Report: Tim Cook to Step Down as Apple CEO 'as Soon as Next Year'

[Alfonson]

Apple’s profitability is a result of them making differentiated products that consumers are willing to pay a premium for. Them doing stock buybacks is essentially a way of returning excess cash back to the shareholders in a manner which defers taxation.

What this boils down to is that Apple is an extremely well-run company and I don’t see any shame in acknowledging or celebrating that. In contrast, I don’t see the point in cheering for profitless market share (ie: the Android market), and I have lost my taste for firebrand orators like Elon Musk who like to promise you the moon and the stars, but then clearly lacks the acumen to actually deliver on those promises, much less run a company properly.

Maybe it’s also a sign that I have reached middle age. I value stability and predictability and I guess I have come to appreciate that in Apple as well.

Again, I cannot understand how you swallow all that propaganda about success and well-run companies and also just filter out everything that could distort your view. So Musk, who is obviously the bad guy in your corporate fairytale, is unable to deliver after promising the moon and the stars, although his company’s rockets are already in use by nasa and his other company’s cars are visible ever day in the streets.
All that while Apple promised the moon and the stars for Siri and even one year later have literally nothing to show.
And don’t get me wrong, I don’t care about that fascist Musk but in the end they are all the same. All those companies try to make more and more profits for their shareholders while accumulating incredible amounts of money while more and more people don’t know to pay their bills and how to create a safe future for their children.

 

[Abazigal]

Again, I cannot understand how you swallow all that propaganda about success and well-run companies and also just filter out everything that could distort your view. So Musk, who is obviously the bad guy in your corporate fairytale, is unable to deliver after promising the moon and the stars, although his company’s rockets are already in use by nasa and his other company’s cars are visible ever day in the streets.
All that while Apple promised the moon and the stars for Siri and even one year later have literally nothing to show.
And don’t get me wrong, I don’t care about that fascist Musk but in the end they are all the same. All those companies try to make more and more profits for their shareholders while accumulating incredible amounts of money while more and more people don’t know to pay their bills and how to create a safe future for their children.

Apple is where it is because of Tim Cook's active involvement and leadership.

Tesla's management actively works around Elon Musk and tries to avoid getting him involved in their affairs as much as possible. Any success they enjoy today is despite Musk's lack of leadership, not because of it.

This is not a political debate either, and the immense profitability of these giant corporations is en entirely separate matter from the current state of the US, where the issue is more structural, and cannot be solved by any one company. Apple is, in my eyes, a very efficiently and effectively run company and I see nothing wrong with just setting aside whatever reservations I may have with the company, and just marvelling and appreciating this aspect of them for a little while.

 

[Donkey Man]

Yeah if only Image Capture did something like putting a bright green checkmark next to the images that are imported.

Oh wait.

That's exactly what Image Capture does. It puts a bright green checkmark next to the images that have been imported. It seriously could not be easier to see.

Try that when importing 20,000 images and having the green checkmark immediately disappear when your import is interrupted, or when already imported images magically reappear in the folder so you have absolutely no idea what is happening, or whether you are importing things in duplicate.
If you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s better not to comment at all. I complain because I have used all those tools extensively, and know exactly where the bugs and UI failures exist.

 

[Jumpthesnark]

Try that when importing 20,000 images and having the green checkmark immediately disappear when your import is interrupted, or when already imported images magically reappear in the folder so you have absolutely no idea what is happening, or whether you are importing things in duplicate.
If you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s better not to comment at all. I complain because I have used all those tools extensively, and know exactly where the bugs and UI failures exist.

I do know what I'm talking about, so chill on the attitude.

I've used the tools and method I'm describing for years, and I have not experienced what you have. Image Capture has not failed me even one time. So perhaps your use case is particular to you, and the failures you claim are not due to "bugs and UI failure?"

Maybe copying 20,000 images at once is too much for the particulars of your system. Try something different. Sort images by date, select a month at a time (or whatever else works for you) and see if that works. Repeat as needed.

Image Capture has not failed me, even once, to import huge numbers of photos and put the green check mark on them after the process. So clearly there is not some universal bug, because it works for others. Sounds like something is going on with your system, or your method, so I suggest you check that before blaming Apple and then complaining here because someone else doesn't have the same experience you do.

 

[I7guy]

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And don’t get me wrong, I don’t care about that fascist Musk but in the end they are all the same. All those companies try to make more and more profits for their shareholders while accumulating incredible amounts of money while more and more people don’t know to pay their bills and how to create a safe future for their children.

Seems to me you are accusing Tim Cook of corporate greed of which there is no such a thing from a for profit company in a environment where competition exists that produces consumer discretionary products.

People vote with their $$$. Apples 1 billion plus customers have voted. There is no correlation between Apple products and people not paying their bills.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I see Gurman has clarified this morning that we are jumping the gun here and none of this is that imminent.

😞

 

[I7guy]

I’m sure there are some plans in place but Gurman is not privy to them.

 

[Alfonson]

Seems to me you are accusing Tim Cook of corporate greed of which there is no such a thing from a for profit company in a environment where competition exists that produces consumer discretionary products.

People vote with their $$$. Apples 1 billion plus customers have voted. There is no correlation between Apple products and people not paying their bills.

No I am not accusing him of anything. He surely is a very, very good ceo, I just don’t get how some people admire a tax-dodging company so much.
And I wrote “not able to pay their bills” and of course there is a correlation with the accumulation of wealth and poverty.

 

[I7guy]

No I am not accusing him of anything. He surely is a very, very good ceo, I just don’t get how some people admire a tax-dodging company so much.
And I wrote “not able to pay their bills” and of course there is a correlation with the accumulation of wealth and poverty.

There’s a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion of which you say Apple is the latter. Ok, that’s your opinion.

Can you document ancorrelation between buying Apple products and services and the inability to pay bills?