Cook admits love of 'Jetsons,' but little else to NBC about potential Apple television - Page 2

 

See, that's the thing: I almost always go by that. And quite often artistic styles that I wouldn't otherwise have paid any mind turn out to be the best way to have presented something. 

 

But scanning through the current crop of stuff, it looks like they've even left it on the standard 12 frames per second in some cases. I dunno; I don't really pay much attention to that anymore. I miss the days of hand-drawn cels (or at least digitally drawn and colored, hand-animated).

Ehm, Tim is gay. And he went to the gym before he joined Apple, or so the internet tells me. Unimportant nonetheless; I get your point on the 5am thing.

Anything that detracts from the entertainment hurts it so if they are using 12fps that is likely going to lessen the enjoyment unless there is some artistic element to it, like Instagram filters making pictures looking older than they are.


I'm out of the house by 5am nearly everyday. Sometimes at the gym but usually at a Starbucks studying. I do wonder swimming laps first thing in the morning would be better than studying first thing. I do it because since getting up at that time I feel healthier and more productive. I dislike when people come into work still half asleep dragging their feet so when I get there I am ready to go. I'd wager Cook feels the same way.

I'm sure you remember the Popular Science videos of the day that shows the homes of the future. From an anthropological standpoint I see the same trend everytime anyone predicts the future: they think of how the tools will evolve whilst leaving the social and culture constructs exactly the same. This is why the "wife's" role stays the same.. except that now technology has made it easier for her to care for the "man" of the house.

edit: exempli gratia: http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-11/archive-gallery-kitchens-tomorrow-1950s-edition


Edited by SolipsismX - 12/9/12 at 10:46am

This was such a shitty interview. Those are the best quesitons he could come up with, after 'months' of trying to negotiate an interview with Cook, and a chance that almost nobody gets?

 

WHY DOES MAPS SUCKS LOL

WHY DID U GUYS CHANGE THE CABLE I HAD SO MANY OF THE OLD ONE 

 

****. Ask some deep, insightful questions, not this tripe that has obvious answers, and implying in a superficial way that Apple is trying to screw the consumer. All it does is make Cook pull out some template answer. Yes, the cable changed after a decade, for a million reasons. Fucking deal with it. There are so many insightful, interesting things that could have been asked that would have spurred interesting responses, but no, te interview consisted simply of all the superficial, sensational bullshit we've had to witness the past few months. What a squandered opportunity. I could have come up with better questions in 10 minutes. Oh, and loved how they ran a full Apple-bashing Samsung Ad in its entirety. Did Samsung sponsor this interview or something?

Just watched the interview. I was disappointed by how poorly NBC News prepared Brian Williams for this interview. He actually stated that Apple fired two senior executives because of maps. Without any justification, he also said that Samsung's ads have been damaging to Apple.

I take it that there's no need to search for this interview on the other side of the pond after I read snippets of it...?

 

Yeah, and there's that. Just pulling shit out of his ass. Problem is Cook is too nice and doesn' want to offend the interviewer, SJ would have asked him WTF he's talking about. 

Flash cartoons? Good grief. I thought that Flash was dead, anyway. I still prefer the hand-drawn type, too; and enjoyed watching a lot of the things our daughter watched when she was younger - kid that I still am .

By the sounds of that interview, SJ would have had Williams for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Mindless walloping dork (Williams, not Cook!).

 

I could definitely see Steve Jobs saying the above in response to one of those "questions" (with that one pronoun subject change). 

I think it's worth watching to see how unperturbable Tim Cook is. As we've all noticed, it was pretty poor "jounalism," and Tim had every reason to snarl or at least change expression a few times, but he kept his cool.

Others will say he's too nice, but I would say that this unflappable quality is why Steve snagged him from Compaq. Isaacson indicates as much as well.