A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.
TIM COOKI’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information.
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Our competition is different. They’re confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they’re trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they’ll do next?
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They’re gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that’s wrong. And it’s not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.
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There’s a mountain of information about us. I mean there’s so much. Anyway, I’m not an intelligence person. But I just look at it and it’s a mountain of data.
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No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn’t exist.
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In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.
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Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn’t know you wanted and then once you get it, you can’t imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.
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So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It drew on the moral sense that I’d learned from my parents, and in church, and in my own heart, and led me on my own journey of discovery.
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There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate – when a particular course of action just feels right.
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We’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives.
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Our business is not based on having information about you. You’re not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs and so forth. And so we run a very different company.
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Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.
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Apple Pay is forever changing the way we pay for things.
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Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.
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I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn’t be intrusive.
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The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
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