“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 a decade
- His latest interview touched on a wide range of topics
Tim Cook has been with Apple Inc. for 23 years. and served as CEO for nearly a decade, but he used a new podcast look to indicate that a possible change would be up front.
“I feel great at the moment. And the date is not in sight,” the 60-year-old told the New York Times ‘Sway’ podcast released Monday. “But another ten years is a long time and probably not another ten years.”
The interview touched on a wide range of topics, including the controversial social media app Parler, which was blocked by Apple earlier this year, Apple TV + and autonomous vehicles. Asked about Elon Musk’s claim that he once tried to talk about the possibility of selling Tesla to Apple, Cook said he had never spoken to Musk, but that he had “great admiration and respect” for the company he built.
“I think Tesla has done an incredible job of not only establishing the lead, but also retaining the lead in the EV space for so long,” Cook said without revealing many clues as to what Apple plans for the sector. has. “We’ll see what Apple does. We investigate so many things internally. A lot of them never see the light. I’m not saying one would not do that.”
Other topics covered include:
When you remove Parler from the App Store:
“In some ways, it was a straightforward decision because they did not follow the guidelines of the App Store. You can not incite violence or allow people to incite violence. You can not allow hate speech, and so on. And they has moved from moderation to unable to moderate. ‘
“I hope they get going again. Because we work hard to get people into the store, not to keep people away from the store. And I hope they have to use the moderation needed to get into the store. to be and come back, because I think it’s better to have more social networks than to have less. ‘
On social media and the attack on the Capitol:
“I think social media reinforcement is something I’m very worried about. And the tools that are targeted, the same tools that are used to advertise, can be used to target misinformation or extremist purposes. And that’s why I’m deep worried about that. “
“It was one of the darkest days in our history. And it played out in front of us all. I felt it was more of a movie or something, that it was something that was not real, that it could not be what “And I’m hope that the deep inspection will take place.”
About “data theft”:
“I’m bad about it. And so we have things like a privacy label. Privacy policies have become these things with more pages that people just blindly say, I agree, so they can go to the next screen. And go on.” “A privacy nutrition label, such as a nutrition label on food, gives you important information at a glance. We will improve it over time.”
On epic games:
“It’s about following the rules and guidelines of the App Store. And they’ve been doing this for years and then apparently decided they did not want to follow the rules anymore, and passed something on through the app evaluation and beyond. it was through the review of the app, it changed on the server side. So it was a fraudulent move. And so we go to court. We come to tell our story. We’re going to talk about the privacy and security aspects of the store. And we are confident in our cause. ‘
On Apple TV +:
“We are making serious investments in Apple TV Plus.”
“For the same reason we have products, we’re about making the best, not the most. And so in the TV Plus environment, it’s just about originals on Apple.”
“We do it ourselves. It’s not a hobby. It’s not a dip in your toes. Because it’s an original focus, we do not immediately have a catalog of 500 things in it. We deal with to build over time. ‘
By vote:
“I think we probably all have the wrong conversation about voting rights. We need to talk about using technology. How can we make it so simple that our turnout gets 100? Or it gets really close to 100. Maybe we’ll get into the 90s or something. It’s pretty arcane. “
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