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Apple CEO Tim Cook Pokes Fun at Windows PCs in Commencement Address at MIT
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Interesting example. Polaroid, at the time, was the epitome of a technology-first company. We've since learned that such companies have a tendency to become myopic and overly in love with their own innovations, and eventually fail. Polaroid died from trying to beat instant, chemical-based photographic processes into the ground, while the market was providing viable, and eventually superior, alternatives.
Apple has never depended on creating major technological advances themselves. Their model has been to wed emerging technologies to emerging market needs. Different kind of company.
Irrelevant statement. Apple is first and foremost a hardware manufacturing based business. Neither of the other two are. Margins are totally different for hardware, software, and services. There's no point in comparing margins between businesses so radically different.
Really, guys, you're doing it wrong. This is a thread about Cook's commencement speech for college graduates. It naturally follows that instead of reviewing Mr. Cook's said speech, we must endeavor ourselves to finding everything wrong with his performance here as well as his performance as Apple's CEO for the past few years.
We need a deeper level of abstraction and distraction from the main point here. For example, Mr. Cook reflected on a certain period in his youth, that which like many of us, was filled with confusion and apprehension and uncertainity. My response? Where the hell is the damn Finder for iOS?
We need a deeper level of abstraction and distraction from the main point here. For example, Mr. Cook reflected on a certain period in his youth, that which like many of us, was filled with confusion and apprehension and uncertainity. My response? Where the hell is the damn Finder for iOS?
So Cook's way of serving humanity is to have slave labor in China make their products while Americans go without jobs?
Odd way of serving humanity. I guess he feels his using Apple's platform for supporting LGBT causes and left wing nonsense makes up for it.
Odd way of serving humanity. I guess he feels his using Apple's platform for supporting LGBT causes and left wing nonsense makes up for it.
I was so right to make a BIG bag of popcorn before reading all the replies. So funny. Thanks MacRumors. You may not be a real tech site anymore, but at least you're good for some occasional humor.
I'm not sure why Americans would want unskilled labor.
Microsoft is coming for you Apple - and you're to blind to see it.
Duh of course I'm joking. It's a civic responsibility to take potshots at our federal government for the crappy things they do with our tax money.
And the things you mentioned are largely paid for with local taxes, which as far as I know Apple does not shirk. While the federal government does indeed provide many needed services and does a pretty impressive job protecting our country, it also uses our tax money not just inefficiently but borderline psychotically in oh so many ways.
I could list some of the more egregious transgressions committed with our money but that would deviate too far from the thread.
Our tax money does some good and some bad. I'm snarking on the bad. Are you seriously taking my post seriously and literally?
Please don't do that. Lightning will strike, volcanoes will erupt, cats and dogs will live in sin if people start taking me seriously. Our whole weekend will be ruined! Excuse me, my Apple Watch has just dinged and told me I must go Breathe. Not lower case breathe. I'm talking about serious breathing with a capital B. I have to look at this little moving flower thingy and everything.
I must have missed everything he does that focuses on innovation. Or anything....most of the news is him having a go at the competition, lecturing us about morale values, or talking about a non existent pipeline....he lies a lot . He is just like a broken record.
Yeah....i miss steve, his words actually had value and substance....I started watching cook from the 7 minute mark and stopped....never got to what he said about microsoft....truth is , microsoft is out innovating him.
Excellent point being the homed, a very poor copy of what amazon and google are offering while completely missing the point that people do not want another overpriced speaker from apple/beats, they want an excellent siri assistant....this is the cook apple, following and yet too arrogant to realise the competition has done it better, in the past apple was leading....by a large margin.
sorry rant over...
This was hilarious. Even more hilarious is how many forum members didn't get it.
I thought we gave up on the stupid mac vs pc jabs like a decade ago.
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Most times it's a negative attitude against Tim Cook.
It seems that his message didn't reach many of you. Don't be cynical. Apple is business. Cook is a person. He speaking to graduates. He is speaking to and of their better nature. His commencement address is supposed to inspirational and aspirational. I think it was a fine speech.
Contrast that to Trump's address to the Coast Guard Academy. It was all about him (Trump).
PS: Cook doesn't have to apologize for his success or Apple's success.
Contrast that to Trump's address to the Coast Guard Academy. It was all about him (Trump).
PS: Cook doesn't have to apologize for his success or Apple's success.
I totally agree.
Apple is the copy cat company now. tim Cook is largely responsible for there lack of innovation.
New watch straps and 'right on' politics are no substitute.
He needs to be sacked so a proper techno nerd can get things going again.
Oh, and he demands they pay the factory workers $100,000 a year.
[doublepost=1497045470][/doublepost]When did the Troll become the International Bird of the Internet?
What a load of crap. Apple, like Microsoft, is in the business of making money. How do they do it? Technology.
Steve stole plenty of tech and made it his own. Why? Money. Businesses compete. That's what they do. Somebody wins? That means somebody else loses. It's cutthroat. None of these businesses come together for the greater good. NONE OF THEM.
Now, here's Tom with the weather.
Steve stole plenty of tech and made it his own. Why? Money. Businesses compete. That's what they do. Somebody wins? That means somebody else loses. It's cutthroat. None of these businesses come together for the greater good. NONE OF THEM.
Now, here's Tom with the weather.
