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Cue the Eddie Cue hate machine without any education or skills from the haters to back it all up just perception.
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But he's been a manager since 1989 or a few short years after. Look at all the other executives they've hired since then. But yeah he sounds like he's not a good manager.

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Says you why?
reasons, evidence to claim that?

Oh maybe you'll place the reason Siri sucked was because he had it for less than 1 year ... but that was Cook's mistake that is BAD leadership.

Explain iTunes.
 
Cue and other unqualified Managers survived at Apple because Steve Jobs did all the heavy lifting in decision making. And probably surrounded himself with weaker personalities. When he left, you came to see what type of managers they really were.

I'm not close to the situation at all, but I suspect there may be some truth here. The role of a product manager under Steve was to implement Steve's vision. Under Tim, the product manager has to create the vision. This requires a different set of strengths.
 
Cue and other unqualified Managers survived at Apple because Steve Jobs did all the heavy lifting in decision making. And probably surrounded himself with weaker personalities. When he left, you came to see what type of managers they really were.
In other words Steve did an awful job of grooming leadership to succeed him? Or he didn’t want Apple to succeed if he wasn’t there?
 
I take former employee opinions with a grain of salt. They've moved on, were let go, or just in general are sour grapes.

I guess so but who can you trust? Current employees, competitors , suppliers.... Neutral parties don't tend to have the inside track on things.
 
I'm not close to the situation at all, but I suspect there may be some truth here. The role of a product manager under Steve was to implement Steve's vision. Under Tim, the product manager has to create the vision. This requires a different set of strengths.
Yet according to this story some of the ‘services’ Apple was dragging its feet on started while Jobs was still here.
 
I take former employee opinions with a grain of salt. They've moved on, were let go, or just in general are sour grapes.

Only insiders who have moved on are remotely safe to tell the truth about what goes on inside Apple. This is lousy reasoning.
 
In other words Steve did an awful job of grooming leadership to succeed him? Or he didn’t want Apple to succeed if he wasn’t there?

Steve's personality probably couldn't envision himself dying at such a young age. If cancer hadn't taken him, he'd still be at Apple. Unlike Bill Gates.
 
"Hey Eddy, I was thinking we could make Siri d--"

"HEY SIRI PLAY SOME SPICY SALSA"

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"...never mind"

For me the best part of this gif is I came across it here as I was listening to Dire Straits' "The Man's Too Strong" and it was totally synced up with the music. That made my day.
 
"Apple tries to do too much with too few people"

This is a consistent trend at Apple that makes NO SENSE.

For instance, the new improved maps launching next week while Apple hasn't even started gathering the better data in some states. It's not like Apple couldn't afford a few more mapping vans and drivers, so this is totally a decision by Apple to get along with less.

WHY? Apple has tons of money and boat loads of talented people wanting to work there. There is no reason for a trillion dollar company to act like a startup that barely has any resources.
 
Only insiders who have moved on are remotely safe to tell the truth about what goes on inside Apple. This is lousy reasoning.
Minions have little idea what’s going on other than perception. I’m not a big Cue fan, but I literally know nothing other than Apple has fantastic management who seem to execute very well based on the numbers. Who am I to question them? Who are these people?
 
For me the best part of this gif is I came across it here as I was listening to Dire Straits' "The Man's Too Strong" and it was totally synced up with the music. That made my day.

Telegraph Road's where it's at. And if you haven't already, watch the live version of Sultans in Alchemy. It's... so good:
 
Eddie Cue has been a detrimentally bad fit for all his endeavors at Apple that I've been following. Example one: His revamp of the iPhone music player interface a couple years ago made the simple task of playing music harder by shrinking the play head circle to nearly non-existent in size and many similar changes. Every part of iPhone software that I read about that he has been in charge has either languished or suffered from his changes. How about Apple Maps? If I need to be able to read street names off the phone I'll opt for Google maps instead because of how Apple maps keeps the names hidden for clarity making it very frustrating to find our where you are in Apple maps. Simple to fix, but never updated. Yes, Eddie Cue is and has been a horrible fit for all things Apple.
 
That's why Siri and iTunes suck so bad. He may have too much work!
Explain iTunes.

It's EXISTENCE ...

Positives:
  • 90 million licensed tunes for distribution ... still more than Spotify (I'm estimating but I know it's more than Spotify).
  • First to license Beatle's music from traditional physical record/CD/Tape sales.
  • Paid for FREE content distribution on several occasions for iTunes users (U2's album for 30 days; remember that WWDC from Cook)
  • Legally purchase music at a VERY cheap price as an industry leader!
  • Probably the ONLY choice to OWN your music outright as a purchase option vs streaming.
  • Interact with Artists ...

Negatives:
iTunes Match - I hate it
Apple Music ... took me some time to get used to it but I like it to a point: I see the benefit of not storing your music to USB/Hard-Drive or Cloud all the time, manually when you know you'll change devices. You're playlists will stay intact.
> Apple no longer has Music Festival's a STUPID move IMHO and it lost a great interactive content vehicle that would've boosted AppleMusic.

iTunes Needed Improvements:
> iOS Music app ... KILL it and overhaul it ASAP!
iTunes (Match, Apple Music)
> Don't prompt me to select to NOT override my music or merge when iTunes will do so anyway and replace my music with what the server thinks it's ideal. Give me selective choices per track/playlist/ or my entire music content! Don't show me duplicates of the same song from AppleMusic and my own local library when it's just 1 item. I've lost a LOT of music this way. If Siri was great ... it would've solved this problem!

PS: Potential areas to new market ... allow new aspiring artists to upload their own created content (Garageband offers this) yet also explain them legal ownership (in their country) and ability to MAKE money off of downloads (similar pricing to App Store) ... highlight major new findings and then LINK them to record conglomerates as a negotiation introduction if they hit it BIG on downloads!


No ... explain your dislike for iTunes and what your proposal for Apple to fix it then?
Quid Pro Quo
 
OMG...I wonder what the rest of you think about Apple TV being available to those outside the hardware/ecosystem...I'm currently using Roku, so obviously if there was something I wanted to watch, that'd be swell...But, it doesn't make much sense based on how Apple has established itself...It feels like an un-Apple move. Would they make money? Yes. But, in a different way that diminishes buy in to the ecosystem.
 
Steve's personality probably couldn't envision himself dying at such a young age. If cancer hadn't taken him, he'd still be at Apple. Unlike Bill Gates.

So it's bad that Bill Gates let someone else run his company while he went off to spend his money fighting diseases in poor countries? I think your Apple vs MS bias may be a little too strong.
 
It was obvious that flipping burgers at his bbq pit, listening to old U2 albums, was going to lead nowhere!
 
In meetings, Cue is said to have discussed the possibility of making the Apple TV app available beyond Apple's own devices -- even on smart TVs and Android -- in an effort to make sure its shows are seen as widely as possible.
This is of course the right move. The most successful TV shows of the past weren’t broadcast only to the right brand of television set.
 
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