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Tim Cook has famously told investors to fuck off (in slightly more polite language) for questioning the ROI of accessibility features.
by snuxoll 6y ago
Tim Cook has famously told investors to fuck off (in slightly more polite language) for questioning the ROI of accessibility features.
- missedthecue 6y agoCan you give me one example of this?
- lathiat 6y agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/03/07/why-tim-cook-doesnt-care-about-the-bloody-roi/#1f6a711955f2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/03/07/why-tim...
- mthoms 6y agoThe quote is "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI." https://www.imore.com/apple-accessibility-human-right https://www.imore.com/apple-accessibility-human-right
- ultrarunner 6y agoI wonder (seriously) what the ROI on a statement like this might be. Is there a level where "responsibility to the shareholders" is sampled, or could it be a few layers of indirection away? There is a pretty fine line between cynicism (i.e. it's just marketing) and idealism (ethical companies will generate a higher level of support), but I wonder how far this goes before a lawsuit shuts it down.
- agency 6y agoThe business judgement rule gives company management pretty wide latitude in making business decisions so long as they are not blatantly fraudulent or conflicted. For example Shlensky v Wrigley[1] which concerns the owner of Wrigley field’s decision not to install lights and hold night games. A decision by their own admission motivated not by a business interest but by a personal belief that baseball is a “daytime sport”. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlensky_v._Wrigley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlensky_v._Wrigley
- ultrarunner 6y agoThank you, this is exactly what I was looking for.
- onion2k 6y agoI have no idea about accessibility on iOS, but on the web making a website more accessible will usually make it display faster simply because accessibility forces you down a road that stops you filling a site with bloat and rubbish. If people pushed for accessible websites everyone would benefit from lower bandwidth usage and faster rendering. It's not unreasonable to think pushing for an accessible OS makes the rest of it better as well.
- ddavis 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Critics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Pol...