I own plenty of Apple stock and yes, I want Tim Cook to step down. Feel free to crunch the numbers as I have, but Apple's stock performed significantly better during Steve Job's second tenure at Apple, than it has with Tim Cook at the helm. That's why I always laugh when people brag about the stock price under Cook. Here is a quick breakdown of their 14 year runs:I do not own any Apple stock directly(and have my own sentiment toward the innovation trend under Cook), but look at it from another angle - if you own Apple stock in the last decade, would you want Cook to step down?
CEO | Time Period | CAGR (Approx.) | Total Return | Notes |
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Steve Jobs | 1997–2011 | ~33%–36% | ~7,400%+ | Massive turnaround, multiple game‑changing products |
Tim Cook | 2011–2025 | ~16%–26% | ~1,200%–1,300% | Outstanding performance given scale, less volatility |
...if Apple releases a Studio Display with plenty of ports before the end of the year, I would very likely stand in line for one of those.
The AW 10 has a larger display than the ultra, and is much thinner on your wrist while having the same battery life as the previous (thicker) version did. I suspect it’s also brighter than your 8. As for blood ox that’s not Apple’s fault, Masimo wanted $140 for every single watch Apple sold and the courts ordered Apple to stop selling that in the USA. Would you really want that feature if it added ~$280 to every watch price Apple sells? Apple is waiting for the patents that Masimo has to expire sometime in 2028. Everyone else in the world has this feature & I bet as soon as those patents expire Apple will enable the blood ox feature retroactively as the hardware is in every Apple Watch Apple sells. 😉lol what? Only design change compared to my Series 8 was a bigger speaker (who cares) and a disabled blood ox sensor.
If the 11 isn’t a significant upgrade, AW sales are going to tank.
Every year Tim enters the kitchen to "Cook" and every year it's the same cake with the frosting in a new shape or color.
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Neither do I. I just own 3 of the ~2 billion active Apple devices whose owners apparently are Mr. Cook’s second priority, the ~30k shareholders being his first. Oh, wait … maybe the ~30k own half of the 2 billion devices.I do not own any Apple stock directly(and have my own sentiment toward the innovation trend under Cook), but look at it from another angle - if you own Apple stock in the last decade, would you want Cook to step down?
You can't blame a customer to think like a customer rather than a stockholder.I do not own any Apple stock directly(and have my own sentiment toward the innovation trend under Cook), but look at it from another angle - if you own Apple stock in the last decade, would you want Cook to step down?
They did the Apple vision and it was a flopNot a lot of new products in there...mostly updates. Innovation is tough these days. We would all love to see something truly NEW!