How does that follow? I think it's a rather strong signal that they're going to do it. Let's not forget that following his announcement that he wasn't "religious" about hoarding cash, a dividend program was announced. Let's not also forget that once upon a time they ported iTunes to a dominant Windows with incredible success.
HN: I don't think we should aspire to comments like the parent that are filled with vitriolic personal attacks and name calling.
Tim Cook could start by getting the Apple Store app (1) to Android and WP8. There's no reason not to and it'd be helpful for Apple's core business.
(1) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-store/id375380948?mt=8
To a "cowardly" degree? What does that even mean?
This tech witchhunt over companies not paying optional taxes is getting pretty crazy. How long before it becomes "cowardly" to use the deduction on mortgage payments or medical expenses?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/sequester/the-presidents-pl...
Limit tax deductions to 28% for the wealthiest and close other loopholes.
I won't even start on the deliberate confusion here between "high income" and "wealthy".
So if they feel what Apple is doing is "legal, but immoral", tell me, if these Senators believe the mortgage deduction is "legal, but immoral", why do they continue to exploit it themselves?
He said they weren't religious about not supporting their software on multiple platforms. If that were true, iTunes would be on Android. The honest answer would have been: we believe putting iTunes on Android would hurt iPhone sales and help Android erode our market share faster.
He completely evaded the discussion on how Apple intentionally evades taxes, almost to a cowardly degree in fact. Obviously the entire global Apple corporate setup is designed to evade taxes, top to bottom. It was dishonest for Cook to pretend otherwise. This is par for the course with big company CEOs, but it's still cowardly.
He did a horrible job discussing iCloud and why it's limited to Apple products, while the competition is multi-platform. The obvious reason why, is Apple is trying to protect iPhone sales. Under no circumstances do they want you using iCloud or iTunes on Android.
Most of his answers about products, present or future were the same monotone lame response: we're focused on making great products. No shit.
On patents he again acted like a coward. He tried to completely evade the fact that Apple started the lawsuit wars in smart phones. He came very close to lying and claiming outright that the competition was responsible for starting the patent war. He might as well have pretended that Steve Jobs never said what he did on the matter.
On a question that was about advertising, he dodged massively, and redirected by answering that iPhone app sales are three times that on Android. He obviously was desperate to evade the fact that Android's huge user base means ad supported apps are generating sales far beyond iOS (he didn't even mention iAds, for good reason).
When asked a straight forward question about streaming vs content ownership, he couldn't have possibly dodged any more. Instead of answering it, he simply said that iTunes is still growing. So he ignored the issue of Netflix, Pandora, Spotify, Hulu, YouTube, etc taking over the media landscape as iTunes begins to rapidly lose its music dominance (for good reason he avoided talking about books).