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Who will be Apple's next CEO?
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Not sure if Apple has a mandatory retirement age for senior management but if they do he my be out in 2025 when he turns 65. Many companies have such a policy to prevent upper management from getting too stale.
With how Apple has been doing it's more along the lines of trillions.
They've never gone with a software guy before so that would be a first. Usually business or supply chain minded people.
I really like Craig but he's probably more useful and possibly happier in charge of software than at the helm.
Whoever the next CEO of Apple will be, He/She will have an easy time since the company has already developed systems and have the best innovative team on earth. Let's wait and see who that is.
Elon Musk.
They'll absorb Tesla, Space X, Neuralink etc
Then buy Disney.
They'll absorb Tesla, Space X, Neuralink etc
Then buy Disney.
Since history tends to repeat itself, I say Indra Nooyi. Too bad she wasn't Jobs' direct successor for an even greater sense of "we've seen this movie before".
If age isn't a factor, maybe Bill Gates. Give him a chance to work for the company whose products his company copied for so many years. (As someone said in the 90s: "Windows 95 = Apple 1986") LOL
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Jony Ive?
(I know it is far fetched, but he could certainly play the part of a Steve Jobs-like visionary)
(I know it is far fetched, but he could certainly play the part of a Steve Jobs-like visionary)
It could be any of these, but I am not sure. I suppose it would be someone (i) business-minded and view a broad view of the company and not only of the products it sells; (ii) focused on people and processes and not on hardware and products; and (iii) hired and/or trained by Tim Cook and who is close to him.
While Tim Cook did a great job as a business, numbers oriented guy focused on squeezing out every bit of profitability he could and was able to crack the code on things Jobs couldn't (like services), I would like to see the next CEO be more of a product visionary like Jobs. Everything ebbs and flows and it's time to go back to that after Cook. I'm one of the few who feels Cook is the better CEO, too.
Even though he's expressed in interviews here and there that he has no desire to be CEO, I really hope it is Craig.
Tim Cook is an operations wizard who maximized efficiency & profits, but Craig seems like he just loves tech in the geekiest way possible, with all his heart.
He is a bonafide nerd (I mean that as a major compliment) and you just feel his pride & passion, anytime he talks about what he creates & does.
He isn't on that visionary level that Jobs was on, but I get the same warmth that Jobs felt about what he created, from Craig too.
Especially since Tim Cook has set the Apple profit juggernaut in perpetual motion anyway, it might be good to take a short hiatus from a CEO who is focused solely on the $$$ and go for someone who can breathe some fresh life back into the tech.
Tim Cook is an operations wizard who maximized efficiency & profits, but Craig seems like he just loves tech in the geekiest way possible, with all his heart.
He is a bonafide nerd (I mean that as a major compliment) and you just feel his pride & passion, anytime he talks about what he creates & does.
He isn't on that visionary level that Jobs was on, but I get the same warmth that Jobs felt about what he created, from Craig too.
Especially since Tim Cook has set the Apple profit juggernaut in perpetual motion anyway, it might be good to take a short hiatus from a CEO who is focused solely on the $$$ and go for someone who can breathe some fresh life back into the tech.
God. I hope not. His software Division is just plain crap.
And this is precisely the reason why Craig will not be the next CEO. The next CEO will be another guy focused on operations, financials, or management, and not a tech guy.
True statement.
Msft's only concern is about market share, nothing else. Bill Gate's greatest talents including looking over the shoulders of engineers who know what they are doing and straight-out theft.