Yeah, the iPod Touch should never of had "iPod" in the name IMO.
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Report: Tim Cook to Step Down as Apple CEO 'as Soon as Next Year'
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Yeah, the iPod Touch should never of had "iPod" in the name IMO.
It's also very hard to compare CEOs regardless because they serve in very different decades where the competition, tech, customer preferences and such are all very different. It becomes an apple to oranges comparison.
You don’t run a successful business by giving customers everything they want.
Apple products have never really been perfect under Steve Jobs either (I remember the first iPad with 256gb of ram, or the 2012 MacBook Air with 2 gb ram, so even before Tim Cook, Apple products have already been pretty stingy with specs).
And Steve Jobs went to war with Flash because he wanted to steer developers to the iOS App Store instead. Proprietary connectors like 30-pin? They all started with Steve, and people cheered him on for it.
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When the kids were teens, it was a nice niche product that didn’t give them all the features of a phone. I wish it had parental controls like there is today. The kids loved them, didn’t ask for phones until they were 18, and they are likely lifetime iPhone users because of it as they began building their own media libraries given they had an iCloud account. They were nice for a TV remote too. I was able to download apps to run the home audio equipment.
I guess some of these people forget how Apple pretty much imploded at one point.
I will forever be grateful to Tim Cook for Apple Silicon. Rest in peace, lil' buddy.
Different people are needed at different parts of Apple’s trajectory.
Steve Jobs was Churchhill.
Tim Cook is Eisenhower.
What kind of leader do you want his successor to be?
Michael Fassbender or Noah Wyle? Definitely not Aston Kutcher, right?
Ashton can't even act.
I'm blown away he was cast in that role.
"let's go with the guy who played a doofus on the 70's show"
Eddy Cue is the most talented and inspiring replacement for CEO.
An integrator. By 2030, I want to plug my iPhone with 1TB of storage into a Studio Display and compute. It’s almost there. I want HomeKit and Siri to be as flawless as possible. I no longer need a full fledged PC so to speak. Mail, pictures, media and various apps is all I need at this stage in life. On the Mac front, they just need to remain innovative. I have two kids working in computer science and digital media that live on their Mac’s.
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Need more a software guy over a hardware guy actually.
Scott Forstall is a software guy who majored in AI before AI became a big thing. That's what Apple needs.
Yes I never really got the appeal of the iPod touch. I mean I never found a use for it outside of those people who just absolutely refused to give AT&T their money. But once AT&T lost their exclusive rights to the iPhone, the iPod touch became even more of a tough sell, again for most people.
They could do it within the year if they wanted. You already can connect it to a display, keyboard and mouse though you just get a larger version of the same phone display and a mouse to click on things. So it's all a software problem now.
Oh yes and to be clear I feel the same way. I just understand the heat that Cook or whoever the CEO of Apple would have been if they had continued to throw money at the Touch. Apple was in a lose lose situation there. It was one of those you can't put the toothpaste back in the bottle moments.
Reminds me of when Jobs said at MIT that "Hardware churns every 18 months. It's pretty impossible to get a sustainable competitive advantage from hardware ... but software seems to take a lot longer for people to catch up with."
LLMs are at least 50 percent hype and frequently wrong.
I kind of admire the work ethic of these old rich people but it couldn't be me. I'd be relaxing on some remote Island for the rest of my life with their kind of money.
Congratulations, Tim. Steve Jobs was an impossible act to follow. You did an admirable job. 👏👏👏
Nothing against the guy but Tim needs to step down as soon as possible. He’s no Steve Jobs. It’s been a very rich period for Apple but also a period filled with loss of purpose. Apple’s true values have disappeared since Job’s passing. Apple needs to go back to its routes. We need a visionary leader.
Hmm...
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Maybe it's not such a bad thing to sit out entire trends, especially if they turn out to be flops in the long term.