Oh people , please... Not the gender thing again, it's been discussed to death in the other thread about the aWatch delivery times.
Angela A. is a grown-up adult that handled big companies before, not a sensitive little child. Therefore she can be criticized on her actions as harshly (or as softly) as anyone else at Apple.
But, no one else is criticized by those people; just her, the only women on the exec team. Despite the fact that the current situation is due to one (or more) of these :
- Vastly under evaluating the market (marketing side)
- Selecting the wrong product mix (marketing' side)
- Limiting production to limit risk, or for financial reasons (Tim Cook)
- Launching a product despite limited stocks (Tim Cook)
- Creating a product with major manufacturing limits (R&D side)
- One or more component has supply/yield issues (supply chain side)
etc.
Or maybe, the main issue is simply overwhelming demand that no one could have predicted... That would probably still be a marketing issue; whoever predicted initial sales and mix likely bears the most weight in the current supply shortfall.
But, even then, only to a point. They likely knew they was a X% of possibility of a runaway success. In the end, it is Tim Cook who decided to not risk producing enough products for this high level of sales scenario.
I can understand her being the face of this delay and bearing the weight of it, even if she's not really responsible. But, often it goes well beyond that and her gender certainly comes into play in the words and tone of the argument.