Federighi seems like a really nice guy but that Joswiak guy seems a little bit too full of himself. Or is it just me?
^ Jaws has the arrogance of SJ nailed down but without the brilliance.
What a lot of bulls**t... All the responses were bland, stupid, non-concrete and self-serving. Joswiak is worst than I thought, Craig is a more likable guy, but still very cynical, as Apple usually is.
All of this…
I thought that when "Phil the Shill" Schiller left—who was SO full of 💩 that his eyes were even brown—Apple might…
MIGHT take a turn for the better. Joz has stepped in and taken over "adequately", as in: Apple's PR learned nothing… he's terrible for the Apple community. If possible, he's worse than Schiller, because he has Z-E-R-O charisma. Just a straight up jerk.
As for CraigFed, well, it seems as if his HairForce popularity has gone to his brain. I used to like the guy… clearly, now, he's surrounded by such massive as sho lishness that he's been infected. He says things he has to know are completely false, but just laughs it off, and is presiding over a software QA maelstrom (akin to the trash piles in Idiocracy) with absolutely no shred of public humbleness. (If he had ANY humility he'd at least ADMIT there is internal debate/dispute about shipping Calculator.app with iPadOS. I mean, the history of the Calculator Desk Accessory for the Mac ALONE should show how mind-bendingly daft the decision to NOT SHIP is.)
Which pretty much rounds it out (for me) for this Exec Team. They learned the TERRIBLE lessons from Steve Jobs but NONE of the good ones (what little "good" lessons Jobs had to teach). Yes, all you Jobs fanboys are deluded… Steve was an A- # 1 a hole, through and through. I "watched" him for over 25 years, and know people who interacted with him personally. Greedier than Bill Gates, but definitely with much better taste, and had so much less tact it is legendary. You have a felon in Lisa Jackson, a Grade A jerk in Joz, a affable get-a-long guy in Craig who won't stand up for himself much less the community, and a no-vision bean-counter laughing all the way to the bank (with future politically driven goals in mind) in Tim. They clearly don't actually care about the environment, regardless of what drivel falls out of their mouths, and they'd stick it to their grandmas for an extra 5¢. You might think, "This cannot be what Steve had in mind when he put Tim Cook in place!", except if you knew Steve. Because if you did, truly, you'd know that it is EXACTLY what Steve had in mind; he was petty, and was in NO WAY going to let the Apple that followed him ever transcend his "greatness". He knew exactly who these dolts were, and put them there, IN SPITE of it. Good luck, community! (Oh, and those folks clamoring for Jony Ive to return? Gah. Have you ever
heard the man speak? He talks like a runway supermodel fashionista… the words are English, but they make no actual sense… except to morons who don't understand "words". Every time I listened to him, I couldn't get Derek Zoolander out of my head for hours. Yet… "everyone" loved him. Good riddance. Hell, I'd sit and listen to Bono talk for an hour vs Ive. At least Bono now
admits most of his nonsense was, in fact, nonsensical. Gotta credit the personal evolution!)
The thing that cracks me up that no one seems to get is...how did USB-C become the choice in the first place? Because of free market adoption. Companies were free to choose to adopt USB-C because it proved itself to be worthwhile, and in turn companies using it proved it to the world to a be valid choice. The free market did that. Not government.
This isn't really true. First off, it wasn't a "free" market, because consumers did not have an actual "free choice" in the connector system they wanted to use, they got what the manufactures allowed, gave them. Most importantly, as we've learned over the past few years, Apple decided to go "greedy" and not submit Lightning to the USB Implementers Forum, in which they were a participant. They could have! Instead, they decided it was better (for them) to flog their customer base with a proprietary ecosystem that they could "tax". And they did. Boy, did they! That is NOT "free market". And don't even start with the "but Lightning isn't as CAPABLE as USB Type C!" nonsense. The only people that say that are ignoramuses who don't have any passing electrical/mechanical engineering background. Because it simply is not true. Apple released a double-sided Lightning connector—which was an OBVIOUS thing that was going to happen, any intelligent EE could see from Day 1—but then… just… stopped using it and moved to Type C to gain the flourishing "ecosystem". (Any thoughts on whether that could have been the result of aforementioned "walled garden" cash extraction and taxation???) A double-sided Lightning connector has as many pins/lanes as Type C
if you drop the legacy USB 2 pins that Type C
requires… and who really needs legacy compatibility in a completely NEW connector system? USB 2.0 could have easily been provided by either a chip in the connector (ala the "active" Thunderbolt Type C plugs"; Lightning already has a chip in every plug!) or AltMode pin-switching at the port. Intel was the inventor of USB, so they pushed for the legacy
requirement of 2.0. Dumb. And the power capabilities would have evolved just as they have with Type C… again… Apple just let it whither on the vine. Why? Because they were shaking down their walled-garden customers and did not care. "Our engineers"! they say… well, seems like Apple didn't even trust in their engineers enough to push the design that they developed to the forefront. Any undergrad mech engineer could explain why the Lighting connector system is superior… unless your goal is repair costs. Why didn't $1T Apple take the high road and give Lightning to the world?? Because, they saw dollar signs.
"Free market"? Nope. Short-sighted profit-taking Apple execs. Anyone taken a look lately at how rich they've become with all the stock comps and buybacks?? Meanwhile, they employees in Cupertino are some of the lowest paid/profit capita, their employees in retail are standing up unions to get reasonable wages, they're poisoning their own engineers with toxins because their buildings are sitting on defense contractor haz sites and flat lying about it, they're raising prices on everything while PR-ing that they're "Woke" and "helping" financially disadvantaged minorities and making sure the poors get either 2+ year old computers or half the performance, and they're filling landfills with perfectly good computers because… well… because they obviously can get away with it, thanks to a rabid fawning fanbase whom never holds them to account and facilitates interviews like this just to get to FEEL like they're on the "inside" of that tribe, if only for a moment.
