Apple CEO Tim Cook to Speak at Fortune's CEO Initiative Tonight

I personally dont care about Apples social stances, just give me next level software and hardware year in year out and thats it.

Turn the soft philanthropy down a notch...

I get what it means to do good, but I want them to be what they used to... Great, in the departments that matter to professionals and creatives that have been sucked into the best ecosystem available. Pick up the pace, Apple.

Tim cook: “i just came here tonight to express my emoji feelings.”

Is this Tim Cook guy head of public relations?

Did that big building in Cupertino need to be built just because the company makes phones and dabbles in Politics?

Apple is only interested in profit and dividends for Shareholders

they are only looking after themselves and their shareholders.

So how exactly does this distinguish Apple from every other publicly traded company? Please name the one that doesn’t prioritize profits for shareholders.

On the other hand, here’s a list of American companies whose products are used in iPhones:
Invensense
GlobalFoundries
Avago Technologies
TriQuint Semiconductor
Qualcomm
Corning
Texas Instruments
Fairchild
Maxim Integrated

They’re also repatriating cash and looking into a manufacturing plant in the US. They also promote green energy more than any other major tech company I know, and have dueled with the Federal government over defending your privacy. I personally have no problem with a damn rainbow watch band in an age where people still murder homosexuals for sport.

You say you’d gladly pay more for a cell phone if the company satisfied your criteria? I call BS, but since all current mobile phones are made in places you’d have a problem with, your noble claim is hard to prove. Sure, I often pay more for locally sourced or organic food, but that’s where I have a choice. You’re laying on the holier-than-thou pretty thick, but I’d be interested to go through your closet and see where your clothes were made.

Does Cook actually do any work in between traveling the world and making pointless speeches.

Sorry when Tim Cook is the CEO of a company who makes on average 40% profit on all their items and is sitting on hundred's of millions in cash reserves that it refuses to pay taxes on he has no right to make social comments. He should maybe get his house in order first! Human rights..All of Apple's items are built in China which has a wonderful Human Rights record! The Chinese factories used are virtual slave cities and the whole supply chain is based on sourcing the cheapest to maximise profits for the shareholders.
Maybe he should revisit how Apple's products are produced and reduce profits for the benefit of his employee's direct or in-direct. Also maybe move away from China! This won't happen as the Board and shareholders would never allow it! I just get frustrated at these companies who constantly have a social commentary and "know better" yet do the exact opposite in the way their companies are run!

Nah. Stop blaming everything on Apple. Low salary is mainly because of overpopulation. Even with low salary, people are fighting over there to have that kind of job. That's the country's problem that's why they have one-child policy. And don't ever think that only Apple prefers to manufacture in China. Android phones, Playstations, XBoxes, PC parts, almost every tech are made in China.

That's how the phones and tech gadgets are "priced as of now". Imagine the price of tech gadgets (not only apple) if it were manufactured in a country that demands high salary because of their high cost of living?

How about if I say that you're also benefiting from the price of tech gadgets right now?
will you also turn a blind eye and and just be secretly grateful? :p