What responsibility is that? Because legally, there aren’t required to maximize profits for them.
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Tim Cook Talks Apple Work Culture, Product Innovation, Self-Repair Service for iPhone and Mac, Steve Jobs, and More in New Interview
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What an absolute load of ********. Privacy is a "human right" up until his CCP masters come calling, then it's time for his "follows the laws in countries we do business with" copout. It's a "human right"......except if you're one of those pesky Uyghurs slaves building Apple products on the cheap.
What a duplicitous scumbag.
What a duplicitous scumbag.
I think it boils down to maximizing shareholder value. You are correct that they aren't required to maximize profits, but often shareholder value and profits tend to go hand in hand.
I found the excerpt of the interview interesting. Sure it's selling Apple products too (or attempting to) but what CEO doesn't do that? That's part of their job.
Tim Cook should not do interviews. The more interviews he does, the more we realize that he has no vision or personality and that Apple actually is run by accountants and operations people.
No, forum comments. Such as yours.
Steve wouldn't have launched half the products that Apple has, nor would he have bought Beats. He would have also fired all the people complaining about having to come to work. He was savage that way.
Cause they’d never be invited back and they want the story.
Apple probably makes them sign a NDA so they can’t even release it without permission.
1. How does that work for China?
2. Let's get that MacBook Air in the range of $2000 (16GB 512GB) for education sake.
3. Never heard accessibility being at the center of Porshe and Ferrari mentality. People with disabilities can't afford your products man.
4. Let's remove the chargers and make our own proprietary ports so that people buy more cords and chargers on top.
Tim Cook misguided virtuosity rule book.
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A few have very light beards.
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Yeah it’s typical here. Everyone wants a brand new product every time. They need to criticise because they’re not capable of accepting all the good things Apple do.
Apple has revolutionised the phone, the watch. There is only one real tablet. No one else integrates a watch with fitness like Apple has. They started a new paradigm with the M series chips. They make their products look great. (subjective I know), but who else does an aluminium laptop like Apple. Most are plastic crap. Everyone copies Apple. If Apple made a foldable phone like Samsung, they’d be toasted over it. Class leader in Touch pad, speakers, screen, cpu, form factor.
Apple aren’t perfect, but that report about privacy put Apple in the best position. People need to realise what they've got with Apple, because in a different world we wouldn’t have them.
…And because I know the trolls here will hate that I am saying positive things about them, and I know they hate anything good said about Apple, I’ll start the Thumb Emojis for them. 👎
Right because Steve Jobs wasn’t a capitalist. 😂
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Well said! 👏A few have very light beards.
Apple Leadership
Apple leadership biographies include Apple’s executive team responsibilities and experience. Learn more about Apple’s leadership team.www.apple.com
Yeah it’s typical here. Everyone wants a brand new product every time. They need to criticise because they’re not capable of accepting all the good things Apple do.
Apple has revolutionised the phone, the watch. There is only one real tablet. No one else integrates a watch with fitness like Apple has. They started a new paradigm with the M series chips. They make their products look great. (subjective I know), but who else does an aluminium laptop like Apple. Most are plastic crap. Everyone copies Apple. If Apple made a foldable phone like Samsung, they’d be toasted over it. Class leader in Touch pad, speakers, screen, cpu, form factor.
Apple aren’t perfect, but that report about privacy put Apple in the best position. People need to realise what they've got with Apple, because in a different world we wouldn’t have them.
…And because I know the trolls here will hate that I am saying positive things about them, and I know they hate anything good said about Apple, I’ll start the Thumb Emojis for them. 👎
This is not what capitalism is. This is greedy-crony capitalism. True capitalism has morals and ethics, that's at least how it was in the US during its founding years. Wealthy Americans and entrepreneurs that are raised with morals and respect for family and tradition, contribute to their communities and donate a great amount of their wealth to good causes. The likes of Tim Cook on the other hand though and the Hollywood elites, they like to show off and donate money only to get a tax write off or to benefit one of the "humanitarian" organizations they are part of. So there's a big difference from capitalist to capitalist.
I am surprised about the negativity regarding Tim Cook, especially from folks on this forum who presumably love and buy lots of Apple products. Tim is an operations genius and you can see it in the way Apple has streamlined and optimized its logistics. Heck that is why Jobs brought him in and now Apple is second to none in that regard. Give the guy a lot of credit for then growing the business to one of the world's most capitalized and most admired. As a stockholder, I think I speak for lots of stockholders in saying that he has overseen enormously successful growth and earnings. Customer satisfaction is industry leading. Is he perfect? No he is not Jobs, he is not Ive. He knows his limitations. He's not an outgoing, photogenic type of guy. He's just Tim. But he stepped in ten years ago at a very tough time and has done a pretty darn creditable job. He has outperformed what the owners of the company expected him to achieve. He is now pretty much universally recognized as one of the world's top CEOs. And the company is on better overall footing today than when he became CEO. That's the acid test of any corporate leader.
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I didn't say he wasn't, but Jobs (most of the time) walked the walk by releasing great, innovative product. Timmy doesn't, he just talks the talk and controls the fluffy narrative.
Why would you want to be loyal to a corporation though, especially forever?
As long as courage doesn't mean stupid things such as removing more timeless and universally used functionality.
The difference between a parent talking about their baby vs a bureaucrat from another planet talking about the same baby
Man, I can assure you: outside of the Americas, nobody gives a sheep about iMessage. We couldn't care less about an Android or Windows version. WhatsApp and Telegram already have that.
Exactly. One of my favorite things about Steve was his ability to sound completely relatable and like a normal person while still playing the role of company spokesperson.
One of my favorite examples of that was when the press asked him his opinion on a new Microsoft Zune feature that let you wirelessly share songs temporarily with other Zunes within a certain range.
Steve's response was something to the effect of "If there's a pretty girl I wanted to share a song with, why wouldn't I just walk up to her and ask her if she wanted to share my headphones so we can listen together?" It was simultaneously logical, relatable, and completely tore through this competitor's "feature" that had been totally over-engineered.
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Because it’s my favorite brand company in this world. Blessed to witness the revolution of an iPhone since it was first introduced.
It's a little-known fact that Tim Cook was raised speaking this way.
His mother after school: "How was school, Timmy?"
8-year-old Tim: "At Robertsdale Elementary School, we are constantly pushing forward what it means to receive a 3rd-grade education. Our diverse teams of students and faculty explore subjects like math and history from many directions and perspectives. We take the word impossible as a challenge. When we sit down in the morning, we are always asking: 'What is the best way to learn the material?' 'What are the limits imposed on us by the laws of physics?' And when we see the best way to teach a subject, that is a compelling force for us to power through any problems."
His mother after school: "How was school, Timmy?"
8-year-old Tim: "At Robertsdale Elementary School, we are constantly pushing forward what it means to receive a 3rd-grade education. Our diverse teams of students and faculty explore subjects like math and history from many directions and perspectives. We take the word impossible as a challenge. When we sit down in the morning, we are always asking: 'What is the best way to learn the material?' 'What are the limits imposed on us by the laws of physics?' And when we see the best way to teach a subject, that is a compelling force for us to power through any problems."
Yep, Steve Jobs was a great salesman. Seems like he did a great job on some people here.