His use to Apple has long expired. I don't blame him for this - just how many times can you muster enthusiasm to oversee yet another iPhone/laptop/iPad iteration. I assume the spin about retaining LoveJoy for Apple is bogus. Tim Cook is smarter than to demoralize his up & coming new and fresh design talent by suggesting they defer to an outside guy who these days would rather design furniture.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls Recent WSJ Report About Jony Ive 'Absurd'
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This is not retrievable data. You will, however, find people questioning general operations at Apple omnipresent if you read through the comments of articles weekly.
Everything is a conspiracy theory now when those making that call know absolutely nothing about the facts. Makes for good reading some times.
Q3 results are due at the end of the month so cue a barrage of negative stories about Apple to depress the stock before the results are released. Rinse and repeat.
Ive was like a brilliant writer missing an editor. That’s partly what Jobs was (at least I think).
Re: the trash can—that machine was previewed about a year after Jobs’ death. I have to think Jobs approved that design before he died—in other words, I don’t think the trash can is all on Jony.
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Is there a product guy in the bowels of the company they can promote from within?
I agree with everything you said, except there WILL NOT BE another Steve Jobs..
"News" CAN'T be wrong, it needs to be verified truth is what I was taught in one of the best Journalism schools in the US. I cancelled the WSJ 4 years ago because it's nothing more than editorial agenda in every stinking article. It sickens me what is called "News", and "Journalism" today. Truth is dead with the internet & social media. I feel sorry for future generations not being able to trust the daily media feeding of agenda based propaganda.
1. Tim Cook never claimed that he can be like Steve. He already did many things differently than Steve.
2. If Tim only cared about profits, then explain his actions in making Apple more charitable, spending more resources in recycling and renewable energy, spending more money in making sure Foxconn Et al treating their labors better, etc. Thise things cost money, and Jobs actually care less about those things.
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Obviously the engineers are trying to fix things with the gen 3 and 4, while Ive already washed his hands and left, leaving things thinner, the way he likes it.
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Do you live in the same dimension? Apple still has the same vision as before, and even though you wanted Apple to fail, they’re still doing great. I mean show me how Apple is being “run into the ground.”
The story at slashdot claims Ives left because of Tim Cook's lack of interest in product design.
Given the years long delays in Mini and Pro updates, this seems a FAR more believable story.
Doesn't bode well for future desktop Macs, but it is what it is.
Given the years long delays in Mini and Pro updates, this seems a FAR more believable story.
Doesn't bode well for future desktop Macs, but it is what it is.
I was amazed and taken aback when I realised that 2016 onwards for a single component replacement you will need To replace the entire top case with 5 components. That did wonders to their responsibility and recycling claims.
Apart from that one, yes. Agreed.
If you were a CEO of a company as huge as Apple, would you tolerate one of your highest paid executive and highest power in decision making to make blunders like that?
What’s a computer? was misunderstood by the majority. In my mind it was never meant to be dismissive of Mac-like computers. it was supposed to be thought provoking and ask the question: what is a computer? Or put another way, can an iPad also be a computer? The nuance is critical, but was unfortunately lost on most.
Completely agree. The WSJ was a respected paper back in the '80's - 90's. Serious heavyweight. I had a lot of respect for it then.
Now, it's just a...
Like all legacy print media, it was forced to adapt to the current taste in "News" in order to stay afloat. Sadly, they took the low road, gave in and sold out. Sad loss. It was a colossus back in its day.
There has always been bias. The press covered for Kennedy back in the sixties.
When was the news without an agenda from the people who controlled/owned/distributed the content? Maybe there was the illusion of truth back in the day monopolies fed us the news but now at least we know everyone has an agenda. You choose who to believe or do the research and take the average of all the info.
Who was the most trusted guy back in the day? Cronkite?
https://www.newsweek.com/new-biography-cbs-newsman-walter-cronkite-dents-his-halo-64849
an iPad is 100% without a doubt a computer.. by very definition, it is a computer.
anybody who can’t see that and instead feels the need to make fun of Cook for it.. well, they just aren’t the people the commercials were aimed at..
but i can almost guarantee this— Cook and/or ad agency already knew the slight backlash would be coming from the geekbench players.. they think they’re being clever but they’re just acting in the way that was already expected of them.. so, not very clever imo
A thousand "atta boy!" comments can be erased by one "oh sh**!"
Yes, he would say that, wouldn't he. Yet the tidbits of insider's information that are seeping through the cracks do not agree with him.
The greatest tragedy in all of this is that we've ended up with a CEO that has zero passion for what made Apple great. That is, a deep love for product design with the goal to create products that people can afford and instinctively know how to use. Instead, Tim Cook's passion is about the numbers and his talents, for better or worse, are slowly turning Apple into an IBM/MS of the 1990's. Boring, soulless, mediocre, and highly profitable. We're slowly losing this great company to shareholders and executives. What a crying shame.
Yes, agree 100%. I was shocked to see Jony Ive explaining the Mac Pro to Cook at the developer conference. A CEO who doesn't even know his own products which were just announced to the public?
And if that was some sort of "hidden" marketing, then it was surely a really bad one.
what did he say?
you might of seen something but if you’re using the word “explaining” then you must of heard something too.
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Is this what happens to all great companies in decline? At first you have truly innovative visionaries that really care about the things they make like Jobs, Ive, etc. but then it’s taken over by merely competent middle managers (say, a good parts and supply guy that does operations really well) who try to max profit, price discriminate (in the economic sense), and do just enough to keep up but stagnates as a whole.
Are there truly always innovative companies when the drive/success is so tied to specific kinds of people (who may not be replaced/replacements don’t have the same power in the workplace)?
Are there truly always innovative companies when the drive/success is so tied to specific kinds of people (who may not be replaced/replacements don’t have the same power in the workplace)?
I'll tell you how Cook's achievements and appeal differ from that of Jobs. One was a trailblazer who fought the status quo while the other courted the status quo. One was successful in spite of his rebellious ideas. The other was successful because of his populist products.
Comparing Cook's contributions and achievements to those of Jobs, is like comparing Oprah's to Martin Luther King's.
Tell me what sense it makes for Tim Cook to send a journalist an email full of lies? Now it keeps this story in the news when it probably would have faded as the tech world has no attention span and quickly moves on to the next thing. I don’t see any upside for Tim Cook doing this other than the story is crap and he wants everyone to know it.
No, they sometimes omitted what didn't fit their beliefs and amplified what did, but they didn't report rumors & just lie about things like they do now. You never hear a retraction either! Most are Just tools of BOTH political parties in the US. Of course its not a very ;”fair fight” when 90% of the media have the same agenda as one party though...