From the Washington Post's "Facebook, Google chiefs open to testifying to Congress on antitrust, while Apple’s participation remains unclear" posted Tuesday:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai signaled they are open to testifying to Congress as part of lawmakers’ ongoing antitrust probe into the tech industry, while Apple has not yet explicitly agreed to send its leader...
In letters to committee leaders, Facebook and Google signaled they would dispatch their top executives as long as other tech giants’ leaders participate, the sources said. Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos also has signaled he will participate in the hearing, after the e-commerce giant initially resisted lawmakers’ demands, The Post reported this week. Bezos owns The Washington Post.
Apple, meanwhile, told the committee that it would send a senior executive yet did not clearly commit its leader, Tim Cook, to appearing before lawmakers, according to one of the people with knowledge of the matter. That approach could ratchet up tensions between the iPhone giant and lawmakers in Washington, who previously had threatened to issue a subpoena forcing Bezos to appear before Amazon ultimately expressed an openness to it.
My take: Cook will do the right thing. That's how he rolls.
That is a clickbait headline from the Washington Post that comes right on the heals of what just happened with the EU investigation going after Apple and Apple’s proactive response to that with a report.
In other words, of course Apple is going to “participate”. But now that they’re battling on more than one front at the same time they’re being very careful, as they should be.
As we all know, Tim Cook has been to this rodeo before – and he may not respond to the satisfaction of the clickbait headline writers, but he will Inevitably rise to the occasion as he always does, and tell the truth.
Unfortunately, the truth is not what this is really about.
Let’s face it folks, Apple’s a big rich U.S. tech company and has always been a target for political operators looking for a scalp or money..
Congress is playing 1) Overcoming the monster.
The Apple story is 3) The Quest. At one time it was 7) Rebirth.
W.r.t. the antitrust and Apple, it’s pure fiction.
Further, having people who have no understanding questioning people who do. Not for honest answers but to pander to a constituency.
With one exception these leaders are smarter than any politicians in the room.
The exception is very similar to the posturing politicians and SHOULD be grilled – over an open fire.