Apple Highlights iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max Reviews

[MacsRuleOthersDrool]

Calm down. what are you talking about with Engineers? I never said what EE stood for, but perhaps Electronics Engineer would be my guess- silicon - Electronic Engineer and software - Software Developer from the original posting.
Tim cook took some coding classes in college, doesn't make him a software developer. No more than me taking Psychology at uni makes me a physiologist.

It may not make you a good-enough software Developer to make a living from it; but it DOES make it so when the head of your Software Team (in most cases at Apple these days, Craig Federighi) comes to you with a somewhat technical issue, at least you (as CEO) can UNDERSTAND at a more-than-layman's-level, the problem at hand and the tradeoffs of various solutions/workarounds, if any are possible.

A typical CEO who's entire technical experience is an MBA class isn't likely going to understand ANY of that.

And Tim's Degree is in Industrial Engineering. There's actually quite a bit of practical "hard engineering", both mechanical, electrical, and programming, that goes into that type of degree.

 

[dilbert99]

It may not make you a good-enough software Developer to make a living from it; but it DOES make it so when the head of your Software Team (in most cases at Apple these days, Craig Federighi) comes to you with a somewhat technical issue, at least you (as CEO) can UNDERSTAND at a more-than-layman's-level, the problem at hand and the tradeoffs of various solutions/workarounds, if any are possible.

A typical CEO who's entire technical experience is an MBA class isn't likely going to understand ANY of that.

And Tim's Degree is in Industrial Engineering. There's actually quite a bit of practical "hard engineering", both mechanical, electrical, and programming, that goes into that type of degree.

You'd be surprised how little coding goes in to any degree.

I did 3 weeks on machine code, doesn't mean I can claim to be a machine code programmer.
I did 3 weeks in cobol, doesn't mean I can claim to be a cobol programmer.
I have a career in software development practices. Yes I can claim to be a software developer.

You don't need to know the nuts and bolts to be a successful manager. There are lots of things that Tim Cook does not know. Doesn't mean he cannot do his job.

 

[frankly]

LOL....are you, with a straight face, trying to claim that Gruber is objective? You can't even be serious with that.

I'm sorry if you're unable to understand that someone can be a fan of something and also be objective. Are you saying that when you like something you are only able to lie about it?