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Apple's former retail chief apparently harbors few hard feelings about his previous employer, and says his brief stint at the company was "probably the best thing" that happened to him.

"Apple is a truly fantastic business. The people are great. They've got great products. It's got a great culture. And I loved working there -- it's a fantastic business," John Browett said during an on-stage interview at the Retail Week Live conference earlier this week.

"The issue there was that I just didn't fit within the way they ran the … Read more

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook will once again speak at the Goldman Sachs annual Technology and Internet Conference.

Cook -- who rarely speaks or does interviews outside of Apple's own events -- is opening the conference, which begins tomorrow, with a keynote presentation. Barrons notes that Cook was originally scheduled to speak at 1:15 p.m. PT, right after the market closes, but will instead kick everything off almost immediately after it opens at 7:15 a.m.

The appearance comes ahead of Apple's annual shareholders meeting at its campus in Cupertino, Calif., on February 27.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook will make his first TV appearance the same day his company could find out if it's getting a bevvy Samsung's smartphones permanently banned in the U.S.

Cook was interviewed earlier today at the company's Grand Central Terminal store by NBC's Brian Williams as part of a package that will air next Thursday, NBC announced today.

Photos of the interview were leaked out earlier by media tracking blog TV Newser, showing a casually dressed Cook chatting with Williams while holding Apple's products.

Cook has not done a TV appearance since taking on the role as the company's CEO last August, … Read more

That other Steve Jobs movie, currently being written by "West Wing" and "Newsroom" creator Aaron Sorkin, will apparently be told in three acts, the screenwriter said today.

In an onstage interview at the Hero Summit (relayed by tweets from the The Daily Beast), Sorkin detailed a bit of how the story would play out, saying it would take place across three, half hour scenes and behind the curtains at three of Apple's product launches for the first Macintosh computer, NeXT computer, and the iPod.

Jobs was a well-known showman at such events, adding an air … Read more

Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer might have tipped her hand back in 2010 on what she has planned for her new employer.

At that time, Mayer, then a Google executive, sat down for an interview with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. During that interview, Arrington asked her what she would do if she were running Yahoo. Her first response? It would be a "difficult job."

From there, Mayer dug into Yahoo's decisions at the time, saying that then-CEO Carol Bartz's idea to ink a search deal with Microsoft "was smart in many ways," though … Read more

Those of you eager to watch "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview" can now rent it via iTunes for $3.99.

The 70-minute Q&A with Jobs was conducted by Robert X. Cringely[*] for his 1996 PBS documentary "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires." Only ten minutes of the original conversation were used for the documentary. But Cringely was able to able to get the rest of it from director Paul Sen, who had made a VHS copy of it that he kept in his garage.

[*] Aka tech journalist Mark Stephens. Other tech … Read more

Mike Daisey, a longtime Apple critic and monologist, has turned his sights on All Things Digital's Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher over their interview this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook.

"Kara and Walt -- do you really think you asked hard questions tonight? Goodness, you got Cook to admit that Ping was a failure! That's amazing," Daisey wrote on his personal blog yesterday. "If only you had another hour, so you could get him to tell us who he liked best on Dawson's Creek and what kind of ice cream is best: vanilla … Read more

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin says that writing the screenplay for the upcoming biopic of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is a lot like trying to write about The Beatles.

Speaking at the D10 Conference today, the award-winning screenwriter and producer said he's currently at the "earliest possible stage" of putting together the screenplay for the feature film, and that it's not just as simple as sitting down with the source material.

"What I'll do is go through a long period that would not look to any casual observer like writing," Sorkin jokingly told interviewer … Read more

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Set your smartphone alarm: CNET will be on the scene to bring you all the news and details from Apple CEO Tim Cook's chat at the D10 conference, which kicks off tonight around 6:30 p.m. PT.

The public interview will be Cook's second in recent months. In mid-February, Cook appeared at the Goldman Sachs' annual Technology and Internet … Read more