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Report: Tim Cook to Step Down as Apple CEO 'as Soon as Next Year'
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Another thing I think people aren’t keeping in mind, just because Tim isn’t CEO doesn’t mean he’s necessarily gone from the company.
He’s pretty much certain to remain on apple‘s board, if not become the new chairman.
Apple has a rule that no one on their board is over 75 years of age, and… oh hey, what do you know it, their current chairman of the board was born in 1950 and it’s 2025..
He’s pretty much certain to remain on apple‘s board, if not become the new chairman.
Apple has a rule that no one on their board is over 75 years of age, and… oh hey, what do you know it, their current chairman of the board was born in 1950 and it’s 2025..
Good riddance. Apple innovation and creativity has languished with a boardroom accountant at the helm. Apple needs a visionary. It won't happen, but we can dream.
I can see Cook becoming the new board chairman. Over the years he has accumulated a ton of inside Apple knowledge that's very valuable.
So "most" aren't using the ports on their MBPs? This seems like a wildly inaccurate statement. Please tell us where you heard this.
Tim has done great and Apple has done incredibly good under Tim. It might be Steve Jobs greatest decision and that man has many. Steve would be proud of Tim and Apple.
I am worried with the direction of liquid ass though. If that's Tim's vision, I think Apple would benefit by him leaving. iOS 27 better present a much more refined and tighter version of liquid ass or it's a failure in its current state. It feels incomplete and something that looked good on paper but not on a screen.
I am worried with the direction of liquid ass though. If that's Tim's vision, I think Apple would benefit by him leaving. iOS 27 better present a much more refined and tighter version of liquid ass or it's a failure in its current state. It feels incomplete and something that looked good on paper but not on a screen.
And yet they killed the iPhone mini after only two years. 😢 😉
You joke but in retrospect, that was kind of a strange decision.
Although the exact same thing happened with the iPod Mini as well so… who knows. At least that one had a replacement even if it was technically inferior in many ways at first.
I have a feeling it’ll come back someday, though, in some form… Hopefully.
Someone worse at least would make it clear that it's time to move on, instead of keeping us in the limbo that maybe, maybe Apple will get their act together again.
Jobs would have been fired / forced out sometime ago. He was completely ill-suited to guide Apple through the last 10+ years.
It’s a nice way for me to access apps on my tv without letting the tv manufacturers spy on me (which is basically what happens once you connect your tv to the internet).
There’s also the Apple-only apps like photos, podcast, Apple Music, Apple Arcade and airplay mirroring, plus third party apps such as infuse, play, nebula and lookup.
Very cheap way of extending the Apple ecosystem to your living room, IMO.
I beg to differ. The enthusiast - like you - wants that. The consumer bears little relationship to the people on this website. Their priority is not even close to the same. They want "cool". They also want devices that work and look good, but cool is more important to the average Apple customer.
I think Tim was better than OK, at least during the decade after Steve’s death. It’s only been the past two to three years in which Apple seems to be loosing progress. No, he’s no Steve Jobs, but for a good number of years that didn’t seem to matter given how well Apple was doing.
Maybe now it’s starting to matter again just like it did during the nineties right before Steve returned to Apple and it’s time for a new perspective from the top. Of course Apple is in much better shape than it was back then and Tim Cook is responsible for a lot of that.
The Apple board will make a DEI CEO hire and ruin everything. Get back to innovation and your roots. Btw: the whole marketing team needs to go. They have lost the vision of Apple or they never had it.
Good now they can finally get someone in that will help Apple innovate instead of pushing the same old thing.
YAAAAAAASSSS. This makes me hopeful for the future. We’ll see what happens.
I mean, Apple does have an obligation to share holders. Personally I’d prefer a world where these big corporations can be privately owned and focus on design over profit but that will require stock buybacks.