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Dec 31, 09 - 10:26 pm Comment from: Snow Leopard

Let's just say "I doubt it".

Does he have a puppy that we could kidnap so he makes the right decision if this story has even a scintilla of credibility.

Dec 31, 09 - 10:35 pm Comment from: bobchr

This would be a bold step for American automotive transit and manufacture. But has Cook even dealt with unions?

Dec 31, 09 - 10:35 pm Comment from: Tiger Leopard

GM stands for everything Apple isn't. The have no innovation, they love killing the environment, and the company is ran by a bunch of rednecks.

Ok, I admit, there's a hint of stereotyping there.

Um, there is no way Mr. Cook would associate with a car company. Tim's a hard-core rider and he, as most riders have, has witnessed the worst of driver culture. Why would he associate himself with that?

gM car now, next car a Ford!! Only car company with the balls to stand on their own!!
Just hope apple Realizes how important he is

Dec 31, 09 - 10:48 pm Comment from: Deus Ex Technica

@TigerLeopard

The UAW are "a bunch of rednecks" ?

Actually, from what I understand, Tim Cook is an avid bicyclist. Not sure he'd be interested in working at a car company...

Um, Tiger Leopard, calling someone (or a group of people) "rednecks" and, in the same sentence, writing "is ran" is more than a little humorous. (Try "is run" next time if you don't want to appear a little sunburnt around the collar yourself, OK?)

Dec 31, 09 - 11:22 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

He should accept the challenge.

He can always get a job changing the world, but how many opportunities like this come along.

Take Jonathan with you, build a car around you from the inside out.

I'm dead serious. Steve Jobs could take a seat on the board of GM. Let him clean out their inventory, and start over with the American consumer in mind.

When all three are done there they can come to my house, where I'll serve them a barbecue feast. And a keg of course.

Happy New Year you bunch of pudknockers!

Dec 31, 09 - 11:23 pm Comment from: Macrelated

It is hard to imagine that he would willingly leave his great job at Apple to go to dinosaur GM.

NOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Boy, what a fuddy dud nerd I've become!! New Years Eve, 9:50 pm local, wifes in bed , I'm watching Fox News, and reading MDN's on my iPhone

Jan 01, 10 - 12:50 am Comment from: Brulek

run away, run now and very, very fast...talk about a poison chalice...

Hi Guy's,
there is no way Mr. Cook would associate with a car company. Tim's a hard-core rider and he, as most riders have, has witnessed the worst of driver culture. Why would he associate himself with that?

dsi r4

Where the puck was 100 years ago.

Jan 01, 10 - 01:17 am Comment from: ken1w

And have the government tell you what you can do and what you cannot do. Apple is the exact opposite of General (Government) Motors; I sometimes think Apple intentionally does the opposite of what everyone says they need to do. I hope Tim Cook is with Apple for a long time, but if he wants the CEO title, I think he could do much better than CEO of GM.

Jan 01, 10 - 01:19 am Comment from: Mr. Reeee

Oh please.
Who's ass did this get pulled out of? Ballmer's?

Going from a no-compromise, do better than the best you think you can do approach to NO-can-do, lowest-common-denominator design by committee and oh-it's-impossible-to raise-miles-per-gallon-for-another-twenty-years mindset?

Fsck.

A bullet through the brain first, please.

Jan 01, 10 - 01:20 am Comment from: alansky

He'd have to be nuts to leave Apple to work at GM.

That's like leaving Neiman Marcus to work at WalMart!

That's like giving up your job as First Officer on the Starship Enterprise to be the Captain of a sinking oil tanker!

Jan 01, 10 - 01:23 am Comment from: Mr. Reeee

Oh...

and cars are SO 19th century. Cars are dead. Get over it.

Damn, I forgot, this is friggin' America. We're just doing a British Empire thing now... We're the best, but read the history books for proof.

WTF?

(sorry, but projectile puking is impossible to anglicize)

Jan 01, 10 - 01:24 am Comment from: Mr. Reeee

@alansky...

I like your line of thought, there buddy! Spot on.
And so truthfully pathetic, that even tears refuse to flow!

OMG Cook to Government Motors?!! Please tell me it's not true!!!

Watching Fox News, "fuddy dud nerd?"....

Try insanely drunken lunatic. Even if it is New Year's eve- "nerd" should be the least of one's concerns. I'd check into rehab if I caught myself watching Fox "news"- in fact, I'd call 911.

Jan 01, 10 - 03:21 am Comment from: TheConfuzed1

That would be a lame move.

Jan 01, 10 - 03:32 am Comment from: ron

auramac, " I'd check into rehab if I caught myself watching Fox "news"- in fact, I'd call 911."

Just like the other idiots who call 911 because their mates wouldn't eat dinner. Fool!

Interview for GM CEO position:

GM: 'Yes, Mr. Cook, we would love to have you take over GM'
Tim: 'And what is the pay?'
GM: 'Uh, well......uh...that's the , uh, catch. Since we are indebted to the government, we can only pay hmhmbmmbmrm'
Tim: 'I'm sorry...how much'
GM: Well the President will only let us pay about 200k.
Tim: 'Do you validate parking?'

Jan 01, 10 - 04:08 am Comment from: hardmanb

That would have to be the worst career move I have ever heard of.

Business Insider's website is pretty dishonest. If you look at the front page, they link to content from all over the web, including John Gruber's Daring Fireball, without any indication that the content listed there is on other websites, and doesn't belong to Business Insider. So when you first look at their front page, it would appear that they have a host of big-name contributors. It's only when you click-through that you'd realise you're on another site.

In other words, they are just a content aggregator, and doubtlessly hungry for clicks. Hence, nonsensical and unverified 'stories' like this one. Re-publishing tips from completely anoynmous sources with zero reliability (the site themselves don't even vouch for the source's reliability) isn't journalism, it's just rumor-mongering. They might as well have written that Steve Jobs, Barack Obama and the Pope are candidates for the job.

So ok I was a bit drunk yesterday and I made a few stupid hoax calls for a laugh, never thought it would have gone this far. Jeez just hope they didn't take the one I made to the Defence Department as seriously. Sorry gotta go knock at the door.

Stay away Tim. Especially from that Maobama controlled sinking ship. GM needs to be put out of it's misery now. Should have been done years ago. Let the pieces be bought up and a new stronger car company emerge. Why is Maobama taking over car companies??????????? Where in the constitution does it say he can do that????

obama don't need no stinking constitution to decide what is best for you and his people....

GM is one of the great American companies, but there's no way Maobama and his horde will ever understand that. It won't take long till even liberals recognize the fantastic products GM makes, and ditch those ridiculous Japanese cars for something made in America once again. Tim Cook would be _lucky_ to get in on this, but I'm pretty sure he's too tainted by the leftwingers at Apple to see this.

Jan 01, 10 - 11:16 am Comment from: MacRaven

Let's keep our hopes up by believing in Tim Cook's intelligence, and that it will prevail before he jumps ship. If this is true at all. Nice publicity for GM if it isn't.

I am thrilled. If Tim leaves Apple, maybe we might stand a chance of getting a Mac netbook, and matte screens (http://macmatte.wordpress.com).

For all the hype about the upcoming tablet, I really do not want to type on glass - at least when working on serious documents, e.g. writing a book, or working on office matters.

Sometimes, Apple needs just to do the boring, me-too thing, and give us what we need to get our own work done - rather than having to break new boundaries.

Josh - you have great posts but I disagree with you. GM was great a long, long time ago. They suck now. The unions and liberal lawmakers have destroyed the company just like they are killing the US. Don't do it Tim!

MDM,
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STOP THE POP UP ADD...

Everyone... Please help me persuade MDN against the POP up ads ( the one that launch when you click on a story)...

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Jan 01, 10 - 12:01 pm Comment from: Doc4i

Why Cook? As long as you are trolling for CEOs offer the position to Jobs himself. Just make it more than a $1.00 offer and see of he bites. Imagine an Applecar! The possibilities are endless.

There's some belief that Tim wants to be CEO of a company and, since Steve is healthy and back in charge of Apple, he might be ripe for the picking.

Basically like a real good offensive coordinator on a football team in which the head coach is firmly implanted. Steve isn't going anywhere but Tim might want to step up elsewhere since he can't do it at Apple.

Jan 01, 10 - 12:30 pm Comment from: chaz

Look, GM is trying to copy GM. Alan Mulally has done a simply superb job at Ford, and he started when he had the money and union support to make a difference.

Thank God they aren't trying to plug in a retread from GE

I cannot stomach to see corporations move out excellent executives like Mulally and bring in loser ex GE Welch wannabes that run companies into the ground and pass on critical US technology around the world. GE management will be recognized for what is 25 years from now. A woeful organization, with no view on how to innovate or devise strategy, run by a bunch of pricks that squeezed every last dime out of it's supply chain for their own pockets.

Mullaly had no choice, either work for a retread GE prick who is just running the same script of outsource and destroy, or rebuilding a Company like Ford who has a terrific history that has lost its way and was desperate for actual LEADERSHIP.

Jan 01, 10 - 12:34 pm Comment from: chaz

Sorry, meant GM is trying to Copy Ford. Like Microshaft tries to copy everything Apple.

iCal this, Ford is going to beat GM and Toyota over the next 20 years. I have to take my hat off to Mulally, he's done a remarkable job in the few years he's been there. A lot like Job's, he's laid the strategy and foundation, just watch this company turn into an innovative machine like Apple.

Jan 01, 10 - 12:58 pm Comment from: Trvth

Chaz said: "GE management will be recognized for what is 25 years from now."

Twenty-five years from now!? Try 25 years back! Roger Smith killed GM, as all the world knows.

Jan 01, 10 - 01:10 pm Comment from: chaz

@trvth

I said GE not GM. Read the entire post. Yea, GM was bad but they weren't heralded as the best of the best, and corporations weren't throwing out exec's to hire retread GMer's like Boeing did to bring in McInerny from GE or Chrylser and Home Depot bringing in Zardelli from GE. Trust me, the are hundreds of little Jack off Welches running around corporate America doing nothing but screwing employees and suppliers.

Everyone knew Smith was a joke, look at all the look alike cars they pumped out. Smith and Waggoner both have ZERO understanding of branding, and killed the brands within GM.

Don't even think about it. Never join a government controlled company.

Black Hole.

I never thought I would be looking at a Ford seriously, but I am now. Anyone who is strong enough to not get sucked into the trap that GM is in should be able to build a good car. And they do look like they are.

Last time I checked, the running total the taxpayers are in GM is to the tune of $66 Billion of loans and liabilities. That doesn't include the bailout of GMAC, which GM still has financial liabilities and an interest in and Delphi, it's old parts division. Both have been at the trough.

I'm a Progressive/Liberal and wish not one thin dime would have been spent bailing out GM. Free Market Capitalism includes the freedom to fail and fall flat on your arse. It's not just the Conservatives that are pissed about this- this is crony capitalism and is on the interest of nobody but those who stand to profit.

Why Mr Cook, who is obviously a capable manager would want to enter the insular culture of the US Auto industry, leave California for Grosse Pointe, Michigan would be beyond me.

Jan 01, 10 - 03:12 pm Comment from: DogGone

I don't think GM could pay him enough. Plus he would have to move to Detroit.

He could change the way GM does business. Rather than trying to make money on loans, maintanance and other peripherals, he could change their model so that they actually make money on the cars.

THe car industry is in the same problem as the PC industry - high volume, low margins. They are dependent on maintaining sales in order to break even.

Apple have successfully maintained margins by producing quality product that customers are willing to pay over the basic price.

Could Cook change the way GM operates? It's a very tall order. It is way more complicated than the PC industry.

Cook still has a lot to do at Apple. Expanding the Mac market share, continuing the iPhone expansion and introducing new tech will keep him engaged.

Jan 01, 10 - 05:26 pm Comment from: MacTony

Talk about culture shock! Cook would be a good one to turn GM around. I"m not sure the suits at GM could handle the change....

Jan 01, 10 - 06:17 pm Comment from: Big Als MBP

@ Hotinplaya,

"GM car now, next car a Ford!! Only car company with the balls to stand on their own!!"

How about Honda, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, VW, BMW, Nissan, Kia, Subaru, Hyundai, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Suzuki and Izusu? Not one of them got a penny from government and most of them assemble vehicles in North America.

Being a very high pofile CEO with a company so important to American infrastructure which is eager to take a new direction, and a gvernment even more eager to get out of GM sounds tempting to me. If offered, heat do it. It would be good for America, prove he could innovate without Jobs.

If Cook actually took the bait and became CEO at has-been GM, producer of automotive dreck, rather than Apple, producer of the world's best personal computers, it would demonstrate that he is not smart enough to succeed Jobs.

Jan 01, 10 - 08:15 pm Comment from: chaz

@Big Als MBP

Who cares about assembly plants????????? Where is the technology developed, designs made, where are the critical components made (drive train), where is the steel made? These are the high paying and economic driver jobs and companies we need in this country. Only politicians who try to dupe voters try to sell that garbage. Wake up for crying out loud.

BMW / Mercedes/ Kia / Subaru/ Hundai / Mazda (VW isn't even in the US), does absolutely nothing in this country but import sub assemblies and assemble. These are the lowest value jobs in the chain. Good luck with that one South Carolina. You'll never get back your investment in BMW!!!

Jan 01, 10 - 08:21 pm Comment from: chaz

@Big Als MBP
ALL OF THE COMPANIES YOU MENTIONED GOT HUGE GOVERNMENT GRANTS, SUBSIDIES AND TAX ABATEMENTS TO BUILD THEIR PLANTS IN THE SOUTH WITH NO UNIONS, NO DEFINED BENEFIT PENSIONS, NO RETIREMENT HEALTHCARE. So much for the garbage they haven't taken any govt money. What a bunch of bullsh!t.