Apple CEO Tim Cook on education, privacy, Facebook and DACA at the Recode MSNBC ‘Revolution’ event

If you missed Recode and MSNBC’s interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook — our latest “Revolution” TV special aired on April 6 — or want to hear more, enjoy this extended audio interview, conducted by Recode’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.

The uncut interview — in this special episode of Swisher’s Recode Decode podcast — includes new material that didn’t air on TV, such as more on Apple’s education efforts, manufacturing, immigration and Cook’s advice to his younger self.

Recode’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook in Chicago, IL. The interview was taped on Tuesday, March 27, and aired on Friday, April 6, 2018. Read the full transcript below.

The full video is not available online but you can listen to the full, uncut interview on Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher. The audio is embedded below, or you can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Overcast or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Recode and MSNBC team up again on the next episode in our “Revolution” series on tech and the future of work. Recode’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes’s full interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook will air on Friday, April 6, at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT on MSNBC.

“Revolution: Apple Changing the World” was taped in Chicago and focuses on innovation in education, Facebook’s data privacy scandal, the future of work in the age of technology and much more.

Apple CEO Tim Cook explained his company’s commitment to protecting user privacy in his interview for Recode’s “Revolution” TV special with MSNBC that will air tonight.

“The truth is, we could make a ton of money if we monetized our customer,” said Cook. “If our customer was our product, we could make a ton of money. We’ve elected not to do that.”

On Recode’s “Revolution” TV special scheduled to air Friday night on MSNBC, Apple CEO Tim Cook reaffirmed his strong support for DACA — the program that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has deemed the program to be “dead.”

When asked by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes about Trump’s restrictive immigration policy, Cook called the issue one that “goes to the core of who we are as Americans.”

At a taping of Recode’s “Revolution” MSNBC special last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg — which are embroiled in a privacy scandal — saying that it’s too late for Facebook to self-regulate, that he “wouldn’t be” in Zuckerberg’s situation, and that Apple’s business model — selling products to customers instead of selling their attention — lets it better serve its users.

Today Zuckerberg is firing back, calling Cook’s comments “extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth.”

One of the good things about being old is that you have probably talked to just about everyone at some point about everything.

Case in point, a short interview I did in 2010 with the late Steve Jobs, the legendary Apple co-founder and CEO, when we were jawing about a new iPod nano at a music event in San Francisco.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel explained how he sees Apple helping Chicago public school students learn how to code after the company’s education-themed keynote on Tuesday.

Emanuel spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher after Apple’s event at Lane Tech College Prep High School, where Apple announced its new partnership with Chicago Public Schools and Northwestern University to train local computer science teachers in coding.

“Knowing everything you know now, what would be the greatest piece of advice you’d give your high school self?”

That was the final audience question for Apple CEO Tim Cook during this week’s taping — at a Chicago public high school — of “Revolution: Apple Changing The World,” a TV collaboration between Recode and MSNBC that’s scheduled to air on Friday, April 6 at 8 pm ET.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has doubled down on his call for regulation that would limit Facebook and others companies’ ability to use customer data.

Speaking to Recode’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Cook said he’d prefer that Facebook and others would have curbed their use of personal data to build “these detailed profiles of people ... patched together from several sources.”

Apple has long assembled the iPhone in China. Why not here, in the United States?

“We are building things in the United States,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said, speaking in Chicago at a taping of Revolution: Apple Changing The World, a special collaboration between Recode and MSNBC. “It’s not true that iPhone isn’t built in the United States.”