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BLUE ON BLUE: Apple’s Tim Cook rebukes Zuckerberg over Facebook’s business model.
“We could make a ton of money if we monetized our customers, if our customers were our product,” Cook said in an interview with Recode and MSNBC that will air on 6 April. “We’ve elected not to do that … We’re not going to traffic in your personal life. Privacy to us is a human right, a civil liberty.”
Cook also said that it is past time to regulate Facebook. “I think the best regulation is no regulation, is self-regulation,” he said. “However, I think we’re beyond that here.”
The comment echoed remarks Cook made in Beijing last week, when he said: “I think that this certain situation is so dire and has become so large that probably some well-crafted regulation is necessary.”
Cook, 57, did not have any suggestions for how Zuckerberg should address the fallout from the privacy scandal. Asked what he would do if he were Zuckerberg, Cook shot back: “I wouldn’t be in this situation.”
Ouch.
APPLE IN THE ERA OF TIM COOK: Tim Cook Stumbles at His Specialty, Shipping Apple Products on Time.
As Apple Inc.’s longtime chief operating officer, Tim Cook was known for ensuring that new products hit the market on schedule.
With Mr. Cook as CEO, though, Apple’s new gadgets are consistently late, prompting questions among analysts and other close observers about whether the technology giant is losing some of its competitive edge.
Of the three major new products since Mr. Cook became chief executive in 2011, both AirPods earbuds in 2016 and last year’s HomePod speaker missed Apple’s publicly projected shipping dates. The Apple Watch, promised for early 2015, arrived late that April with lengthy wait times for delivery. Apple also was delayed in supplying the Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard, two critical accessories for its iPad Pro.
The delays have contributed to much longer waits between Apple announcing a product and shipping it: an average of 23 days for new and updated products over the past six years, compared with the 11-day average over the six years prior, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Apple public statements.
Longer lead times between announcement and product release have the potential to hurt Apple on multiple fronts. Delays give rivals time to react, something the company tried to prevent in the past by keeping lead times short, analysts and former Apple employees said. They can stoke customer disappointment and have cost Apple sales.
I’ve found the Wall Street Journal’s reporting on Apple to be comically ignorant of how the company operates, but this story is a valid critique.
TIM COOK HAS LURCHED FROM ONE DEBACLE TO ANOTHER: Apple just confirmed a longtime conspiracy theory — and gave regular customers a big reason to distrust it.
THINK DIFFERENT™ (*VOID WHERE PROHIBITED): Apple’s Tim Cook ‘Proud’ to Work With China to Censor Internet.
LIFE IN THE TIM COOK ERA: Huge security flaw lets anyone log into a High Sierra Mac.
(Classical reference in headline.)
LIFE IN THE TIM COOK ERA: Apple Is Really Bad At Design. I used to have the Magic Mouse, which is charged by a lightning cable that plugs into . . . the bottom, making it unusable while it’s charging. That was when I knew it was over.
TIM COOK THE MORAL BEACON: SJW bullies always seem to pick soft targets in their moralistic preening. Apple’s Tim Cook never met a progressive movement he didn’t like — check his Twitter feed — but when it comes down to hard choices that might actually cost him money, well, that’s another story…
China appears to have received help on Saturday from an unlikely source in its fight against tools that help users evade its Great Firewall of internet censorship: Apple. Software made by foreign companies to help users skirt the country’s system of internet filters has vanished from Apple’s app store on the mainland. One company, ExpressVPN, posted a letter it had received from Apple saying that its app had been taken down “because it includes content that is illegal in China.”
It costs nothing to demand that bakeries make gay-themed wedding cakes or that the military pay for gender reassignment surgery. But helping the world’s most repressive regime keep their citizens away from free speech and democracy? Inconceivable!
I WAS HOPING HE’D ANNOUNCE UPGRADES TO THE THREE-YEAR-OLD MAC PRO, BUT WHATEVER. Apple CEO Tim Cook: Fake News is ‘Killing People’s Minds’
LIFE IN THE TIM COOK ERA: Consumer Reports Stands By Its Verdict, Won’t Recommend Apple’s MacBook Pro.
WITH THIS POOR PERFORMANCE, I PREDICT TIM COOK WILL DOUBLE DOWN ON THE “SOCIAL JUSTICE” POSTURING BY WAY OF DISTRACTION: Apple’s soft iPhone sales send its stock down sharply.
HMM: Apple’s Loss in Chinese Patent Fight Seen Emboldening Rivals.
Under Tim Cook, Apple has gone from an extraordinary company to an ordinary one. My guess is he realizes that, and is doubling down on the social-justice stuff as a distraction.
IN THE ERA OF TIM COOK, SUCKAGE IS INCREASINGLY THE NORM: Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.
I SHOUTED OUT WHO MADE TIM COOK KING? When after all, it was you and me.
WHAT HATH TIM COOK WROUGHT: iPhone Slump Means Apple Must Compete Harder with Amazon and Google.
TIM COOK’S LEGACY: The Apple Event Was Boring.
STEVE JOBS IS OUT. TIM COOK IS IN. APPLE IS SLIDING. “Gone are the fundamental principles of good design: discoverability, feedback, recovery, and so on. Instead, Apple has, in striving for beauty, created fonts that are so small or thin, coupled with low contrast, that they are difficult or impossible for many people with normal vision to read. We have obscure gestures that are beyond even the developer’s ability to remember. We have great features that most people don’t realize exist. The products, especially those built on iOS, Apple’s operating system for mobile devices, no longer follow the well-known, well-established principles of design that Apple developed several decades ago. These principles, based on experimental science as well as common sense, opened up the power of computing to several generations, establishing Apple’s well-deserved reputation for understandability and ease of use.”
Prediction: The worse Apple does, the more Tim Cook will talk about social justice.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW HE’S RUNNING APPLE INTO THE GROUND? Tim Cook Talks Charity, Coming Out As Gay on the ‘Late Show.’
TIM COOK’S LEGACY: Apple Goes Middle-Aged with Bad Fashion and Live Slip-Ups. Well, all the Steve Jobs stuff has basically gone through the pipeline, and Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs. “And there’s something missing in Tim Cook’s presentation style, too. The whole event today felt sloppy and awkward and some of the products were simply daft. Apple is crapping slightly on Steve Jobs’s legacy by introducing a stylus, called the Apple Pencil and retailing at a whopping $99. Jobs famously scoffed in 2010 that if you see a stylus, someone screwed up.”
TIM COOK HAS NOT PERFORMED AS WELL AS HOPED: Apple shares plummet after lower than expected iPhone sales. The watch is a product that appeals mostly to hipster doofuses, the iPhone is great, but improvements have been incremental and there’s stiff competition from Samsung, etc., and there’s nothing new or exciting. (A gold MacBook?) Cook has also been expressly political in a way Steve Jobs wasn’t.
WATCH OUT, TIM COOK: Samsung Galaxy S6 Review: The iPhone 6 Has Met Its Match.
APPLE’S TIM COOK: “If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.” Duly noted.
THE HILL: Tech Execs To Confront Obama Over Spying.
The meeting will include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson.
Several Silicon Valley giants including Google, Facebook and Yahoo are lobbying Congress to restrict the NSA’s powers and make the agency more transparent. They warn that the surveillance is undermining trust in their services and hurting both their bottom lines and the U.S. economy.
A White House official said that in addition to discussing “the economic impacts of unauthorized intelligence disclosures,” the president will also discuss progress in HealthCare.gov, the troubled ObamaCare website. He will talk with the tech CEOs about how government can improve its technology services, the official said.
To coin a phrase, they’re the only people standing between him and the people with pitchforks. Maybe people should send some to the White House.