Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner, Jony Ive, Laurene Powell Jobs panel interview

Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner stated on Wednesday that Apple would not spend numerous effort enhancing the texting expertise between iPhones and Android units as a result of its customers have not been asking for it.

“I do not hear our customers asking that we put numerous power on that, on this level,” Prepare dinner stated in response to an viewers query at Vox Media’s Code Convention in Beverly Hills, California. “I’d like to convert you to iPhone.”

The response comes lower than a month after Google kicked off an promoting marketing campaign meant to place stress on Apple.

At present, texts between iPhones use iMessage, which has a a lot smoother expertise than when an Android gadget texts an iPhone, through which SMS messages present up as inexperienced bubbles. Google needs Apple to undertake RCS, a type of messaging that’s meant as a next-generation SMS alternative with encryption and different fashionable options.

The questioner pressed Prepare dinner, saying that he cannot ship movies to his mother due to the constraints of SMS messaging.

“Purchase your mother an iPhone,” Prepare dinner stated.

Prepare dinner was joined by former Apple head designer Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs to debate the legacy of Apple’s founder and announce a brand new Steve Jobs archive and potential documentary.

Apple’s latest privateness push will not be a brand new purpose for the corporate — the considering really goes again to founder Steve Jobs, Prepare dinner stated.

“Steve actually ingrained within the firm within the early days within the significance of privateness and it has solely grown since,” Prepare dinner stated.

Prepare dinner cited a 2010 discuss by Jobs the place he stated that privateness implies that customers consent to share their knowledge. “Privateness means folks know what they’re signing up for, in plain English, and repeatedly. That is what it means,” Jobs stated within the discuss cited by Prepare dinner.

Prepare dinner’s remarks come as the corporate’s privateness push has drawn growing criticism as self-serving as the corporate has launched new privateness options that make internet advertising harder to measure as Apple reportedly plans to extend the scale of its promoting enterprise and introduces new advert items.

That is the identical philosophy behind App Monitoring Transparency, a function launched in 2021 that has roiled the internet advertising trade. iPhone house owners are requested earlier than sharing a novel gadget identification quantity with apps after they boot up — and most iPhone house owners select to not, stopping on-line advertisers from precisely monitoring the efficiency of their advertisements.

Corporations together with Fb mum or dad Meta have blasted the change as anticompetitive. In February, Meta stated it could price it $10 billion this yr.

“What we felt is that individuals ought to personal their knowledge, and they need to make their very own determination,” Prepare dinner stated on Wednesday. “Folks ought to be empowered to have the ability to make that call in a very easy and easy method. Not buried 95 pages deep in a privateness coverage someplace.”

Prepare dinner elaborated that Apple follows stricter guidelines than advertisers and defended the corporate’s search advertisements.

“We have by no means stated digital promoting is a nasty factor,” Prepare dinner stated. “What will not be good is vacuuming up folks’s knowledge after they’re not doing so on an knowledgeable foundation.”

Prepare dinner was requested if he noticed Apple as a robust firm that has stepped in as a result of regulators have not handed privateness legal guidelines.

“We’re not making an attempt to be a regulator,” Prepare dinner stated. “All we’re making an attempt to do is give folks the power to make the choice for themselves.”