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Business Movers

The Apple Genius: Tim Cook | Tick-Tock | 3

Business Movers

Wondery

History, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tim Cook tries to banish doubts about his leadership with a new type of product which he hopes will be as revolutionary and influential as the original iPhone.

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0:00.0

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0:23.0

It's January 2012 at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, California.

0:28.0

Apple's vice president of design, Johnny Ive, marches down an empty corridor lined with dark tinted windows, reaching a thick, locked door.

0:37.0

The British designer swipes his ID card and enters the most secret and restricted area of the Apple campus, the design studio.

0:45.0

Johnny nods to the assistant at the reception desk and then heads toward the main room.

0:50.0

The large workshop is lined with six long steel tables displaying prototypes and half finished models of future designs.

0:58.0

This is where Johnny spent hours working and obsessing over every detail with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

1:04.0

But since Steve's death, Johnny has found it difficult to summon up his old enthusiasm, until now.

1:11.0

At the far end of the room, Johnny's design team has gathered around a table, one of them spots their boss.

1:17.0

Ah, morning, Johnny. But Johnny doesn't answer. Instead, he strides up to a large whiteboard on the wall.

1:24.0

He grabs an eraser and starts wiping the scribbled remains of a previous meeting off the board as he speaks.

1:31.0

What we make describes us. It describes the things we care about. It describes our values.

1:36.0

Everything around us speaks to who made it, whether they were preoccupied and driven by price and schedule or whether they were driven by care and trying to make a product that would make our lives genuinely better.

1:46.0

With the whiteboard clear, Johnny turns to face his team. And so many other companies, ideas and great designs get lost in the process.

1:53.0

Here, they are the process. And I want you to remember that because this morning, we're starting something.

2:00.0

He pauses a moment and his team stares back, hanging on every word. I've been thinking a lot recently about clock towers.

2:08.0

Now, what happened to that medieval technology over the centuries?

2:11.0

Steadily, the clock became a household object. Not something you'd have in every room, not at first. You might have won for the whole house.

2:18.0

But as technology improved, the mechanisms became smaller. And time-telling migrated to your pocket, like the Victorian gentleman with their fog watches on a chain.

2:27.0

Johnny pulls out his iPhone. We've made technology more personal and more accessible.

2:33.0

We're all routinely carrying around these incredibly powerful computers in our pockets.

2:38.0

But this isn't the end point of that technology. This...

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