Sep 26
Last week, Business Week ran a fairly boring interview with Tim Cook, Jonathan Ive and Craig Federighi. Now, though, it’s released a longer interview with just Ive and Federighi, which is kinda interesting. Here are some of the highlights.
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Sep 20
Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Twitter
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You won’t find a lot of top Apple executives on conventional social media channels. But Apple isn’t what it used to be a few years back, significant changes have occurred under the leadership of Tim Cook. One of the biggest changes has been seen today, Tim Cook has joined Twitter. His predecessor, Steve Jobs, never ventured on the microblogging network. This is yet another thing that he is doing differently than Steve Jobs. Cook’s appearance on Twitter comes the day the company has released its two new iPhones.
As of this writing, Tim Cook’s twitter account has amassed nearly 39,000 followers. The account already been verified, so there’s no doubt in the fact that this is the real deal. Earlier today, Tim Cook visited Apple Retail Stores in Palo Alto. The first tweet has been about those visits, Cook writes that “seeing so many happy customers reminds us of why we do what we do.” The tweet was retweeted by Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing chief, who has a verified Twitter account. It remains to be seen how Cook intends to reach out and interact with customers through this channel, though its nice to know that Apple’s CEO is now merely a tweet away.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Twitter original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Sep 19
Supposing you’ve seen the calls of opposition from Apple nay-sayers over the past week, you’ll be interested to know that the heads of Apple aren’t immune to talk of “non-innovative” releases in the iPhone. Speaking with Bloomberg Businessweek on several topics here in the launch week of both the iPhone 5s / iPhone 5c and […]
Sep 19
Earlier this year we heard rumors that Apple’s board was pushing CEO Tim Cook to be more innovative. The company has long been expected to release a product, any product, that changes the landscape once again. Rumored products include a smartwatch and a full fledged HDTV, but Apple hasn’t dropped any hints about its future devices. Some people say that the era of innovation at Apple ended with Steve Jobs’ departure, Larry Ellison of Oracle certainly seems to think so. Rest assured, the CEO knows that not innovating in today’s competitive market is going to be fatal for any company. Speaking with Bloomberg, Cook said that Nokia is a prime example for everyone in the industry why companies shouldn’t stop innovation, he believes that “to not innovate is to die.”
Nokia’s phone business used to thrive globally not so long ago, but it lost a lot of its market share after the iPhone and Android established their duopoly. A few weeks ago it was announced that Nokia has sold its core phone business to Microsoft, the deal is expected to be closed within the next couple of months. There has also been much talk online about the fact that iPhone 5C isn’t really a “budget iPhone” that most people thought it would be. Cook says that it was never the company’s objective to sell “a low cost phone,” their objective was to sell a great phone and provide a great experience, and that Apple just “figured out a way to do it at a lower cost.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook Understands That To Not Innovate ‘Is To Die’ original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Sep 10
Apple’s media events often follow a pattern. The company usually talks about numbers and retail stores first before jumping on to announce new devices. That’s exactly what it did today as well, at its iPhone event. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during the keynote that the 700 millionth iOS device is set to be shipped by October, while not discounting the possibility that it might actually be shipped sooner than that.
Cook claimed that based on the sheer number of iOS devices out there, when iOS 7 is released on September 18th, it will become the “most popular operating system” in the world, literally overnight. While the claim might be a tad optimistic, there’s no doubt about the fact that Apple’s iOS devices are some of the most popular devices that are coveted by customers all around the globe. Since Apple is the only company that manufactures these devices, we don’t see high fragmentation of iOS like we see with Android. Google announced last week that it has activated over 1 billion Android devices, but a large number of them are still running OS versions that are over two years old, that’s because Android devices are developed by a wide variety of manufacturers and every device isn’t capable of running the latest OS version.
700 Millionth iOS Device To Be Shipped By October original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Aug 22
Apple’s current state of affairs in the public realm is one of massiveness – the company is worth billions of dollars, and here in the summer of 2013, one of its biggest investors is meeting with Tim Cook over lunch. This meeting will be centered on the possibility of buying back shares. According to Icahn, […]
Aug 22
The world knows relatively less about Apple CEO Tim Cook than it does about his predecessor, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. There’s a movie out on his life, his biography has been out for nearly two years. Tim Cook stepped into the spotlight when Jobs gave up the reins in 2011. Many wondered how Cook’s leadership will impact the company after it had spent well over a decade under Jobs, who had his own unique style of running Apple. Reuters has profiled Apple’s current CEO, he’s been called a workaholic who guards his privacy very closely. Apparently, he has a methodical and “no-nonsense” style of leadership that is quite different from Jobs.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Profiled As A ‘No-Nonsense’ Leader original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Aug 13
Many have associated Apple with innovativeness, although there are some who feel that the innovativeness came largely from the company’s late co-founder, Steve Jobs, and while Tim Cook is not a bad leader, there are some who hold pessimistic views about the future of Apple under Cook’s leadership, and Oracle’s Larry Ellison is one of them. Speaking to Charlie Rose on CBS This Morning in an interview, Ellison shared his somewhat pessimistic outlook on the future of Apple.
According to Ellison, “We saw, we conducted an experiment […] I mean, it’s been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs, we saw Apple without Steve Jobs, we saw Apple with Steve Jobs, and now we’re gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs,” referring to the time when Jobs was kicked out of Apple in favor of John Sculley, who became the CEO of Apple for a while. While Apple is certainly not doing badly for itself at the moment, there are some who feel that the company has lost its innovative spark and there have been reports where the company’s board of directors are pressuring Tim Cook to be more innovative.
Larry Ellison Pessimistic About Apple’s Future Without Steve Jobs original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Aug 08
While Apple’s iPhone and iPad products are no doubt still pretty hot items, it is fair to say that there are some out there who might be getting bored and feel that Apple is no longer “innovating”, and compare Tim Cook’s leadership to that of the late Steve Jobs. To that extent it seems that according to Fox Business News’ Charlie Gasparino, his sources have revealed to him that Apple’s board of directors are similarly concerned as well over Apple’s apparent lack of innovation. (more…)
Tim Cook Reportedly Pressured By Apple’s Board To Be More “Innovative” original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jul 31
We’ve already heard reports of Apple CEO Tim Cook heading over to China earlier this week for a series of meetings. Local reports claimed that he had met with China Telecom, which has been an Apple partner in the country for quite some time. China Mobile is the biggest mobile network in the world based on its sheer number of subscribers, 715 million to be precise, and yet it doesn’t officially carry Apple’s devices. The carrier has confirmed that its chairman had a meeting with Apple CEO, and that both of them discussed “matters of cooperation.”
The statement, provided to Reuters, doesn’t reveal the agenda of this meeting. A deal between China Mobile and Apple has been rumored for quite some time. Apple would obviously benefit if China Mobile started carrying its devices, such a deal would help the company grow the dominance of iPhones and iPads in China. It is believed that Tim Cook is mustering up support in China ahead of the expected launch of two new iPhones in September. Surely customers in China would be clamoring to get their hands on a new Apple smartphone, the only question that remains, is exactly when or if their particular carrier would start selling it to them.
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