Tim Cook is making the point that some people need to be more moderate with smartphone use،
It turns out that pop singer Dua Lipa also runs a podcast (these days, which doesn’t?) and has as guest none other than Apple CEO, Tim Cook.
You might think he has more important things on his agenda – like, you know, releasing the Vision Pro on time as promised, not late as rumor has it. Of course, appearing on a podcast isn’t just fun, it’s also a PR opportunity.
Both I spoke for 45 minutesduring which the executive spoke about his personal life, his career at Apple, philanthropy, the environment and much more (via 9to5Mac).
Tim shared some details about his personal life and childhood – Cook said he always wanted to have a good job, as he came from a modest family. He revealed that when he was a teenager, he delivered newspapers in his neighborhood in the middle of the night and worked making hamburgers to save money for college.
After graduating from Auburn University, he worked for 12 years at IBM, then joined Apple in 1998. When asked about Steve Jobs, Cook said that “Steve was original” and that only he could have created Apple . The executive also said that “if Steve were alive, he would still be CEO.”
At one point, the singer asked Tim Cook on the excessive use of smartphones, particularly among young people. Tim Cook agreed that some people need to be more moderate in using their smartphones, which is why Apple created the Screen Time feature. “The aha moment for me was how many notifications I was getting per day,” he said.
What about child labor?
Additionally, he assured Dua Lipa that children are not mining cobalt in Congo when she asked, “I was wondering if my new iPhone 15… can you guarantee that the cobalt in this phone has not not been extracted using child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ?”
He first explained that Apple is increasingly involved in the practice of using recycled materials for its devices, so new mining operations are less and less necessary. Then he added: “But for the products that we are still extracting, for some of our other products, we have an intense level of tracing in our supply chain all the way back to the mine and the smelter to make sure that the labor- of work used is not child labor.”
