Please reconsider, Tim! This would be a GREAT time for you to retire and you would be so much happier, I'm sure. Okay, I would be so much happier, but that counts, too, right??!!
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Apple CEO Succession Plans 'Very Detailed', Says Tim Cook
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She's one of the biggest entertainers at the moment. Tim doesn't care about talking tech as much as getting as many as much publicity for this interview as possible. Honestly, I don't know that Tim is even a tech guy as much as a business leader/figurehead at Apple.
Apple with Scott as CEO would've been way different as a company.
Certainly closer to Steve's philosophy than Tim is.
Don't you? I feel like errbody has a podcast these days.
I'm not even sure who this Dual Hippo person is.
Hopefully I get the position when the time comes. Collection of vintage Macs and Apple software should qualify me. I even have a 2007 iPhone with iPhone OS installed.
Heck, If I was to spend a hour with someone I would pick Dua Lipa over Zoe Thomas or Mark Gurman too.
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Here you go... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dua_Lipa
Because Tim Cook wanted a nice low pressure way to put out this press release. So they handed her a script and she read from it so he could read his prepared statement in response.
Cook is press-trained out the wazoo.. Asking questions like that will get no response of any value, and could just end the interview.
Steve Jobs was Apple's CEO from 1997-2011. During that tenure we got:
- iMac
- MacBook
- MacBook Pro
- MacBook Air
- Mac Mini
- Mac Pro
- iPod
- iPod Nano (including one that could be worn on the wrist, a Mickey Mouse clock face, integration with Nike shoes and a step counter.)
- iPhone
- iPad
- Final Cut Pro
- Lightroom
- iWork (Pages/Keynote/Numbers)
- iLife (iPhoto/Garage Band/iWeb/iTunes/iMovie/iDVD)
- iCloud
- macOS
- iOS
- Transition from PPC to Intel
- Apple TV
- iOS App Store
- iOS In-App Purchases
- Siri
Tim Cook has been Apple's CEO for nearly as long - over 12 years. Surely he's got a list 80% as long and about as high quality, right?
- Mac Studio
- iMac Pro (no wait, that was already cancelled)
- AirPods
- Apple Watch (no wait, that's just a rebranding of the iPod Nano)
- Transition from Intel to ARM
- AirTag (stalkers rejoice!)
- Air Power (no wait - oops)
- Apple TV+
- Home Pod (basically Siri unchanged from 2011, but now without the benefit of a touchscreen!)
- Acquired Beats
- Apple Pencil (remember how firm Steve was about saying they'd never make a stylus? Tim Cook decided what Steve actually meant was that Apple wouldn't make a stylus that wasn't 20x as expensive as any other.)
Pretty much all of Apple's success during Tim Cook's tenure can be directly attributed to Steve Jobs. The only good things to come from Apple which arguably weren't part of Steve's plans were a few Apple TV+ shows and the transition of the Mac over to ARM. But even those arguably started under Steve.
- iMac
- MacBook
- MacBook Pro
- MacBook Air
- Mac Mini
- Mac Pro
- iPod
- iPod Nano (including one that could be worn on the wrist, a Mickey Mouse clock face, integration with Nike shoes and a step counter.)
- iPhone
- iPad
- Final Cut Pro
- Lightroom
- iWork (Pages/Keynote/Numbers)
- iLife (iPhoto/Garage Band/iWeb/iTunes/iMovie/iDVD)
- iCloud
- macOS
- iOS
- Transition from PPC to Intel
- Apple TV
- iOS App Store
- iOS In-App Purchases
- Siri
Tim Cook has been Apple's CEO for nearly as long - over 12 years. Surely he's got a list 80% as long and about as high quality, right?
- Mac Studio
- iMac Pro (no wait, that was already cancelled)
- AirPods
- Apple Watch (no wait, that's just a rebranding of the iPod Nano)
- Transition from Intel to ARM
- AirTag (stalkers rejoice!)
- Air Power (no wait - oops)
- Apple TV+
- Home Pod (basically Siri unchanged from 2011, but now without the benefit of a touchscreen!)
- Acquired Beats
- Apple Pencil (remember how firm Steve was about saying they'd never make a stylus? Tim Cook decided what Steve actually meant was that Apple wouldn't make a stylus that wasn't 20x as expensive as any other.)
Pretty much all of Apple's success during Tim Cook's tenure can be directly attributed to Steve Jobs. The only good things to come from Apple which arguably weren't part of Steve's plans were a few Apple TV+ shows and the transition of the Mac over to ARM. But even those arguably started under Steve.
Steve had been dead for a decade. He personally picked Cook as his replacement, and asked told him to run the company as he saw fit, not as Steve would. This quasi-hero worship of Jobs is obnoxious.
Time to move on.
My main fear when Jobs left is that we'd lose the "Apple-ness" of Apple, they're incredibly unique in a market non-design.
Thankfully we didn't. The spirit is still there, the design ethos remains. It's occasionally watered down now Jobs and Ive aren't around but it's still high quality.
Thankfully we didn't. The spirit is still there, the design ethos remains. It's occasionally watered down now Jobs and Ive aren't around but it's still high quality.
Hopefully when he is gone the company can start to innovate their products .
But you left out my favorite machine of all time, the 12" PowerBook G4.
Is there a succession plan to add some RAM to the useless-level Macs?
In other words:
- max, iPod, iPhone, iPad, software, some services, Apple TV, in app purchases, Siri and manufacturing in China.
In other words:
- max, Apple Watch, apple silicon, air tag, air pods, HomePods, more services (makes more revenue than jobs’ apple), beats, Apple Pencil, bigger iPhones and more innovation. Plus most valued company.
Pretty much all of apples success under Tim Cook can be attributed to Tim Cook.
In other words the most ground breaking revolution being apple silicon was significantly downplayed. I’m going to upplay it.
No they didn’t.
No need for Tim Cook to sit down with Mark Gurman as he could just write about how an interview with Tim Cook would go using his Power On newsletter. He'd tell us how Tim Cook would respond to his questions with 100 percent accuracy... just like his future Apple product predictions. 🤣
