“A charity auction of a cup of coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook has garnered bids topping $600,000. In this file photo, a pot of beans sits in a Starbucks store,” Bill Chappell reports for NPR.
“The bidding hasn’t closed yet, but a charity auction of a cup of coffee shared with Apple CEO Tim Cook has already attracted offers of more than $600,000 — more than 10 times its estimated value of $50,000,” Chappell reports. “Cook is one of several celebrities taking part in the auction, which benefits the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.”
Chappell reports, “The coffee klatch, currently valued at $605,000, will take place at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. And the price may rise even higher — the auction closes on Tuesday, May 14. According to the auction’s terms, the bidder who wins the chance to meet Cook for coffee will have one year to align schedules with the man who was on TIME Magazine‘s short list for Person of the Year in 2012. The winner may bring a guest to the meeting, which will last between 30 minutes and one hour.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Wow, just imagine how much coffee with Steve Jobs would have been worth!
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When Eric Schmidt (The Mole) had coffee with Steve Jobs and got his ass chewed out big time, I bet Eric would have paid a lot to not have coffee with Steve. And I would have paid alot just to be a fly on the wall and hear Steve going at him!
“ass chewed”?
Must have been some of that ‘mount and groan’ coffee….
Well Schmidt has been known to wear a pink cowboy hat.
lol
Schmidt?
after Page replaced him as CEO, google gave Schmidt new duties (with a jazzy new android uniform):
“hey uncle Owen! This one has a good motivator.”
Tim can use this meeting to begin networking for his next job.
Fire Tim Cook!
Okay, fess up: You bought in at what price and sold how much lower?
My guess is 650
I’d like to see Dougie Kass win the auction and see the photo of Tim Cook knocking the asshat unconscious.
Watch your back if you see a chartreuse queerbag stuffed away in the corner, coffee drinker.
Such a pathetic, homophobic comment; shame on you!
Trolls have no shame, that’s why they troll.
Worse than a troll. Quite an ignorant, juvenile, repulsive remark.
I don’t approve of that remark. Your previous diatribes have been funny, colourful, poetically succinct, and essentially on the mark. Stick to that kind of thing, and avoid the homophobic cracks, and you’ll be well-loved.
x is probably from Oklahomo.
x is brilliant like Lenny Bruce, but homophobia has a distinct colouration that must be played out in comic dialog, and the one-off KMA sentence that is x’s specialty employs no such mechanism. I sense that x doesn’t attempt humour at all, yet succeeds in it because bluntness impresses you right off, while indirect, long-winded, overly intellectual pontificating only tires people out. (yawn) I’m getting sleepy…
Almost as much as an after-market WWDC ticket.
What if I want a refill?
This could very easily turn into a political protest. The previous high bid of $600,000 was placed by a company that writes religious iOS apps.
OMG!
Sub-headline: Tim Cook Promotes Java
One has to wonder how much of that money will really go to charity. Or will it line the pockets of some charity CEO?