Notes from Tim Cook’s Goldman Sachs talk (Updated with transcript)

Apple COO Tim Cook spent an hour this afternoon answering analyst questions about Apple.
You can hear the audio here.
Update: We’ve pasted the full text of Cook’s Q&A below:

Apple COO Tim Cook spent an hour this afternoon answering analyst questions about Apple.
You can hear the audio here.
Update: We’ve pasted the full text of Cook’s Q&A below:
Apple surprised many yesterday by making the update to OS X 10.9 Mavericks free, rather than the $20 it cost…
Software giant Microsoft will release in the second quarter a high-profile productivity tool for Android-toting business professionals. Accompanying Microsoft’s CRM…
[slideshow] All the talk about Microsoft bringing its Office suite to the iPad has thus far failed to develop into a…
Microsoft has acquired the Sunrise calendar application in a deal worth over $100 million, a report revealed today. The buyout may…
Although Apple published its own employee diversity report back in August, USA Today reports that the company has refused to make public…
After an earlier false alarm, Microsoft did finally take Apple’s place as the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization –…
Apple isn’t at CES once again this year and as per usual Cupertino’s shadow looms above the giant US trade…
Microsoft’s stock is surging, up 8% in pre-market on the news that Steve Ballmer will be vacating the CEO role within…
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s patent trolling lawsuit filed against Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube and others has been dismissed by…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AXaFlIFQA&start=29] “It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell” That’s what Steve Jobs said of iTunes…
Microsoft has become the second US public company to join what was previously an Apple exclusive: the $2T company club…
We’re not sure exactly what caused today’s spike, but Apple stock had a huge day ending up 2.8% at $411.65…
Microsoft unveiled its Surface Tablet at an event in Los Angeles today. As Microsoft attempted to demonstrate, it follows a long line…
KGI It has been a tough slough for Apple’s iPad since the height of its popularity in 2013. Facing its…
Microsoft released an entire suite of MSN apps for iOS today, which includes MSN News, Money, Health & Fitness, Food &…
Yet more fascinating action in the smartphone space with an unholy rumored combination between Nokia and Microsoft set to potentially…
Assuming Android goes proprietary to Motorola, it falls behind Apple in market share by 2012 and Windows Phone (the Other category) gulps…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8akOCfqe-v0] Microsoft and Apple tackled touch interfaces in diametrically opposing ways. As Apple set out to bring multitouch on mobile…
Update: While the meeting apparently didn’t result in any resolution, ZDnet reports the ITU’s Malcolm Johnson said the ‘heated debate’ “has gone a…
It was reported yesterday that Apple was looking to move much of its iCloud business from Amazon Web Services to…
It was confirmed back in September that Apple will need to comply with antitrust requirements relating to app sales, and…
Here’s some interesting news from the periphery. In Europe, where Microsoft was forced to institute a ‘browser ballot ‘upon the installation of…
According to a report from Reuters, Google issued a statement that a Wisconsin federal court has decided to dismiss…