Let’s face it, we love large numbers. We are obsessed with them, whether it’s Forbes list of wealthiest individuals or tech unicorns, if it’s a big number we can’t get enough. Such is the case with the somehow magical trillion dollar mark that Apple briefly reached last summer. We splashed the headlines and glorified it […]
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Apple’s increasingly tricky international trade-offs
Far from Apple’s troubles in emerging markets and China, the company is attracting the ire of what should really be a core supporter demographic naturally aligned with the pro-privacy stance CEO Tim Cook has made into his public soapbox in recent years — but which is instead crying foul over perceived hypocrisy. The problem for this subset […]
View More Apple’s increasingly tricky international trade-offsTim Cook addresses white supremacists in ADL address
Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t mince words when he took to the stage to accept the Anti-Defamation League’s first Courage Against Hate Award at an event in New York City today. The executive used the keynote to address a wide range of issues, from anti-Semitism to LGBTQ rights — in many cases framing them in […]
View More Tim Cook addresses white supremacists in ADL addressApple’s Tim Cook warns regulation is coming for the tech industry
This year has been horrendous for Silicon Valley’s public image.
With a litany of issues like data misuse and political interference laid bare within the last 12 months, Apple CEO Tim Cook told Axios on HBO that government regulation of the tech indu…
Big tech must not reframe digital ethics in its image
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s visage loomed large over the European parliament this week, both literally and figuratively, as global privacy regulators gathered in Brussels to interrogate the human impacts of technologies that derive their power and persuasiveness from our data. The eponymous social network has been at the center of a privacy storm this year. And […]
View More Big tech must not reframe digital ethics in its imageChinese investment into computer vision technology and AR surges as U.S. funding dries up
Tim Merel Contributor Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital. More posts by this contributor The Reality Ecosystem: What AR/VR/XR needs to go big China could beat America in AR/VR long-term Last year 30 leading venture investors told us about a fundamental shift from early stage North American VR investment to later stage Chinese computer vision/AR […]
View More Chinese investment into computer vision technology and AR surges as U.S. funding dries upApple’s Tim Cook is sending a privacy bat-signal to US lawmakers
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has today been announced as the keynote speaker at a European data protection conference taking place in Brussels later this month — at a time when US lawmakers are asking tech giants outright if they’ll support “EU-like” privacy rules to shield US consumers from platform power. For a week this month Europe’s data […]
View More Apple’s Tim Cook is sending a privacy bat-signal to US lawmakersEurope is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big data
It’s been just over four months since Europe’s tough new privacy framework came into force. You might believe that little of substance has changed for big tech’s data-hungry smooth operators since then — beyond firing out a wave of privacy policy update spam, and putting up a fresh cluster of consent pop-ups that are just […]
View More Europe is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big dataApple’s Tim Cook talks privacy, user data in China and banning Alex Jones
Notoriously secret on one hand, Apple has never been one to shy away from speaking its mind on matters of principle. During this current period of societal tumult, the $1 trillion company has more to answer for than ever. In a new interview with VICE News Tonight on HBO, Apple chief executive Tim Cook talked […]
View More Apple’s Tim Cook talks privacy, user data in China and banning Alex JonesTim Cook reportedly behind Apple’s lame, sanitized television production plans
Apple has all the money in the world, but as the disastrous Planet of the Apps proved, money is no substitute for good taste.
The 2017 reality show from the makers of your favorite $1,449 phone pitted app developers against each other for the a…
Tim Cook trolled us with a tweet before the Apple keynote
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Just moments before the 2018 Apple Keynote event, Tim Cook sent out a tweet, which he later deleted. We were able to get a screenshot, assuming it was a mistaken DM — only to realize it was part of his plan… Read more…
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Tim Cook talks iPhones, Apple Watch, and then quickly gets out of the way at Apple event
The Super Bowl of tech is officially underway, and Tim Cook wants you to know that his team is already solidly in the lead. Possibly because they’re in such good shape?
The Apple CEO addressed a crowd of journalists, fanboys, and Apple employee…