Tim Cook talks privacy, hiking, and investing for the long term ("moderate" = censorship)

Apple CEO Tim Cook says as a hiker, he appreciates the company's new Emergency SOS, and that investing in new features like this is how to get through tough economic times.

CBS Mornings has released an expanded version of its Tim Cook interview, in which he answers wide-ranging questions about about Emergency SOS, hiring freezes, Twitter, and the economy.

Cook was also asked about what it would take for Twitter to be removed from the App Store, and he said that he doesn't expect that to happen.

"[Twitter says] that they're going to continue to moderate and so I think that you know, I, I count on them to do that," continued Cook. "Because I don't think anybody really wants hate speech on their platform. So I'm counting on them to continue to do that."

Android was built on multitasking. Doing that on Ios is just a pain, really awkward. Hate ios for phones. Maybe it can get ok? If they block Twitter, hahah

Depends on what the tasks are. I don't have any problem taking a phone call while staying in an app. YouTube videos get shut down. That stinks.

My Linux Pine Phone is REALLY built to multi-task, as it is full-blown Linux. Unfortunately performance is poor. No reason to insult the intelligence of those who have different priorities than you do in choosing a platform.

I paid $100 for my iPhone 7, and it meets my needs fine. I have had my intelligence tested. I am not a moron.

It is well documented that while none of the platforms are any good on privacy issues, Google is substantially worse than Apple, and also has been hot with more malware than iOS.

I have supported Macs since the ‘80s, and for some people they are the best choice.

Macs are not the best choice in any situation.. They don’t run most applications and are on shoddy hardware.

In the 1980s (which you referred to), a Mac running Photoshop on a Mac II would run rings around a DOS box (no professional Windows until Windows NT, a decade later). Yes, it cost more, but the hardware was generally of very good quality and would usually outlast most name brand PC equivalents in usability if you started out with a high end machine (Mac II+, Mac IIcx, Mac IIci). There were some problems with overheating on Mac Plusses and with a bunch of Quantum hard drives, the first Mac external CD, and the Mac SE fans. I could come up with equivalent problems and poor design choices on most of the major PC brands.

For those who didn't want to monkey around with TSR DOS programs and memory work arounds over the 640K/1 MB limit, Macs were a LOT more straightforward to use.

In the mid-80s, the most cost-effective way to have a print shop was a Mac of any type running PageMaker hooked up to a LaserWriter. A PC hooked up to an HP LaserJet would be fine for term papers and bulk mailings, but not much else, without PostSCript. Once you added the bells and whistles (Postscript, memory managers, special software), you spent as much as the Mac, and you have a comparative kluge.

Apple charges a 30% tax on all app usage. It’s a death spiral for them on this. They’re going to end up with Macintosh 5% of userbase.

Apple's apps have fewer security issues than Google's Android apps, and 30% is no worse than Amazon and Audible and the entire book publishing industry have lived on for some time.

The iPad on release was several hundred dollars cheaper than analysts expected, and still dominates that sphere. The iPhone SE is not that expensive and has a solid chip.

Do you really want Google to have 90%+ of the SmartPhone market? (90% Google Android, 5% Apple, 5% Microsoft and others)?

You don't have to like the Apple products to admit that some people might prefer them without being stupid. That isn't the Free Republic way.

Apple stuff back then didn’t last long, but cost 10x what a comparable PC cost at the time for the same friggin thing.

An anecdote proves nothing. You said 1980s, and your example is from 1997. System 7 was better for multi-tasking than DOS and Windows 3.1. My example of desktop publishing in the mid-80s stands.

Comparable Video-editing rigs were NOT 1/10th the price of a Mac setup. For one thing, by 1997, a lot of the most expensive equipment would be peripherals (e.g. large monitor that can be calibrated properly), Postscript color laser, professional software, etc. The big boys were NOT using PCs in '97 for video editing. The Macs were cheaper and easier to maintain than Sun or SGI workstations.

Your last name isn’t Ragosta is it, sound just like Joe Ragosta the Mac zealot back then on usenet.

Nope. While I have an iPhone 7 for a phone, my main PC is a SuperMicro 9th gen i7 that I pieced together myself running dual boot Ubuntu Linux and Windows 10. 32 GB RAM, 2 TB on board SSD, 42" Dell monitor, Removable 4TB hard drives for backups, etc. 5 slots for expansion. No extra graphics (not a gaming or video editing box). I expect to keep it for 10 years.

The last Mac I owned was a web/DVD all in one that we used instead of a TV when my children were very young. It was wireless (wireless mouse & keyboard). I bought it used for $300 and served its purpose better than any PC all-in-one available at the time for the money (2013).

I have supprted Macs when needed professionally, and I have had clients who did well with them. NOTHING that I have written implied that I thought that Macs are "better", only that they can be the right choice in certain situations.

We are both pretty price-sensitive, but other people are not. I have never paid more than $100 for a phone for myself, but if I was pulling $200K/year, then maybe a phone that I live off of professionally at $1,400 or whatever isn't such a big deal. Such people are not necessarily stupid.

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