There will for sure be a lot of missteps when that happens; in new product development, fulfillment, and R&D.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Makes TIME's List of 100 Most Influential People of 2021
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There will for sure be a lot of missteps when that happens; in new product development, fulfillment, and R&D.
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 😳
Tim has taken care of the content he got from of Steve and Joni, and squeezed the most 💰 out of it, that’s all.
I reflected over last presentation, how it had totally lack of spirit, lack of humor, lack of everything I loved about Apple.
How I miss Steve’s and Joni’s silliness, warmth & brilliance. The soul of Apple. I just saw a perfect very cold and boring presentation. Nothing else.
I said to myself, this might have been the last presentation I even watched, even partly.
I will of course still buy the Apple products in the same way I prefer certain brands over others regarding other things.
I might hear it here when Tim is gone, and Apple is doing its soul-searching.
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I reflected over last presentation, how it had totally lack of spirit, lack of humor, lack of everything I loved about Apple.
How I miss Steve’s and Joni’s silliness, warmth & brilliance. The soul of Apple. I just saw a perfect very cold and boring presentation. Nothing else.
I said to myself, this might have been the last presentation I even watched, even partly.
I will of course still buy the Apple products in the same way I prefer certain brands over others regarding other things.
I might hear it here when Tim is gone, and Apple is doing its soul-searching.
MacRumors never gets dull 😁
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Tim Cook is a good enough general manager for the corporation, but he is no technology visionary. The fact is although the products have been improved a lot as technology has advanced the ideas for the current products can trace their route all the way back to Jobs. The Apple Watch is the only successful product introduced during the Cook era. The idea of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac are all Jobs ideas. The next big push is AI and voice and Apple is seriously falling behind competitors in those spaces.
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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.
You may assume faster than the A15 Bionic if that makes you happy and satisfies your need and soul.
For me, it was just a reflection on how on one hand the list has people like Musk and Cook, and on the other, we have ... that. It is something when a t***t is acknowledged by Time as a member of the world's top 100 most influential. Sad times.
Also, it was from my perspective that if I were a member of the list, along with that person, I would feel something about sharing that space and list with that person.
That's all there was to it at my end. You may think whatever.
1. I will go where I want and when, thank you.
2. I do not need lessons from you on memory usage and management. I have been in the industry long enough to understand a thing or two.
3. My apologies for looking like I was trying to raise something against a beloved (company/ person/ whatever).
I was not, and it was only a lighthearted remark. This is a new phone. If the highlight is a tweaked/ redesigned/ bettered processor and the fact that it comes with the same amount of RAM as its predecessor, the consumer is the one getting shortchanged because Apple will cite either the processor or the RAM when it wants to cull features - what's to say the A11 with its neural engine is incapable of offering Live Text? We won't know, we only have Apple's word. Newest iPad comes with A13, not even 14, and not the 15. It means the new iPhone does not need an A15, and, in general, it means that the i-Devices need optimisation of software and hardware, and I am sure they need more RAM to work more fluidly for tasks that people may use their devices for. It is amazing how people love Apple for offering the least possible increments for the money out of their wallets.
However, for your lesson of the day/ night, you are right, more RAM should not be the focus. Thing is, it was neither the focus, nor a focus. Any person with adequate levels of comprehension would get that nuance from the structure and connotation of the sentence. But, coming to your lesson of the day, is Apple's focus on providing lean apps? No. Apps that used to be under 50 MB are now in several hundred MBs because one app is made to run on all devices, with resources for all other devices contained in the app. It takes storage space and I am not sure if it also has an effect on memory footprint. The developers (favourite or hated) may offer separate apps for iPhone and iPad and macOS of their own volition, but it is Apple that can make them do that - in the interest of leanness and app performance on device categories. It is Apple that will provide them with the resources (if Apple so wants to) to build lean apps that are designed for separate classes and not just app bundles that take up hundreds of MBs in storage because one app must now have resources for all iPhones and all iPads. Any sane-minded human would understand this, or so I can hope.
In absence of app regulation, what else do we do but follow the Android path of going for the most RAM that we can?
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This is what a real list of the most influential people should look like:
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.
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?
