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Apple is 50 times bigger than when the Iphone as released; things have changed... A lot.
Apple is in everyone's house, you couldn't even say that even in 2010.
Tim Cook has overseen in reality Apple through its greatest growth,
since he took on a lot of the Job's work during his last years.

People seem to think the he's parachuted or something...
He's closer to Jobs than well, everyone in his latter years.
He knows more than any of us what Jobs may or may not have done.
It's even possible Jobs said to Cook to be his own man, not to try to be him at all because he believed Apple could survive without him. That's the ultimate goal of an entrepreneur after all.

But this 'growth' has been traditional 'growth', through a multiplication of product, and not really any clear advantage, one product over the other.

Case in point, I overheard a discussion over the many different iPad models at the local Worst Try. 'Which one is better?' 'They are all pretty much the same.' came the unintelligent answer from the over worked, underpaid, and undertrained drone. 'Well, I can't decide. There is no difference between them?' 'Nope, just price. Oh, one has a better camera.'

THAT kind of 'informed salesperson is what Apple gets for trolling the depths of 'Big Box Land!' (Imagine sinister music crescendoing in the background, and lightening flashing)

Then throw in the iPhone v iPad, and the iPod v iPad v iPhone. At one point there were what, three generations of iPads in stores? Two generations of iPhones?

They have lost control of their brand. They have too many products in the catalog. They have too much inventory. They are repeating the machinations that nearly killed it in the past. If what's her name kills the 'Store Experience', Apple will be left with nothing. No cache... No 'private club' feel.

Since Tim Cook is a 'process guy', one would hope that he is riding the 'product guys' hard and fast to keep the plethora of products from being the noose that hangs the company, again...
 
Because they need to have something different to convince people to buy the more expensive model. Honestly I don't see any reason why they couldn't fit it into the 6S as well.

Yea. It's actually most annoying with the Live Photos. Without OIS a 2 second clip moving all around looks retarded. The beauty of Live Phots are the moving parts of a still image.
 
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http://www.apple.com/diversity/

You know white people get money, don't spend it.
Or maybe they get money, buy a business.
 
I thought it was a nice feature, and I think Apple remains in a great place for continued success, growth and innovation. Most of the people in charge at Apple have been with the company long before Steve died. Didn't they say only two people have left the design team in the past 20 years (or something to that effect)? That's pretty incredible.

Also, Apple is the only major tech company taking such a strong position on maintaining the security and privacy of its customers. Tim's comments on those issues were spot on. I think Apple understands that compromising their encryption methods and creating "backdoors" in the name of national security not only threatens our privacy, but also the privacy and security of Apple as a whole.

I actually sent a short thank you note to Tim's email last night and he responded this morning. I wasn't expecting a reply, but it's pretty cool that I got one. I doubt many other Fortune 500 CEOs would've cared or taken the time to respond.
 
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I don't know how to break this to you but there exists a very small possibility that Tim did not attend to your message personally :(

Oh no, how will I ever carry on knowing this might be possible?! ;)
 
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And you clearly know Steve Jobs better than Tim Cook, right ?.

Never said that, but there are definitely a lot of decisions that Tim Cook has made that Jobs would definitely disapprove of. As someone else here has said, Steve's weakpoint was choosing CEOs. I mean this is the guy who thought a VP from Pepsi was a good fit for Apple. As brilliant and innovative as Jobs was, he didn't realize that the only type of leadership that works at Apple was his own style of doing so. Hell, Scott Forstall would've made a better CEO, he had the same type of personality traits and work ethic that Jobs had. One of the reasons why I was said to see him go was not because iOS was so much better under him but because he had the potential to become a true successor to Jobs.
 
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Never said that, but there are definitely a lot of decisions that Tim Cook has made that Jobs would definitely disapprove of. As someone else here has said, Steve's weakpoint was choosing CEOs. I mean this is the guy who thought a VP from Pepsi was a good fit for Apple. As brilliant and innovative as Jobs was, he didn't realize that the only type of leadership that works at Apple was his own style of doing so. Hell, Scott Forstall would've made a better CEO, he had the same type of personality traits and work ethic that Jobs had. One of the reasons why I was said to see him go was not because iOS was so much better under him but because he had the potential to become a true successor to Jobs.
Who says, you ? Mr no-one on a forum ?
Why everyone on a forum seem to know how to conduct a multinational company ?
Jobs himself choose Tim Cook as CEO, and Cook took Apple at a level Jobs wasn't able to reach...
iOS was much better ? In which parallel dimension? iOS was an operative system lacking some basic functionality under Forstall ... but hey, it had a green carpet and a nice bookcase .....
 
Who says, you ? Mr no-one on a forum ?
Why everyone on a forum seem to know how to conduct a multinational company ?
Jobs himself choose Tim Cook as CEO, and Cook took Apple at a level Jobs wasn't able to reach...
iOS was much better ? In which parallel dimension? iOS was an operative system lacking some basic functionality under Forstall ... but hey, it had a green carpet and a nice bookcase .....

As I said before, Jobs was the same person who thought John Scully would be a CEO and look how that turned out. Tim Cook is trying to rising on the success and reputation that Jobs built and what has he done to further it? Good things never last sadly.

Also, iOS had character and a distinct style under Forstall, Jony Ive's amateurish attempt at a redesign sucked all soul and fun out of using an iOS device. One of the biggest initial draws to the iPhone and the iPad was how stable and elegantly designed the software was. Now iOS is hideous looking, buggy and has a god-awful music app. Plus the iOS UI is terribly optimized for the iPad. Since version 7, they butchered iOS, while yes they added in some features that improved the functionality, they messed a up a lot more for the sake of changing things. Until Apple does a better designed and more substantial overhaul of iOS, I'll have a difficult time trying to justify getting a new iPhone or iPad. The incentives have been slowly vanishing...
 
As I said before, Jobs was the same person who thought John Scully would be a CEO and look how that turned out. Tim Cook is trying to rising on the success and reputation that Jobs built and what has he done to further it? Good things never last sadly.

Also, iOS had character and a distinct style under Forstall, Jony Ive's amateurish attempt at a redesign sucked all soul and fun out of using an iOS device. One of the biggest initial draws to the iPhone and the iPad was how stable and elegantly designed the software was. Now iOS is hideous looking, buggy and has a god-awful music app. Plus the iOS UI is terribly optimized for the iPad. Since version 7, they butchered iOS, while yes they added in some features that improved the functionality, they messed a up a lot more for the sake of changing things. Until Apple does a better designed and more substantial overhaul of iOS, I'll have a difficult time trying to justify getting a new iPhone or iPad. The incentives have been slowly vanishing...
All extremely subjective and debatable.
The only thing that counts are numbers, and numbers say Tim Cook is one of the most brilliant CEOs ever.
iOS under Forstall was a mess, and very limited.
Ive's minimalistic approach is inline with Apple style.
iOS is "buggy" just because it's powerful and full of new functionalities, unlike first revisions under Forstall (not even copy&paste!).
iOS 9 UI for iPads is a move in the right direction...
 
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Diversity?

Hardly!
I don't see the point. Should diversity be embraced in a way that for a company to have it they must promote people based on gender and sex so it appears diverse instead of based on merit?

The people in the picture are the result of the evolution inside a company. You shouldn't deny them an earned position just because they are not diverse enough even if their work speaks for itself.
 
"a team of 800 engineers and specialists working on the iPhone's camera."

Really? 800 people working on the camera?

A meaningless statistic without context.

For example, compare that to how many are working on OS X and Apple Software...

...oh right: It was all hardware porn. Apple SOFTWARE was never mentioned.
 
All extremely subjective and debatable.
The only thing that counts are numbers, and numbers say Tim Cook is one of the most brilliant CEOs ever.
iOS under Forstall was a mess, and very limited.
Ive's minimalistic approach is inline with Apple style.
iOS is "buggy" just because it's powerful and full of new functionalities, unlike first revisions under Forstall (not even copy&paste!).
iOS 9 UI for iPads is a move in the right direction...
Minimalism works for hardware not software, that's why I will never understand why Tim Cook thought Jony Ive, a man who never designed a user interface in life, would be the right choice to take over from the way more experienced Forstall. Ive is brilliant at designing hardware, nobody argues that but that doesn't automatically mean he knows how to design the software for it.

The current iOS UI is a jumbled mess, we have completely inconsistent and cartoonish looking icons, an over use of white space and buttons that look like hyperlinks from a 90s website which doesn't exactly indicate where to touch. And yes, some useful features that were present in iOS 6 were removed from 7 and onwards for odd reasons. We have beautiful Retina displays but all the the detail has been stripped away.

iOS is definitely starting to look stale again and if they don't wanna repeat history, then maybe they should do some substantial tweaks and refreshes to prevent it from stagnating again even though I thought the old UI had a more proper and well thought-out design, the current one still looks incredibly unfinished.

iOS could definitely use a serious overhaul and maybe then I will consider getting another iPhone in the future.
 
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I still have an issue with the tax thing. It is NOT political crap as Cook says. It comes down to this:

Everyone should pay less taxes and get to keep money they've earned and decide how to spend it. That being said, unitl we get to that point, companies that make trillions of dollars ought to be coughing up more because when they hide income guess who gets the tax bill? Yep - us "idiots" that are on good old W2 payrolls where they can suck it out before you even get it. No offshore accounts. No hiding it. No fancy accounting. Just pay, homeowner/employed sucker. :(

So, yeah, get at that damned money and reduce the tax burden on us.
 
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There were plenty of screw-ups under Steve. OS9 -> OS X was so bad Apple had to give away the first upgrade of OS X. The Cube was cool but a disaster. Launching the iPhone without an app store thinking "Web apps are the way to go". Lunching the iPhone with 2G when 3G was available in abundance.

Nothing really different. Some direction shift but overall it's the same old Apple. Take off your rose colored glasses!

And yes, I'm an Apple fan.
Nothing really different? If someone has rose glasses that's you.

Comparing to Mac OS 9, OS X was a totally different and innovative system, not some buggy minor El Capitan update (which actually was supposed to improve stability and fix bugs). It's hard to imagine how such global switch from Classic OS to OS X would turn out now. But back then they did it. Cube as you say yourself was cool. As well as iMac and Power Mac. It's hard to say the same about new Mac Pro. And there's nothing wrong in believing in the web apps at that time, especially considering the fact that when potential for real apps was realized the issue was fixed.
 
The only thing that counts are numbers...
Tim Cook is one of the most brilliant CEOs ever...
iOS under Forstall was a mess, and very limited...
Ive's minimalistic approach is inline with Apple style...
iOS is "buggy" just because it's powerful and full of new functionalities...
iOS 9 UI for iPads is a move in the right direction...
Nice kool-aid, bro.
 
I bought my mum a galaxy s5 when it was released, because she is used to android, and I had to transfer his files, adapt settings... Man, that thing started lagging since minute 1, I couldn't even believe it. Now I clean it and do a maintenance once a week and restart it, and it works just quite bad. I have had iPhones without a restart for months and they work as good as when they came out the box, all of us know this.

I suggest you let someone who knows what they are doing fix it or restore it.
btw - for both OS's, experiences differ.
 
Sadly, that was Steve's biggest mistake. He should've told him the opposite because what usually happens to Apple when Steve doesn't call the shots? Tim Cook seems to be almost actively defying everything Steve Jobs would do. Not out of spite but because Cook only cares about money. Besides, wanna take a guess at how much time Cook spends hanging out in Jony's design studio? I'll give you a hint: not nearly as much as Jobs and that's an issue because he was heavily involved and hands on with the creative and development which Cook clearly isn't.

Isn't it nice to have all these posters who were close friends with Steve and can tell us exactly what Steve would have wanted in every situation.
 
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Isn't it nice to have all these posters who were close friends with Steve and can tell us exactly what Steve would have wanted in every situation.

While we don't know everything that Steve would've done but there's enough we know about him to figure some of it out.
 
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