I just said it was. And actual films in theaters today are sometimes shot on iPhones. Most people don't know why they need Final Cut either, but it is still an important Apple product. And what did you ask for? Visionary technologies. Not mandatory technologies that everyone would need.
I absolutely missed your network update, and I agree.
There is a reason Steve didn’t choose Ive or Forestall. I would imagine Jobs had to veto them and keep those guys in check from going extremes. Tim Cook is more personal dislike on these forums than anything else.
Hmm .. please remind us again: which $2T company did you build? 🤔
Why are you wasting your vast insights and unrivaled creative, engineering, leadership, management and inspirational talents trolling on MR? 🤔
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Those who defend Tim Cook's performance as CEO claim he's excellent because Apple has made record profits under his leadership. Yet those same people who defend Cook will (rightfully) criticize Steve Ballmer's performance as CEO of Microsoft. Yes, Microsoft made products that were not user-friendly under Ballmer's leadership. But Microsoft made record profits under Ballmer's leadership, and since that's what Tim Cook defenders care about most, why do they criticize Ballmer? It's hypocritical. Such Cook defenders fail to see their lack of logic for criticizing Ballmer.
Two questions: 1. Can you explain what you mean by “Chinese companies?” 2. Are you also asking this same question of Tesla who is getting its lunch eaten by BYD?
iPhone—never been better.
There is 0 chance Craig Federighi becomes CEO. It's obviously going to be Jeff Williams, current COO. I'll throw in Johny Srouji (chip design) and John Ternus (hardware design) as my wild cards.
That's a good question. Whatever soul Apple had quickly disappeared after Steve Jobs died and after Scott Forstall was fired. Instead of being focused on making products to serve as tools to help the common man, Apple is now run by someone with an MBA, which is one of the most soulless degrees. Jobs was working towards a B.A. in English literature (before dropping out of college during his first year). The values of idealists like Jobs has been replaced by the values of MBAs. It's no wonder that Apple is so soulless these days, considering that so many MBA students' two biggest dream jobs are working for McKinsey and Goldman Sachs. So many MBA students come to their MBA programs from consulting and investment banking jobs. Those are the soulless values held by that beancounter Cook and his supporters.
I disagree. You should see my parents when they use their iDevices. And I'm myself often annoyed by usability missteps in Apple's own apps, not to speak of things like how terrible text editing is on iOS/iPadOS, and how the iPadOS UI isn't properly adapted to the iPad mini size.
Regardless, it would have tanked. If it was going to work it would’ve been during the pandemic period of time when it made the most sense. But they missed that window. The future is not on the face.
There is so much nonsense in these comments. Given this I suspect you are not aware that it was Tim Cook, the so-called soulless, bean counting MBA who built the global logistics platform that made Steve Jobs’ vision possible to realize. Steve Jobs was an extraordinary human being. He was a great judge of talent and human capacity. He chose Tim Cook, the brilliant Industrial Engineer with an MBA. For many that counts for more than the opinions of unaccomplished internet pundits. But we don’t have to just rely on the fact that Jobs chose Cook — we have his record of building the first Trillion dollar company. What have you accomplished to be so confident that you know better than these two verifiably accomplished men?
Funny, during the Jobs era, when I worked at Apple Care in Austin we weren't allowed to call them laptops AT ALL. Notebooks. Don't call them laptops. lol.
EDIT: I got mixed up cause you quoted me saying iPhone was never better but then talked about iPad. Let me respond again...
