“We are making serious investments in Apple TV Plus,” said Tim Cook
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- Tim Cook has been with Apple Inc. for 23 years
- He was CEO for almost a decade
- Your last interview covered a wide range of topics
Tim Cook has been with Apple Inc. for 23 years and served as its CEO for almost a decade, but he used a new podcast look to suggest that some sort of eventual change may be on the horizon.
“I feel great now. And the date is nowhere in sight,” the 60-year-old told the New York Times podcast “Sway” that was released Monday. “But another 10 years is a long time and probably not another 10 years.”
The interview covered a wide range of topics, including the controversial social media application Parler, which was blocked by Apple earlier this year, Apple TV + and autonomous vehicles. Cook, when asked about Elon Musk’s claim that he once tried to talk about the possibility of selling Tesla to Apple, said he never spoke to Musk, but that he has “great admiration and respect” for the company he built.
“I think Tesla did an incredible job not only establishing the leadership, but maintaining the leadership for a long period of time in the EV space,” said Cook without revealing many clues as to what Apple planned for the industry. “We will see what Apple will do. We investigate many things internally. Many of them will never see the light of day. I’m not saying no.”
Other topics covered include:
About removing Parler from the App Store:
“In a way, it was a direct decision, because they were not following the App Store guidelines. You cannot be inciting violence or allowing people to incite violence. You cannot allow hate speech and so on. they went from moderators to unable to moderate. “
“I hope they come back. Because we work hard to get people in the store, not to keep them out of the store. And therefore, I hope they will put in the necessary moderation to be in the store and come back, because I think I have more social media out there is better than having less. “
On social media and the attack on the Capitol:
“I think the amplification of social media is something that deeply concerns me. And the targeting tools, the same tools used to target in advertising, can be used to target for purposes of disinformation or extremists. So I am deeply concerned about this . “
“This was one of the darkest days in our history. And it happened in front of all of us. I felt it was more of a movie or something, that it was something that was not real, that it couldn’t be happening in the United States of America. And therefore, I am hopeful that this in-depth inspection will take place. “
In “data theft”:
“I’m shocked by this. And then we have things coming out as a nutritional privacy label. Privacy policies have become these multi-page things that people just say blindly, I agree, so they can go to the next screen and move on. A privacy nutrition label, much like a nutrition label on foods, quickly provides some important information.
In Epic Games:
“It’s about living according to the rules and guidelines of the App Store. And they did it for years and then evidently decided that they no longer wanted to follow the rules, and went through some analysis of the application and then went through the analysis of the application, changed it server side. So it was a bit of a misleading move. And then we go to court. We are coming to tell our story. We are going to talk about the privacy and security aspects of the store. And we are confident in our case. “
On Apple TV +:
“We are making serious investments in Apple TV Plus.”
“For the same reason that we are in products, we are doing the best, not the maximum. And so, in the area of TV Plus, we are concerned with the originals only at Apple.”
“We are dedicating ourselves totally to this. It is not a hobby. It is not a dip in your foot. As an original focus, we do not instantly have a catalog with 500 things. We are going to build it over time.”
In the vote:
“I think we are all probably having the wrong conversation about the right to vote. We should be talking about the use of technology. How can we make it so simple that our participation in the vote gets to 100? Or really gets close to 100. Maybe we can do it. in the 90s or something. It’s quite mysterious. “
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