Time for a new CEO?
There will for sure be a lot of missteps when that happens; in new product development, fulfillment, and R&D.
Time for a new CEO?
Don't you and Tim both belong to the human community? That's the only "community" one should consider. 😉I was pissed at Tim for nearly a decade. I hated the changes he made to Apple products after Steve's death.
But the man knows what he is doing, and in recent years has put his own stamp on Apple, shaken it up, and given me products that neither I nor many in the world would rather not live without. He has taken Apple to the stratosphere financially, culturally, and even environmentally.
All while also being a dignified member of a both underrepresented and resented community (that I don't belong to, mind you. I belong to a different underrepresented and resented one.)
Props.
Jobs officially killed the Newton shortly after he returned to Apple in 1997 because he despised it and he had nothing to do with Power PC. He resigned from Apple seven years before the Power PC chips were even released. He also took the lead on the Macintosh project because he didn't care about Lisa since it was trash and a failure. Wow 😳Considering that Tim Cook has run the company for 10 years and it's profits have grown at a healthy rate I think he could pay off whoever he needs to if he wants to buy an award. I don't agree with a lot of things that Cook has done but he has been good for Apple business-wise. And I am old enough to remember when Steve Jobs was basically shown the door in the late 80's because of how poor the company had done financially in the previous years before he 'resigned'. The Lisa, the Newton, the PowerPC consortium were all part of Jobs 'accomplishments'. Even after he returned to Apple if he hadn't gotten a loan from Microsoft the company may not have stayed solvent long enough to turn around. A lot of the policies that Steve put in place on his second time as CEO were direct consequences of things he screwed up the first time, so he switched to a x86 architecture for Apple computers, scaled back his 'Newton' successor the iPad to be more of a convenience and entertainment device, and started getting Apple into the chip design business so if they ever went their own way again on chip architecture then Apple would be the only one making the decisions, instead of the Apple/IBM/Motorola consortium who each had their own agenda that was different than Apple's about what the PowerPC should focus on.
Like Qui Gonna told young (and naive) Anakin Skywalker:Don't you and Tim both belong to the human community? That's the only "community" one should consider. 😉
And that thing is influencing his people, isn't it?The list also includes people like Mullaah Baraadar. Oh, Tim.
That's a huge assumption. For example my sister was infuenced to buy an iPhone by ME. Not Tim Cook, (or Steve Jobs for that matter). I suspect millions of others are in the same boat. Not to mention many others that watched the Keynote(s) and felt that employees other than Cook were the ones that really sold the product to them.And many, many, many more to buy apple products and services.
And that thing is influencing his people, isn't it?
Lesson of the day.... more RAM should not be the focus. Instead, apps need to be focused on optimization, leanness and performance. Go share your concerns with your favourite app developers, not Apple.
True. As an opinion I believe it. But it can’t be proved or disproved as a statement of fact. The mindset of the hundreds of millions that buy apple products can’t be analyzed by MR posters steps or anecdotal evidence.That's a huge assumption. For example my sister was infuenced to buy an iPhone by ME. Not Tim Cook, (or Steve Jobs for that matter). I suspect millions of others are in the same boat. Not to mention many others that watched the Keynote(s) and felt that employees other than Cook were the ones that really sold the product to them.
Maybe the historical view, not a today view. But the author seems biased to say the least.This is what a real list of the most influential people should look like:
True. But surely it must be obvious that lots of products endorsed by their CEO are not actually chosen becasue of that endorsement?True. As an opinion I believe it. But it can’t be proved or disproved as a statement of fact. The mindset of the hundreds of millions that buy apple products can’t be analyzed by MR posters steps or anecdotal evidence.