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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Apple's CEO Tim Cook was interviewed [cbsnews.com] by Charlie Rose for 60 Minutes. The interview was full of softball questions but some parts stand out, such as Cook's claim that vocational skills are the reason Apple's products are made in China. Taxation and other issues also popped up [marketwatch.com]:

Earlier in the interview, the conversation heated up just a bit when the subject turned to allegations that Apple is a "tax avoider" and is "engaged in a sophisticated scheme" to shelter the $74 billion in revenue parked overseas.

"That is total political crap," Cook fired back. He said he'd "love to bring it home" but doesn't because "it would cost me 40%... and I don't think that's a reasonable thing to do. This is a tax code, Charlie, that was made for the industrial age, not the digital age. It's backwards. It's awful for America. It should have been fixed many years ago. It's past time to get it done."

From The Register [theregister.co.uk]:

The program did at least ask Cook about encryption, a topic on which the CEO opined that "I don't believe that the tradeoff here is privacy versus national security."

Asked if the tradeoff is "versus security" Cook replied "I think that's an overly simplistic view. We're America. We should have both." The CEO also re-iterated his stance that Apple will always comply with warrants but is happy for those requests to be futile if it protects customers' health, financial and other personal information.

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