Tim Cook Charity Lunch Auction Earns Over $680,000 for RFK Center

Some people have to much money to waste.

It's their money to waste. Earn yours and waste it however you please.

A transcript of the lunch conversation between the auction winner and Tim Cook:


Auction Winner: If I were CEO of a company, what should I focus on?

Tim Cook: Focus on pleasing the shareholders. Shareholders are more important than customers who want the best tools for creative endeavors. Making as much money as possible is more important than innovation. It's better to make as much money as possible while simultaneously not being innovative than it is to make slightly less money while simultaneously being highly innovative.

Auction Winner: What are your thoughts on hiring people?

Tim Cook: Fire people who have the most creative vision, like Scott Forstall. It's more important to have Kum Ba Ya collaboration instead of owning up to my responsibility of CEO by keeping Forstall's abrasive character in check like my predecessor successfully did. Hire people for politically correct reasons, such as gender-based affirmative action hires like Angela Ahrendts who was hired because she is a woman, not because she is the best-qualified person for the job. Take the best industrial designer in the world and put him in charge of UI design, even though it is a totally different skill set that is highly complex and that he has no experience with.

Auction Winner: Speaking of UI, what are your thoughts on UI?

Tim Cook: Ever since the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984, Apple has made the mistake of leading the industry in UI while other companies like Microsoft copied. I realized it's time for Apple to stop leading and start copying. Therefore, I agreed to get rid of the highly user-friendly skeuomorphic design that Apple pioneered and instead start copying Microsoft and Google by using flat design. I don't care if elderly people who have never used a computer in their life will be highly confused by flat design. I don't care that skeuomorphic design would help such elderly people and other first-time computer users by giving them visual clues. I care more about hipsters. Skeuomorphic design might have helped hipsters when they first started using computers, but now that hipsters are used to the interface, we don't need skeuomorphism anymore.

Auction Winner: Can you please give me a profound quote that you coined, that would sum up your mission here at Apple?

Tim Cook: Watch bands are like a bicycle for our minds.

Some people have to much money to waste.

Some people have to much money to waste.

Donating money to charity is not a waste. And I don't think anyone would pay that much for a lunch no matter who it was with if it wasn't for charity.

I remember when Steve Jobs made good products and never bragged about how much they raised at a charity or speaking on LBGT etc

I would most likely donate to a "resurrect Steve Jobs" charity.

Having lunch with someone who's only there cuz u are paying them. Sounds like fun.

Well, it's definitely better than sending him an email. You have a good hour with him in person to talk about upcoming products, stocks, requests, etc.

Furthermore, I would love to have a tour of Apple Park.

I remember when Steve Jobs made good products and never bragged about how much they raised at a charity or speaking on LBGT etc

It must hurt to know that your attacks on gay people are no longer in favor. Poor you.

Some people have to much money to waste.

Well, it's definitely better than sending him an email. You have a good hour with him in person to talk about upcoming products, stocks, requests, etc.