Tim Cook appears to be using his international tour, which so far includes Israel, Germany and the UK, to push a second product every bit as hard as the Apple Watch: privacy,” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac. “In an interview with the German newspaper BILD posted yesterday (paywall), Cook went as far as to praise Edward Snowden for his role in prompting discussion of the issue. ‘If Snowden did anything for us at all, then it was to get us to talk more about these things. [Apple’s] values have always been the same,’ [Cook said].”
“‘If you ask me what we are working on I’m not going to answer this question.’ Asked about the Apple Car, he replied simply: ‘I have read the rumours. I can’t comment on it,'” Lovejoy reports. “Shortly after what would have been Steve Job’s 60th birthday, Cook described Steve as the best teacher he’d ever had. ‘He may not always get the appropriate credit for this, but he was by far the best teacher I ever had. You will probably never read this in a book because people focus on other parts of his personality. He taught me that the joy is in the journey. That it’s not in an event, it’s not in shipping a product or an award. It’s in the journey itself.'”
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