Washington Post Interviews Tim Cook on Fifth Anniversary as Apple CEO

Longer public interviews with Apple’s top leadership are less rare these days, but this one from former BusinessWeek colleague Lena McGregor covers a lot of ground, including Apple’s increased spending on R&D (more than the 14 largest auto manufacturers combined), Siri and AI, Apple’s interest in augmented reality vs virtual reality (“sort of a core technology”), and the overall size of the global smartphone market as it relates to Apple’s future growth (“It is the greatest market on Earth from a consumer electronics point of view […] and there is nothing that’s going to replace it in the short term or in the intermediate term, either”).