Tim Cook says he uses every Apple product every day — how does that work?

While discussing his regular routine, Tim Cook told Ben Cohen successful this WSJ. Magazine interrogation that “every day” helium uses “every product.” In the story, helium mentions utilizing an iPhone, an Apple Watch, AirPods, and then, for work, 2 antithetic MacBooks, an iMac, a Vision Pro, and an iPad Pro.

But what would it look similar to truly use everything Apple makes, each azygous day? Imagine utilizing each variant of hardware Apple makes successful 1 day, with oregon without Beats. Then, determination are the accessories. Tim Cook surely uses the Polishing Cloth, Apple’s astir compatible product, each day, and astir apt this VESA equine for the Pro Display XDR.

You’d request to usage each of its services, also, and I don’t conscionable mean Apple Music, Arcade, and Apple TV Plus. iTunes Match, AppleCare Plus, and Messages via outer each count. You besides request to usage each of its software, and determination is truthful overmuch of that. Sure, you’ve got modular iPhone apps similar Messages and Photos, but what astir Clips oregon Automator?

This is 1 large puzzle, but arsenic a idiosyncratic who consciously decided to chopped retired a batch of tech friction by going each successful connected Apple’s ecosystem a fewer years ago, I mightiness beryllium capable to portion immoderate of it together.

WSJ. Magazine writes that Cook uses his iPhone first.

6AM: In nary satellite americium I triaging my inbox archetypal thing. But I aftermath up with my iPhone 15 Pro’s alarm, at slightest for now. I pat snooze connected my Apple Watch a fewer times earlier selecting halt to trigger an Apple Shortcuts automation and crook connected the airy done Apple Home portion Apple Music plays euphony connected 2 HomePod Minis successful the kitchen. I get coffee, fto the dogs out, past scroll societal media and cheque overnight notifications connected my iPhone. With the iOS 18.1 beta connected my phone, those are often summarized by Apple Intelligence, which is sometimes helpful.

Cook tells Cohen helium relies connected these and that the diagnostic “changed” his life. They haven’t changed mine, but sometimes they springiness maine a bully chuckle.

Current count: Three devices, 3 apps, 1 service. And I’m not adjacent awake yet. This is terrible.

7AM: Work starts. I property the fingerprint sensor connected my Magic Keyboard to unlock my Mac Studio. I usage an aged iPhone 13 Pro Max arsenic a webcam mounted connected a magnetic Belkin mount and an AirPods Max headset that’s sometimes plugged successful with Apple’s Lightning-to-3.5mm audio jack cable). I usage the Notes app connected an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. I usage an aged iMac G4 arsenic a 3rd monitor, just because. I mostly usage a Logitech MX Master 3, but sometimes power to a Magic Mouse oregon Magic Trackpad for funsies. Also, my Apple Watch goes connected its charger astatine immoderate constituent successful the morning.

Cook reports utilizing a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iMac portion astatine the office. I’m not doing rather that, but it mightiness not beryllium truthful outlandish. You tin usage a laptop arsenic a 2nd show implicit AirPlay, and if you don’t privation to determination 1 of your MacBooks around, having different — the lightweight Air, possibly — would beryllium handy.

Software-wise, connected my Mac I’m successful Safari, QuickTime, iMovie, Mail, and Messages, with occasional dips into Logic Pro oregon Garage Band. Other Apple apps I mightiness usage successful a time see Apple News (with Apple News Plus), Camera, FaceTime, Photos, Calculator, Calendar, Stickies, TextEdit, the App Store, Settings, Terminal, and Activity Monitor.

Numbers and Keynote, unfortunately, are not connected the menu.

Current count: eight devices, 3 services, 22 apps, and six accessories.

12PM-ish: Lunchtime. I get connected my MacBook Air to bash idiosyncratic worldly — taking attraction of bills oregon what-have-you, which could impact checking my Apple Card savings account. I mightiness popular my Vision Pro connected to play Synth Riders, which helps to loosen my shoulders and neck. Rarely I’ll usage Fitness Plus, which I person done my Apple One subscription, to bash a workout.

I’d stake Tim Cook has done each the HIIT workouts with Bakari. I’m much into a gentle halfway workout with Kyle, due to the fact that he’s a sweetie.

1PM-ish to 5PM: Back astatine work. At this constituent successful my day, my iPhone 15 Pro astir apt needs a top-up, truthful it goes connected my MagSafe puck.

Current count: 10 devices, 7 services, 24 apps, and 8 accessories.

5PM: Finished working, I power to household mode. That often means cooking from recipes connected my iPad Pro, listening to euphony oregon Apple Podcasts connected my AirPods Pro, mounting timers connected my Apple Watch oregon HomePod Minis, and perchance troubleshooting thing connected my partner’s iMac. Family movie nighttime happens via Apple TV Plus connected an Apple TV 4K that pipes audio to a brace of full-size HomePods.

9PM: After my kid is successful bed, I upwind down with video games oregon immoderate TV, sometimes involving the Vision Pro and Apple TV Plus. I plop down connected a sofa for that, arsenic pictured by Tim:

Unlike Tim, I’m not lying level similar a techno-Dracula, with a dense VR headset pressing into my face. Instead, I’m slouching against the limb of my couch, astir apt wondering wherefore my backmost hurts. I americium besides a rumpled heap connected the sofa erstwhile I crook connected my Apple TV aft the Vision Pro runs retired of battery.

10PM–12AM: I spell to bed, putting successful a 3rd brace of AirPods — my archetypal 1st-gen acceptable — to play a crippled connected a Nintendo Switch.

Final count: 15 devices, 9 services, 26 apps, 8 accessories.

Describing each that made maine consciousness similar I’ve stared into the abyss lone to find it staring backmost astatine me. But it inactive leaves retired countless different Apple apps, non-Pro iPads, the iMac, and the Mac Pro. How would someone, adjacent the CEO of Apple, acceptable those in?

Maybe you could slot successful the iPad Mini successful lieu of an e-reader and a modular iPad arsenic a wall-mounted astute location controller with a adjacent Apple Pencil with USB-C for jotting speedy notes. An iPad Air could beryllium an around-the-house iPad, portion the iPad Pro serves dedicated, non-Mac productivity purposes (with a Magic Keyboard, naturally). A Mac Mini is astir for serving Plex.

The Mac Pro, though? I’m struggling to ideate immoderate usage for it for anyone who isn’t utilizing it for high-end nonrecreational enactment here. Then again, I bash request a food grater from clip to time.