At the end of an article looking at iOS 9 beta 3, which includes Apple Music, CIO‘s Jim Lynch reports:
One last tidbit about the third iOS 9 beta concerns the News app. While I was scrolling through topics and channels, I noticed that the Android topic had a very interesting choice of image: Tim Cook laughing. Yes, Tim Cook laughing his head off was picked by the Apple News app to represent the Android category.
I wonder if the Apple developers or the editors who are curating content on the News app were having a little fun at Android’s expense? I guess it’s open to interpretation, but I found it rather amusing. I wonder if the folks at Google are laughing too?
Tons more about iOS 9, including screenshots, in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Smirk.
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is it true? if it is … LOL.
I love it. It means Apple developers still have freedom to have fun, just like before.
Brilliant. I love Tim’s leadership of Apple, never afraid to have a nice little jab at the “competition”
Posted from my iPhone 6 after receiving a notification on my Apple Watch.
Hopefully with iOS 9 we’ll be able post from our Apple Watches.
FIVE STAR RATING for TC !
BWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
No but the folks at Google are getting a real kick over built-in Ad blocking. Good one Apple!! 😉
I’d say that was a monstrous Cook cruel chuckle going on at Android expense. “That’s the Android FAIL signpost up ahead – your next stop, the dead Smartphone Zone!”
Does anyone really have to “wonder” if Apple was having a little fun here?! I mean, Tim’s a far cry from a green garbage can looking robot.
OK. I’ll stir the pot. What if “they” (human curators) had put that picture on a ‘Hillary announces run for president’ article? ‘Trump announces run for president’ article? If you don’t see the problem here then you probably don’t see a lot of problems here. This may just be for fun, since it’s just betaware at this point, and it IS funny, but what are “they” going to do when it’s time to be serious, and who is going to have oversight of that?
I’m with Bob. If you’re serious about being a major news-curating player to tens of millions of people, you need to observe journalistic ethics, Apple.
No one else does, why should Apple be any different? They will because they are Apple.
And I’ll lay odds that iOS Beta 3.1 is right around the corner….
….disguised as security and app enhancements heh heh.
Seriously, credibility – or at least the veneer of, is ‘all’ …in the news industry. This just crossed the line. But still….
Gut wrenchingly funny.
Job vacancy?