Musk asks Cook: Why has Apple stopped advertising on Twitter?
Musk asks Cook to tell him why Apple has stopped advertising on Twitter.
What’s going on here @tim_cook?
What’s going on here @tim_cook?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
Cook: I stand with ‘Dreamers’
Apple CEO Cook tweets that he told Trump to keep the U.S. in the Paris climate deal and pushed Trump to show more compassion for immigration issues, including DACA.:
250 of my Apple coworkers are Dreamers. I stand with them. They deserve our respect as equals and a solution rooted in American values.
250 of my Apple coworkers are #Dreamers. I stand with them. They deserve our respect as equals and a solution rooted in American values.
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) September 3, 2017
‘Privacy is a fundamental human right’
In an interview with NPR, Cook says that Apple is committed to its customers’ privacy.
We do think that people want us to help them keep their lives private. We see that privacy is a fundamental human right that people have. We are going to do everything that we can to help maintain that trust…Our view on this comes from a values point of view, not from a commercial interest point of view. Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our products. We don’t collect a lot of your data and understand every detail about your life. That’s just not the business that we are in.
Criticizes Cook
Sorkin criticizes Cook’s recent assertion that filmmakers are being “opportunistic” in making films about Steve Jobs.
Nobody did this movie to get rich. Secondly, Tim Cook should really see the movie before he decides what it is. Third, if you’ve got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour you’ve got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic.
Gay marriage reaction
Cook welcomes the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing same-sex couples to marry:
Today marks a victory for equality, perseverance and love.
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 26, 2015
Android ‘dominates malware market’
Cook criticizes Google for not encouraging users to upgrade to a new version of Android. He says that nine out of ten iDevice users have upgraded to the latest version of iOS, but fewer than one out of ten Android users have the latest version, which introduces security risks:
This [upgrading] is particularly important for Android, which dominates the mobile malware market.