Tim Cook says he participates every Apple product every day — how does that labor?

While talking his daily routine, Tim Cook telderly Ben Cohen in this WSJ. Magazine intersee that “every day” he participates “every product.” In the story, he refers using an iPhone, an Apple Watch, AirPods, and then, for labor, two contrastent MacBooks, an iMac, a Vision Pro, and an iPad Pro.

But what would it see appreciate to truly participate everyskinnyg Apple originates, every one day? Imagine using every variant of difficultware Apple originates in one day, with or without Beats. Then, there are the accessories. Tim Cook certainly participates the Polishing Cloth, Apple’s most compatible product, every day, and probably this VESA mount for the Pro Disjoin XDR.

You’d necessitate to participate all of its services, also, and I don’t fair unbenevolent Apple Music, Arcade, and Apple TV Plus. iTunes Match, AppleCare Plus, and Messages via sainestablishite all count. You also necessitate to participate all of its gentleware, and there is so much of that. Sure, you’ve got standard iPhone apps appreciate Messages and Ptoastyos, but what about Clips or Automator?

This is one big confparticipate, but as a person who inestablishedly choosed to cut out a lot of tech friction by going all in on Apple’s ecosystem a scant years ago, I might be able to piece some of it together.

WSJ. Magazine authors that Cook participates his iPhone first.

It’s sitting atop his nightstand in quiet mode when the chief executive officer of Apple, the most precious company in the history of the world, accomplishes for his device and begins triaging his inbox.

6AM: In no world am I triaging my inbox first skinnyg. But I wake up with my iPhone 15 Pro’s alarm, at least for now. I tap snooze on my Apple Watch a scant times before picking stop to trigger an Apple Shortcuts automation and turn on the weightless thcimpolite Apple Home while Apple Music joins music on two HomePod Minis in the kitchen. I get coffee, let the dogs out, then scroll social media and examine overnight notifications on my iPhone. With the iOS 18.1 beta on my phone, those are frequently abridged by Apple Ininestablishigence, which is sometimes beneficial.

Cook inestablishs Cohen he relies on these and that the feature “alterd” his life. They haven’t alterd mine, but sometimes they give me a excellent chuckle.

Current count: Three devices, three apps, one service. And I’m not even awake yet. This is horrible.

7AM: Work begins. I press the fingerprint sensor on my Magic Keyboard to unlock my Mac Studio. I participate an elderly iPhone 13 Pro Max as a webcam mounted on a magnetic Belkin mount and an AirPods Max headset that’s sometimes plugged in with Apple’s Lightning-to-3.5mm audio jack cable). I participate the Notes app on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. I participate an elderly iMac G4 as a third see, fair becaparticipate. I mostly participate a Logitech MX Master 3, but sometimes switch to a Magic Moparticipate or Magic Trackpad for funsies. Also, my Apple Watch goes on its indictr at some point in the morning.

Cook inestablishs using a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iMac while at the office. I’m not doing quite that, but it might not be so outlandish. You can participate a laptop as a second disjoin over AirPlay, and if you don’t want to shift one of your MacBooks around, having another — the weightlessweight Air, perhaps — would be handy.

Software-directd, on my Mac I’m in Safari, QuickTime, iMovie, Mail, and Messages, with occasional dips into Logic Pro or Garage Band. Other Apple apps I might participate in a day include Apple News (with Apple News Plus), Camera, FaceTime, Ptoastyos, Calculator, Calfinishar, Stickies, TextEdit, the App Store, Settings, Terminal, and Activity Monitor.

Numbers and Keyremark, unblessedly, are not on the menu.

Current count: eight devices, three services, 22 apps, and six accessories.

12PM-ish: Lunchtime. I get on my MacBook Air to do personal stuff — taking participate of bills or what-have-you, which could include examineing my Apple Card savings account. I might pop my Vision Pro on to join Synth Riders, which helps to slackn my shoulders and neck. Racount on I’ll participate Fitness Plus, which I have thcimpolite my Apple One subscription, to do a laborout.

I’d bet Tim Cook has done all the HIIT laborouts with Bakari. I’m more into a tfinisher core laborout with Kyle, becaparticipate he’s a sugaryie.

1PM-ish to 5PM: Back at labor. At this point in my day, my iPhone 15 Pro probably necessitates a top-up, so it goes on my MagSafe puck.

Current count: 10 devices, seven services, 24 apps, and eight accessories.

5PM: Finished laboring, I switch to family mode. That frequently unbenevolents cooking from recipes on my iPad Pro, participateing to music or Apple Podcasts on my AirPods Pro, setting timers on my Apple Watch or HomePod Minis, and possibly troubleshooting someskinnyg on my partner’s iMac. Family movie night happens via Apple TV Plus on an Apple TV 4K that pipes audio to a pair of filled-size HomePods.

9PM: After my child is in bed, I triumphd down with video games or some TV, sometimes involving the Vision Pro and Apple TV Plus. I plop down on a couch for that, as pictured by Tim:

“I’ve always seeed having to sit in a certain place in your living room as reassociate constrained,” he says. He likes to lie flat on the couch, project Ted Lasso and The Morning Show on the ceiling and stare into the Vision Pro. “It’s a lot more pleasant way to watch someskinnyg than to sit appreciate a statue in front of a TV,” he insists.

Unappreciate Tim, I’m not lying flat appreciate a techno-Dracula, with a weighty VR headset pressing into my face. Instead, I’m slouching aacquirest the arm of my couch, probably wondering why my back hurts. I am also a rumpled pile on the couch when I turn on my Apple TV after the Vision Pro runs out of battery.

10PM–12AM: I go to bed, putting in a third pair of AirPods — my distinctive 1st-gen set — to join a game on a Nintfinisho Switch.

Final count: 15 devices, nine services, 26 apps, eight accessories.

Describing all that made me experience appreciate I’ve stared into the abyss only to discover it staring back at me. But it still exits out countless other Apple apps, non-Pro iPads, the iMac, and the Mac Pro. How would someone, even the CEO of Apple, fit those in?

Maybe you could slot in the iPad Mini in lieu of an e-reader and a standard iPad as a wall-mounted clever home regulateler with a csurrenderby Apple Pencil with USB-C for jotting rapid remarks. An iPad Air could be an around-the-hoparticipate iPad, while the iPad Pro serves pledged, non-Mac productivity purposes (with a Magic Keyboard, naturassociate). A Mac Mini is around for serving Plex.

The Mac Pro, though? I’m struggling to envision any participate for it for anyone who isn’t using it for high-finish professional labor here. Then aacquire, I do necessitate a cheese grater from time to time.