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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Deliver 2017 MIT Commencement Address

Timmy is / has been riding on the back of SJ's legacy.

Now SJ influenced products are drying up, Apple is being becoming increasingly stale.


Timothy Leo Crowley said:
Ummm, this is some good popcorn.

If you just judged by these comments, you wouldn't be aware of the reality of quarterly revenue of $46.9 billion and quarterly net income of $9 billion

Tim Cook is a brilliant leader. His accomplishments are incredible. It's amazing how small minded jealous people who have little success in like work to tear down those who actually succeed at life.
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Timothy Leo Crowley said:
Ummm, this is some good popcorn.
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Tim Cook is a brilliant leader. His accomplishments are incredible. It's amazing how small minded jealous people who have little success in like work to tear down those who actually succeed at life.
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Hello Tim! Glad you joined in. Why did you wait until this Monday?
 
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Jobs 2005 Stanford address was one of the most inspiring 20-25 minutes of footage you could ever have the pleasure of watching.

I imagine Timmys will be a coma inducing drone about customer sat and diversity :rolleyes:

They say teams become a reflection of their leader ..
 
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HenrikWivel said:
Completely off topic, but anyway:)

Is it just me or it is becoming the norm for Americans to express even the most common things using over the top superlatives? As a European, or even worse, Danish, i find it hard to believe that everything magical, epic, extraordinary, courageous, genius, brilliant and so on. Which phrases are left when you have to describe something that really deserves these terms?
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It is all this whoopping and a hollering at every opportunity. Going OTT (Over the Top) is an American pastime. Everything has to be bigger, better and well loud as Americans invented everything the world is perfect.
All part of the grand plan to make Amercia Great!

Sarcasm intended.
 
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AbSoluTc said:
"Brilliance as a business leader"? - perhaps they know a different Tim Cook? It's been a bumpy, downhill ride ever since he's come on board.
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I am sure Tim Cook is going to be devastated by criticism from armchair experts...
 
Theophany said:
I dunno. I think Tim Cook will be a pretty inspirational speaker. He comes from the Deep South, heads up the most well known firm in the world which is also incredibly progressive in its views and is the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

All the gripes about Apple's product line and whatnot aside, he's a pretty fascinating guy and I reckon will knock this out of the park.
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I think Tim Cook is a fine human being, smart etc but I also think he's out of touch with the real world
regarding computing. He's eliminated the ports on the MacBook, eliminated some of the bulk and weight,
including using a smaller battery..all to be hip and trendy..evidently he thinks a phone company that also
makes computers is not trendy as it appears thats he trying to eliminate the Mac as well :(
 
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AbSoluTc said:
"Brilliance as a business leader"? - perhaps they know a different Tim Cook? It's been a bumpy, downhill ride ever since he's come on board.
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Don't. Talk. ****.

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fourthtunz said:
I think Tim Cook is a fine human being, smart etc but I also think he's out of touch with the real world
regarding computing. He's eliminated the ports on the MacBook, eliminated some of the bulk and weight,
including using a smaller battery..all to be hip and trendy..evidently he thinks a phone company that also
makes computers is not trendy as it appears thats he trying to eliminate the Mac as well :(
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He didn't. Apple did. Apple isn't a one man show!
 
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AbSoluTc said:
"Brilliance as a business leader"? - perhaps they know a different Tim Cook? It's been a bumpy, downhill ride ever since he's come on board.
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This is simply untrue. Do some research regarding the success of the company since 2011. Check stock prices, revenue, growth as a company. If that's a bumpy road, 100% of companies across the globe are searching for that "bumpy road."
 
Theophany said:
I dunno. I think Tim Cook will be a pretty inspirational speaker. He comes from the Deep South, heads up the most well known firm in the world which is also incredibly progressive in its views and is the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

All the gripes about Apple's product line and whatnot aside, he's a pretty fascinating guy and I reckon will knock this out of the park.
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We will see, but I expect he will say exactly what political correctness expects, he will get a big standing ovation because all college students have been programmed to respond positively to political correctness, and he won't really say anything worth listening to. Political correctness is dogma, not inspirational.
 
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"Tim Cook is a brilliant leader. His accomplishments are incredible."
You make these assertions on the basis of what? His not having been asked to step down (yet)?
Which of his many incredible accomplishments would you consider most incredible, even more incredible than all of his many other mind-blowingly incredible accomplishments? Seriously, enlighten.
 
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"The key to success is to walk in the shadow of a former great man and then destroy his company a little bit with each product release..."

Tim Cook is way too overrated and am I the only one seeing how much he is hurting Apple with a lack of true vision or leadership? How many more years of "just good enough" do we have to wait for until the board of directors wakes up and sees how far Apple is behind their competition.

He was a logistics genius, sure, fixing Apple's component supply issues and shipping delay problems back in the day, but as a CEO he is lacking in every way except for excessive hyperbole and trite sensationalism.
 
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Cineplex said:
Steve Jobs was a man that changed several industries and made a huge impact in the world. Tim Cook is just a wall street CEO that likes to play social justice warrior and made a watch. I would never be interested in anything he has to stay. Steve Jobs, I would pay money to hear him speak.
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I don't think there is a competition between Tim and Steve. To give Tim some credit, he several times said he is in awe of Steve and always regarded him the utmost respect.
Tim is an OK CEO, the problem with Apple is that they do not have an inspirational and innovative person that can lead the company like Steve did. Tim is a great day to day operational guy but I don't see anybody at the Apple boy's executive club that can be that person. Maybe Apple needs to look outside Cupertino. Many thought Ive could be that guy but he obviously misses Steve. Tough times ahead.
 
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Cineplex said:
Steve Jobs was a man that changed several industries and made a huge impact in the world. Tim Cook is just a wall street CEO that likes to play social justice warrior and made a watch. I would never be interested in anything he has to stay. Steve Jobs, I would pay money to hear him speak.
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Steve Jobs took the limelight and a lot of credit for what others did, and was a good salesman.
 
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I'm currently finishing my PhD in Computational Nuclear Engineering at MIT. I'm scheduled to finish next summer... which would mean I would go to the graduation ceremony in Spring of 2018.

This news has me rethinking that timeline! If I would just rush a little bit then I may be able to get this done in time to graduate this spring.

Hmmmmm.....

:)
 
Altivec88 said:
Of course he has time for this. They just don't have time for MacPro's, iMacs, Mac Mini's, Monitors, Routers, Aperture, etc....

Tim is all about profits. He left all his loyal Pro customers out to dry so his words of wisdom will be meaningless to me. If you want to take a company full of passion and zap it into a bunch of bean counting robots, then Tim's your guy.

Apple just released their 2017 lineup. Christmas trees, books, politics, activism and now speeches (all of this just in the last month). Oh... I can't forget Emoji's and Dongles. Just too much inovation coming out of there to get them all.
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I agree! I would further add that Tim is about short term profits.
The last 3 years of profits it seems were in the pipe before him.
and now the downturn..going to be interesting if this even fazes him.
I saw an HP mini in a doctors office the other day..too bad, Apples lost out again.
How is it that the biggest company in the world cannot put out a computer that kicks everyone else's ass?
If they had kept the "improvements" frozen for the last 4 years and added SSD's, more ram and faster processors
they would have saved on engineering/manufacturing costs and sold their computers for less.
Now they sell $4000 computers that get crushed by $1000 pcs.
Sad.
 
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friedmud said:
I'm currently finishing my PhD in Computational Nuclear Engineering at MIT. I'm scheduled to finish next summer... which would mean I would go to the graduation ceremony in Spring of 2018.

This news has me rethinking that timeline! If I would just rush a little bit then I may be able to get this done in time to graduate this spring.

Hmmmmm.....

:)
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so you just wanted to brag about earning a PhD in Computational Nuclear Engineering at MIT?

sigh...
 
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