The fact that you say you can't pick up that the major target in Cook's speech is Google simply means that either you're lying to save face, or you're incapable of picking up subtext in what people say. Cook's talking about 'data on our devices' and 'free services' and 'having your email, search history, and now family photos'. Who the hell do you think he's referring to here? Second in his firing line is Facebook, but it's clearly squarely aimed at the Goog, because Facebook has had your family photos for years.

And just in case you are enough of a naif that you missed that 'subtext', if it can be called that subtle, the article even explicitly highlights that it was a swipe against Google and spends a paragraph explaining why. Cook was the one who brought Google into the conversation, not me. He just didn't say the word 'google'.

And besides, what kind of counter is "these were the literal words" to someone whose argument is "there is more to communication than literal words"?

But hey, "I never said you did".