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Timothy Donald Cook (born 1960-11-01) is an American business executive best known for his current role as CEO of Apple Inc. Before joining Apple in 1998, Cook also served as an executive at IBM and Compaq.
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You can converge a toaster and refrigerator, but these things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.
When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI.
If you want me to only do things for ROI reasons then you should get out of this stock.
The things we should be doing at Apple are things that others can’t.
If there were any doubts, I think that they should be put to bed.
* "We believe that privacy is a fundamental human right." ** Source: Apple public statements on privacy (2020s)
Our base philosophy is to never fear cannibalization. If we do, somebody else will just cannibalize it. We never fear it.
I don’t think business should only deal in commercial things. Business, to me, is nothing more than a collection of people. If people have values, then companies should.
The countries that embrace openness do exceptional and the countries that don’t, don’t. It’s not a matter of carving things up between sides. I’m going to encourage that calm heads prevail.
We [at Apple] worry about the humanity being drained out of music, about it becoming a bits-and-bytes kind of world instead of the art and craft.
There are very few content owners that believe that the existing model will last forever, I think the most forward-thinking ones are looking and saying, 'I'd rather have the first-mover advantage'.
All of these things are great conveniences of life. They change your daily life in a great way. But if you're getting bombarded by notifications all day long, that's probably a use of the system that might not be so good anymore."
The privacy thing has gotten totally out of control. I think most people are not aware of who is tracking them, how much they're being tracked and sort of the large amounts of detailed data that are out there about them.
If there was a lot of emotion in my voice today, it's because we've all been waiting for this day for a long time. It felt so great, … the people at this company are doing the best work of their lives, the best work that Apple has ever done.
Don’t just accept the world you inherit today. Don’t just accept the status quo. No big challenge has ever been solved, and no lasting improvement has ever been achieved, unless people dare to try something different. Dare to think different.
We reject the excuse that getting the most out of technology means trading away your right to privacy. So we choose a different path, collecting as little of your data as possible, being thoughtful and respectful when it's in our care because we know it belongs to you.
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