{"id":14772,"date":"2026-01-29T23:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/guys-i-dont-think-tim-cook-knows-how-to-monetize-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:55:38","slug":"guys-i-dont-think-tim-cook-knows-how-to-monetize-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/guys-i-dont-think-tim-cook-knows-how-to-monetize-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Guys, I don\u2019t think Tim Cook knows how to monetize AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple exceeded expectations when it reported its quarterly earnings on Thursday, revealing that it made $143.8 billion in revenue for a 16% year-over-year increase. As analysts peppered CEO Tim Cook with softball questions during Apple&rsquo;s earnings call, one analyst dared to ask the question that seemingly no one in Silicon Valley is willing to ask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;When I think about your AI initiatives, you know, it&rsquo;s clear there are added costs associated with that&hellip; Many of your competitors have already integrated AI into their devices, and it&rsquo;s just not clear yet what incremental monetization they&rsquo;re seeing because of AI&hellip;,&rdquo; started Morgan Stanley&rsquo;s Erik Woodring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could there be a tinge of nervousness underneath this Finance Man&rsquo;s probably-very-financey facade? In what I can only imagine must have been a Herculean display of courage, Woodring asked the question that lurks only in the darkest, dampest recesses of investors&rsquo; minds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;So, how do you monetize AI?&rdquo; he asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&rsquo;d think this would come up more. You would be wrong. Instead, Big Tech has taken a largely vibes-driven approach to AI development. Take OpenAI, for instance, which may seem like it&rsquo;s on top of the world, given how ChatGPT has embedded itself into the cultural consciousness. But the company isn&rsquo;t planning to make any money until 2030. Analysts from HBSC are even doubtful about that timeline, especially since it will need another $207 billion in funding, estimates say. Ask anyone in tech how OpenAI is planning to break even, and you&rsquo;ll be met with the verbal equivalent of the &macr;_(&#12484;)_\/&macr; emoticon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But good ol&rsquo; Tim &ldquo;$143.8 billion in revenue&rdquo; Cook was having a good afternoon, so maybe he&rsquo;d finally spill the beans about how any of these companies are planning to recoup their investments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His answer was disappointing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;Well, let me just say that we&rsquo;re bringing intelligence to more of what people love, and we&rsquo;re integrating it across the operating system in a personal and private way, and I think that by doing so, it creates great value, and that opens up a range of opportunities across our products and services,&rdquo; Cook said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, there you have it, folks. Apple will monetize AI by creating &ldquo;great value.&rdquo; And, crucially, that will &ldquo;open up a range of opportunities.&rdquo; Which we will experience in &ldquo;products and services.&rdquo; Cool!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, shout out to that Morgan Stanley guy for trying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Guys, I don&rsquo;t think Tim Cook knows how to monetize AI<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple exceeded expectations when it reported its quarterly earnings on Thursday, revealing that it made $143.8 billion in revenue for a 16% year-over-year increase. As analysts peppered CEO Tim Cook with softball questions during Apple&rsquo;s earnings call, one analyst dared to ask the question that seemingly no one in Silicon Valley is willing to ask&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/guys-i-dont-think-tim-cook-knows-how-to-monetize-ai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Guys, I don\u2019t think Tim Cook knows how to monetize AI&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}