What Tim Cook said about Elon Musk’s claim to try to sell Tesla to Apple

Tim Cook has been with Apple Inc. for 23 years and has been its CEO for nearly a decade, but used a new podcast appearance to suggest that some eventual change on the horizon could occur.

“I feel really good right now. And the date isn’t in sight,” the 60-year-old said on the New York Times podcast “Sway” that aired Monday. “But ten more years is a long time and probably not ten more years.”

The interview covered a wide range of topics, including the controversial social media app Parler that Apple blocked earlier this year, Apple TV + and autonomous vehicles. Cook, when asked about Elon Musk’s claim that he once tried to hold talks about the possibility of selling Tesla to Apple, said he has never spoken to Musk, but that he has “great admiration and respect. “by the company he built.

“I think Tesla has done an incredible job not only establishing leadership, but maintaining leadership for such a long period of time in the EV space,” Cook said without revealing many clues about what Apple had planned for the industry. “We’ll see what Apple does. We investigate so many things internally. Many of them never see the light of day. I’m not saying they don’t.”

Other topics covered include:

By removing Talk from the App Store:

“In a way, it was a direct decision, because they didn’t adhere to the App Store guidelines. You can’t incite violence or allow people to incite violence. You can’t allow the speech of hatred, etc. had gone from moderating to not being able to moderate “.

“I hope they get back to work. Because we work hard to get people out of the store and not to keep people out of the store. So I hope they put in the moderation to be in the store and come back, because I think that it’s better to have more social media than to have less. “

On social media and the attack on the Capitol:

“I think the amplification of social media is something that worries me deeply. And targeting tools, the same tools that are used to target advertising, can be used for misinformation purposes or with extremist purposes. that “.

“This was one of the darkest days in our history. And it played out in front of all of us. It seemed to me that it was more of a movie or something, that it was something that wasn’t real, that it couldn’t be. happening in the United States of America. So I hope a thorough inspection will take place. “

About “data theft”:

“I’m dismayed by that. So we come up with things like a privacy nutrition label. Privacy policies have become these multi-page things that people say blindly, I agree, so they can go to the screen. next A privacy nutrition label, similar to a food nutrition label, provides you with key information at a glance. We’ll improve it over time. “

A Epic Games:

“It’s about complying with the rules and guidelines of the App Store. And they had done that for years and then they had obviously decided they didn’t want to follow the rules and they’d gone through the app review and then had been by reviewing the application, changed it for the server side.So it was kind of misleading.So let’s go to court.We come to tell our story.We will talk about privacy and aspects of store security. And we trust our case. “

On Apple TV +:

“We are making serious investments in Apple TV Plus.”

“For the same reason we’re in products, we’re about to do the best, not the maximum. And so in the TV Plus area, we’re only dealing with originals at Apple.”

“We all get into it. It’s not a hobby. It’s not an immersion. Because it’s an original focus, we don’t have an instant catalog with 500 things. To build over time.”

When voting:

“I think we’re all having a wrong conversation about voting rights. We should be talking about using technology. How can we make it so easy for our turnout to reach 100? So let’s get closer. really at 100. Maybe we get to the 90s or something. It’s pretty arcane. “

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