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Here’s Tim Cook’s plan to get more people to upgrade their iPhones and turn Apple revenue around

Posted by M. C. on January 4, 2019

Does it occur to Tim that maybe the $750 price tag may be the problem? The coming recession will not be pretty for US or Apple.

Detroit tried planned obsolescence, it didn’t work long then either.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/03/heres-tim-cooks-plan-to-get-more-people-to-upgrade-their-iphones.html

KEY POINTS
  • Apple lowered its revenue projection for its fiscal first-quarter earnings in a letter to investors Wednesday.
  • In an interview with CNBC, CEO Tim Cook laid out his plan for getting revenue back on track by encouraging customers to upgrade their iPhones.
  • Cook said he will focus on the factors Apple can control, like marketing its trade-in program and developing a payment plan for iPhones, rather than those he can’t, like trade tensions between the U.S. and China…

Be seeing you

f35-moneydump

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Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”

Posted by M. C. on October 24, 2018

“We shouldn’t sugarcoat the consequences. This is surveillance,” he added.

Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the ‘data industrial complex’

Natasha Lomas

Apple’s  CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of voices warning that data itself is being weaponized again people and societies — arguing that the trade in digital data has exploded into a “data industrial complex”.

Cook did not namecheck the adtech elephants in the room: Google, Facebook and other background data brokers that profit from privacy-hostile business models. But his target was clear.

“Our own information — from the everyday to the deeply personal — is being weaponized against us with military efficiency,” warned Cook. “These scraps of data, each one harmless enough on its own, are carefully assembled, synthesized, traded and sold. Read the rest of this entry »

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Silicon Valley Joins War on Cash – LewRockwell

Posted by M. C. on February 28, 2018

  • Savers could no longer have the individual freedom to store wealth “outside” of the system.
  • Eliminating cash makes negative interest rates (NIRP) a feasible option for policymakers.
  • A cashless society also means all savers would be “on the hook” for bank bail-in scenarios.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/02/tyler-durden/silicon-valley-joins-war-on-cash-tim-cook-seeks-elimination-of-money

Apple CEO Tim Cook has one big hope for the future – that he lives to see the end of money.

Speaking at a meeting for Apple shareholders in Cupertino, California earlier this month, Cook made it clear that he is firmly on the side of the war-on-cash establishment.

“Because why would you have this stuff! Why go through all the expense of printing this stuff and then some people steal it, and you’ve got to worry about counterfeits and all these things,” he continued.

As Apple’s CEO talked about the downsides of cash, BI reported that he became more animated, revealing his real passion about the topic… Read the rest of this entry »

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Fake news is killing people’s minds, says Apple boss Tim Cook

Posted by M. C. on February 12, 2017

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/02/10/fake-news-killing-peoples-minds-says-apple-boss-tim-cook/

In some ways kids will be the easiest to educate. 
Don’t like the sound of that! Especially if he wants government to do the fixing.

Tim Cook knows better than to think government can fix anything. There must be a worm in his Apple.

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