Don’t expect a MacBook/iPad hybrid, says Apple CEO Tim Cook

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With the launch of the iPad Pro, Apple CEO Tim Cook calls it the replacement device for a notebook or desktop. But he clarifies this as meaning Windows-based notebooks and desktops and not the Mac. “We don’t regard Macs and PCs to be the same,” says Cook. “What we’ve tried to do is recognize that people use both iOS and Mac devices.” He didn’t elaborate this in his independent.ie interview. What Apple has done with the iPad Pro and its newer iOS 9 devices is focusing on the handoff feature instead of bringing iOS and OS X into a single operating system. Cook says he doesn’t think that combining the MacBook and iPad is what the consumers really want.

“Because what that would wind up doing, or what we’re worried would happen, is that neither experience would be as good as the customer wants. So we want to make the best tablet in the world and the best Mac in the world. And putting those two together would not achieve either. You’d begin to compromise in different ways,” says Cook.

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Aaron Sorkin takes offence with Tim Cook’s comments about the ‘Steve Jobs’ movie

Aaron Sorkin has some biting words for Apple CEO Tim Cook as he criticized the latest Steve Jobs biopic that he penned. Cook called the movie “opportunistic” in an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “I think that a lot of people are trying to be opportunistic, and I hate this; it’s not a great part of our world. The Steve I knew was an amazing human being,” Cook said.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook to guest in the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on September 15th

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Apple CEO Tim Cook will be a guest of the newly minted Late Show with Stephen Colbert next week. Taking over from David Letterman, who ran the show for 22 years, Colbert's late night show kicked off this week with various luminaries including Tesla's Elon Musk and novelist Stephen King.

Colbert announced the Tim Cook appearance on Twitter. Colbert participated in last year's Apple Special Event October last year.

Apple CEO donates stocks worth approximately US$6.5 million

Apple CEO Tim Cook has been known to promote charity as a key mission for the tech company. Practicing what he preaches, Cook has donated 50,000 Apple stock shares to unidentified charities this week. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission filing, stock price of Apple is around US$130 per share so that would make the donation equivalent to around $6.5 million. Cook previously made a personal donation to Project One America, an LGBT equality campaign.

Source: 9to5Mac