{"id":813,"date":"2022-09-11T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2022-09-11T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T14:45:14","slug":"tim-cook-biggest-dispute-with-steve-jobs-and-how-it-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/11\/tim-cook-biggest-dispute-with-steve-jobs-and-how-it-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook biggest dispute with Steve Jobs and how it ended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tim Cook CEO of Apple appeared at the annual Code conference on Wednesday and said his biggest debate with Steve Jobs was over how the iPhone would be sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kara Swisher a journalist asked Cook what his biggest debate was with Jobs, and Cook said it was the company’s iPhone sales strategy ahead of its 2007 debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cook said he wanted to go the subsidy route, which meant phone carriers like AT&T would pay Apple a portion of the iPhone cost upfront. They’d then recoup that cost via the customer’s monthly subscription fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jobs, on the other hand, wanted to receive part of the phone carrier’s monthly revenue, which wasn’t an industry standard at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“His way was more creative and more different”<\/p>

“My way would have scaled faster, at least I felt strongly. So we were in quite a discussion about this for a while”<\/p>Cook said at Code conference<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The iPhone defined Apple as a major disruptor of the phone industry and cemented the product as a primary driver for the company’s success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple initially went with Jobs’ revenue-share idea, but as Axios<\/a> notes, the company eventually adopted Cook’s model, which was key in catapulting the iPhone to the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cook and the other panelists covered a range of topics during Wednesday’s interview, including how Apple faces criticism over its handling of Android messages and what Jobs would think of the current polarized political climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a light note, Powell Jobs also shared that her late husband’s keen attention to detail meant that it took them eight years just to settle on a sofa for their home. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Cook CEO of Apple appeared at the annual Code conference on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}