Tim Cook's Apple is the Apple we need?

[Rogifan]

I think the last 18 months have shown how Steve Jobs' absence has changed Apple. The company has started creating products that Steve would have never ever allowed to be released to public. Have a look at the Watch with its unintuitive user interface. Have a look at Apple Music, again with its very unintuitive interface.
This is not the Apple I love. Tim Cook and his team need to go back and think about what makes Apple unique...

You might think the Watch interface is unintuitive but that doesn't make it so. Plenty of other people have the Watch and get along with it just fine. I'm not a huge fan of the new Music app yet others love it and have no issues navigating it. And by the way, iTunes was a steaming pile long before Steve Jobs died. And Apple sucked at the Web long before Steve Jobs died. He wasn't infallible and not everything he did was perfect.

 

[Rogifan]

Steve Jobs was someone that could just say no to many things. I have the impression that Tim Cook's Apple isn't like that. I miss intuitive UIs from Apple. Products become more complex. I just hope that this won't happen to the Mac too, because then I would start thinking about alternatives..

IMO Android turned into a viable competitor to iOS because of Steve Jobs. I use control center and extensions on my ios devices every day. If Steve Jobs were around and had his way we'd probably never get those things. Probably the same for split screen multitasking. According to Rene Ritchie it took forever to get AirDrop on the Mac because Steve Jobs wouldn't approve it.

 

[petvas]

You might think the Watch interface is unintuitive but that doesn't make it so. Plenty of other people have the Watch and get along with it just fine. I'm not a huge fan of the new Music app yet others love it and have no issues navigating it. And by the way, iTunes was a steaming pile long before Steve Jobs died. And Apple sucked at the Web long before Steve Jobs died. He wasn't infallible and not everything he did was perfect.

I agree that Apple was never really good at providing cloud services..iTunes was not as bas as it is now..
I had a Watch and I was fine using it, but the interface is really a mess.

 

[Oudinot]

You will be glad to hear that Apple got rid of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in their products a long time ago. Unless you think that caring for the environment is political, left wing crap as well.

Whoopie do! Not sure of time frame so this may have had very little to do with Cook. Seems his PC crap is all about LBGT. Not sure what that has to do with computers.

 

[Rogifan]

I agree that Apple was never really good at providing cloud services..iTunes was not as bas as it is now..
I had a Watch and I was fine using it, but the interface is really a mess.

How is the interface really a mess?

 

[mgauss7]

So says Dan Moren at Macworld

http://www.macworld.com/article/2940431/tim-cooks-apple-is-the-apple-we-need.html


Tim Cook might be the right guy to lead Apple right now but I don't think it's for the reason Moren suggests. To me Cook may be the right man for the job because of how big Apple has gotten and Cook is excels at making sure the trains run on time. But it seems like where Steve Jobs was obsessed with products Tim Cook is obsessed with social policy. Contrast his commencement speech at Auburn in 2010 to the one he delivered at GW this year. The first was completely non political and somewhat similar to Job's address at Stanford. The second was much more political and quite honestly not nearly as good. People talk about Jony Ive's promotion being a sign of having one foot out the door. But I wonder if perhaps Cook wouldn't be more at home running for congress or the senate in Alabama than running Apple.

Apple is just fine. It is the jewel of the business world. The envy of every country. Every country would love to have Apple based there. Bulgaria would want it. Rumania. France. Mexico. Saudi Arabia where women now drive! Progress!

Unlike Facebook or twitter which block and punish conservatives (50% of the USA), Apple is a neutral company. Few times it has an opportunity to be political, as Apple is not running forums. Apple is like Amazon, just selling stuff. It respects privacy for both democrats and republicans. Not Facebook, they have sold their information many times over. They gave their database to the Democratic Party.