Mac OS Ken: 08.13.2014

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2014

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKinn.
0:10.0	Digging into Apple's diversity, Sunny Dixon spots an iPhone 6, and Wall Street waxes on
0:19.8	tech.
0:20.8	It's Wednesday, August 13, 2014. I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacO
0:27.6	S Ken. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by iChart magazine, putting Apple and Tech News in focus, EY E, E.E.
0:37.3	E.Chart magazine, available for iOS Newsstand now. Apple has released a corporate diversity report.
0:45.0	The good news, they're corporate.
0:48.0	The bad news, they're not as diverse as Apple CEO Tim Cook
0:52.0	says he'd like them to be. The Mac Observer
0:54.7	runs through some of the company's numbers which parsed people with employee badges by
0:59.2	gender and ethnicity. According to TMO, that report shows that Apple's workforce is more diverse
1:04.9	than the population as a whole, with under-representation of whites, Hispanics, and blacks,
1:10.3	and an over-representation of Asians.
1:13.0	At the same time, males are massively over-represented as a whole,
1:17.0	and in its leadership ranks, white males in particular rule the roost.
1:22.0	We can do better is a common theme of Mr. Cook's and one to which he returned in the diversity reports.
1:29.0	Quoting part of his statement,
1:31.0	Apple is committed to transparency, which is why we are publishing statistics about the race and
1:35.8	gender makeup of our company.
1:38.2	Let me say up front, as CEO, I'm not satisfied with the numbers on this page. They're not new to us and we've been working
1:45.0	hard for quite some time to improve them. We are making progress and we're committed to being
1:49.9	as innovative and advancing diversity as we are in developing our products.
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