First hour of Tim Cook's interview with Charlie Rose is live
If you haven't seen enough of Apple's Tim Cook over the past few days, you're in luck. The soft-spoken CEO sat down for a two-hour interview with PBS anchor (and MacBook Air gravity defender) Charlie Rose. The first part of that conversation is streaming via the Hulu service; the second part of the interview will air on Monday.
It's worth a look, either as embedded below or directly on Hulu's site. Non-US users may or may not be able to get to that video; unfortunately that's outside our control. It also appears that the CharlieRose.com website is now offline... wonder what caused that?
Quite a bit of the interview focuses on the transition from Steve Jobs's tenure as CEO to Cook's leadership. Apparently, Cook was surprised when he originally got the call from Jobs in 2011 asking him to take over as Apple's #1. Cook also cites the dynamism of Apple's current executive and creative team, including new retail lead Angela Ahrendts. He refers to Google as Apple's primary competitor and lays it on the line on the craptastic v1 of iOS Maps: "We screwed up."
Of course, no Apple exec interview is complete without some hints and teasing. When Rose nudges Cook on the question of an Apple television product, he responds "TV is one of those areas we continue to have great interest in; I choose my words carefully there." As Cook walks through the app launcher on his Watch, he notes "I may have some things on here that you shouldn't see just yet." Oh, Tim, you cad.
