Welcome to MacRumors!Why is the reaction to stuff like this always, "Because Apple _____ sucks and they're doomed." It can be for 1,000 different reasons. Maybe he was just ready to do something else. Maybe his health is bad. Maybe it's just that Iovine is clearly running Apple Music now and there wasn't room for him. Maybe Apple just wasn't fulfilling for him. If he had done much other than hire Zane Lowe, we probably would have heard a lot more about him by now. The truth is, he came to Apple through an acquisition. Apple doesn't "acquire different". Whenever there's an acquisition, there is fallout, and it's usually within the buyee, not the buyer.
Because most Apple haters have a knee-jerk reaction to anything and say it's bad for Apple. If every man, woman and child on the planet bought an Apple Watch, it would STILL be a failure because the Martian market was untapped.
Yes, the MacRumors' message board is way too critical of Apple as a company and its products.
I suspect he agreed to a one year employment contract when Beats was acquired. The year is up; he decided to move on to something else.
Why is it a smart move? Did you just post this just to be the "First"? You don't know where he's going or what business he's getting into to even say that.Smart move...
Exactly because a boss with no direction has the #1 selling large screened Smartphone and has brought the company from $100 billion to close to $200 billion in a short amount of years. A boss with no direction has major multi-billion dollar companies (Samsung) STILL copying his company's product all the way down to the naming scheme of Apple's products. Sounds more like you have no direction on what you're talking about.A boss with no direction.
Jobs gets credit for Apple's financial situation. The bean counter CEO's been phoning it in, letting Ive run rampant with designs (iPhone 6) and ideas (Apple Watch) that shouldn't have ever left the lab. The Apple gravy train is on its last legs, time to cash out and find something worthwhile to do. At least one ex-Beats employee realizes it.Exactly because a boss with no direction has the #1 selling large screened Smartphone and has brought the company from $100 billion to close to $200 billion in a short amount of years. A boss with no direction has major multi-billion dollar companies (Samsung) STILL copying his company's product all the way down to the naming scheme of Apple's products. Sounds more like you have no direction on what you're talking about.
But he looks about 20
Two months in the role leads me to believe he just wasn't up to the job in one way or the other. The acquisition by Apple probably meant his workload shot through the roof so it's not surprising.
I agree with you about Eddy Cue but I think it's called Beats 1 for a reason: more stations with different music styles will be coming in the future.The absurdity that one radio station would be suitable for the masses is laughable. It also didn't help that the implementation of both the radio side and the pay-for music service stink. But that wasn't this guy's fault. There's one guy that's overseen almost all the terrible services options at Apple - Eddie Cue. Show him the door.
Ok now when are Jimmy, Trent and Dre leaving so Apple can write off this stupid purchase.
Lol nothing like a very young person disagreeing with the decisions of a set of seasoned world class execs' vision to make for lame corporate intrigue. He got a new job, in another industry. It happens EVERY day.
Jobs gets credit for Apple's financial situation. The bean counter CEO's been phoning it in, letting Ive run rampant with designs (iPhone 6) and ideas (Apple Watch) that shouldn't have ever left the lab. The Apple gravy train is on its last legs, time to cash out and find something worthwhile to do. At least one ex-Beats employee realizes it.
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