He isn't a techie, like Steve was. He is good at raking in the money but not anything technical and there isn't anyone at Apple anymore to force a level of shine on the software/hardware.
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Do You Like Tim Cook?
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Do I like Tim Cook? Never met the man.
As for your watch….are you sure you can’t workout without it? I feel like there surely must be someway to exercise without an Apple Watch….
As for your watch….are you sure you can’t workout without it? I feel like there surely must be someway to exercise without an Apple Watch….
I like Johny Srouji a lot, I find his participation at events fascinating. In my opinion, he's the real deal.
Didn't get past the OP. Like Spot says above me, I don't know him so can't say (nor do I really care). I love my iphone (12max) and my ipad. Both do what I want. Other than that, my interest in Mr. Cook is as a stockholder and as such, I am quite fine with him so far.
I think that Cook is like a politician. He always tries to say the right thing. I listened to the book After Steve Jobs, it is really good, it tells you how Apple thinks now. It is all about making profits every year. It really shows with the products they recently released. They have plans for some great products down the road, but they have to release products every year to meet sales. This is why we are seeing these in between products that don't make sense. I have always thought that the 2016 MacBook Pro was a product to lead us to a touch screen keyboard for the MacBook Pro. It backed fired, because the keyboard was not good and they eventually killed this idea, for now, and went in a different direction.
There were plenty of companies that would be bigger than Apple today if it weren’t for the federal government tearing them asunder because of antitrust regulations.
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I am mostly indifferent about the man, personally, but my opinion is that he is wrong for the company. I guess I have always felt that way since he took over from Jobs. Apple has done very well, financially, since then but equally to some--or more importantly in my mind--is their products and how well they work.
Since Cook's takeover, Apple's Mac software has been steadily going downhill. Some examples: macOS is buggy and I worry that each new iteration might break something on my computer. I was unable to run Mojave (for an entire year) because of a bug in the "iconServicesAgentd" daemon. I had to back off and reinstall High Sierra, which ran flawlessly. In later release of macOS (don't recall which one), my computer would hang for twenty minutes after a Time Machine backup to my NAS. The "diskArbitrationd" daemon was the culprit. When I informed Apple about these serious issues, I got no reply and the bugs were never fixed. They eventually disappeared via a brand new OS release.
I have had an ongoing problem syncing my Mac with my iPad. I am a writer and use Scrivener to compose my stories. I drop my eBook into Apple's app called Books. At this point I am stuck. I cannot get my personal eBooks to load onto my iPad unless I first kill the "cloudd" daemon on the Mac.
DVD Player, Finder: DVD Player, which I use every day, no longer has any Preferences which can be saved. Apple removed this ability. I have to configure the app every time I start it. Digital Audio support has also been removed. How often do you hear about a company removing useful features from its products? For me, almost never. I created a bug report with Apple and they closed it saying it works as designed. Finder is archaic in its looks and features. It hasn't changed in over a decade. I use Path Finder instead because it is so much better but PF has gone to a subscription model, which I won't support, so I will get no more updates. I will use it until it breaks.
Customer support is the pits, both in-store and phone. How am I supposed to resolve my problem when I know more about their software than their so-called geniuses? In all fairness, I think very highly of their hardware geniuses. They have always done me right. But if there is any kind of serious software issue, I either have to solve it myself or live with it. With one serious problem I had, I was told by the in-store genius that I had a corrupt system (I didn't) and needed to reinstall everything. He told me not to reinstall my user files from my Time Machine backup but to hand install (drag and drop) them from my TM backup. This created a situation where my directories became read-only. I went back to the store a week later to talk to their genius again and they had no record of my original visit. Someone had deleted from their system all evidence ... notes, results, instructions, etc., of my first visit. I had to show the store manager a copy of my email reservation confirmation before he would believe me. Their in-store genius told me to call their phone support which I did. Their phone tech told me the problem was due to some third-party software I had installed (it wasn't) and to contact their CS department. The tech promptly hung up on me. I eventually resolved the problem on my own. It took over a week to realize that Time Machine protects its files not in the usual UNIX fashion, r/w/x for User/Group/Other. TM uses an ACL (access control list) which supersedes the standard UNIX protection. This is how the OS protects its own installation against root access. I went back to the store to share what I had discovered (for the next poor sod). The people in the store had never heard of an ACL and couldn't have cared less.
I have noticed something interesting about genius visits. Apple usually sends out an email with a survey about the visit. The customer can say how things went and make comments. I have received my share of these and I always fill them out with a glowing review. However, when my visits end badly, I NEVER receive a survey email.
I hold Tim Cook responsible for this sh*te behavior: bad software and bad customer service. He is in charge and he is the one who collects 100+ millions $ each year in compensation. Under his rule, Apple has lost its way. It's become centered around one product: iPhone. Everything else is a distant second. He should be replaced with another visionary like Jobs--they do exist out there. Someone who likes and appreciates all their products as much as die-hard users like myself.
Since Cook's takeover, Apple's Mac software has been steadily going downhill. Some examples: macOS is buggy and I worry that each new iteration might break something on my computer. I was unable to run Mojave (for an entire year) because of a bug in the "iconServicesAgentd" daemon. I had to back off and reinstall High Sierra, which ran flawlessly. In later release of macOS (don't recall which one), my computer would hang for twenty minutes after a Time Machine backup to my NAS. The "diskArbitrationd" daemon was the culprit. When I informed Apple about these serious issues, I got no reply and the bugs were never fixed. They eventually disappeared via a brand new OS release.
I have had an ongoing problem syncing my Mac with my iPad. I am a writer and use Scrivener to compose my stories. I drop my eBook into Apple's app called Books. At this point I am stuck. I cannot get my personal eBooks to load onto my iPad unless I first kill the "cloudd" daemon on the Mac.
DVD Player, Finder: DVD Player, which I use every day, no longer has any Preferences which can be saved. Apple removed this ability. I have to configure the app every time I start it. Digital Audio support has also been removed. How often do you hear about a company removing useful features from its products? For me, almost never. I created a bug report with Apple and they closed it saying it works as designed. Finder is archaic in its looks and features. It hasn't changed in over a decade. I use Path Finder instead because it is so much better but PF has gone to a subscription model, which I won't support, so I will get no more updates. I will use it until it breaks.
Customer support is the pits, both in-store and phone. How am I supposed to resolve my problem when I know more about their software than their so-called geniuses? In all fairness, I think very highly of their hardware geniuses. They have always done me right. But if there is any kind of serious software issue, I either have to solve it myself or live with it. With one serious problem I had, I was told by the in-store genius that I had a corrupt system (I didn't) and needed to reinstall everything. He told me not to reinstall my user files from my Time Machine backup but to hand install (drag and drop) them from my TM backup. This created a situation where my directories became read-only. I went back to the store a week later to talk to their genius again and they had no record of my original visit. Someone had deleted from their system all evidence ... notes, results, instructions, etc., of my first visit. I had to show the store manager a copy of my email reservation confirmation before he would believe me. Their in-store genius told me to call their phone support which I did. Their phone tech told me the problem was due to some third-party software I had installed (it wasn't) and to contact their CS department. The tech promptly hung up on me. I eventually resolved the problem on my own. It took over a week to realize that Time Machine protects its files not in the usual UNIX fashion, r/w/x for User/Group/Other. TM uses an ACL (access control list) which supersedes the standard UNIX protection. This is how the OS protects its own installation against root access. I went back to the store to share what I had discovered (for the next poor sod). The people in the store had never heard of an ACL and couldn't have cared less.
I have noticed something interesting about genius visits. Apple usually sends out an email with a survey about the visit. The customer can say how things went and make comments. I have received my share of these and I always fill them out with a glowing review. However, when my visits end badly, I NEVER receive a survey email.
I hold Tim Cook responsible for this sh*te behavior: bad software and bad customer service. He is in charge and he is the one who collects 100+ millions $ each year in compensation. Under his rule, Apple has lost its way. It's become centered around one product: iPhone. Everything else is a distant second. He should be replaced with another visionary like Jobs--they do exist out there. Someone who likes and appreciates all their products as much as die-hard users like myself.
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$100,000 USD to eat lunch with Tim Cook. You game?
Have Lunch With Tim Cook -- If You Have $100,000 To Spare | Digital Trends
Tim Cook is once again auctioning off a lunch with himself in partnership with Charitybuzz. This time around, the auction starts at $100K.
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I love all of his pastas but that’s not very surprising since he has lots of dough! All of our dough that is..💰😭
Nah, he projects the vibe of a wooden, humor- and soulless beancounter. Otoh, Jobs was a certified Grade A ... So, personally, I'd probably prefer Cook, as a human being. Still, under his tenure, apple has lost a lot of it's heart, so even if I wouldn't want to work under him, I liked Job's Apple much more.
I share your sentiments so much. I started buying Apple systems in the Snow Leopard era and MacOS has never felt whole since then. After those days they started trying a million things then changing their minds about them and changing them back. All while neglecting the stability and functionality of some of the core technologies after they’re not new enough to put them in the marketing on the website.
These days I dread major OS updates. Wondering what bugs I’m gonna have to put up with for months if I update.
Like you said getting support for a software issue is a non-starter. Your best chance is someone having the same issue as you and sharing the technical details they have uncovered in a forum somewhere.
Well then you should start making a case. What? You can’t? You were just speaking hyperbole? Who knew?
People seem to forget that great decisions can be made while still making boatloads of money.
I don‘t share OP‘s hate for Tim at all but of course Steve was way more passionate and involved in the development process.
I don‘t share OP‘s hate for Tim at all but of course Steve was way more passionate and involved in the development process.
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I voted no because I found a copycat Apple company operating in China , and having found his email online I sent him an email along with screenshots of said company that were using designs that were carbon copy of the watch and iPad designs and he never replied to me. Considering my friend emailed him and told me that he got £4,000 worth of free apple products from Tim who sent him a letter directly to I was sort of expecting the same because of the info I provided but if he can’t be bothered to reply then I won’t bother anymore. I am being serious as well I think it’s only fair to receive some form of compensation as well I mean a new Ipad is pennies to a guy like that. It’s just poor customer service
Not really.
I think that under his leadership the “they just work” mentality of this company has gone down hill, especially in the services department. Overall, maps, Siri, photos app, iCloud, music, the constant switching mod ports type, quality control, have sucked big time.
I think that under his leadership the “they just work” mentality of this company has gone down hill, especially in the services department. Overall, maps, Siri, photos app, iCloud, music, the constant switching mod ports type, quality control, have sucked big time.
Look at the past 4 years (or more) of releases of products. While being good products, OS across the line were delivered late, with pieces of them delayed, with lots of bugs and hardware has not been perfect either. Putting out perfection, or at least as close as Jobs perfection as you can get, comes from the top down.
I don’t know him well enough to say “I hate him,” but I still miss Steve Jobs.
I do think, however, Tim is doing a pretty good job steering the ship in Steve’s passing. They’ve been one of the most profitable companies in the world (0several times over), they’ve completely revolutionized the way we interact with things, and made people of all ages, colors and creeds fall in love with technology. Apple truly is an amazing company to me, warts and all.
I do think, however, Tim is doing a pretty good job steering the ship in Steve’s passing. They’ve been one of the most profitable companies in the world (0several times over), they’ve completely revolutionized the way we interact with things, and made people of all ages, colors and creeds fall in love with technology. Apple truly is an amazing company to me, warts and all.
Remember when we got Snow Leopard and they talked up how it was a bug fix release for stability.
That was the Jobs era.
This myth that Apple software quality used to be impeccable is just that.
This is a good enough reason as to why I like Tim Cook.
I remember when Leopard was delayed multiple times because Apple couldn’t work on it and iOS at the same time.
MobileMe? Also Jobs.
Apple deciding to hold back features for point releases so that they’re actually ready is a very positive recent development, and while the average Joe may not see it, the last five years have seen a ton of badly needed under the hood work being done on macOS. Replacing HFS+ alone was more than a decade overdue, and it’s finally done.
Firing Jony Ive is a feature. His obsession with thinness crippled all of their products. I use two MBPs side by side for work: an x86 and an M1 Max. The x86 is sleeker, but the M1 is so much more functional it's insane. The slight increase in thickness allows for a thermal architecture where the CPU can run full-tilt and the fans barely ever even turn on. On the x86, the fans run at a minimum speed of 33%, even when idle, and it's LOUD under any non-trivial load. Same with slightly thicker phones for better battery life -- function over form.