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Apple CEO Tim Cook Reflects on Steve Jobs in Heartfelt Memo to Employees
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He’s done a good job, though. Apple designing its own chips for its entire product line is totally in line with Steve Jobs’s vision. Apple Watch and AppleTV+ are new product/service lines but seem to fit well with the rest of the lineup.
Same opinion here. I often look at Fortune Global 500 and there wouldn't even be a COO or CEO that is anywhere close to Tim Cook as an COO. May be a little too cold and calculating which is what causes all the trouble with their partners. I think he is a bad CEO from the perspective of ex-Apple.
The problem with Tim Cook is that his interpretation of what Steve have said, "change the world for the better." is fundamentally difference to the "better" that Steve envisioned.
When Tim Cook leaves, Apple shouldn’t look for a replacement for him, they should look for someone who comes closer to replacing Steve. Of course no one can really replace Steve, but there has to be someone who does better than Tim did.
I have used Apple computers since I was kid, enduring the ridicule from my classmates who owned windows PCs. Now Apple is cool. Now Apple has peaked.
There will never be another Steve Jobs, and Tim Cook has and will never come close to filling his shoes. If Steve was around do you think he would have allowed Siri to be 3rd place? Would all the iPhones just be iterative updates? Hell no. He wouldn’t settle for this and he’d be an ******* tyrant if it meant getting **** done. Unfortunately, Apple’s best times are behind it.
There will never be another Steve Jobs, and Tim Cook has and will never come close to filling his shoes. If Steve was around do you think he would have allowed Siri to be 3rd place? Would all the iPhones just be iterative updates? Hell no. He wouldn’t settle for this and he’d be an ******* tyrant if it meant getting **** done. Unfortunately, Apple’s best times are behind it.
Steve Jobs picked Tim Cook as his successor and Tim made Apple bigger and stronger than Steve could possibly have dreamed of.Yes... I would find a billion dollars terrifying.
I don't believe for a single second Tim Cook cares at all about Steve Jobs. Job's name is simply a bullet point for him and I don't care how many memos he writes you'll never convince me otherwise.
Ive.. I believe 100%.
Steve Jobs definitely didn’t believe in your romantic BS.
Ridiculous. Steve Jobs „allowed“ Apple Ping, Antennagate, Apple TV and many other very, very bad decisions.
I was doing to rebut this post, but then I read “more than 12X more valuable” and I laughed so hard I lost my train of thought.
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Damn, the Tim hate is real.
I disagreed with several of Tim Cook's unforgivably boneheaded decisions over the years, but I think overall he's done as good a job as can be done at Apple in the last ten years.
Apple is actually in a more enviable position now than it was when Steve Jobs was alive (granted, that house was built by Steve, but still).
Y'all forget how quickly the Apple ship started sinking and how close it came to the brink when Steve left Apple the first time.
The second time around, Steve made the right choice in his successor. Apple's future remains bright, in my opinion.
Tim has been able to learn from his mistakes and pivot the company quickly. Apple is still skating to where the puck is going to be, I think.
And the proof is in the financials, despite what the haters/"enthusiasts" think.
I disagreed with several of Tim Cook's unforgivably boneheaded decisions over the years, but I think overall he's done as good a job as can be done at Apple in the last ten years.
Apple is actually in a more enviable position now than it was when Steve Jobs was alive (granted, that house was built by Steve, but still).
Y'all forget how quickly the Apple ship started sinking and how close it came to the brink when Steve left Apple the first time.
The second time around, Steve made the right choice in his successor. Apple's future remains bright, in my opinion.
Tim has been able to learn from his mistakes and pivot the company quickly. Apple is still skating to where the puck is going to be, I think.
And the proof is in the financials, despite what the haters/"enthusiasts" think.
Always remember to take the Tim Hate with a grain of salt in here. It is after all MR. A lot of anger and division has enter parts of the site where its really never was since Arn removed the Religious, Political, Social Forum.
When you're the big kid on the corner everyone will try and push you off the curb. I'd say Tim had done a very good job pushing back on those kids. Quite honestly if Steve were still with us the I think we would see a markedly more hostile Apple defending it's positions then we do with Tim.
I'm quite satisfied with my position in AAPL. I see nothing changing that. Especially opinions here in MR.
