Out Apple CEO Tim Cook had a bit of a Mariah moment when asked about the hot water Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg find themselves in these days over privacy concerns and a scandal that just won’t quit.
Speaking to Kara Swisher of Recode on Wednesday, Cook was asked what he would do if he were the Zucks.
Here’s how he responded:
OK, not quite.
How about we take this to the next level?
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But it also wasn’t that far off.
“What would I do?” replied Cook. “I wouldn’t be in the situation.”
As in, the premise of the question is incomprehensible because I’d never be dumb enough to even come close.
That’s some C-E-Oh-yes-he-did realness.
Cook elaborated on why Apple will never be in this particular hot seat while he’s at the helm:
“We could make a ton of money if we monetized our customers, if our customers were our product. We’ve elected not to do that. Privacy to us is a human right. It’s a civil liberty, and in something that is unique to America, this is like freedom of speech and freedom of the press and privacy is right up there for us. And so, we’ve always done this.”
They also discussed watching adult content on iPhones, something Cooks predecessor, Steve Jobs, was staunchly opposed to.
“We’re like the guy in the corner store. What you sell in that store says something about you and if you don’t want to sell that other thing you don’t sell it. It doesn’t mean that you can’t use an iPhone to go to your browser and go to some porno site if you want to do that…”
“Nobody does that,” joked Swisher, to which Cook responded: “I’m not making fun of it!”
Watch the full interview below:
DCguy
This is America though, even if Zuckerberg committed intentional treason and sold children’s organs to wealthy foreigners after killing their parents he would get a thousand dollar fine.
Now if he was poor and stole a candy bar he would go to jail for 10 years.
Pneumatikon
Hell in a just world he would have been hanged already.
ChrisK
I’m not even an apple fan but Cook definitely walks the walk. Apple is big on privacy.
silveroracle
Agreed.
Troyfight
^ I agree. Same. ….hard not to worry that one day Apple will turn to the darkside, but…eh.
saramedina5655
as Annie replied I didn’t even know that any one able to earn $8091 in four weeks on the
computer . why not check here…
gffffffff
Crystix
Been facebook free since October. The damage facebook has committed *is* treasonous. I’ll no longer allow them to filter my life and dictate what I see and don’t see. Until people value their privacy more than taking a personality quiz, we’ll keep facing these issues of misuse.
silveroracle
I hate FAKEBOOK!
Been free from that site for 7 years.
I don’t miss it.
I hear nothing but negativity about it these days.
Pneumatikon
And this, boys and girls, is why I love Apple. And call it the iPhag all you want, but lawsuits have spilled the beans on Android. It looked nothing like the iPhone before the iPhone came out. So they stole the interface. And now the lawsuits from Sun Microsystem are coming to a very nasty conclusion. They stole Java, too. They did it blatantly. And there never would have been an Android OS without it.
ProfessorMoriarty
Um, I’ve never called it (or heard it called) the “iPhag”. But OK, sure…
crushlovepanic
Oh honey. You do know where and how iPhones are made right?
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
What absolute cringe nonsense! Why do you have to reduce everyone and everything and down to “yasss queen” level juvenile bilge
MonkeyMan
In the wake of Facebook’s latest controversy, Cook’s statement doesn’t need to be meme’ified by Mariah Carey diva antics. Tim isn’t some conceited singer. Tim and Apple are shaping the future of our society and their stance on privacy impacts billions of people all over the world.
Keep important news and memes separate.
Invader7
Zucks sucks. All he cares about is selling out FB users. He’s in it for the glory & the $$$. Maybe the class action lawsuits expose FB for the shady company it is !!!
James
zuckerberg is a creep. Nit picks and annoys everyone on what he will allow, for example NO DRAG NAMES, on Facebook and then turns around and sells personal information to third parties to steal elections. He is a creep.