If he is indeed working his ass off 80 hours/week, at the age of 63 at that, his resulting mental state could explain the general state of the App Store.
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Apple's Phil Schiller Works 80 Hours a Week Overseeing App Store
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I agree, I found him quite entertaining and I’m surprised at all the slagging off he is getting here. If he talked Jobs into the App Store he deserves his salary.
We are all just prisoners here of our own device
Though Schiller transitioned from marketing chief to "Apple Fellow" in 2020 to take a step back from Apple and spend more time on personal projects and friends, he is reportedly working close to 80 hours a week. . .
So, Phil stepped back from for some 'Me Time', and is putting 80hrs. a week to do that. Well, what was he doing a Apple, 168hrs a week?
So, Phil stepped back from for some 'Me Time', and is putting 80hrs. a week to do that. Well, what was he doing a Apple, 168hrs a week?
Schiller is 63. Doesn't he have millions of dollars already? What more does he need? Doesn't he know these are the last good years of his life? Phil, if you're reading this, please stop and enjoy your golden years. Everyone deserves that. Even filthy rich people who protect on-device app distribution monopolies and take away your headphone jack to make high-margin wireless earbuds more appealing.
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Congratulations to him for a long career and a strong work ethic. Seriously.
Now please, Phil, retire.
We can tell you're writing emails at odd hours. You say a lot of weird ****. Just give it a rest please. You're doing more harm than good at this point.
Now please, Phil, retire.
We can tell you're writing emails at odd hours. You say a lot of weird ****. Just give it a rest please. You're doing more harm than good at this point.
This. History has shown time and time again that the single most powerful skill a leader can have is delegation. Identifying the talent you need, and empowering them to do the task. If at this point he hasn't built a team he can trust, he can't run something this big competently. It's humanly impossible to do this much by oneself and do it well.
Sadly it depends on the job. There are too many job roles where the strategy is just to burn through people. Think any job mostly worked by teenagers.
So yeah why someone in his position would do this to himself, I do not know. Some people just can't turn it off. And I think we can see especially the last few years it's not doing him any favors.
Is he counting his meal hours and snack breaks in that number? Because he looks to not be skipping any...
The app store has been around for YEARS. Sure there will be some complex problems that come up that require a team where he can lead in forging a way - but 95% of the running of the store should be at best be a complicated problem with best practices and competent staff that can easily make those decisions.
Maybe he's spending those 80 hours trying to figure out how to raise the walls on that app store garden.
The app store has been around for YEARS. Sure there will be some complex problems that come up that require a team where he can lead in forging a way - but 95% of the running of the store should be at best be a complicated problem with best practices and competent staff that can easily make those decisions.
Maybe he's spending those 80 hours trying to figure out how to raise the walls on that app store garden.
This is exactly true and i see somany companies doing this.
They burn and churn employees… because theres always more coming through the door
For his kind of pay, I would sleep in my office and work every hour I don't sleep.
and if Phil delegated to people who are equally as passionate about keeping the app store locked, people here would whinge again.
all i can see is a hope that cutting his workload or involvement will free things up.
that may not be the case. depends who he employs to follow through with bits he delegates.
good to see fat shaming by one poster "spends three hours at the table".
well done you. hero.
perhaps consider someone working those hours may not have the same time you have to exercise or eats when he can rather than what he should? and at 63 his metabolism is probably not what it once was. regardless, your input was unneeded. do better.
To be honest… running an app store is not going to be the most intellectual or demanding of activities…
Most of the intellectual work will be done by employees lower down the pecking order… programmers, artists, marketing
Sure, he will make crucial decisions… but he will have a team of experts and advisors… lawyers etc…..in general… it will mostly be business politics in his job.
Schiller's one of the few execs at Apple that knows what he's doing and is damn good at it. Yes he takes Apple Evangelism to new levels but that's his job, or was now kek.
Yeah he's got his flaws but I'd take him 1000x's over anyone currently at Apple
Yeah he's got his flaws but I'd take him 1000x's over anyone currently at Apple