Jena McGregor has a lengthy piece on Tim Cook in The Washington Post, five years after Steve Jobs announced he was stepping down as CEO.
In the interview, Cook is his regular self. He doesn’t stray far from points the company has made before, but this passage jumped out at me, in context of Apple being an active voice in social issues:
Maybe there are compelling reasons why some people want to be silent. I think for us, though — for a company that’s all about empowering people through our products, and being a collection of people whose goal in life is to change the world for the better — it doesn’t sit right with me that you have that kind of focus, but you’re not making sure your carbon footprint isn’t poisoning the place. Or that you’re not evangelizing moving human rights forward. I think every generation has the responsibility to enlarge the meaning of human rights.