On January 8, 2019, Apple Inc. filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote against the proposal from National Center for Public Policy Research requesting the Board adopt a policy to disclose to shareholders the following: (1) a description of the specific minimum qualifications that the Board's nominating committee believes must be met by a nominee to be on the board of directors; and (2) each nominee's skills, ideological perspectives, and experience presented in a chart or matrix form in the upcoming annual meeting of shareholders on March 1, 2019.