Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.
TIM COOKThey’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.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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Excellence has become a habit.
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If I’m working with you for several months on things, if I have a relationship with you, and I decide one day I’m going to sue you,
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No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don’t shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics.
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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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From our point of view it’s important that Apple not be the developer for the world.
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No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn’t exist.
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The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you’re an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.
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Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.
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We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.
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When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.
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To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It’s embedded in me.
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Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.
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Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.
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I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.
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I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.
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