IvyKing
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I would argue that the UI for the iPhone is what made portable hand computers what they are now.
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Here Are Tim Cook's Full Remarks About Apple's 50th Anniversary Plans
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tomtad
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“We're not ready to say exactly how yet, so stay tuned”
Tim, do you ever announce anything?
Tim, do you ever announce anything?
And this is why Cook is the CEO making billions and you're some unknown person complaining on a tech forum. It doesn't matter who invents the thing. What matters is who makes the thing successful. To say that Tim and Apple have given nothing to the world is just absurd, embarrassing really.
"We're not a culture that looks back". The same could be said about the US in general.
As a European, I tend to think that you can't build your future correctly if you ignore your history. It doesn't mean going back, as some would like to, but learning from your past mistakes and successes. Call it wisdom.
As a European, I tend to think that you can't build your future correctly if you ignore your history. It doesn't mean going back, as some would like to, but learning from your past mistakes and successes. Call it wisdom.
You're not wrong and that sentiment is mature and just, but the power structures of and the majority of American citizens are not ready to do that quite yet (Winston Wolf).
We in America still have too many folk that can't "handle the truth."
jimscard
macrumors 6502
He looks back and sees how far he's taken the company from one whose products were thought of as expensive, niche devices mainly relegated to creatives and fanboys to one whose products are mainstream; centered on their own incredible chips, delivering power and capabilities to everyone with industry-leading energy efficiency.
jimscard
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The same can be said about Europe as well, whose governments seem to have developed amnesia.
jimscard
macrumors 6502
Innovation and changing the world for the better does not require creating products out of nothing.
Sure "portable hand computers that can make a call" weren't unique. Completing convergence and turning a phone into a combination phone, camera, music machine, and general purpose computer ... that's something different and something that changed the world for the better. Watch? The wasn't anything like the Apple Watch before its introduction -- and there still really isn't.
Then there's the Apple ecosystem - which is really born out of a user centric experience design approach, which focuses on what people need to do, and know, and envisions the end to end process -- without regard to which devices they're using. The ecosystem wins because it's user centric - scenario centric, rather than just focusing on one device.
And no, Tim did not "get handed a rare opportunity" -- Tim got handed an okay company, that was known for making niche products that did well in a limited set of market segments, and, together with his leadership team, turned it into a much larger and more successful company with products and services beloved by mainstream customers as well.
Whatever they end up doing, it’s definitely going to be better than the Twentieth Anniversary Mac, which is the main previous “anniversary” thing that springs to mind.
Although I admit, when they dropped the price from $8000 to $2000 to clear out stock I was a bit disappointed I’d recently bought a 6500 and beefed it up about as much as was possible at the time. If I’d known that the price was going to end up that low I might have gotten one instead since the specs were similar and it was if nothing else a lot cooler than probably the ugliest and most uninspiring econo-tower Apple ever shipped.
Although I admit, when they dropped the price from $8000 to $2000 to clear out stock I was a bit disappointed I’d recently bought a 6500 and beefed it up about as much as was possible at the time. If I’d known that the price was going to end up that low I might have gotten one instead since the specs were similar and it was if nothing else a lot cooler than probably the ugliest and most uninspiring econo-tower Apple ever shipped.
Billy_Bob
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I'm wondering whether I'll have to change my avatar after April 1... maybe if Apple releases a special 50th Anniversary Memorial Monitor Polishing Cloth, featuring Tim Cook's signature?
jimscard
macrumors 6502
It's not Apple or business leaders that don't look back. It's everyone else in the outside world. Today's kids especially.
You're supposed to switch to dark mode. It's used by 80% of people, and designs focus on it because as more and more OLED screens come to be, it's much more energy efficient as well. Grey reminds me of Windows 3.1. Let's not do that.
Ehm. No.
The fact that 1 in 5 Americans over the age of 17 cannot read properly is not the fault of Apple, Microsoft or Tim Cook.
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iLondoner
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I used to visit Apple Park when it was still HP Cupertino on Pruneridge Avenue, and I remember Hewlett-Packard's 50th anniversary in January 1989. Business continued to be good for the next ten years with the development of RISC computing, then Lew Platt handed over to Carly Fiorina. The 'HP Way' management ethics went out of the window, and the company was split between PC/printers (still reasonably successful) and enterprise (subdivided then submerged). Will anyone be celebrating HP's 90th anniversary in January 2029?
Algr
macrumors 6502a
"We never look back, because we'd see all the things we've ruined."
IvyKing
macrumors 6502
Keysight seems to be doing OK. They are what's left of the original HP, i.e. manufacturer of electronic test gear.
Bustycat
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Doomtomb
macrumors 6502a
A retirement announcement from Tim Cook would be the greatest Apple 50th anniversary gift.
Can’t wait for the speech about announcing products then canceling them. Software announcements that take a year to come out. At least the phones are getting closer to 2,000.
While I agree strongly with the first statement, and am not the Cook hater that a lot of people here are (although I have started to sour on his leadership the last couple of years), this statement is greatly downplaying where Apple was when Cook and his leadership team took over.
Since Cook took over as CEO, gross revenue is up by about a factor of 3, which is quite a factor for a company of that size and speaks to Apple's continuing global success under Cook's leadership, but is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the difference between "a company that makes niche products in limited market segments" and "beloved by mainstream customers as well". Apple was already 35 on the Fortune 500 list at that point (higher than Microsoft or Dell), and as that gross revenue figure implies, Apple products and services (don't forget the pop-culture-rewriting impacts of the iTunes store and iPods) were already extremely mainstream--and beloved--in 2011.
Cook did have a big impact on the company's manufacturing pipeline long before he took over as CEO, and had already been in charge of the nuts-and-bolts operations for a while at that point, but you're talking about Cook and his leadership team, not Jobs and his leadership team, of which Cook was part. Apple's meteoric rise between 1998 and 2011 was not primarily due to Cook's operational restructuring, and he also wasn't the one who put together the rest of that team.
Don’t get too excited, all we’re most likely getting are limited edition Watch Bands and a free pin badge at Apple Stores (with every purchase)
In a recent all-hands meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook told employees to "stay tuned" about the company's plans for its upcoming 50th anniversary. Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, so the company will turn 50 in a few more months.
Following a snippet last week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has since shared Cook's full remarks:While it is likely that Cook was referring to a celebration for Apple employees, the company will almost certainly honor the occasion in a big way publicly too.
Apple went from flirting with bankruptcy in the late 1990s to becoming the world's most valuable public company in the early 2010s. It has introduced many iconic products, including the Macintosh in 1984, the iPod in 2001, the iPhone in 2007, and the Apple Watch in 2015. The company reported an all-time revenue record last quarter, driven by all-time high iPhone sales, so the company is still peaking financially.
Article Link: Here Are Tim Cook's Full Remarks About Apple's 50th Anniversary Plans
Alright a celebration iis warranted but what is the vision for the next 50 years? New iconic products? I miss Apple doing ground breaking stuff for end users.