Tim Cook Says He Doesn't Remember How Much Google Pays for Search Deal As He Plays Innocent in Epic v Apple Trial (techcrunch.com) 104
Apple CEO Tim Cook took his first turn in the witness chair this morning in what is probably the most anticipated testimony of the Epic v. Apple antitrust case. But rather than a fiery condemnation of Epic's shenanigans and allegations, Cook offered a mild, carefully tended ignorance that left many of the lawsuit's key questions unanswered, or unanswerable. TechCrunch reports: The facade of innocent ignorance began when he was asked about Apple's R&D numbers -- $15-20 billion annually for the last three years. Specifically, he said that Apple couldn't estimate how much of that money was directed towards the App Store, because "we don't allocate like that," i.e. research budgets for individual products aren't broken out from the rest. [...] This was further demonstrated when Cook was asked about Apple's deal with Google that keeps the search engine as the default on iOS. Cook said he didn't remember the specific numbers.
Mushrooms (Score:2)
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Ronald Reagan perfected it in the 1980s. Gates just embraced and extended it. :-)
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I can assure you that it predates Reagan by at least a few decades, but I can't remember who did it first.
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Re: Mushrooms (Score:1)
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Clearly you are a very reasonable human being. We need more judges like you.
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Clearly you are a very reasonable human being. We need more judges like you.
May 22nd, 2021!
I knew if I waited long enough, someone would use sarcasm on the Internet!
Re: Mushrooms (Score:2)
A bucket of water (Score:2, Flamebait)
And a towel will improve his memory in less than 30 seconds.
Re: A bucket of water (Score:1)
Making a joke (Score:3)
The dude was not in any way suggesting water board torture be used in a civil deposition.
But this is a horrible subject to make a joke about, and Vinegar Joe should be indefinitely suspended from Slashdot, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify as well as shamed publicly for making a racist joke because this barbaric torture was applied to persons of color, and it is LGBTQ-phobic for even thinking of using it on the CEO of Apple.
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Didn't work, subjects often told lies just to make it stop.
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Shareholders will happily reward effective liars.
Re: Typical (Score:2, Insightful)
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micromanaging is not something the CEO of the worlds largest company should be doing
First, I agree about the micromanaging part, but it would be kinda hard t believe that he doesn't know, in ballpark numbers, how much Google is paying. I'm guessing that it would be a decent part of the bottom line.
Second, Apple is not the worlds largest company. It's 4th or 5th depending on which list you look at and what your criteria is.
Re: Typical (Score:4, Informative)
As of today, Apple appears to have the largest market capitalization in the world:
1 Apple $2.093 T
2 Saudi Aramco $1.891 T
3 Microsoft $1.847 T
4 Amazon $1.615 T
5 Alphabet (Google) $1.555 T
https://companiesmarketcap.com... [companiesmarketcap.com]
What list are you looking at?
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Here's the list I'm looking at:
1. Beyond Burger patties
2. Hamburger buns
3. French's mustard
4. French's ketchup (fuck you, Heinz)
5. A&W Diet Root Beer
6. McCain Shoestring Fries
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Yay!
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And that's when the big buck start rollin' in!
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Apple shareholder, and would be pissed if Tim Cook knew the price of half the things Apple buys or sells.
In the half of things he absolutely should know is a payment that represents around 10% of his company's profit.
micromanaging is not something the CEO of the worlds largest company should be doing
Being aware of and sustaining a near 100% profit margin payment that contributes around 10% of your annual profit every year is not micromanaging.
Re: Typical (Score:1)
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Most estimates seem to be the $8-12bn level.
I'd hope a CEO tracks single payments of even 'just' a billion.
Re:Typical (Score:5, Insightful)
Typical carefully uninformed CEO bullshit. Too bad shareholders don't care enough to go after him for dereliction. If doesn't know how his company operates, how can he be in charge of it?
"Specifically, he said that Apple couldn't estimate how much of that money was directed towards the App Store, because "we don't allocate like that,"
While I'm here in agreement with you in general, he gave a pretty direct answer here. As in he gives an answer that implies he does know how his company operates.
I agree that a CEO could have perhaps been more informed, but this is a bean-counter question anyway. This is what CFOs exist for. Put the right CxO on the stand next time. They're not interchangeable, especially with a company this big.
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I agree that a CEO could have perhaps been more informed, but this is a bean-counter question anyway. This is what CFOs exist for. Put the right CxO on the stand next time. They're not interchangeable, especially with a company this big.
Exactly.
Too bad Epic's lawyers are too incompetent to Subpoena the right people.
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I agree that a CEO could have perhaps been more informed, but this is a bean-counter question anyway. This is what CFOs exist for. Put the right CxO on the stand next time. They're not interchangeable, especially with a company this big.
Exactly.
Too bad Epic's lawyers are too incompetent to Subpoena the right people.
Rather ironic for a company called Epic, to have not-so-epic lawyers.
That said, this is likely by design. The only reason you put a CEO of a very public company on the stand and ask him bean-counter questions that you know he probably won't be able to pull out of his ass, is to make him look bad so you can roast him with clickbait bullshit for the next month.
Watch, and see.
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clickbait bullshit
And that term aptly describes Epic's idiotic case so far.
And Slashdot and dumbass knee-jerk Apple Haters fall right for it!
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The only reason you put a CEO of a very public company on the stand and ask him bean-counter questions that you know he probably won't be able to pull out of his ass, is to make him look bad so you can roast him with clickbait bullshit for the next month.
On the other hand, I can't imagine Tim Cook (or an Apple lawyer) didn't think that Epic wouldn't ask him questions like that, so they probably made a calculated decision for Tim to stay (or pretend to be) uninformed.
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Do you know whether they have or haven't also subpoenaed the CFO?
If you have the CEO stood there answering questions it doesn't hurt to ask him a question you're expecting a subsequent witness to answer.
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Do you know whether they have or haven't also subpoenaed the CFO?
If you have the CEO stood there answering questions it doesn't hurt to ask him a question you're expecting a subsequent witness to answer.
After all, where else would Slashdot get ignorant and biased Headline material?
Apple Haters Everywhere (Score:5, Insightful)
Boy, the last two Slashdot stories on the apple/epic trial are written with a disgusted sneer in tone. How on earth if Federichi not correct when he says that they are not satisfied with the macs security stance and that they want to be even more careful with the IOS (since that's most peoples 2-factor identification and single-sign on tool.) Hell yes I want that. So why the sneer?
And then The CEO says that apple doesn't assign costs directly to project bins. That's exactly what holistic thinking companies avoid doing because it drives the wrong decisions that move epople away from systems integration, investing in manufacturering ops, and research. How much is that calendar app worth paying developers to maintain? It brings in no revenue. If you deleted the revenue would not immediately go down. But keeping your walled garden filled with delights is how you make people stay in it. You'll make plenty of money, just not anything you can measure quanitatively as an allocation for calendar app development.
When it started the App store was there not so much to be a revenue stream but as an essential convenience to get apps installed in a uniform way. At also was critical to security to have one process for installation and a method to prevent loading of mal ware. If it's in the app store it may not be 100% safe but it's a bazillion times safer than having uniformed people sideloading anything they find by searching Yandex. People want that convenience and enhanced safety.
And if you don't well you can go use something else if you can find it. Everyone is following apple's lead on tightening down security. So yeah have fun with your Linux phone if you can manage to keep it patched.
It's not CEO bullshit. It's because they see what they are selling as a different kind of product. It's not a chinese menu nor even an orchestrated seven course meal, but instead you are buying a truly enjoyable evening of dining and relaxation. It's a different product entirely and you can't assign costs per olive and have it make sense.
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Boy, the last two Slashdot stories on the apple/epic trial are written with a disgusted sneer in tone. How on earth if Federichi not correct when he says that they are not satisfied with the macs security stance and that they want to be even more careful with the IOS (since that's most peoples 2-factor identification and single-sign on tool.) Hell yes I want that. So why the sneer?
And then The CEO says that apple doesn't assign costs directly to project bins. That's exactly what holistic thinking companies avoid doing because it drives the wrong decisions that move epople away from systems integration, investing in manufacturering ops, and research. How much is that calendar app worth paying developers to maintain? It brings in no revenue. If you deleted the revenue would not immediately go down. But keeping your walled garden filled with delights is how you make people stay in it. You'll make plenty of money, just not anything you can measure quanitatively as an allocation for calendar app development.
When it started the App store was there not so much to be a revenue stream but as an essential convenience to get apps installed in a uniform way. At also was critical to security to have one process for installation and a method to prevent loading of mal ware. If it's in the app store it may not be 100% safe but it's a bazillion times safer than having uniformed people sideloading anything they find by searching Yandex. People want that convenience and enhanced safety.
And if you don't well you can go use something else if you can find it. Everyone is following apple's lead on tightening down security. So yeah have fun with your Linux phone if you can manage to keep it patched.
It's not CEO bullshit. It's because they see what they are selling as a different kind of product. It's not a chinese menu nor even an orchestrated seven course meal, but instead you are buying a truly enjoyable evening of dining and relaxation. It's a different product entirely and you can't assign costs per olive and have it make sense.
Mods: Mod Parent Informative!
That is the most complete and erudite comment to this Article I have seen so far. Bravo!!!
Re:Apple Haters Everywhere (Score:5, Interesting)
How on earth if Federichi not correct when he says that they are not satisfied with the macs security stance and that they want to be even more careful with the IOS (since that's most peoples 2-factor identification and single-sign on tool.) Hell yes I want that. So why the sneer?
The sneer is because of how they want to make it more "secure" — not by fixing OS-level sandboxing behavior or similar, but by limiting what software consumers are allowed to run on devices that they have purchased.
And then The CEO says that apple doesn't assign costs directly to project bins. That's exactly what holistic thinking companies avoid doing because it drives the wrong decisions that move epople away from systems integration, investing in manufacturering ops, and research. How much is that calendar app worth paying developers to maintain?
It isn't the right way of budgeting, but when you're under multiple antitrust investigations and at least one antitrust lawsuit and you can't come up with at least a rough approximation of that number, you're either deliberately hiding something or grossly incompetent.
A lot of the infrastructure is shared with their Music Store, Video Store, iBooks Store, etc. Come up with some reasonable way to split those generic costs (probably based on traffic percentage) and the cost of the IT staff (same). And customer support costs can be approximated by taking the total cost and multiplying it by the percentage of requests that come from the App Store versus other store sites. Then you have the folks who maintain store content, which would be a separate functional unit with a separate budget, and thus should be easy to calculate. That leaves the percentage of various OS teams' work that is specific to the store (e.g. the installer team, the kernel team, etc.). You can ask various managers to provide estimates from the bottom up. And now you have a reasonably good number.
Of course, that information really should have been provided by Apple during the discovery phase. If Epic didn't demand it, their lawyers are incompetent.
When it started the App store was there not so much to be a revenue stream but as an essential convenience to get apps installed in a uniform way.
When it started, it was because the carriers had a fit about devices running arbitrary software on their cellular network out of fear that it would bring their network to its knees. The decision to have a moderated store was at least in part to give them some sense of comfort, knowing that there would be a moderator, even if that moderator was someone other than the carrier.
However, the carriers no longer have that sort of power. That basically ceased to be a major issue when Apple stopped being exclusive to AT&T, give or take a year, and was certainly completely irrelevant by the time LTE rolled out. So the decision to continue prohibiting third-party stores after that point was, IMO, entirely about control.
At also was critical to security to have one process for installation and a method to prevent loading of mal ware.
No, the App Store does nothing to prevent loading malware. All you have to do is make the malicious intent remain dormant until long after the App Store review, and now there's malware on people's devices. If you do it right, you could even make it so surreptitious (attacking specific targets) that you probably won't ever get caught.
You either trust the app vendor or you don't. The level of trust determines what access you should give that app. If anything, the App Store gets in the way of that, by creating the illusion of trust where none should really exist.
If it's in the app store it may not be 100% safe but it's a bazillion times safer than having uniformed people sideloading anything they find by searching Yandex. People want that convenience and enhanced safety.
Not reall
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Then you have the folks who maintain store content, which would be a separate functional unit with a separate budget
And just to clarify that bit, I mean the app review team, plus whatever folks are responsible for picking apps to highlight, which I now that I think about it are almost certainly two teams, rather than one. No idea if they both have a common director or whatever.
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I didn't know what Yandex was until I looked it up. Odd choice.
Stupid questions for a deposition (Score:5, Insightful)
What is the point of asking those sort of questions during a deposition? If Epic actually wanted answers they could have easily had them by requesting them during discovery, instead of relying on someone to be able to recite them from memory on the spot.
Depositions (Score:5, Insightful)
Not to be pedantic, but this wasn't a deposition. Cook is on the witness stand.
In any case, I doubt that the CEO of the company I work for knows, off the top of their, head exactly how much is spent on our division's R&D. The VP of R&D absolutely does. And our company is miniscule compared to Apple.
I'd guess, though, someone asking Craig Federighi how much Apple spends on the App Store wouldn't be headline news.
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Not to be pedantic, but this wasn't a deposition. Cook is on the witness stand.
In any case, I doubt that the CEO of the company I work for knows, off the top of their, head exactly how much is spent on our division's R&D. The VP of R&D absolutely does. And our company is miniscule compared to Apple.
I'd guess, though, someone asking Craig Federighi how much Apple spends on the App Store wouldn't be headline news.
This is as much of a sham as the Arizona Cyber Ninjas so-called "Audit". In other words, a complete sham.
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I have followed the changes in the Darwin source for decade(s) as well as llvm and these groups alone appear large enough that a single vp might not know that breakdown.
This is why most enterprises employ batches of analysts to spend months producing reports and graphs and why they spend huge amounts on systems to facilitate such needs.
I just helped my daughter with a math test, the first section which permits no notes required the use of the product rule, chain rule, quotient rule and more. I was like, I use this math every week and I just google it or use wolfram. Who knows this shit from memory?
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If I run this through my Bayesian processor, I think it's far more likely Cook is simply lying than that he doesn't have a reasonable estimate of those expenses. But... I don't really blame him for lying. I'm sure he was told that this was the safe answer to any question fishing for particulars.
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I can't imagine that the CEO doesn't examine, weekly or more frequently, a finance report listing budgeted and actual spend of all the major departments in their company. They'd be negligent if they don't.
This... Where money is going is exactly what the Chief Executive Officer is supposed to know. If they don't they are a terrible CEO and likely losing money hand over fist. How much goes on projects is what they have to know, because they have to make decisions that will affect all the companies projects.
Cook is just trying the "I have no recollection of those events" line but in a corporate world. He damn well does know, he knows exactly how much Google is paying them, he just thinks he can show contempt to
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Re:Stupid questions for a deposition (Score:4, Insightful)
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Exactly. And in fairness to Tim Cook, you don't spout off numbers in an official context like that, even if you THINK you know them. The opposition is looking for sound-bite numbers, and you don't feed them. If you are the CEO and your VPs told you that you get from Google $51.4 billion per year for search (is that per fiscal year? Last year or this year? Projected? What did they actually ask for? Are you sure?), and you answer the question "about 50 billion" or "51 billion" or even "51.4 billion", then somebody actually looks at the numbers, finds out it's 51.42billion, the slashdot headline reads APPLE LIES ABOUT INCOME SOURCES, DOWNPLAYS INCOME FROM GOOGLE. He's a smart man for saying "I don't remember the exact figures". Even TFS says they spend "15-20 billion" on R&D; that's a huge range...
Give that man an Upvote! He has it exactly right!
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What is the point of asking those sort of questions during a deposition? If Epic actually wanted answers they could have easily had them by requesting them during discovery, instead of relying on someone to be able to recite them from memory on the spot.
Because this kind of grandstanding attention whoring bullshit is done for one reason and one reason only.
To make the head of a public company look stupid and uninformed so you can roast him for a month with half-truth clickbait.
And yeah, the public is getting kind of numb to this childish shit, especially after the MSM fanned the flames of America burning and rioting for the last two fucking years, so they could get rich off ratings.
America burning (Score:2)
A defense expert witness in a certain criminal proceedings suggested that maybe the victim succumbed to exhaust fumes from the running police car instead of it being the fault of the officer applying a restraint for too long.
The prosecuting attorney, instead of just shutting up about a defense expert witness saying that instead of the officer's restrain hold killing the guy, the guy died from being held on the ground next to the exhaust pipe?
"Do you KNOW what kind of police car was involved?"
"Yes, a
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"Yes, that model has four exhaust pipes, two on each side on the back.."
Sometimes expert witness have done their homework.
Yes, or sometimes, the "expert" is completely full of shit.
I could be wrong here, but I cannot find a single image to validate a quad exhaust setup. Yeah, they come with some upgraded engine options, but I'm struggling to believe that a Ford Explorer has a setup akin to a Mustang GT500.
Ironically enough, there was a lawsuit opened about the exhaust system leaking into the cabin...
https://www.carcomplaints.com/... [carcomplaints.com]
Full of "stuff" (Score:2)
C'mon man! The poh-leece interceptor is supposed to be able to catch guys driving a GT500.
https://www.thedrive.com/new-c... [thedrive.com]
This is the 2020 model that would have gone on sale Fall 2019:?
You have to look closely, but I see quad exhaust ports.
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Thanks for that. You're right, all imagery I found appeared to have dual and some chrome-tipped which made it even more dubious.
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What is the point of asking those sort of questions during a deposition?
This is grandstanding for the judge to make Apple look like an all around arsehole to everyone. It's easier to find against Apple if Epic is just "the latest victim" rather than some kind of special entitled snowflake.
If Epic actually wanted answers
They don't want answers, they want the Apple to tell the judge. Answers are easy to find. It was $12bn, ironically enough you can find this information on Google, no need for discovery.
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i expected nothing less from apple.
When are you going to get tired of the constant downloading and the fact that no one ever agrees with your posts?
Moron.
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You have hundreds of paid apple shills on tech websites upvoteing all the lies you spew. I dont need the upvotes, my ego and paycheck are not related to them.
What paycheck?
Considering the reading-level of your posts, I'd judge that you are no more than 12 years old; at least mentally, that is!
CEOs in trial stands... (Score:2)
"Not remembering stuff" is the "I plead the Fifth" of corporate trials, usually spammed on and on for things that would hurt a company and likely their position in it. My country has been doing parliamentary scrutiny rounds of corruption and abuse of power involving past members of government and private companies, and lack of memory is the common denominator of every single testimony. Or offending the inquisitors, which also seems to work well in these non-trial hearings...
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"Not remembering stuff" is the "I plead the Fifth" of corporate trials, usually spammed on and on for things that would hurt a company and likely their position in it. My country has been doing parliamentary scrutiny rounds of corruption and abuse of power involving past members of government and private companies, and lack of memory is the common denominator of every single testimony. Or offending the inquisitors, which also seems to work well in these non-trial hearings...
There is no 5th Amendment protection in a Civil Trial. Common misnomer.
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Perhaps you should go back to law school or do some research. The 5th Amendment is absolutely applicable in civil cases.
While there are circumstances under which a Witness can Invoke the 5th Amendment in a Civil Case, there are some restrictions.
I am truly sorry that this is an advertising link; but it just happens to have the most concise explanation of the limitations against "pleading the Fifth" in a Civil Case, and I don't think Epic v. Apple should allow the 5th to be used:
https://www.abellawfirm.com/at... [abellawfirm.com]
So, perhaps it is you that should hit the books!
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I absolutely respect how cordial you were replying to the other user, not falling into a troll trap.
Defending my point about the 5th: I'm not well versed in law, I'm not even a US citizen or resident. I just wanted to contrast it with self-incrimination avoidance. They clearly aren't pleading the 5th, but the are very comparatively providing a shitty argument of not remembering. Just like T. Cook not remembering how much of the company he runs has to spend pampering Google.
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I absolutely respect how cordial you were replying to the other user, not falling into a troll trap.
Defending my point about the 5th: I'm not well versed in law, I'm not even a US citizen or resident. I just wanted to contrast it with self-incrimination avoidance. They clearly aren't pleading the 5th, but the are very comparatively providing a shitty argument of not remembering. Just like T. Cook not remembering how much of the company he runs has to spend pampering Google.
While I believe he has a rough idea of the amount, I'm also sure he is savvy enough to keep from blurting-out a figure that may be out of date or slightly incorrect in his memory.
Keep in mind that Apple has a bunch of "deals" for all manner of things, and with Google probably has multiple "deals" that go this way and that way, and even some that partially or fully cancel each other out; so it may seriously not be a figure that Tim Cook as CEO (not CFO) would reasonably have to a testimonial-certainty at his
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There is no 5th Amendment protection in a Civil Trial.
That is why they need to say "I don't remember". 8^)
IANAL but it looks like you can plead the 5th in a civil case.
https://aaronhall.com/you-can-... [aaronhall.com]
https://www.abellawfirm.com/at... [abellawfirm.com]
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There is no 5th Amendment protection in a Civil Trial.
That is why they need to say "I don't remember". 8^)
IANAL but it looks like you can plead the 5th in a civil case.
https://aaronhall.com/you-can-... [aaronhall.com]
https://www.abellawfirm.com/at... [abellawfirm.com]
Did you notice the conditions in your Abel cite? I don't think that the 5th "applies" to Epic v. Apple.
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OMG you are so stupid. Idiots like you are the reason "apple-hater" exist. People in the real tech world are so sick of apple and their mindless drones and their lies
Considering your unblemished record of 0 and -1 Downmods, I'd say that you are the one we are sick of...
What sort of memory do they expect him to have? (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know about you, but I don't remember the exact amount I pay in, say, property tax every year. I'd have to go look it up if the consequences of me miss-remembering is perjury.
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This is non trivial amount even for Tim Cook and for Apple.
This is a completely trivial amount for Apple, a company with $200bn cash on hand. It may not be trivial for you but it certainly is for them. This is not an acquisition. This is not a merger. This is just a deal between two companies, the details of which are likely non of Cook's primary concern.
Does your wife know how much you pay in property taxes, or was it sufficient that one of you in the household plays the CFO? You know, ... the guy responsible for managing finances.
Now Luca Maestri didn't know the
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$8-12 billion spread over, say, a 5-year deal, would put it well under 1% of their gross annual revenue. He likely heard the number at some point, but remembering those specifics years later isn’t realistic.
For a similar comparison, suppose you were a manager who was put on the stand and was asked to account for how much you billed a client for the work your employees did two or three years ago on a project that took a week or two or three. You obviously wouldn’t have your notes with you on the
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I don't know about you, but I don't remember the exact amount I pay in, say, property tax every year. I'd have to go look it up if the consequences of me miss-remembering is perjury.
It's not your job to know how much you pay in tax... Its the CEO's job to know costs and income. If you forgot the basic tasks of your job, you would be fired.
By pretending not to know, Cook is in contempt.
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Its the CEO's job to know costs and income
Only in a broad sense. The CFO is the one who's supposed to know actual amounts.
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Now :Today, I'm proud to announce Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, with a $100 million commitment.
Prosecutor: Mr. Cook, what was the dollar amount of the deal Apple made with Google to keep Google as the default IOS search?
Cook: I can't remember.
June 2020:
Twitter:
So he can remember how much he spends on racial equity, but not what he earned on a primary function on their phones?
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Maybe he doesn't remember that now either.
What a neutral, balanced article. (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't even need to read all that trash to know it's meaningless junk, and I actually despise Apple, but this is trash. An example of the idiocy from scanning it "The questioning of Cook by his own company’s counsel was gentle". No shit? Really! Wow, you fucking journalists really have a keen insight into humanity, you mean ones own lawyer doesn't grill their client harshly? Wowie Zowie, Insightful journalism! I was sure Apples counsel would all but verbally waterboard Tim Cook and accuse him of various nefarious crimes!
And what kind of ding-dong dipshit thinks every CEO personally knows details about spending? A CEO is supported by a huge staff, it's like asking the President how much money in taxes they received from Nevada last year.
Smarmy tech journalists really are low-lives.
Steve Martin (Score:2)
He doesn't remember? (Score:1)
Re:He doesn't remember? (Score:4, Interesting)
That means one of two things: either he is incompetent, or else he's lying.
Quick! How much did you spend on Groceries last year? How about Movie Rentals? Eating out?
Being a CEO doesn't mean you know each and every detail about the business. That's what minions are for.
Too bad Epic's attorneys don't have enough real grist for the mill, and have to resort to asinine tactics like the ones that have defined their "strategy" so far...
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But if you can't tell how much you spent on all and any of these things, you probably constantly broke since you can't track your spending.
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I can tell to within the nearest billion how much I spent on all of these things. I am pretty sure that all of these items combined and each of them individually were less than 1 billion.
But if you can't tell how much you spent on all and any of these things, you probably constantly broke since you can't track your spending.
But to Apple, "to the nearest billion" is nearly the same as "to the nearest thousand" for most people.
So, no.
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That means one of two things: either he is incompetent, or else he's lying.
Quick! How much did you spend on Groceries last year? How about Movie Rentals? Eating out?
Being a CEO doesn't mean you know each and every detail about the business. That's what minions are for.
Too bad Epic's attorneys don't have enough real grist for the mill, and have to resort to asinine tactics like the ones that have defined their "strategy" so far...
Food shopping, approx £40 per week.
Move rentals, exactly £ 0 per week (I liked the 90s too, but who TF rents movies in 2021).
Eating out, approx £ 20 per week.
Knowing your weekly spend (or monthly, however you want to calculate it) is called a personal budget, if you don't have one you're a complete idiot. They are a pretty basic thing and quite necessary if you want a healthy bank balance. Next dumb question?
As CEO he is expected to know the income and outgoings of the company he c
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Cook avoiding answering the question... That should put him in contempt.
How? Unless Epic's attorneys have Cook in a Deposition or previous sworn testimony giving a contradictory statement, or if the Court has specifically compelled an answer, then no "contempt" has occurred.
Sorry to burst your Hater Bubble.
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Yellow Journalism (Score:3)
Remember when Journalists were supposed to be impartial reporters of the news?
No trace of that on Slashdot, as evidenced by the snarky, clickbait-y Headline, and ridiculously-slanted, nearly libelous, Summary.
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Blink twice if someone is holding a gun to your head keeping you here . If not GTFO and go back to your apple circle jerks on appleinsider.
Sez the moron with the perfect record of 0 or -1 Downmodding, LOL!
You are SO sad. Time to exit your Mom's basement, little boy...
Steve Jobs: (Score:1)
"Tim, you're holding your head wrong!"
Every time Tim Cook says I don't remember... (Score:2)
ME: "Okay, then who can we subpoena to come in and answer that question? And whom works directly under this person?"
By the end of the day you'd have 10-20 worried employees who just got thrown under the bus.
And in the old days at least two of them would be spending the night in front of shredding machines.
Apple CEO and other BILLIONAIRES.... (Score:1)
inspiring! (Score:2)
It's amazing that such a feeble-minded person can be in charge of a trillion-dollar corporation. America is truly a wonderful place and Tim Cook is a saint for working so hard in providing opportunities for the next generation to overcome his learning disability. In Europe, he might have just become a homeless artist.