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Optimistic but I disagree

“My generation has failed you” he said the other day

...Great so why are you on the stage then?
Because Tim has some life lessons that people are interested (not you I gather) in hearing about?

If he's such a humanitarian, maybe his business model shouldn't be so heavily reliant on the backbones of $2/hr factory workers in China for crazy high margin products that have addictive qualities.
So in 2011 Tim should have eviscerated Apple due to what Steve Jobs started and condoned. Oh wait all of this started in 2011, my bad.
No introspection. He does this all while claiming to be a champion of human rights and a political activist, moving the needle for society. I don't get it. Couldn't he do some activism against himself if that's what he were truly really all about?
What does this even mean?

The guy that orchestrates the pumping out of iPhones and has us all glued to our screens like zombies everywhere we go, is the one that's gonna steer us on the right course? Gimme a break.
What started in 2007?

Steve Jobs knew his place and he also made no apologies about it, which I admire.
Everybody has their role model.

And generally speaking- Less is more. Fewer appearances would at least artificially heighten the significance of each one
Maybe or maybe not.
 
Because Tim has some life lessons that people are interested (not you I gather) in hearing about?


So in 2011 Tim should have eviscerated Apple due to what Steve Jobs started and condoned. Oh wait all of this started in 2011, my bad.

What does this even mean?


What started in 2007?


Everybody has their role model.


Maybe or maybe not.

Do you really have to line by line react and break down a rather simply explained post of mine? Can’t be bothered to continue I find that quite obnoxious and counter conversational actually

... good time to Remind people: Tim Cook is a sentient being (arguably riding on the coattails of apple’s previous successes and branding) not a flawless Apple Product / purchases we rush to defend and justify on this board. He is a public figure with at minimum some influence and say, hence some people are allowed to express dissent. Perfect permissible.
 
Still name dropping Steve Jobs.

Well... he was a friend, influential, and a co-founder of one of the most successful companies in the world that TC is CEO. Why does that bother you?
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It feels like Tim is using, more and more, commencement speeches to promote 'principals' that are actually also marketing messages driving product sales at Apple..

Or maybe it's just the zeitgeist.

Being CEO of one of the most successful companies in the world, I imagine TC is highly sought after for university commencement speeches.
 
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Do you really have to line by line react and break down a rather simply explained post of mine? Can’t be bothered to continue I find that quite obnoxious and counter conversational actually

... good time to Remind people: Tim Cook is a sentient being (arguably riding on the coattails of apple’s previous successes and branding) not a flawless Apple Product / purchases we rush to defend and justify on this board. He is a public figure with at minimum some influence and say, hence some people are allowed to express dissent. Perfect permissible.
Yes. Your post (more like a rant) needed to be broken down literally word for word.

And as you say, you are welcome to your opinion, even negative opinions welcome, however posting such opinions on social media may invite additional comments from others who are welcome to their opinion.
 
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You mean people aren't entitled to their opinion? Or if theirs differ from yours they do not deserve to say it?

People should grow a pair, and understand not everyone thinks the same, once we agree to disagree, this world will be a better place.

If you are so "offended" by others opinion's, a forum might not be the best place for you, and if your have a point, you should try to use better argument than the one you posted here.

Just skip trought, and or ignore people if they get into your nerves like that :D

Oh, the irony...
 
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Fact is, he's an accountant, and it shows.
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So yeah, a lot of us __do__ know the history of Apple.
And we still don't believe that Tim Cook is the CEO that Apple needs.
He was an amazing CFO; that was the right place for him.

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Cook's background is engineering and he was never CFO of Apple.
 
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For someone who likes to talk about human rights and social justice, Cook is surprisingly silent on the issue of large tech companies moving into cities and destroying housing affordability.
 
Why should he?

Because Apple has about ten profitable years left before marketshare erodes to the point of a slow inevitable death of the company and their ecosystem.

2 phone designs in, how many years? Innovation is dead, it’s been traded for shareholder returns and buybacks, and Apple’s brand image and customer loyalty has hit a total low, a snowball effect level.

Ya’ll will see.
 
I don't care about security *Shock*. It is a smoke screen. A hacker does not care about me, I am a little fish. What I do care about is corporate monopolies with "terms of service", which increasingly justifies censorship of political speech and people that does not agree with their progressive ideo.....sorry....profit margin.

You can be "depersoned" on the internet, even have Paypal and other credit cards take away your right to access your own money. Seemingly seperate companies act within hours of each other when silicon valley have a political hit on somebody. But thats OK because I am not a right wing conspiracy theorist, a troll, a whistle blower, a centrist political commentator, a journalist, a student? What we have learned is once one of the groups is eliminated more moderate positions become the new "extremes", untill there is nobody left except "the party". Nobody is safe.

When you rent everything, your house, your car, your healthcare (sorry USA), your mobile phone, your computer, your music, your movies, bank accounts, and even where you store stuff online; what bargaining power do you have when they own everything? Rights are only attributed by those who own things, those that have a stake. Throw in automation and universal basic income, and that will mark the exiting of human labor and bargaining of rights, and the fire-walling of plebeian influence will be complete, and thus the end of liberty; one $9.95 per month at a time. Vast majority of humans only got rights when we entered the factories and our labor meant something, when we could earn money and OWN things. All of that is threatened by these silicon valley monopolies, which are trying to get us out of work, and own all our stuff.

So no, I don't care about "security". I care about the dystopian nightmare we are running towards with both arms stretched wide. Wake up!

Look at all the services Apple already provides, you can rent your phone off them, rent your computer of them, soon you can have your credit with them, your music, your movies, your TV shows. Say something of conscious and out of line with the grain-of-rice sized Overton window, and ALL that will be jeopardised. Then how do you function in society, when literally everything you need permission to use, and exist?

But hey at least Apple stopped your girl-friend from snooping in your phone, or an advert following you across a website.
 
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Because Apple has about ten profitable years left before marketshare erodes to the point of a slow inevitable death of the company and their ecosystem.

2 phone designs in, how many years? Innovation is dead, it’s been traded for shareholder returns and buybacks, and Apple’s brand image and customer loyalty has hit a total low, a snowball effect level.

Ya’ll will see.
Hope ya shorted the stock a good one with that insider knowledge.
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....But hey at least Apple stopped your girl-friend from snooping in your phone, or an advert following you across a website.
Some people might be more worried about the above.
 
"In a world without digital privacy, even if you have done nothing wrong other than think differently, you begin to censor yourself."

Wow, and this is the same man that censors lawful speech and people on his platform that go against his views, that have "done nothing wrong other than think differently."

"We lose the freedom to be human."

Like the people you, and other tech and social media companies, have censored and banned from your platforms?

"And, conversely, the best founders - the ones whose creations last and whose reputations grow rather than shrink with passing time - they spend most of their time building, piece by piece."

You have spent most of your time neglecting your fundamental duties as a CEO. You have greatly harmed the reputation of Apple.

"We deserve better. You deserve better."

We sure do, so do the right thing and resign before you finish destroying Apple!
 
...Wow, and this is the same man that censors lawful speech and people on his platform that go against his views, that have "done nothing wrong other than think differently.".....
Citation please.
Like the people you, and other tech and social media companies, have censored and banned from your platforms?
Citation please.
You have spent most of your time neglecting your fundamental duties as a CEO. You have greatly harmed the reputation of Apple.
No he hasn’t. He’s doing exactly what a CEO should be doing.
We sure do, so do the right thing and resign before you finish destroying Apple!
Tim probably will, when he hits 65.

Without citations, this is just a meaningless rant.
 
Privacy and security trumps the fixing a photo, IMO.

To be clear, the privacy Tim Cook talks about are the search terms people enter into a search engine, personal photos people share on social networking sites. Tim Cook isn't talking about sensitive information like ss#, naked photos, sex tapes.
 
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