The second part of the interview airs Monday night.
On Friday, Charlie Rose aired the first hour of a two-part interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. In the wide ranging interview Cook touched on a variety of topics, including the iCloud celebrity hacking, Apple’s new willingness to collaborate with outside partners, and how to improve the television landscape.
Regarding the recent hacking of celebrities’ iCloud accounts and the posting of nude photos, Cook continued to insist that it was an “Internet issue,” not an “Apple issue.”
“It wasn’t hacked. There’s a misunderstanding about this,” said Cook, according to Gizmodo. “You just saw that this happened to I think millions of Gmail users. They were phished. My understanding is, it wasn’t a breach there either of the infrastructure, it was a phishing expedition.”
The conversation then turned to Apple working with IBM to produce more business-centric products.
“We’ve changed the consumer’s life, we’ve changed the way students learn and teachers teach, but when you get to the working environment the change we’ve made to us isn’t significant enough,” said Cook. “IBM brings significant enterprise knowledge to the table. We bring the products that enterprise want.”
When it came to Apple’s vision for the future of television, Cook was more evasive. He said the company had “great interest” in a TV product but was unwilling to provide further detail. Cook lamented that the way people watch TV is “stuck back in the ’70s,” according to CBS news.
“[It] almost feels like you’re rewinding the clock and you’ve entered a time capsule, and you’re going backwards.”
The second part of the interview airs Monday night.
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