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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Apple's 'Creative Engine' Has Never Been Stronger
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Ironic, this is. In fact Steve left two companies that he'd founded, Apple and Pixar. The other irony is that Apple today is perhaps the most prestigious company in the world, and of course one of the very largest. Sure, a person could take their package and go work for someone else, but it would almost certainly be a step down, if not many steps down, from working for Apple. Commitment might be overrated.
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He was pressured out from Apple, and colleagues of his who still had significant interest/influence on the board helped engineer a boardroom coup in which he was hired back through the intentional acquisition of NeXT that resulted in forcing Amelio to step down. He never wanted to leave Apple.
Pixar was founded by Lucasfilm and sold by George Lucas to help settle his divorce from Marcia.
How fun can you be on an earnings call? I don't understand what people expect him to do lol
Remember, after the iPhone 6 event, Tim told Charlie Rose that Apple is
very secretively working on devices "that haven't even been rumored about."
Like I've said ever since the Apple Campus 2.0 announcement, they simply must
be basing this gargantuan structure on something substantially more than just
future earnings from mere iPhone & iPad spec bumps.
Some completely new things must be in the offing. So there's that. I guess.
very secretively working on devices "that haven't even been rumored about."
Like I've said ever since the Apple Campus 2.0 announcement, they simply must
be basing this gargantuan structure on something substantially more than just
future earnings from mere iPhone & iPad spec bumps.
Some completely new things must be in the offing. So there's that. I guess.
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The problem, as I see it, is that Mr. Cook continues to make that claim without offering any substantive proof. Where are the new, innovative products? How long must we wait?
I think the emperor has no clothes.
PRECISELY, my friend. Pre-friggin'-cisely.
Cook is a bean counter: the PC beige box to Steve's Flower Power iMac.
Apple would not be where it is today without a crazy acidhead visionary genius like Steve Jobs.
It needs that kind of a person at the helm.
When Walt Disney passed away, who took over? The accountant? Exactly.
An Apple space station, like the Deathstar? Under construction on the dark side of the Moon, just in time for Christmas 2017.
I suspect you're right. Remember that Mr. Cook fired Steve Forstall, who created iOS and was one of Steve Jobs' chosen ones.
to get his butt off his chair and work as if he just started working for apple.
Actually, I've always dreamnt of something along those lines.
And Apple, being the biggest company in the world, has the cashish to pull it off ....
iTown.
A completely self-contained Apple-centric residential community with ....
* single dweller housing units at various price points
* electric multi-/single-passenger [like Segway] vehicles only.
* pay your rent in the iTown app [available to iTown residents only] with a simple ApplePay IAP tap.
* SOTA fiberoptik connectivity [included in rent]
* bathed in free broadband WiFi [iTown residents only.]
* a specially designed Apple store [iTown residents only.]
* TouchID-enabled everything: unit frontdoor lock, WiFi access, laundromat washing machines, etc.
* typical municipal amenities: public square, park, movie theater, supermarket, etc.
* special iBank: ApplePay access to ATMs, checking & savings account, loans, etc.
* all consumer transactions done via ApplePay: no cash required anywhere.
* FaceTime-enabled 5K viewscreen included in every unit for, among other things, community announcements.
* Auditorium for close circuit Apple event group viewings
I seriously wish they'd take the bull by the horns and do this.
I'd move there in a second.
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Where are you getting this from? The retina iMac has this year's high-end hardware. There are no reports of it stuttering when scrolling. It costs the same as a 5K monitor by itself. I can definitely see the individual pixels on a current iMac, but you can wait and see the difference for yourself soon.
Now, you're complaining about how Apple just changed the parts used on the computer. Your expectations are very high for any year that isn't 2013 (new Mac Pro) or 1984 (Macintosh), maybe 1998 (iMac) if that was good enough.
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I want some of what Tim is smoking.
Mac mini (cough, cough)
If the new mini is creative (slower, less user friendly, etc) then I think Apple needs to be uncreative.
Mac mini (cough, cough)
If the new mini is creative (slower, less user friendly, etc) then I think Apple needs to be uncreative.
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You guys forget so quickly.
The iPhone was BASHED. Here on this very website, in fact. And that's the only "revolutionary" product Apple has ever launched. And they hardly sold any when you look at the hard numbers.
iPad was literally an enlargement of the iPhone. Also bashed.
Let's not even get into what people said about the iPod. Couldn't hear enough about the Archos Whatever that was presumably so much cooler.
Apple has never been about revolutionary ideas or blowing people's minds. It's been about looking at a problem, sometimes for a very long time, and making something really good.
Wait until the 3rd iteration of the Apple Watch and I predict you'll all feel very silly for declaring it a failure out of the gate.
The iPhone was BASHED. Here on this very website, in fact. And that's the only "revolutionary" product Apple has ever launched. And they hardly sold any when you look at the hard numbers.
iPad was literally an enlargement of the iPhone. Also bashed.
Let's not even get into what people said about the iPod. Couldn't hear enough about the Archos Whatever that was presumably so much cooler.
Apple has never been about revolutionary ideas or blowing people's minds. It's been about looking at a problem, sometimes for a very long time, and making something really good.
Wait until the 3rd iteration of the Apple Watch and I predict you'll all feel very silly for declaring it a failure out of the gate.
Scott Forstall only lasted about a year after Steve's death. Too bad.
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I still love to watch the vid of Steve introducing iBook and Airport. The wireless was almost incidental the way her presented. That hula hoop had the crowd going wild.
Steve had a cameraman on the iBook G3 screen and he casually picked the iBook up and walked across the stage. That's good stuff.
Now a keynote is wondering what product will be dumbed down to squeeze more profits. Sad.
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Firing the idea people makes you run out of ideas very quickly.
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Steve seduced us with insanely great products. I miss Steve more each time Cook opens his mouth.
Cook = sorry I got a headache.
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Agree. Cook saved me a considerable amount of money. Steve was an expensive guy but he was worth every penny.
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Completely naked.
He could have remained at Apple, had he wanted to, but not as CEO. Not only did he leave, he sold all but a single share of his stock.
Pixar's original founding is of course totally irrelevant to the point.
Eisner is an accountant/lawyer and he's the one who took Disney out of they dump it was in.
You need both an accountant/COO and a visionary/CTO to make a tech company work. Either ones and it flounders. Jobs was no COO, that's all Cook. Not sure who has taken the mantle for the visionary spot. But, there are surely a worthy people inside Apple.
And there's the problem. These latest issues have affected youand you've noticed. To not have had an issue from 2010 to 2013 is amazing.
Like any streak - it will end.
Other users using other parts of Apple's line-up will have been equally frustrated whilst you were not - Final Cut Pro X was a big one in that 2010 to 2013 time frame for example. Another is the initial release of OS X Cheetah in 2001 - the single biggest Apple mess from my use case. A lot of people were annoyed in 2012 that their brand new iPhone 5 came out of the box with scuffs. Some users in weak signal areas had issues with dropped calls on their iPhone 4 in 2010.
No company is perfect, and no company is bullet proof. If you mess up consistently customers will take their hard earned cash elsewhere. As a shareholder I try and look at everything from the money they make, to the reviews of their products (even ones that I don't need/use), to the various customer satisfaction surveys, to the future demand surveys etc. And Apple is as strong as ever.
Don't forget they are bigger than they have ever been too. Even just 7 years ago an iOS update went to a few million phones - just 1 model. Now an update goes out to hundreds of millions across multiple models. They now have a cloud hub at the heart of these products which wasn't there previously. Scale is never easy.
I certainly will not be giving Apple a free pass, if I think anyone else if offering a better experience I will switch. But at the moment they are still doing fine in my eyes.
Could they be one and the same? Perhaps, upon completion, the campus will break loose from its mooring points and depart Earth under super-secret iWarp drive (they must be spending their time on something).