If by eye to eye you mean inciting him to jump from a few metres on a matress for a product launch, he sure did...To be fair Steve saw eye to eye with very few people. I don't doubt that Phil is excellent at this job, I just don't think he has what it takes at all for carving out a creative way for apple in the future. Apple needs disruption if it is to survive without diluting itself. It doesn't need someone going make os x and atv look like ios so we sell more to the detriment of both of them, especially so the latter.
Agree. IMO and experience a successful tech company needs engineers and marketeers - both with some understanding of the other. It also depends where the company is in its life-cycle. At the beginning only the engineer is needed; where Apple is now, it needs both. Where is the engineer counterpart to PS in all this ? Equally in the spotlight ?
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