Tim Cook teases upcoming iPad release

Apple CEO Tim Cook is not dropping subtle hints about the company's latest product release. He all but confirmed that new iPads are coming, which we are expected to see today. He sent out a tweet with the words: "The possibilities are endless. #TakeNote" and an animation showing the pinch-to-zoom gesture as it goes through multi-coloured graphics and icons.

Apple is expected to introduce new iPad and iPad Pro models, but it isn't hosting an event. Instead, the new products will be released via press release.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook calls out a report that Jony Ive’s leaving the company on bad terms

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Apple CEO Tim Cook wanted to set the record straight about a recent Wall Street Journal story that claims there is tension between the company and departing Chief Design Officer Jony Ive. He calls the report “absurd” and that “conclusions just don’t match with reality.” The story claims that Ive’s leaving was a long time coming with the designer drifting away from the company in recent years, which has resulted in the team being rudderless and without leadership. Cook says in an email to NBC News reporter Dylan Byers that the Apple design team is “phenomenally talented” and “stronger than ever.” He says projects they’re working on “will blow you away.” It’s rare for the Apple CEO to talk about internal shakeups with reporters, but it seems this particular topic hit a nerve.

Apple’s legendary designer Jony Ive leaves the company to put up his own design firm

After being with Apple for nearly 30 years, Chief Design Officer Jonathan “Jony” Ive has announced he will be leaving the company to put up is own design firm called LoveFrom. One guarantee is that he counts Apple “among its primary clients.” Ive, who has led the design team since 1996, has helped craft Apple’s most iconic products, including the iPhone itself. Ive’s has even helped design the company’s “spaceship” Apple Park campus as well as the look and feel of Apple retail stores. He has also helped reshape the look of Apple’s software, starting with the revamped iOS 7 in 2013. Taking Ive’s place, Evans Hankey, current vice president of industrial design, and Alan Dye, VP of human interface design, will report to Jeff Williams, who “will spend more of his time working with the design team in their studio.”

“Apple will continue to benefit from Jony’s talents by working directly with him on exclusive projects, and through the ongoing work of the brilliant and passionate design team he has built,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a press release. “After so many years working closely together, I’m happy that our relationship continues to evolve and I look forward to working with Jony long into the future." 

Apple CEO Tim Cook advocates for privacy in recent TIME Op-Ed

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Today's leading technology companies and their CEO's look to provide leadership not just in the technology space but also in various moral and ethical areas. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella is pushing ethics in AI and Machine Learning as guiding principles for the future.

Apple and its CEO Tim Cook have been loudly beating the drum in protection of user privacy which has culminated in an Op-Ed Apple took out on Time magazine with Cook weighing in on user's right to privacy and the many steps that government and regulation can protect these rights.

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