So his point isn’t moot. I worked at Apple when Steve was still there. The culture was different. When I was leaving the culture had shifted and Steve was sick (though that wasn’t public knowledge). Steve was there when the whole “antenna gate” thing happened. And I have my own theory on all of that - I believe they identified there was an issue with having the antenna on the outside it’s why they made the bumper cases, which was the first case they’d ever made for an iPhone, to solve the issue should it become a larger issue. But therein lies the issue...they did have a solution for the issue. I do not understand, when you have a product like HomePod that is completely controlled by them...you can’t even beta test the software (which may be part of the issue) that you can release an update that bricks the hardware...on a completely controller device. That never happened when Jobs was there. Never. I’m not normally a “if Steve were alive” person, but in this case, as I posted earlier, I am. He did put the fear of God in employees within Apple. When I first visited campus we were given a “Steve Talk”...don’t approach Steve, don’t do this, don’t do that.It was well known the quickest way to be departing Apple was to make a wrong move in his eye line.
