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Apple CEO Succession Plans 'Very Detailed', Says Tim Cook
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Steve Wozniak’s still around, though at 73 he may not be interested in the CEO role in the company he co-founded.
He's far too passionate about tech to be CEO of Apple.
With him we'd probably have user serviceable RAM and SSD, and single board computers with Apple Silicon.
Oh, the horror.
Not wanting to sound like I’m stating the obvious, but Apple Silicon has integrated RAM, it can’t be user serviceable.
I’m not sure how that’s relevant. Wow wouldn’t be able to design a chip with integrated memory to have user serviceable memory. It’s just not possible, Woz or not.
It's LPDDR5-6400, not an alien specification.
Surely you could engineer it to rely on DIMMs instead of integrated memory with little to no performance penalty.
Ya Tim is excellent at following someone else script, but if I was a shareholder at apple, Id be very very worried.
1. More and More phones are coming to market, while iphone gets more and more expensive with very little innovation.
2. User experience has been getting worse and worse. QA is basically non existent compared to when Steve was there.
3. The original design team has quit, Isn't it the job of the CEO to keep the core team together, so great job Tim
4. Apple latest and greatest M3 is looking like a big fat dud.
only thing Tim is good at is making money, at the expense of everything else.
Patently false.
Patently false. (You’re holding it wrong?)
Is there some expectation that people stay at jobs forever?3. The original design team has quit, Isn't it the job of the CEO to keep the core team together, so great job Tim
Or it’s not.
Patently false. I can understand this point of view if what’s viewed on the internet are only memes about apple.
All the above comments are, are generalize baseless opinions.
You can believe what you want, the facts speak for themselves.
Yes people work at good career jobs FOREVER, maybe Gen Z don't get that because they think they should have 16 hours a day of free time and never work but get a full time wage and success of a job / career. This is one of the biggest job of a leader, keeping the team together.
You obviously don't understand anyone point of view with an immediate response of "Patently false", your exactly everything that is wrong with this generation, a one single view point and if your opposite then its just false.
The reality is, your response and attitude will only hurt you, you will have less opportunity in life because of your one sided opinion.
Best of luck
This post screams Ageist. I think Gen z has realized a more healthier work-life balance. I know for a fact I am glad that I now actually have time off and im not working like a slave. This mentality that you need to work 60-80 hours a week five or six days a week and not want more for yourself (time with your family, time to yourself) is so archaic and dated.
Many people leave jobs they were happy with because they reach a point in their life where they want something different.A new challenge. a chance to explore something they never had the chance to prior.
He’s not that rich. He’s in the 0.1% but not among the richest people in the world. He’s not even in the top 1000.
What facts? Nobody mentioned any facts only some baseless generalize opinion.
Yes many people are long term employees for reasons of their own, others who are stellar decide to move for reasons of their own. In any case its hyperbole to ascribe some blame to a CEO when people decide to move on.
If any facts had been mentioned, those facts could have been debated. But it seems to me many substitute opinion for facts without a clear cut understanding of the differences.
This posts represents what is wrong with discourse on MacRumors. Posters put up generalized baseless opinions and others step in to defend those opinions as facts If it is said, iphone lacks innovation, that’s a conclusion at lease put up some verifiable facts or some opinions based on facts.
As for my less opportunity in life, it’s folly to draw a conclusion of a posters based on their posts. AT MR its always better to discuss the post and not the poster, for the latter can lead to unintended consequences.
Does it really matter about Tim? He has his own brand of charisma, which is different than Steve Jobs. The Enron ceo had some charisma and see where the company is now.
I don't dislike Tim, he surely has a lot of good skills as a CEO, however charisma is not among those.
Most keynotes of the last 10 years have been nearly as exciting as watching paint dry.
Not everyone needs to be a Steve jobs to be charismatic. Steve definitely was entertaining and made you interested in the product, yes but i actually enjoy the more relaxed and subdued tim approach as sometimes steve was over the top for things that really didnt require that level of enthusiasm
Wow, you would have been far better off not commenting, rather than doing so and removing all doubt that you didn't bother to actually watch the interview. Dua Lipa was clearly prepared, asked good questions and probably got Cook to be a bit more candid than he might have been with a member of the tech press.
Is he the watch guy who looks like Milhouse?
Outside bet is the woman who is always stood on the roof of Apple park talking about green initiative.
Over 100x the market cap growth when Apple was heading towards bankruptcy (in 14 years) is more impressive than not even 10x the market cap growth (in 12 years) from an already well established global leader in tech. Simple math here. This is fact, not my opinion.
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Forbes says his net worth is 1.9 billion. That makes him the 1,509th wealthiest person in the world. Which makes him among the 0.0000197% most wealthy people in the world.
Steve Jobs had 10.2 billion, mostly from Pixar/Disney shares (he and then his widow were the single largest shareholders in Disney after the Pixar merger). This made him the 110th richest person in the world. So Cook is doing pretty well considering he wasn't a founder/majority owner of any companies in his life.
I'm afraid you may be correct...Apple seems all about the glitz now. As an example bought new iPhone. so easy to transfer data from another iPhone, with the set up software geared up for it....it was it....well it looked great, nice little sequence....pity it just didn't work for me, nor for Apple. Apparently its geared up for only following on from say Iphone14 to iPhone15 and mine was iPhoneSE2020...so ended up manually transferring which was no hardship, but rather illustrates how glitz does not make up for function.
Seriously. Did you ever speak to Steve? He did so much more, and ironically a non Apple person did so much too. Chuck Geschke who I had the pleasure of meeting and talking to quite frequently. When the altercation with Steve and Apple resulted in his departure his project was NeXT and he wanted a more productive computer, which required a new OS. but up until that time Apple along with Windows did not have WYSIWYG, they used tints and patterns to try to approximate what was on the screen. Chuck helped change all that with a little program he, John Warnock and a few others constructed....that was called PostScript. Steve again having foresight saw how PostScript could be transformational, and his NeXT OS incorporated display PostScript and in a much more secure unix core. His NeXT computer was not seen by the media as a success, yet Tim-Berners Lee considered the father of mainstream internet was instructed to use Steve's NeXT computer in the construction of the internet, or internet as we know it. Before that Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn played a massive part in the precursor, but it was more a military project originally whereas Tim Berners-Lee using NeXT computer made what is a more mainstream recognisable internet.
Apple realised the error of their ways and paid Steve $429m getting Steve back as well, and from that Apple's OS still remains a legacy from the visionary that was Steve. Even media portrayals were not accurate. He was suggested to be aggressive... Not in my experience. He was absolutely passionate about what he did and if some mistook that for aggression then they misunderstood or didn't know him.
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