 Apple Dumplings
— you berks
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...Steve
Jobs’s successor at Apple, Tim Cook, was asked at the annual
shareholder meeting by the NCPPR, the conservative finance group, to
disclose the costs of Apple’s energy sustainability programs, and make
a commitment to doing only those things that were profitable.
Mr. Cook replied –with an uncharacteristic display of emotion–that a
return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such
issues. ... The company does “a lot of things for reasons besides
profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it ....
If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of
this stock.” [Full]
When
I saw this in March, I (like many of you) thought, "What a
prick!" So much for fiduciary responsibility. And also an
insight into Cook's character perhaps. I'll make this short.
Wife
gave me a new iPad Air
last week. She, in turn, took my old iPad I (5.111). I
wiped it
clean; re-registered to her, and went about restoring the
apps I knew
she'd enjoy. Like NetFlix, iBooks, Kindle, and a host of others.
But,
guess
what? All of the afore mentioned, and many others, were
denied with
the message "This App
Requires ver 6 or Higher." WTF? I used these apps,
on that box, last
week.
I'm not alone.
It gets worse. Not only are there
no Kindle or iBooks; there are no
book reader apps available. None. Once you give them up, there
ain't no going back. The plaintive cry across Apple
land is—
... you pricks!
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Visitors
who log in may be surprised at the volume of information that may be
available and the detailed picture it can give of their personal lives.
The household interest section, for instance, listed Mr. Howe as
interested in health and medical issues (he subscribes to health
industry trade journals and founded a site called Health123.com);
crafts (he periodically works with stained glass); woodworking (he paid
for his undergraduate education at Princeton in part by working as an
apprentice carpenter); tennis (he was on his high school team);
gardening (his wife subscribes to Fine Gardening magazine); and
“religious/inspirational.” 
