Posted on 10/30/2014 7:18:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Apple CEO Tim Cook is speaking out about his sexuality, for the first time openly since he was accidentally outed by a CNBC anchor back in June. He’s coming out publicly to announce that he is proud to be gay, and to speak about the things his sexuality has taught him — and how his coming out may help others.
Back in June, a CNBC anchor was discussing the story of John Browne, a former CEO of BP, who left his job after being publicly outed by a tabloid paper. In response, host Simon Hobbs commented that there are many openly gay CEOs, and listing Tim Cook as one of them. His co-hosts quickly moved to silence him.
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Apple over has problems in the business competition perspective as it is. They pretty much slashed their cheaper options. Doing that isn’t good if you want your products to appeal to more than some people who make decent money, because their products now are anything but cheap. As for tablets, the competition is pulling some good features on their own that the managers of Apple Computer don’t seem to understand help. A great deal of people like it when you have a cheap option for a phone, tablet, computer, etc. They also like it if you can take a tablet and attach it to a keyboard to form a fully functioning laptop. Or how about the same operating system on both the iPad and their Personal computers? Apple has a lot of problems that aren’t going to be solved just because their CEO came out.
Not too surprising since they don’t have much of the “cheaper” options, anymore.
Microsoft, Google, Linux, Yahoo, etc., all have support for homosexual employees. The fact that a CEO came out was simply a matter of time, this story hardly shocked me at all.
actually, Rush is on here a lot, I know for a fact he is a lurker.....
I could have lived out the rest of my life quite happily without knowing how he gets his rocks off.
And he’s rich enough to live to 60.
I thought Samsung was getting hammered by the Chinese?
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