![]() ![]() ![]() As the executive noted over the weekend, that list includes more than 250 Apple employees.Ĭook relays the stories of some of the employees who contacted him following his tweet over the weekend and the release of a letter last week that he cosigned along with other top executives from companies like Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. The memo, which was obtained by TechCrunch this morning, notes Cook’s “deep dismay” at the planned end for a program that could impact the lives of 800,000 Americas. After Attorney General Jeff Sessions took to a podium at the Department of Justice earlier today to confirm the administration’s decision, Cook emailed Apple staff a long memo urging Congress to make the policy permanent. Look around at the great people I get to work with-there’s some really just superb talent in the company.Over the weekend, Tim Cook reaffirmed his support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Obama era policy that allows some illegal immigrants to defer deportation. ![]() And I take that role extremely seriously. “Then my role is to make sure that the board has great candidates to pick from internally. We have the good discipline to do that,” Cook said. “At the end of every board meeting, I discuss succession with the board because I might step off the wrong curb or something. Cook, who inherited his role from Jobs quickly and soon found himself on his own, is already thinking about a succession plan for when his time as Apple C.E.O. But it’s also made him highly aware of how his words and actions are parsed in public. And that can happen all in a day,” he told The Washington Post, describing how the scrutiny forced him to develop a thick skin. “You’re both praised and criticized, and the extremes are wide-very wide. The criticism hasn’t always been easy for Cook, who says he was surprised that the press paid as much attention to him as it had to Jobs. Because he was going to be chairman, work a bit less after he came back up the health curve.” When I first took the job as C.E.O., I actually thought that Steve would be here for a long time. I think it would have been a treacherous thing if I would have tried to do it. “I know this sounds probably bizarre at this point, but I had convinced myself that he would bounce, because he always did,” he adds. Lots of core technology work has been done.”īefore Jobs’s untimely death, Cook himself was convinced that the iconic co-founder wouldn’t actually disappear. We keep pulling that string to see where that takes us. We’ve gone into the Apple Watch business, which has gotten us into wellness and in health. That was a really key decision, and I think a good one. Since taking over, “the obvious things are we have more employees in the company,” Cook explained. On his first day at the job, Cook sent a memo to Apple’s employees: “I want you to be confident that Apple is not going to change.” And in many ways, Apple hasn’t, for better or for worse. Jobs, who died of cancer months after Cook took over, was considered a visionary for his work at the company. job is lonely-is accurate in a lot of ways.” The interview is sprawling, and though Cook refuses to discuss certain topics-namely the existence of Apple’s secret car project-the nearly-10,000 words he does say give rare insight into how he runs the world’s most valuable company. to the company’s highly publicized battle with the F.B.I. Now, nearly five years later, the chief executive of the notoriously press-shy tech company has given a lengthy interview to The Washington Post, touching on everything from succeeding Jobs as C.E.O. ![]() On August 24, 2011, as Steve Jobs’s health declined, a then 50-year-old Tim Cook stepped up to fill the Apple C.E.O.’s shoes. ![]()
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