Filip Novotny What has long been speculated about in the world of business and technology is finally officially confirmed. Tim Cook today in contribution for the server Bloomberg Businessweek confirmed his homosexual orientation. "I am proud to be gay and consider it one of God's greatest gifts," the Apple chief said in an unusually open letter to the public.
Although Cook did not openly mention his sexual orientation for a long time, according to him, this fact of life opened his horizons. “It gives me a better understanding of what it's like to be a member of a minority and see the issues that these people face every day,” says Cook. He also adds that, from a practical point of view, his orientation is also an advantage in a certain way: "It gives me hippo skin, which comes in handy if you're the director of Apple."
Cook's sexual orientation has been discussed for a long time, so the question arises as to why he decided to "come out" now. To date, he has not commented on the topic on a personal level and has only expressed support for sexual and other minorities indirectly. In November of last year, for example, on the pages of the newspaper Wall Street Journal supported the ENDA bill prohibiting discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation. Then in June of this year with his employees attended the Pride Parade in San Francisco.
According to the server editor Bloomberg Businessweek Cook's admission is not a reaction to a specific social or political event (although LGBT rights are a hot topic in the United States), but a long-considered move. "Throughout my professional life, I have tried to maintain a basic level of privacy," Cook explains in the letter. "But I realized that my personal reasons were holding me back from something much more important," he adds, referring to social responsibility towards other members of the given community.
In this way, Apple will likely continue to build a reputation as a company that stands for its entire existence in support of human rights, including sexual and other minorities. "We will continue to fight for our values, and I believe that whoever is the director of this company, regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation, would behave the same," concludes Tim Cook in his post today.
I understand. Being popular like this and having to hide your personal relationships, etc., can't be easy or healthy. Good thing he did :-)
Well, now I understand the magnification of iPhones…..:D
It's nice that he did it, but I don't really understand why. Now will all company directors admit to their orientation and declare that they are proud of it? hmm crap
You just don't understand much. A lot of people live with it. Keep your head up :-)
I also don't understand what anyone cares about. I also don't show Sef's company photos of my children on vacation or share my orientation. but anyway, and I don't mean it in a bad way, almost all of Apple's management seems gay to me :)
Such a Craig Federighi for sure.
yeah, everyone should be proud of their sexual orientation. But I must add that I recently had a rectoscopy and I almost feel sorry for Tim. :-)
Maybe so he doesn't have to hide if he's dating someone? That's not a completely negligible reason ;-)
The opening photo, where she is holding her buttocks, is very good...
Well, I don't really care about its orientation, I'm rather not looking forward to the shower of crap from Androidists
When a homosexual says that he is proud to be gay, it's ok. If a heterosexual says that he is proud of his orientation, he is homophobic. If a black man says he's proud of his skin color, that's fine. If a white guy says that, he's a racist...double standard.
yes, because in the first cases the minority speaks against the majority.
And therefore the majority must shut up and lick the heels of the minority. Because being gay is so cool.
You don't shut up.
So maybe that's the difference. A homosexual often worries that he is what he is, that friends and family won't accept him, he worries about how he can affect other people. Heterosexual also has no problem. So I'm not surprised if someone needs to get it out like this. It's definitely a difference.
As if the heterosexual has nothing to worry about. Someone is too small, tall, poor, fat...etc. I have not yet seen marches of obese people or ugly people who cannot find a partner. And they can easily suffer internally as well. But the homosexual "confesses" and wijúúú is a hero and a personality.
It seems perfectly fine to me that a heterosexual is proud of his orientation.
There's just no reason to question someone else's pride. Any!
I finally understand why iOS 7, 8 and Yosemite are also colorful, iridescent and garish...
Who cares what he's proud of?
I'm proud of the fact that I'm happily married and I don't need to trumpet it to the world because it's just my business.
Every day I find that this community needs to be more visible. Isn't it rather complex?
Erm... You don't have a problem if you take a woman's hand on the street, bring her to a company party, etc... Gay people often have a problem with that... As long as people don't know about you... So sometimes there has to be a moment when someone around you tells it on the plane. Many still perceive it as a social stigma.
Me too, I have grandchildren too.
But don't you think there's a difference between you and Tim? More people are probably interested in his life than yours. In other words, yours would be worth less, but you are probably less interesting to the world.
Every person is interesting to the circle of people that they influence with their actions. That's why Bloomberg Businessweek cares about Tim, not you.
What will you do to get the same journal interested in you?
I wish you the best of luck.
Is being gay a reason to be proud? So screw my back.
I'm happy to fuck them for you.
Tim's gay, I'm straight, and you're a primitive jerk with the brain of a hen next door.
If you don't get it, go play in the sandbox and don't bother decent people.
I wear long distance glasses and I'm proud of it!!
Well, why not :-)?
We are glad for your contribution to the discussion... You are probably like the regiment of the republic, we are glad that you were chosen and you trusted us.
But it relieved me, I had to confide in myself, Cook inspired me.
:D and you don't have friends or a girlfriend? :D here is an article about the director of the richest company in the world, and you dreamily announce about Brejlich at a distance, what do you mean? :D that's a great inspiration.
You don't know what it's like to live with the feeling that you have to wear glasses... don't judge me, we should have our rights too, I want to drive an airliner one day.
I died. :)
So then everyone can be proud of who they are and declare that they are not to blame, i.e. pedophiles, beech sadists and other perverts are simply not to blame because it is a gift from God
god can't be mocked endlessly... I don't know why in times of numerous wars, epidemics, economic crises, famines, etc., they feel the need to annoy the world with their desire for the anus of their neighbor!!!! really disgusting!!!
but maybe there is a difference when someone doesn't hurt anyone with his behavior, he just has a different priority and wants to be with the same sex and have a normal life with him. Perhaps that is the difference between sadism and pedophilia..
You are an intolerant fascist! Pedophiles have their rights too... I have no use for such people.
A pedophile breaks the law, while homosexuality is a relationship between two self-righteous adults.
It's not that they're breaking the law, even that can be flawed, but it's that they can hurt others.
It cannot be compared to homosexuality, as a rule, it does not threaten anyone, it is only an affection for the same sex that wants the same thing. Nothing more. I wouldn't worry too much about it and I wouldn't overestimate homosexuality. ;-)
Homosexuality is not a relationship between two people, it is a sexual orientation. Pedophilia is a different sexual orientation. A pedophile does not break the law by having such an orientation. Let us distinguish orientations and actions, it is necessary. For example, many people who sexually abuse children are not pedophiles. And many pedophiles do not abuse children. A person who lives in a marriage with a person of the opposite sex, even though he is oriented towards people of the same sex, is not heterosexual. Etc.
Then explain it to your children when the couple will also report to each other publicly. Sorry, it doesn't normally come to me.
And the statement that it doesn't hurt anyone? When should our children have this beech community as a model? Maybe when your son is warm and you are expecting grandchildren, you will understand how upside down the world is.
Peter: I don't know about you, but I haven't met many gays on the street who would
they hugged in public like this and I don't know what else. And what if my son is gay?
done with it. He won't be responsible for it and will probably worry about it himself
is different and will be afraid of misunderstanding from friends and various ridicule. So
I will tell him that he should not be ashamed of what he is and that he does not have a complex about it..
I will be sorry, as well as him, that he cannot have a relationship with a woman
actually children, but instead of being totally devastated by it and giving
let him know or feed his complex, so I'd rather support him
the complex did not have…
Sorry, you're an idiot. You are responsible for raising your son. The fact that the diet cannot understand its orientation and its position in the population is mainly due to development and the family. It starts somewhere there. Really sorry, but as Tim said: GOD created a man and a woman and not two beech trees. It is a gift when you are born with a healthy diet and not when your son announces that he is warm!
Ah, the insults came. Somehow you are very upset.. The fact that the diet does not master its orientation can be just like you.. The diet is also born and such a ridiculous basic intolerance creates complexes in children.. He will hear how beech is, how sick and abnormal he is.. should I listen to this kid??
I will not offend. I'm sorry, I didn't know you were a specialist and you can tell at birth whether a dieter is a beech or a lesbian. Interesting, but I haven't caught this kind of pretentious insight anywhere. Where did you get this error please? Is this your opinion that the diet is born??
And how on earth do you think it works?? He sees it on TV so he wants to be gay too because it's popular and cool? Do you think that this is a matter of fashion and that a person actually chooses what he wants to be? Well, I don't know about you, but I could watch gay porn for several weeks and be in the company of gays and it wouldn't do anything to me.. Some are straight, some are not. What's so hard to understand? Even a diet raised in a strongly Catholic family can be homosexual
Do you have any children?? Do you have any idea how a diet that grows up in a relationship between two beech trees suffers? Taunts, bullying, etc.. What will become of such a person?
Director of the richest company in the world from :))) is this the model?
If it happened before, let it be, but not as publicized as this. Sure!
Well, what will the taunts and snickers be for? Just because I insult other people.. But I am saying something different here.. About homosexuals growing up in a hetero family. Imagine.. something like that happens and the parents don't influence it.. And then, but I repeat myself, someone comes from outside and starts cursing and bullying the unfortunate child.. is this right in your opinion?
You're really stupid :) I guess you don't want them to learn about buckwheat and their production at school. Ridicule and bullying are mainly among children, since their thinking is in a different sphere than that of an adult.
Seeing that you don't have children yourself, this experience is your fault, otherwise you would think.
I don't know where I wrote that someone should learn it in school? Where the hell did you get that? I am also talking about the prejudices of adults. I'm talking about the complex of a child because of adults who have the same opinion as you.
Did they bully you a lot? Are you on a beech diet? I assume not, so you know as much about it as I do and everyone else who makes these stupid statements. Cook.
I don't take your opinion away, but you're too young to claim something you haven't experienced yourself. When you are at birth (the beginning of life so that you understand where you think children are born !!! ) you will understand life from another side than the awkward orientation of beech trees!! Beech trees do not recognize this principle because they are beech trees and will remain beech trees. When you realize what the meaning of life is, you go back to the beginning, that's where it always starts :))) it's in our genes and we can't reproduce otherwise!
Bukvice can't do this production, otherwise they don't have and never will have the same status as a man and a woman in social life. Never.
And if you're a beech tree, eventually you'll be alone and you'll understand...
First of all... I don't want to stop Tim, because I don't care about his orientation, and I consider the fact that he fooled the world with this message the result of his internal struggle, when his private life as the head of one of the world's largest companies ceases to be private, and I think Tim was afraid that it could crack and damage him and Apple, so he'd rather come with it himself. Pure pragmatism that suits me.
Regarding the homosexual... you won't believe it, but they too were born male and female, and their sexual orientation is formed much earlier than they themselves begin to feel it.
Yes, from the point of view of evolution, it is a blind developmental branch that cannot reproduce itself.... well, that's all...he has to live out his life somehow and if, knowing that it's not normal, he tries to realize himself in something other than starting a family...they are also a benefit to society.
Just for your information... I'm not a beech child, they didn't bully me, I'm old enough and I was at the birth of my daughter... and if she comes to me that she's a lesbian, I'll like to talk to her just the same, and some embarrassment is stolen from me.
By the way, expose yourself to the God who created man and woman... didn't the Pope himself admit this week that God is not a magician with a magic wand... and that Darwin's theory is much more likely? I personally think the same. And blind branches simply belong to Darwin's theory like a hump to a camel.
rigor I fully agree with you. my opinion from the beginning is that this community has no future in terms of evolution and that's all.
They are here and I will be here, but I will never support them, because I am not completely identified with this sick branch and I never will be.
My job as a parent is to protect my family, and if my daughter turns out to be a lesbian, I will love her too, but it will be a disappointment that I made a mistake somewhere in my upbringing.
Children are not born with this orientation, a medically proven fact.
I didn't brag about God, I used to quote Tim Cook, what is the beech tree proud of, and I have my own opinion on the pope and the whole of Christianity, which I'd rather not write here, as vulgar as I may be.
Don't influence their upbringing... certainly not for the better. The sooner you come to terms with this fact, the better for you and your children. It's like someone is right-handed, someone is left-handed... there are a lot of left-handed people who have been retrained to be right-handed and many of them have problems with it their whole lives... they are also homosexuals, I suppress it and have families... children... but they are not happy in the intimate area of sex. Homosexuality is quite common among animals in nature, and we are no exception.
It's like a sexual orientation ... some people like breasts ... some people like asses ... some people like their legs ... some people like corpses. As long as he doesn't endanger his surroundings, it's everyone's business. In any case, upbringing cannot influence much in this either. These things are formed for the most part already in the prenatal stage and they only bring up the fact that you bind the person in question with conventions and he will smother it in himself for the rest of his life and suffer from it in most cases. The result is zero ... a satisfied Puritan society ... and zero.
sorry, if you're going to compare people with animals, it's not about what...
we live in a civilized world and not in nature, but I understand
they were just told that upbringing is not to blame.. I really have no idea how "badly" a person would have to raise their child in order to "get" homosexuality.
please link to the medically proven fact... you still sound as complex as usual, Jozef Makov's beast from under the Tatras, who is afraid that if he is in the vicinity of a homosexual and he breathes on him, he will also become gay
disclaimer – I'm straight, but the views you present here are like from the Middle Ages
And on what basis do you determine what God created?
But you don't mind lesbians, do you? You will like to look at those
The only one here to ignore is you. You don't know anything at all, and you're going to condemn something here, about which you know a complete but complete ball. I understood well that you are one of those idiots who believe that homosexuality is a disease. Just so you know, it wasn't already removed from the list of disorders and diseases in the 70s. In other words, it has been 40 years since this information was known, so it had enough time to penetrate even the less intelligent layers of the ignorant. I really feel sorry for your son, because having such a father is a punishment... I also knew one such "dad", the son hanged himself because he was young and fort ignorant...
I'm really shocked that there are still "people" like you, it's just a ring to condemn the head of the White House because he's black or that we'd whiten him, it's just a matter of education and parental responsibility...
You're probably a racist, since not a word has been said about this topic. You can pity yourself and your family if you have any at all! It is important that you know everything about this issue. I didn't say in a single comment that I know anything about beech trees - I don't even want to!!. Maybe you're a bukvica :-) and? I don't care, I feel sick about the statement of the CEO of the world's largest company, who will come to his orientation after 53 years. why didn't he publicly admit it sooner, and now he's proud? because he would never get to where he is now.
I will never have the same social status as a man and a woman, a beech like you.
And who you met, I'm sorry, I don't care, if the parents in the family had not underestimated the education, the son would not have hung himself, but try to have fun with a psychologist on this topic - I think he will help you.
You are a fool…
pedophile and gay are the same thing
Pedophiles are really not to blame for being sexually attracted to children.
Virgin Mary, patroness of all Slovak Christians, hear our prayers and rid us of all the evil, hateful, homophobic Peter and show him the path of tolerance so that he can accept himself above all. Amen.
fine, he raised his own EGO and popularity, but he did a lot of damage to the company... but on the other hand, we can now say I own the product of a company run by Gay and I'm proud of it (and I bet it's not just Apple)
Now even Václav Moravec could handle it
Oh no. Tim Cook wouldn't be interesting or famous if it weren't for Steve and Apple. Steve simply recommended him as a successor and so he became. This made Tim "famous" and maybe even interesting to someone. However, he is a person who is already riding on the wave of fame of Apple and honestly, with this confession, he certainly did not do anything innovative or beneficial for the company, rather the opposite. Just like that he created another Pride Parade Ads and that makes me quite sad. Why does this minority constantly need to be visible in such a way? Honestly, the orientation of the head of such a company is stolen from me. Products and their quality are important to me, and since Tim is at the head of Apple, I am no longer confident in their innovation and quality. Moreover, when I watch the Apple keynote, Craig Federighi is much closer to me in his speech and enthusiasm.
Totally agree
Consent
This discussion is mostly worthless, but the claim that "(Tim Cook) is just riding the wave of Apple glory" wins the award for stupidest of the year. The gentleman probably doesn't realize what it means to manage any company, especially one that has the greatest value in the world and the greatest expectations associated with it... And while the gentleman is "ceasing to be sure of innovation and quality", Apple comes up with Apple pay, the truly perfect Apple watch system, the perfect interlinking of platforms, etc... Then one cannot be surprised that Zeman is the president of this country.
Well, I have to admit that I feel the same way. I wouldn't say that Tim would be nothing without Steve .. maybe he would be a high-ranking manager at DELL or where he used to do it. In any case, he got a chance at Apple and managed to take advantage of it already in Steve's presence, which not too many people were able to do.
In any case, I do not question his competence and ability to lead this company. However, what I personally feel as a user is a relatively intense pulverization of the cornerstones that were associated with Apple for me personally.... maybe more with Steve than with Apple.
Tim just does it differently, which I don't blame him for, because Steve was the only one, but after many years of using Apple, I'm not too indifferent to the offered alternatives... maybe the competition has improved, maybe I'm just not interested in the new things that Apple has been coming up with lately .
I very much agree. Building Apple the way SJ did is an extreme feat, but honestly, taking over Apple after him is also very difficult, and TC doesn't spoil it. It's just that another time is coming, when Apple's original innovations are becoming generic products, and the company has to respond to that. In my opinion, he does it very well and keeps the Apple brand at the top, although I wish some products were earlier, a little different, etc... But Tim Cook deserves respect. By the way, as he wrote the text of his coming out, he proves that he is a cultured and intelligent person, whose confession to homosexuality has its own level and validity (unlike many others). Just hats off.
In my opinion, the stupidity of the year is that once again a person is found who brings Zeman into a discussion that has absolutely nothing to do with politics. There are a huge number of such people in the Czech Republic, and discussions are riddled with them like a cancer. Please refer to this next time in the discussion of the desperadoes on the news, etc., where politics is discussed even in dreams about the weather. I stand by what I wrote, because if it weren't for Jobs, Tim Cook would have been an excellent Apple employee, but practically nobody would have known about him. Here's to fame. Apple pay is really an innovative matter mainly for the USA, which I neglected and I admit it. My reaction was mainly about the fact that instead of Tim Cook focusing on the errors that have recently cropped up either in IOS 8, iCloud Drive, iPhoto, the Photos application, etc., he is once again making visible a minority of the population, which I respect, but you really don't need to do pride marches and speeches.
My final sigh was not the essence of my message, the fact that you seized on it so vehemently is a shame. Otherwise I have to agree.
At least he doesn't have an excess of testosterone like Steve. He can admit a mistake and apologize, and Apple starts looking at what customers want.
And that's just the beginning of the end. The company should dictate the market, not obey it.
So the beginning of the end was when Steve backed off and we were able to get our own desktop wallpaper.
on the contrary. Some finally got a bigger screen with the i6plus.
On the other hand, I would welcome an iPad with a capacitive pen, a stylus like the Cintiq, or a Surface or Galaxy Note.
Only Apple makes mistakes like every company. Should it dictate that what is wrong is good?
For the money it costs, there are almost no mistakes to be made! With cheap, untested devices, one can understand...
It's not about the money. From a certain project size, mistakes are inevitable, the only question is whether they will be many or unbearably many.
I work in the industry, so I know it's about money. A proper testing department costs a lot of money.
However, I understand that somehow the problem will arise from time to time, because endless testing is not possible.
But errors are sometimes also caused by bad decisions by managers and not by development errors, and I think that they are disproportionately common since iOS 7. Most of the new features are something internal to Apple and for the end customer it only brings slowdown. Instead of sewing with a hot needle, I wouldn't mind if there were only minor minor changes and the OS was changed once every 1,5 to 2 years where everything will work as expected and there will be more changes.
Very good point. TC has an excess of estrogen. It can also be seen in his decisions. He is a numbers man. While for jobs the target was the user, for cook it is the shareholder. Worse, cook is playing on a satisfied shareholder, while the result of jobs' efforts was a satisfied user and a *rich* shareholder. Time will show that the cook is/was an extremely weak, cold nose without an iota of invention. He doesn't live "for the product", he doesn't understand the needs of the users, he thinks that when he fulfills the wishes, he satisfies the needs. Unfortunately…
Well, mainly so that Apple devices don't start overheating with the new update :D
I'M SICK OF ALL THE WARMS. YUCK THEY'RE JUST PLAYING HOGO FOGO.
These statements are already intrusive and embarrassing. It's been a long time since nobody tried them, didn't lock them up, didn't beat them...... Yeah, if he said that in Afghanistan or Iraq, where only Muslims would be around him, it would be different :D
It's just a pose.
I don't belong to any minority, but I certainly don't think that any minority should be treated badly.
But the truth is that these people will either fall in and let themselves be trampled, or it will make them stronger.
Otherwise, I agree that this statement is nothing interesting (unless they want to fire him, and they can't do that now ;-) ).
I search in vain in my memory which article caused such a discussion here.
Yes, it's great for the advertiser, for many of us who visit similar sites, it's nothing.
I come here to learn both what's new and ideas, tricks, advice on how to do things better, faster and more efficiently, as well as to familiarize myself with new programs.
But I definitely don't come here to follow anyone's orientation, from Blesk in the Czech Republic, for example.
And unfortunately, the ratio of useful articles and similar tabloids is inadequate.
So you contributed a comment so that there were even more?
to say that I want articles about products about programs and not this !!!
information as information. the solution is simple, if you don't care, you don't have to read it
Agreement!
I am interested in technical innovations and not who and with whom. Take care of that elsewhere!
I'M INTERESTED. IT'S GOOD TO KNOW WHAT PIG RUNS THIS COMPANY. IMAGINE HIS MONEY AND JAKE HE COULD HAVE CATS AND HE'S LOOKING FOR A 150 KG SWEATY NEIGHBOR IN SHIT TRACKS INSTEAD. SUCH A FOOL CANNOT BE A GOOD MANAGER. YUCK. HE SHOULD RESIGN IMMEDIATELY AND APOLOGIZE TO ALL OF US-DECENT PEOPLE
why are those who preach about decency often the biggest pigs?
Being a Slovak is an even greater disgrace than being gay!!!! YUCK
They should have executed all the gays
Can someone delete at least the racist nonsense and what encourages discrimination and attacks on the minority, or is there a need to issue a criminal report?
YES DELETE IN A HURRY HURRY EVERYTHING THAT IS A QUALITY OPINION DELETE IN A HURRY
YOU POOR PEOPLE - JUST LIKE YOU CAN BE ALL AROUND US
HOW CAN SOMEONE DELETE ANY POST?
THAT'S PROBABLY THE GREATEST PEOPLE.
Because it is illegal ;-). And turn off caps lock :-D.
I laugh at you all
hmmm, that explains the color of iOS 7 and 8 :(
DEAR-THERMALITY IS JUST A FASHION. FUCK YOURSELF I JUST WANT TO PAY ATTENTION
YES THE TEMPERATURE IS JUST A KIND OF EXHIBITION
NOTHING TASTES GOOD
WHO DOUBTS THAT, LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOR AND IMAGINE IT….
SO CAUKY-WHERE TO BUY A PINK MOWER. OUR NEIGHBOR IS FREAKING SEXY AND SMELLS BEAUTIFUL…..
You have CapsLock on.
Whether Mr. Cook sleeps with Michal or Michala - it's purely his private matter... And as someone mentioned below - I'm more interested in iPhone innovations, non/functionality revelations, successes and failures... And only those will be interested in his bed affairs , who are interested in it from the point of view of shaping their own ego and social awareness from Blesk, Super.cz, Novinky.cz and similar tabloids...
the one from Apple really sucks :-(
is he proud to be gay? I'm heterosexual, but to say that I'm proud of it... why? should I be proud of it? I'm not a fool, should I be proud of it? I'm white, should I be proud of that too?… because what if I was black? or someone else? can't you be proud? I could also be the one who harms children, I could also be the one who does not eat meat... strange, I think this is a bad translation, no one sane could say this...
I like Tim Cook, and I don't mind that he's gay, I hope he doesn't mind that I'm straight
I don't know who I'm quoting, but "it's nice when they say it's him" he could be proud of that... I would understand that