You don't need to finish each sentence with exclamation marks, fyi. Takes away any credibility.
Plus it reminds me of a certain someone who loves exclamation marks.
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Apple Became World's Most Valuable Company Seven Years Ago Today, Two Weeks Before Steve Jobs Resigned as CEO
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You don't need to finish each sentence with exclamation marks, fyi. Takes away any credibility.
Plus it reminds me of a certain someone who loves exclamation marks.
Do you forget the launch of apple maps and antenna gate? Steve wasnt perfect either. Take off the rose tinted glasses.
No he's not. That's ludicrous. Just because he might be good at Apple doesn't mean he'd be good everywhere.
You have to understand that early-on, iOS devices were barely able to run the software they originally shipped with at a decent speed. Any increase in resource-consumption from a newer OS version resulted in a noticeable slowdown.
That's not a problem we face as much today, as increasingly devices are released with performance to spare for later and more-demanding OS versions.
Having said that, I have iOS 6 running on an iPod touch 4, and it doesn't feel slow to me despite the device only having 256 MB RAM.
Yet the customer satisfaction rates disprove your argument. Go figure.
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Ah, but a classic story needs to be retold. 54 times according to your post history.
Here are some highlights:
But the real question is whether or not you're a fan of Tim Cook…
I’d say the real question is whether the poster is Scott Forstall or John Sculley, and if neither who he/she would prefer in the CEO position that would have actually succeeded.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. "Milk" it to the tune of $1 Trillion market cap. Apple is currently ranked number one in customer satisfaction for Smartphones: http://resolve.jdpower.com/business...Service-Smartphone-Satisfaction-Study/1982ENG
Laptop customer support: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/tech-support-showdown
And overall personal computing customer satisfaction: https://www.theacsi.org/index.php?o...atid=&Itemid=214&c=Apple&i=Personal+Computers
Ah, but a classic story needs to be retold. 54 times according to your post history.
Here are some highlights:
But the real question is whether or not you're a fan of Tim Cook…
Man, you really have that much forum time that you went through his post history to find this?
I really miss Steve. He was just such a special person. I don’t think there’s been another CEO would could connect so well with their audience ever. Apple was his baby and he always made sure that everything they were putting out was the absolute best they had to offer. Keynotes have never been the same since except for the anomaly of the introduction of the 15” retina MBP. But anyone could’ve gotten the audience freaking out with a product that beautiful and amazing for its time.
The first time I saw the Retina display on the iPhone 4 I was really blown away. So much that when I opened my iPad 2 I was bummed out that it didn’t have that same crisp display quality. When I saw the 15” mid-2012 rMBP in the store, it was drool worthy! 5,040,000 sexy pixels putting every 1080p TV to shame!
The first time I saw the Retina display on the iPhone 4 I was really blown away. So much that when I opened my iPad 2 I was bummed out that it didn’t have that same crisp display quality. When I saw the 15” mid-2012 rMBP in the store, it was drool worthy! 5,040,000 sexy pixels putting every 1080p TV to shame!
Likewise, let's look at it from the other side of the fence:
https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/20/apple-7th-place-laptop-review/
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-x-early-adopters-siri-satisfaction-2018-4
https://www.statista.com/statistics/703823/satisfaction-with-the-customer-service-of-apple/
Case in point... surveys are just surveys and should not be used as the only supporting information.
Was that a rhetorical question to comment that Steve Jobs and Tim Cook are different? No duh. But its the rare company where the founders make good CEO's for the long run. Steve is the starter. Tim is the long run. Business 101. If Steve had lived he ultimately for the good fo the company would have stepped down to be tinkerer emmeritus. It would have been glorious. But it was not meant to be.
You forget Steve Jobs returned to Apple when the company was failing.
It was Steve Jobs foresight and endless quest for perfection and innovation that saved Apple whilst putting the consumer first.
Without Steve Jobs Apple would be nothing and possibly not even be in existence. Tim Cook does not possess that foresight as Tim Cook's Apple is all about the shareholder.
This is not hate speech. It is the TRUTH.
THIS exactly. Microsoft is doing far more now with Bill Gates in the background and Ballmer out of the way, with someone with a longer view in charge. Would TC be better if SJ was alive? Who knows? Sure, a guiding hand would have been nice for Tim, but I think SJ did everything he possibly could to prepare him for doing the job on his own. In a way, Tim is Steve's legacy as much as anything else.
Without Steve Jobs Apple would be nothing same as without Bill Gates Microsoft would be nothing. Both Being the founders of their respective companies. Although I am not a massive Tim Cook fan I have a lot more respect for him compared to Steve Ballmer an utter buffoon who ridiculed both the MacBook Air and the iPhone and was clearly mentally unstable
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates also had the utmost respect for each other
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Haha, I wondered if somebody would ask.
The real question is how long do you think it takes to type a couple of keywords into a text box and browse the results? Because it only takes me a minute.When this topic (Steve not accepting that he was the father of his first-born daughter) comes up, I sometimes wonder if Steve's own experience (being put up for adoption by his biological parents) played a part in him not accepting the fact that he was the father of his first-born daughter.
Read his biography. I'm pretty sure he says it did, or implies it at least.
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Ok one thing is being a father and another being a CEO of a company, stop mixing both! Steve Jobs had abandonment issues, so he found it extremely hard to deal with having his first child. He was a pretty good father for the rest of his children, by the way. Again, if you are going to speak about his private/family life, at least read his biography which goes in great depth about his childhood, teenage and young adult years. Extremely interesting.
It's not obscure at all. I have no respect for people who abandon their parental responsibilities with no time for their children.
Do you know another way to gauge customer satisfaction with what they have purchased other than by surveying them? I didn't just use surveys. There's also the fact of the first U.S. company to a trillion dollar market capitalization. A corpoartion that makes products and offers services can't achieve that unless consumers in droves are buying the products and services.
He’s the second greatest CEO in capitalism’s history. Apple’s consumer satisfaction rates, profits, sales, and engagement are mathematical proof of this fact