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.
Critics of Ballmer point out that Ballmer didn’t get into hardware soon enough. Ballmer was late to making phones, they only made the software. Watched a video where he said it himself, paraphrasing, “The only two companies that surpassed us were Apple and Samsung and it’s because they made goddamn phones.” Ballmer also disliked doing anything that didn’t make money right away or within a few years.
Both criticisms don’t align with Cook. In fact he just released a product called Apple Vision Pro that isn’t expected to make Apple any money and here you all are criticizing him for it.
I’ve noticed Cook critics don’t specify what he’s doing wrong. It’s all very vague. “Doesn’t innovate.” You all should look up what innovation means. It does not mean “invent product category out of thin air.”
Cook’s Apple released an Apple Watch that is innovative. The Macs went awry and with pressure from us and the press, and with a new research process of observing pros do work, they completely revamped the Macs and brought back ports, battery, and power. The iPhones are about as refined as it can get (as far as features). The iPad software is not at all caught up to its performance capability but it’s underway, it’s not like they completely ignore its potential, and hardware wise they’re about to be upgraded in weeks. So what’s the big flaw here that makes Cook deserving of hate here?
Nobody here is a “Cook defender” this isn’t a cult of personality. I bet everybody here has criticisms of price gouging on spec upgrades and insufficient starting RAM; it’s just that none are reasons for him being replaced.