I just posted about this very subject in my MacBook Air M1 review here. No Jobs, no soul. Forget the Wall Street leeches, the biggest problem at Apple is now the “artisté” that is so lazy they won’t even return to work.
Tim is so much of a number-crunching sack of chaff that he can’t stand up to his own employees. He’s definitely the “nice parent” that the kids run to when they want to do something they know the strict parent would disallow.
Profound. Bold. Yaaaaaaaas. This is all that matters in the CalArts agenda. You don’t have to be a good artist or designer because what is art? If they take away a solid objective base of measure they can make art whatever they want it to be. As with Marxists, and we know that Lib-Studies is Cultural Marxism, they always have to kill God because God represents a fundamental judgement of right and wrong. Without God, right and wrong become subjective and you can adjust the definition such that you can steal, kill, and enslave whoever you like and sell it as being heroic and altruistic.
In the same way, you can race-swap movies and stories as much as you like…but only in one-direction. You can be the most depraved loon and be called “fierce” so long as you’re supporting their agenda. You can have the literacy of a second-grader and be a writer for…well anybody as it seems that not a single publication has any standards for grammar. You can design something that is so flawed it is unusable, or otherwise has no efficacy in its claims, and people will defend it as being “avant-garde”. Ever heard of the wooden eggs on Kickstarter?
This is the way Apple is going. The people that work there now like to believe they designed everything that made Apple the most remarkable tech company in history; the Macintosh, the iPhone (one), the iPod. In reality, they are irreverent petulant children that have inherited a fortune. Think Arthur but without the redemption arc or Christopher Cross montage. As we see in history, many kingdoms and empires have fallen to the same hubris as entitled and detached heirs lose sight of their role and the fragility of their power.
Seeing Lizzo diddle and fondle a priceless artifact like a prize she won at Chuck-E-Cheese’s is the same, in my eyes, as watching these arrogant kids take over the empire that Jobs built. They all think they have such great ideas and when the public fires back at their mistakes they flee to their ivory towers where they sip wine together in a circle and bemoan the poor myopic commoners.
Apple is Steve Jobs and Steve Jobs is Apple. In my view, Apple died in 2009.
If you want an example of how incompetent the young devs and “artistés” are, as well as something to keep you up at night if you are obsessive, just know that they can’t even make the beach-ball cursor rotate on-axis. See for yourself.
OP: return the phone while you can.