Tim Cook is not successful so calling him an idiot is actually warranted. What is disrespectful is how him and Apple have treated their consumers in the last few years.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Deliver 2017 MIT Commencement Address
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Tim Cook is not successful so calling him an idiot is actually warranted. What is disrespectful is how him and Apple have treated their consumers in the last few years.
I for one am saying a magic 8 ball could do a better job as a CEO. It would have more personality on stage at keynotes and answer "Definitely" to "Should we update our aging product lines?" once in a while. Also 8 balls don't say "Awesome" "Pipeline" or "Watchband" so that's already a huge improvement over Timmy right there.
The facts would beg to differ with you.
https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2016/12/6/milking-the-iphone
No mean feat if you ask me.
That's like saying nobody can run faster than Usain Bolt. You can be a worse orator than Steve Jobs, and still be an excellent speaker.
True, but Timmy sure isn't a good speaker. Haven't you ever watched one of his keynotes?
I do. I have watched every Apple keynote, and I feel that Tim Cook has improved dramatically since his first speech (the iPad 3 keynote, which was just cringe-worthy).
His tone is a tad flat and lacking in emotion, but I can feel the genuine passion and enthusiasm emanating from him. This is a guy who truly believes in what he does and says. All in all, he's a pretty good speaker, IMO. I have no issues listening to him front an entire keynote.
Apple is not THE APPLE anymore without Steven Jobs, no matter for products, or for philosphys...
I love when people question Apples direction and somebody immediately replies with some sales numbers as if to prove that any doubt is misplaced
How does it give any indication of where Apple is headed? The answer is simple, it doesn't
Yes the iPhone is moving extraordinary numbers at the moment but nothing lasts forever, its easy to forget at the beginning of 2014 Blackberry had 85 million users worldwide.
My favorite Jobs quote ever was when he was asked about the 25th anniversary of the Mac..
No, it doesn't prove where Apple is headed, but it discredits the original post which said "Sales slumped as soon as Tim Cook took over". Obviously untrue.
Not just two hours, but at the speed time speaks at, they will all be asleep after 5 mins.
I don't think I am the only person that watches Tim at 1.25-1.5 speed?
Funny how online you have "Normal Voice", "Youtube Voice" and "Apple Voice (Tim/Ive)"
More of these pale in comparisons to Cook vs Jobs comments. We get it, Cook isn't What Jobs was or is today, Vice Versa. He is Tim Cook and has his own way of addressing and delivering. But using leverage against Cook for politics reference an MIT speech is completely irrelevant and a way to jab at him, which appears you're disgruntled for some reason or another.
Aside from your dislikes, it's a privilege to be in a position to address these students and re-direct the focus to something more positive, like the future of these students and their contributions.
And yes, Steve had a great commencement speech. But wasn't it you a Month or so ago that quoted "Leave it be with the Steve Jobs comments/comparisons" on a main page article (Unknown which one). Also, I believe you stated "Jobs is dead, time to move on." If I recall correctly, it was you on a thread in which I cannot recall on the first page of comments.
In any case, perhaps leaving Jobs out of the equation for once is appropriate and respectful his name doesn't have to be mentioned every time a Cook article surfaces or is compared too.
Well, they invited Tim Cook, not you.
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I believe MIT students have higher level of learning mindsets.
If he is not presenting the "world's lightest and thinnest diploma" or the "best diploma MIT ever created yet"; I don't see the point of listening a guy that is ruining the consumer perception and innovation pipeline of the company that changed the world.
I'm glad that Tim Cook is the one running Apple, not you.
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Apple stagnate? Lose focus?
Go review Apple under Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was the one envisioning a different kind of Apple. Steve Jobs was the one envisioning how "computers" for consumers will be different. Remember the car vs truck analogy that Steve Jobs used?
Apple now has arguably the fastest and most efficient mobile SoC on the planet. In addition, they now have a lineup of custom silicons, focusing on mobile, from the S2 to W1. While others are simply putting over-the-shelf components with new shells every couple of months without actual focus on what they are doing, Apple has maintained the same focus that Steve Jobs embedded.
Now, Jonny Ive does seem to be going overboard on certain things, and Apple needs somebody as a counter for Ive. However, Apple's focus remain the same from Steve Jobs era to today.
He's truly awful at keynotes. Comes across as putting on a fake, forced enthusiasm of someone reading lines but not really understanding them or probably caring too much either. The funniest one was when he was pretending to enthuse about Swift. Other than the bird does anyone think he knows what it is?
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Then post it again and get the message out there. People seem to have this funny notion that Person X is somehow losing the plot just because they don't do Y, where Y is whatever they want Apple to do. While completely downplaying everything else that Apple has accomplished all this while.
Totally agreed. Leaving the 17" behind ( I still use a 2008) for "Pros" is a big mistake.
By now I think they could put all of what is in an iMac into a 17" MBP with a killer graphics card.
Pros use larger displays or would if that option was available in a power configuration.
I have been using my MBPs in clamshell mode with a display for years now and do not miss a desktop.
As for the USB-C, yes, they clearly missed explaining the future with a few examples.
And, maybe I missed it, but why the magsafe was discontinued beats me.
We're a nation of coffee drinkers and social media addicts. How do you expect us to describe things with all of the caffeine in our systems and an attention span truncated by Twitter induced ADHD and a vocabulary increasingly dependent on emojis?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?
