{"id":275,"date":"2013-05-29T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/?p=275"},"modified":"2013-05-29T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T17:16:11","slug":"15-interesting-points-from-tim-cooks-d11-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/15-interesting-points-from-tim-cooks-d11-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"15 interesting points from Tim Cook\u2019s D11 interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/timcook-allthingsd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-276\" alt=\"timcook-allthingsd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/timcook-allthingsd.png\" width=\"593\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/timcook-allthingsd.png 593w, http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/timcook-allthingsd-300x164.png 300w, http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/timcook-allthingsd-250x137.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a>Earlier this evening, Apple\u2019s CEO Tim Cook\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/2013\/05\/28\/tim-cook-talks-at-d11\/\">took the stage<\/a>\u00a0at AllThingsD\u2019s D11 conference to talk about all things Apple. Cook rarely does interviews, but he looked like a pro fielding questions from tech veterans Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the hour-long talk, the trio discussed a wide range of fascinating topics including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/tag\/iwatch\/\">iWatch<\/a>\u00a0rumors,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/tag\/ios-7\/\">iOS 7<\/a>\u00a0and Android\u2019s growing marketshare. And as usual, we\u2019ve combed through it all to bring you the 15 most\u00a0interesting\u00a0points\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple\u00a0sold 85 million iPhones and 42 million iPads in last two quarters<\/li>\n<li>iOS devices account for 59% of mobile web usage<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s sold more than\u00a013 million Apple TVs all together\u2014half of that came in the last year<\/li>\n<li>Cook thinks Apple has \u201cincredible ideas\u201d and has \u201cseveral more game changers\u201d in it<\/li>\n<li>When pressed about Apple\u2019s plans for the living room, Cook said \u201cthere is a grand vision.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Cook said he sees wearables space as \u201ca very important branch of the tree,\u201d and thinks Apple will be \u201cvery involved\u201d in it<\/li>\n<li>Jony Ive is in fact working on iOS 7 \u201cWe recognized\u00a0Jony had contributed significantly to the look and feel of Apple over many many years, and he could do that for our software as well.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On making multiple iPhones at different price points, Cook said \u201cwe haven\u2019t [done it] yet, but that doesn\u2019t shut it out for the future.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On the idea of an iPhone with a larger display, Cook said \u201ca large screen today comes with a lot of tradeoffs\u201d and Apple won\u2019t go that route while those tradeoffs still exist.<\/li>\n<li>iMessage delivers 2 billion messages per day.<\/li>\n<li>Cook said rumors of Apple making a bid for Waze were\u00a0vehemently\u00a0false<\/li>\n<li>Apple has acquired 9 companies since last October\u2014typically does 6-7 per year<\/li>\n<li>On major acquisitions, Cook said \u201cWe\u2019re not currently looking at a big one, but we\u2019re not opposed to doing that.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Apple will soon be\u00a0opening up much more of its iOS API to developers<\/li>\n<li>Cook said Apple has \u2018no religions issue\u2019 with porting its apps or services to Android<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While Cook didn\u2019t really reveal anything new tonight, he did answer a lot of questions more candidly than I would\u2019ve thought he would. For example, when he confirmed that Jony Ive was working on iOS 7, or gave specific number of\u00a0acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, his comments have increased my anticipation for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/tag\/wwdc\/\">WWDC<\/a>\u00a0next month, and Apple\u2019s expected fall media event(s). The iPad-maker hasn\u2019t announced a new product or service yet this year, so the pre-holiday quarter is shaping up to be huge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this evening, Apple\u2019s CEO Tim Cook\u00a0took the stage\u00a0at AllThingsD\u2019s D11 conference to talk about all things Apple. Cook rarely does interviews, but he looked like a pro fielding questions from tech veterans Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Over the course of the hour-long talk, the trio discussed a wide range of fascinating topics including\u00a0iWatch\u00a0rumors,\u00a0iOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.extech-solutions.com\/wpextech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}