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?
TIM COOKCompanies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.
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Gaming has kind of evolved a bit. More people play on portable devices.
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No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn’t exist.
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A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.
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Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.
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The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished.
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Without encryption, you and I wouldn’t be able to do our banking online.
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You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.
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I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.
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It is possible to be aware of God at all times.
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Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.
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I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s.
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In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.
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You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys.
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My business is not reading your messages. I don’t have a business doing that. And it’s against my values to do that. I don’t want to read your private stuff.
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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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