“We are making serious investments in Apple TV Plus,” said Tim Cook
Highlights
- Tim Cook has been with Apple Inc. for 23 years.
- He has been CEO for almost ten years
- His latest interview touched on a wide variety of topics
Tim Cook has been with Apple Inc. for 23 years. and was CEO for nearly a decade, but he used a new podcast gig to suggest that some sort of eventual change could be on the horizon.
“I feel great now. And the date is not in sight,” the 60-year-old told the New York Times “Sway” podcast released Monday. “But 10 years is a long time and probably not 10 years anymore.”
The interview touched on a wide variety of topics, including the controversial social media Parler app blocked by Apple earlier this year, Apple TV +, and autonomous vehicles. When asked about Elon Musk’s claim that he once attempted to hold talks about the possibility of selling Tesla to Apple, Cook said he has never spoken to Musk but has “great admiration and respect” for it. the business he has built.
“I think Tesla has done an incredible job of not only taking the lead but also staying in the lead in the EV space for so long,” Cook said without giving much indication of what Apple had planned for the industry. “We’ll see what Apple does. We investigate so many things internally. Many of them never see the light of day. I’m not saying they won’t.”
Other topics covered include:
About removing Parler from the App Store:
“In some ways it was a straightforward decision because they didn’t follow the App Store guidelines. You can’t incite violence or allow people to incite violence. You can’t allow hate speech, and so on. And they had switched from moderation to not being able to moderate. “
“I hope they come back. Because we work hard to get people into the store, not to keep people out of the store. And so I hope they use the necessary moderation to be in the store and come back. because I think it’s better to have more social networks than less. “
On social media and the attack on the Capitol:
“I think the strengthening of social media is something I’m very concerned about. And the targeting tools, the same tools that are used to target in ads, can be used to target disinformation or extremist purposes. And so I worry. deeply concerned about that. “
“This was one of the darkest days in our history. And it happened for all of us. I felt like it was more of a movie or something, that it was something that wasn’t real, that it couldn’t have happened in the United States of America. And so I am hopeful that that thorough inspection will take place. “
About “data theft”:
“I’m shocked by it. And so things come out like a privacy food label. Privacy policy has grown into multi-page stuff that people say blindly, I agree so they can go to the next screen and move on. , like a nutrition label on food, it gives you some important information at a glance. We will improve that over time. ”
On Epic Games:
“It’s about sticking to the rules and guidelines of the App Store. And they had done that for years and when apparently decided they didn’t want to follow the rules anymore, they passed an app review and then it had gone through app review, it changed on the server side. So it was kind of a deceitful move. And so we’re going to go to court. We’re coming to tell our story. We’re going to talk about the privacy and security aspects of the store. And we have confidence in our cause. “
On Apple TV +:
“We are making serious investments in Apple TV Plus.”
“For the same reason we’re in products, we’re all about making the best, not the most. And so on TV Plus we’re only about originals on Apple.”
“We all put ourselves in it. It’s not a hobby. It’s not a dip in your toe. Because it’s an original focus, we don’t have a catalog with 500 things in it right away. We’re going there. to build. “
When voting:
“I think we’re probably all having the wrong conversation about voting rights. We should be talking about using technology. How can we make it so easy for our voting participation to reach 100? Or get it really close to 100. Maybe we’ll get it. in the 90s or something. It’s pretty mysterious. “
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