He has this sort of vibe that people here don’t like. Also, when something service related goes wrong for 0.x% amount of people, he gets the blame for it.
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Charitybuzz Auctions Lunch With Eddy Cue at Apple's New Headquarters
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He is a senior exec. of a publicly traded company that's selling his time for a private small-town charity. He is (was) responsible for a number of Apple services that have been rather less than stellar in their implementation. His public persona is also unappealing, and his choice of charity leaves me shaking my head - those are valid reasons to judge and put his character under scrutiny.
You're equating a form of physical assault (locking people in stocks and hitting them with rotten food) as an appropriate response to people taking a few verbal potshots at a wealthy and powerful executive against whom paying customers do have some legitimate gripes? What the ever living hello?
That is a bit extreme, don't you think?
Eddy Cue himself would be an absolute toddler if he gave two craps about a dozen or so people talking some smack about him on one forum thread out of the millions or so forum posts out here. I would hope the man has too much going on to waste five minutes caring about what we think. Rihanna's fans are the ones he needs to worry about.
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I'd like to have lunch with Jony Ive and would hope I could manage to get him to do most of the talking. Especially about his view of the very personal process of a particular design's evolution from the first "aha!, yeah, this!" to "this, we can actually build." In other words the accommodation of the fact that there must inevitably be a winnowing down from brainstorm to feasibility, and how he deals with it.
As for Eddy Cue, he could be an interesting guy to have lunch with. Anyone parked as long as he has been at Apple has something to teach us about getting along with irascible bosses, never mind pain-in-the-neck peers and subordinates eager to supplant you on the org chart. I figure Eddy does a lot of his management of that stuff by giving a kind of blank look and letting a lot of stuff that may come into his head remain unspoken... even if what he does say is sometimes pretty off the charts.
Aside from his unfriendly manner and apparent failures at Apple that many have already commented upon, another reason I would put forth is his strange praise of the book Becoming Steve Jobs while blasting other books:
https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/art...ng-steve-jobs-first-biography-to-get-it-right
For those of you who haven't yet read Becoming Steve Jobs, you can read my Amazon review here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2RTN46SWYBPHP/
I've read most books on Apple and Jobs, and I must say that Becoming Steve Jobs is certainly one of the more harsh. I give specifics in my book review. Eddy Cue has no idea what he's talking about.
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...and everyone likes a good head of hair.
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Tim has been rumored to give people the silent treatment if he's angry with you. Stares at you until you start to panic a bit, then puts you out of your misery. He seems terrifying to be honest. D: I'd go with Craig.
Oh wow, and here I see he's VP of Internet Software and Services. We all can remember the various iCloud sagas I'm sure. I'm thinking this guy is Apple's weakest link.
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To be honest, saying it to their face isn't all fun and games either. Trust me, I do it a lot. People know what I think of them.
Doesn't make you many friends.
Let them eat cake!Exactly. And really, between the reference to shutting people in stocks and calling them/us plebes, I'm wondering if you're Marie Antoinette.
For a meagre $50.000 I will come and teach those overrated SVP's:
- Joni how to more frequently innovate designs and support junior designers instead of his own overglorification
- Phil what the MacPro, Mini, MacBook Air should have been by now, re-arrange the product line, improve the AppStore, respond to MS Surface, kill the dongle program (+ have the zealot add khaki shirts to his endless laundry list)
- Eddy what the AppleTV should have been by now, how to contract/acquire content, how to educate Beats rasta's, improve music app, elementary public behavior.
- Angela what a decent compensation would be in her case
- Tim how to get rid of overpaid, underachieving VP's and stop social hobbies until Apple is innovative again.
This will take around 4 hrs, and I will not spend anymore.
Lunch is not a subject (= should never be as urgent action is due)
...and neither is Eddy
- Joni how to more frequently innovate designs and support junior designers instead of his own overglorification
- Phil what the MacPro, Mini, MacBook Air should have been by now, re-arrange the product line, improve the AppStore, respond to MS Surface, kill the dongle program (+ have the zealot add khaki shirts to his endless laundry list)
- Eddy what the AppleTV should have been by now, how to contract/acquire content, how to educate Beats rasta's, improve music app, elementary public behavior.
- Angela what a decent compensation would be in her case
- Tim how to get rid of overpaid, underachieving VP's and stop social hobbies until Apple is innovative again.
This will take around 4 hrs, and I will not spend anymore.
Lunch is not a subject (= should never be as urgent action is due)
...and neither is Eddy
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As much crap as you guys like to give the Cueball, out of all the Execs to have lunch with, you know he'd be the most enjoyable. Any other exec will give you a fairly formal twenty minutes of closely guarded talking points in carefully prepared generalities. Eddy Dangerfield here will show up in a Hawaiian shirt and crazy goggles with a rum runner in his hand, blab all kinds of things he's not supposed to tell you, and blow the rest of the day off to take you on a wobbly skateboard tour of the campus, badly crooning songs from Top Secret until Tim and Craig personally wrestle you both to the ground and eject from the building.
You might as well get your 50k's worth...
You might as well get your 50k's worth...
I'd prefer the experience of a more authentic cheeseburger, fallen from a HappyMeal box
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Wait, what...
I think the only thing I like of Apple's that I can't really replicate with another service is iMessage. Apple Music is ok on my iPhone. It is terrible on my Android. My husband and I both prefer the curated stations on Google Music. I find I discover more new music on Google Play. I don't find Apple Music terribly engaging.
I lost them. I hadn't backed them up yet. It was a new import and something went haywire. I don't know. I was hoping I could recover them from the cloud or another device, but no luck. iCloud Music Library made a mess of my music when I first enabled it. iCloud Photo Library trashed pictures. I don't trust Apple for this stuff.
I agree with you about iMessage too. It's the only Apple service I find truly valuable. And, yes, Google Music is MUCH better than Apple Music. I switched a few months ago and love it. The UI is much better and it doesn't try to micromanage your music library.
Oh man that's awful. Yeah there's always a window of vulnerability for me when I'm traveling and don't have a chance to back my photos up to a cloud service where I could lose it all, too. It's a sickening feeling.
What few albums and individual songs I owned and ripped to digital form were only ever stored to my Rio and then my Zune music players. And to my old desktop PC. So fortunately I've been spared the complete chaos I've heard about in regards to Apple Music destroying people's painstakingly arranged music collections.
I do own a few songs from ITunes but I can't remember the last time I used iTunes for anything other ringtones.
I'll pile on the bandwagon of those who can't stand this guy. In addition to having a horrible stage presence, he is in charge of the department responsible for the abomination that is Apple Music. I fell in love with Apple's iPod offerings like many in the early 2000s but Apple Music is an absolute disgrace, particularly the interface. People like him have far too much influence without the restraining force of Steve Jobs. This is the general problem with Apple now without the vision at the very top. It is unfortunate. They still make my favourite products, but there are so many un-Apple like things happening these days...Eddy Cue has so little genuine enthusiasm in his presentations for anything he presents.