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The rarest thing in the world -- Tim Cook responding to a question with an answer he hasn't given 100 times before. https://t.co/TNlvokI3xu
— Richard Lawler (@rjcc) September 8, 2022
Fun audience question for @tim_cook - why don't you support RCS so android users like the questioner's mom can communicate more easily. Cook's answer: I don't hear a lot from our users they want us to put a lot of his energy there.
— Ina Fried (@inafried) September 8, 2022
His solution: Buy your mom an iPhone
Tim Cook has perfect knowledge of TikTok iOS downloads, usage, and in-app purchases. Tim Cook is absolutely a TikTok expert! https://t.co/Z5WmHH25VK
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) September 8, 2022
If you need even more proof that ignoring modern messaging standards is a calculated lock-in play by Apple, here it is. https://t.co/yUBSvwc7BM
— Andreas Proschofsky (@suka_hiroaki) September 8, 2022
this one hurts https://t.co/miD2WX5i7u
— Jake Kastrenakes (@jake_k) September 8, 2022
Mark, my question was carefully limited to Steve's interest in the stock, the stock market, and the market cap, in contrast to tech CEOs now.
— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) September 8, 2022
Nah this company is turning into pure evil and hurting tech as a whole. They want to be a monopoly. https://t.co/cTvnNi2Xo8
— Highest (@TechHighest) September 8, 2022
I mean, what else was he going to say lol https://t.co/aSosvgc8j1
— Zac Bowden (@zacbowden) September 8, 2022
tell me you’re a monopolist without telling me you’re a monopolist https://t.co/2t7z01fimD
— Yorick A.K. Dupon Argüelles (@yorickdupon) September 8, 2022
Laurene Powell Jobs said Steve had dreams of teaching and imagines him riding his bike to Stanford to teach students. Imagine that.
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) September 8, 2022
Tim Cook runs a company purposefully causing friction between family and peers over the color of a damned box. Personally I don't understand this tribalism over the color of a damned box. https://t.co/IkCcwhvM4c
— 𝐷𝑟. 𝐼𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 (@IanCutress) September 8, 2022
Sooo, what you're saying is... iMessage for Android, definitely coming soon. https://t.co/b60wWSEKiy
— Joanna Stern (@JoannaStern) September 8, 2022
A questioner says it’s frustrating that he, an iPhone user, can’t send his mum certain videos and links because she uses Android.
— Patrick McGee (@PatrickMcGee_) September 8, 2022
“Buy your mom an iPhone,” @tim_cook says, laughing. #CodeCon
Thanks Tim, thanks for playing anti-trust bingo https://t.co/e5SJyQLFrB
— Eric Migicovsky (@ericmigi) September 8, 2022
What a privileged rich man answer.
— Shannon Morse (@Snubs) September 8, 2022
Tim Cook / Apple don't care about E2EE across platforms. They just want your money. https://t.co/Vcj5u0GN7o
Just saw my sister @karaswisher get emotional talking about an incredible moment with Steve Jobs. Let me tell you. She says she doesn't hug...she lies. She is one of the best huggers ever. Frequency does not equal quality.#CodeCon
— Jeffrey Swisher, MD (@jeffreyswisher) September 8, 2022
can't believe we're still talking about this https://t.co/l04rCOllJm https://t.co/6MnGQGJTzk
— Samantha Cole (@samleecole) September 8, 2022
well there’s your answer lol https://t.co/ahj2Pssk4g
— Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) September 8, 2022
Hail to @karaswisher for a brilliant panel discussion of the legacy of Steve Jobs. It ended tonight's program at her final Code Conference, closing the circle with the fact that Jobs was the very first speaker at our very first conference in 2003. https://t.co/7CLeADS6aw
— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) September 8, 2022
Probably worth saying this was funny to the audience — myself included. In print it looks harsh. But it wasn’t, in context.
— Patrick McGee (@PatrickMcGee_) September 8, 2022
Tim Cook thinks only people who can afford an iPhone deserve secure messaging🧐
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) September 8, 2022
Everyone should have safe places to talk with friends and loved ones. That means end-to-end encrypting all messages by default & implementing RCS so that messages across iPhones and Androids are safe https://t.co/KAtNHjOEfO
I remember it very differently: Apple has always been super closed and litigious with some open stuff sprinkled.
— Miguel de Icaza (@migueldeicaza) September 8, 2022
Source: recipient of various C&Ds, and spent years collaborating/funding/working around their closed stuff - back when we were pushing Linux on the desktop.
This is so classically Apple: it's basically fuck you - and fuck your mum - we don't care if our messaging protocol isn't the modern cross-platform standard and that that makes your life a bit more difficult. https://t.co/5YQNsH1X64
— Kate Bevan (@katebevan) September 8, 2022
Tim Cook says he thinks Apple’s valuation, financial results and stock market performance would be unimportant to him, in response to Zoomed in question from @waltmossberg.
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) September 8, 2022
Honoring Steve Jobs on this closing night of @karaswisher’s last #codecon hosting, w/@tim_cook @laurenepowell & Jony Ive. How Jobs would be upset about state of politics and division but loved this country greatly and believed it, combo of love and fury #Code2022 pic.twitter.com/dLSUPGPHrp
— Stephanie Frerich (@SGFrerich) September 8, 2022
Tim Cook on SMS messaging and green bubbles
— kif (@kifleswing) September 8, 2022
"I don't hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy on that on this point"
"Buy your mom an iPhone"
Tim Cook sidesteps a popular question at the conference about if TikTok should be banned, saying he’s not a TikTok expert.
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) September 8, 2022
same energy https://t.co/O7XuzaDK5k pic.twitter.com/Bpl6pQ2BM9
— Emmett Watkins Jr: Bayonetta's Lollipop (@Ejsponge61) September 8, 2022
"I don't hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy" into RCS, says Tim Cook in response to a question at Code. "I would love to convert you to an iPhone."
— nilay patel (@reckless) September 8, 2022
"I can't send my mom certain videos," says the questioner.
"Buy your mom an iPhone," says Tim.
No need, Apple promised FaceTime was an open protocol anyone could use to build a FaceTime app for another platform :) https://t.co/fUkaLUKZrN
— Michael Gartenberg (@Gartenberg) September 8, 2022
That’s bait.
— Miguel de Icaza (@migueldeicaza) September 8, 2022
People just use WhatsApp, telegram or signal on Android Anyways - better than the fractured and broken messenger of the week https://t.co/oTgVDTVtGv
Aa someone who used to help "prep" Tim for Code conference, we'd write dozens of possible questions along with short, (hopefully) clever responses covering everything we could think of. Then add more. Whoever did this for Tim this time around didn't do a great job IMHO
— Michael Gartenberg (@Gartenberg) September 8, 2022
Apple resists open standards wherever it can because the raw exercise of a monopoly on the attention of the wealthy is how it makes margins.
— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) September 8, 2022
The casualties? Everyone who isn't rich. https://t.co/PqOCySgQep
Obviously Apple's attitude here is terrible, but this is such an American pain point because iMessage is so widely used there. Get your mom to use WhatsApp or Signal. Job done. https://t.co/7r5a8xMWM4
— Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP) September 8, 2022
Sometimes I love being an Apple consumer. They make high-quality products and pretty streamlined software and I respect the hell out of Tim Cook as a logistics expert (other than their previous involvement with forced labor in China).
— Jacob Wolf (@JacobWolf) September 8, 2022
But then he says stuff like this... https://t.co/oSSajluDOT
Crazy that until just over a decade ago Apple was a smaller player—genuinely committed to the open standards and interop that allowed it to compete. But once they got some leverage they pivoted to "embrace, extend, extinguish" with all the zeal of a mid 1990s Microsoft. https://t.co/eigM4v3xoZ
— Justin Schuh (@justinschuh) September 8, 2022
That sound you just heard was millions of green bubbles exploding https://t.co/ox7nIRB2hT
— David Pierce (@pierce) September 8, 2022
Jony Iveが元気そうで嬉しい。appleにいた一番最後の時期よりも雰囲気が俄然よくなっている気がするhttps://t.co/ejncNu60Ay
— touya (@touya_huji) September 8, 2022
Don't Like the Green Bubble? Buy an iPhone.https://t.co/0vwj6fSppF
— Droid Life (@droid_life) September 8, 2022
Steve Jobs would not be happy about polarization in US: widow https://t.co/f5G454dpHT pic.twitter.com/tP6mB6RA6Q
— New York Post (@nypost) September 8, 2022