Cook has to go, he is destroying Apple.
He's not great but I also don't trust anyone to choose someone better. Steve Jobs was a special, once in a lifetime CEO. It's all downhill from here because the tech industry has been taken over by visionless grifters with no passion for making things people actually enjoy using
Jobs was a once in a lifetime visionary. I'm not sure if the leading contenders (such as Craig, Jeff, Phil etc) will do much better than Tim from a vision or taste standpoint.
Isn't Phil the one responsible for the awful App Store shenanigans that are ruining relations with developers and making usability worse for EU customers?
If that's the case, my bet is he will probably be the one picked and also he'll be absolutely reviled because of his terrible style of dealing with people and lack of judgement on what's important and what's not important
Craig is OK but he's also the person responsible for Apple's declining software quality and overall poor management of balancing all the different software Apple has to juggle and keep updated. His philosophy seems to be "as long as it's just barely good enough, it's fine" with seemingly no concern for the software being exceptional or enjoyable to use
I don't know a single thing about Jeff so I have no opinion on him
I was looking at Apple's
Leadership page and saw that John Ternus is responsible for Hardware. I've never heard his name before but that's the one area Apple is excelling in. Probably more than ever. If that's an indication of his management and vision, maybe he's the one who could do a good job replacing Tim
We can only hope whomever is after Cook will have vision and taste. Talent is talent is talent.
No matter how much Cook try to establish ”Apple University” or whatever to ”teach” the Apple way to their employeess, he should know better flowcharts and ”design thinking“ will NOT produce the next Jobs.
Apple will
never be brave enough to hire the next Jobs. The only reason they did was because they had absolutely no other option. The next Jobs probably isn't even in Tech since it's become the de facto playground of greedy grifters. People forget that at the start of the tech industry, people actually
believed they could make the world a better place using technology. Now when people say that i's just market spin to justify stealing from customers (like Facebook) and to mollify rubes