As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition." "The real catalyst to the tablet market will be innovation and pushing the next frontier. It's a position that recalls the bluster of Steve Jobs, and proves Cook is just as much the fighter. It suggests he doesn't have any respect for the Fire and its Android brethren. His response doesn't simply suggest he's a man with a competitive streak. Clearly, Cook doesn't think the Fire, or any other budget tablet - or any other tablet, for that matter - is a threat to the iPad. Let's read between the lines: Cook was responding to a question about tablets, and the above response is obviously a dig at the Amazon Kindle Fire. You don't keep remembering 'I got a good deal!' because you hate it!" The joy is gone every day that they use it until they aren't using it anymore. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it, and the joy is gone. "Price is rarely the most important thing. We can call this a third gesture of " corporate kindness" in the new Tim Cook Era. But the content and tenor of Cook's comments suggest a new humility on Apple's part - that the company knows it needs to do the right thing. Sure, accusations of inhumane conditions in Foxconn factories are currently making news, and Cook certainly had to respond to the bad press. It's important to note that Cook opened his keynote with a discussion of working conditions at the manufacturing plants of overseas suppliers.
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