh wait, guess not because... wheels. After all, he’s ruining things for all those desperate, out-of-work bartenders, actors, hairstylists, and cabbies who were planning on buying a $15,000 computer with $700 wheels.
If the rate and number of deaths because of car crashes went from 0 to "holy ****" in 3 months, you might have a point. But it did't.
If car crashes were contagious, and undetectable until a week or two later, you might have a point, but they aren't.
If a significant number of people spent a month or so denying car crashes are a concern, ignoring the mounting evidence from the rest of the world, you might have a point, but they didn't.
I do sometimes wonder what CEOs of large companies can bring a value to situations like this.
One thing is for sure the small business owner who has 10 or fewer employees is almost always left out.
One thing is for sure the small business owner who has 10 or fewer employees is almost always left out.
A guy who has been called one of the widely recognized as one of the most amazing minds in business, and took one of the biggest companies on the planet and continued its stunning growth. Just because he was overshadowed by Steve Jobs doesn't mean he got lucky, unless you're suggesting that Jobs had no judge of someone's value to a business. The reason Jobs brought him on board was because Cook was known in the industry to be a genius with supply chain management, something that was entirely mismanaged and sorely hampering Apple's progress at the time.
It's obvious you've read next to nothing about Cook. So what is it that actually bothers you about him? What problem with him are you hiding behind this silly complaint that he's "lucky?"
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Tim Cook’s a supply chain genius. That’s how he became so successful at Apple under Jobs. Since he’s really good at getting stuff to the people who need it, it seems like he’d be a good voice to have on an economic recovery panel.