Tim Cook

Apple sold nearly 3 million Apple TVs in 2011, already sold nearly 3 million Apple TVs in first half of 2012, won't comment on Apple television

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 a 10:22 pm

As part of his talk at the D10 Conference today, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that while they'd sold nearly 3 million Apple TVs in 2011, they'd already sold 3 million in the first half of 2012 alone. That's double the rate of sales for last year so far, and we're not even in the traditionally strongest holiday quarter yet.

Tim Cook shmoozes with politicians around Washington

By Simon Sage, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 a 3:56 pm

Tim Cook recently been visited a bunch of politicians to open up the lanes of communication between Apple and Washington. Two weeks ago he visited House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Tim Cook is reportedly making Apple more corporate

By Simon Sage, Thursday, May 24, 2012 a 1:57 pm

A recent feature in Fortune took a deep dive into how Tim Cook has been changing Apple's inner-workers, corporate culture, and relationships with the outside world. The general conclusion gleaned from many anonymous Apple employees is that things are drifting more towards traditional, stiff corporate lifestyle, which is welcomed by some, but not by others.

Tim Cook thinks Apple's iPad + MacBook Air strategy is better than Microsoft's Windows 8 everywhere plan

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 a 6:21 pm

During the Q2 2012 Apple conference call, CEO Tim Cook was asked if, like Microsoft is doing with Windows 8, the iPad and the MacBook Air would inevitable converge into a single product line. Cook thinks not.

Tim Cook named one of Time's 100 most influential people

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Apr 18, 2012 a 10:43 am

Time Magazine has named Apple CEO Tim Cook one of the most influential people of 2012, and the prose accompanying the listing were written by none other than Apple board member and former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore.

It is difficult to imagine a harder challenge than following the legendary Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple. Yet Tim Cook, a soft-spoken, genuinely humble and quietly intense son of an Alabama shipyard worker and a homemaker, hasn't missed a single beat.

Apple supposedly met with Valve to talk about motion, voice and touch-capable TV [Updated]

By Simon Sage, Monday, Apr 16, 2012 a 2:24 pm

Last week Tim Cook visited Valve, one of the biggest influencers in PC gaming, to talk about a work-in-progress TV set Apple is working on, according to anonymous sources.

If AT&T can unlock iPhones at Tim Cook's request, why can't they do it simply when it's the right thing to do?

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Apr 3, 2012 a 6:09 pm

A while back, after being frustrated he couldn't unlock his off-contract AT&T iPhone to use outside the US, a gentlemen wrote Apple CEO Tim Cook to express his frustration, and Cook's officer arranged for AT&T to provide him with an unlock. It seems that wasn't a one of, as 9to5Mac reports it's since happened several more times.

China Vice Premier pledges IP protection during Tim Cook visit

By Simon Sage, Thursday, Mar 29, 2012 a 1:42 pm

Apple CEO Tim Cook is visiting China, having recently toured Foxconn facilities, but so far his most interesting meeting has been with Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang.

Apple execs sell off half a million shares for around $314 million

By Simon Sage, Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012 a 1:28 pm

Tim Cook isn't the only one cashing in Apple stock these days; Senior VP of marketing, Phil Schiller, CFO Peter Openheimer, VP of hardware engineering Robert Mansfield, and VP of iOS software Scott Forstall recently had the restrictions on some of their stocks removed, resulting in a sizable sell-off between March 24 and March 26. Even Cook sold off a few more.

Tim Cook: Record weekend for the new iPad, foresees growth for iPhone, iPad

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Mar 19, 2012 a 10:22 am

As part of their cash-balance conference call this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook responded to a question about the new iPad by saying Apple had a "record weekend". Cook didn't elaborate further, and didn't specify if that meant sales volumes or some other metric. Apple hasn't been shy about issuing post-launch press releases to tout big numbers in the past, so it's possible we'll see that this year as well.