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Seven Years Ago Today: Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple, Tim Cook Named His Successor
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Tim looks young here. I imagine the stress of being a CEO would wear on a person. Like Obama when he was done being president, that's a lot of stress.
I'm thankful that Tim is implementing HIS VISION of Apple under what education he received from Jobs. Apple may very well be remembered for the visionary thinking of Jobs but having Cook really bring Apple into the limelight.
In an alternate reality, it would be awesome if Cook was CEO and Jobs was head of Products.
In an alternate reality, it would be awesome if Cook was CEO and Jobs was head of Products.
Name three things that have improved at Apple since SJ's death that weren't natural technological evolutions, without talking about the stock or revenue.
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They don't allow cameras in the deep money vault room when the Execs take their daily swims. Rumor has it as MUCH like this...
And yes, everyone swimming in that pool smiles.
And yes, that mouse in this video is obviously a Samsung, Google, etc plant. How dare he!!!
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Smart move by Steve. It certainly isn't all Cook, but he has made some good moves since becoming CEO and has obviously helped make them the most dominant company in tech today.
Same. I switch to Andriod about 5 years ago and have loved it since. I used ME as my business email a long time ago and when servers were up and down when iCloud was starting, I switched to Gmail and Andriod. I'll never go back. As far as Mac's, I work in motion graphics with 5 other co-workers. Two of them have already switched to PCs and our remaining 4, including me, will be switching after September. I've been using Mac's since 2004 and it's been a great run, but we need machines that aren't soldered together and room to upgrade GPU's. Sorry Mac, you lost us.
Still miss Steve Jobs. I know he was a bit different, but Apple produced much richer products under his leadership. I still like Apple and its products but they are still living in the shadow and legacy of Steve's leadership and haven't really produced anything that supports "think different".
Overall Cook’s tenure as CEO has been marked by the slow creep of profiteering as Apple has become ever more beholden to Wall Street profit expectations - I’m not sure anyone, even Jobs, could have ultimately resisted but unfortunately that’s a big theme of his legacy. On a more positive note he has seen the company remain in rude financial health, push into some interesting new products, take the iPhone in a fresh direction as it was beginning to stall and start to become a big player in services but there’s definitely a sense of making hay while the sun shines about Apple’s current trajectory...
The protruding camera is even worse since the phone wobbles if you place it on a flat surface.
We don't know if Steve would have approved the protruding camera and the notch. I think he wanted to have more control over the product than Tim has today. Maybe Tim Cook doesn't say a lot of NO and leaves some of the decisions to other VP like Ive or Schiller.
Anyway Cook is a wonderful CEO, Apple is doing great and he deserves credit for that. I'm one of the people always complaining about the Mac and of course Apple, and Tim, made some wrong decisions but overall I think shareholders couldn't be happier and wouldn't want another person to lead the company.
I did not realize that the Airpods, Apple Watch and HomePod were out 7 years ago. I must have missed the announcement while Steve was alive.
Not sure if serious...
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Evidence Apple's products aren't pleasing their customers? Don't start talking about software bugs (they get fixed) and things like no updated Mac Mini or a failed TouchBar.
None of those things mean the product quality, support, service, or innovation have failed.
The iPhone X is the most highly rated iPhone ever and iPad continues to have 95%+ satisfaction, leading the industry, just as some examples.
Well, not sure many agree from a business perspective. From the basic and most unsophisticated view that is role is to maximize share holders wealth, he has done well, but did he maximize? I believe others would have made Apple siginifantly more money, and from a business perspective not let andriod dominate the world market.
Imagine Apple sales if they moved to bigger screens earlier, if they didn’t wait so long to adopt Qi, or didn’t let Google blow them away with google now.
What if they actually focused on their computer line and increased sales from MacBooks, Mac mini and Mac Pro sales. Can they only focus on one thing at a time? Yes there cash cow is iPhone, but so many people have switched on that product line?
And from a business perspective, I have perchased other products not in the Apple ecosystem because Apple products are lacking. Let’s not even get started on home pod, Apple TV, and others. All I know is I have spoken with my wallet, and huge sector of the tech community has moved to andriod, those are lost sales.
Airpods and the Watch still requires an iPhone, so they are not cannibalising any product line like the iPhone did with the iPod. The HomePod came out when all the competition had already captures the market, even IKEA has released a proper wireless speaker. I have tried all three products that you have mentioned, but have found better alternatives from the competition.
I have not found anything better than the iPhone, iPad and MacBook out there, but the new MacBook Pros seem to struggle along with the iMac Pro and Mac Pro. Apple have created new and exciting product lines, but not anything near a "necessity" like the iPhone, iPod, iPad or Mac under Tims leadership. Even though the stock value is flattering, I am also interested in good products, and the only good product from Apple seems to be the iPhone X.
The Touch Bar, the custom ARM chips in the Macs and the trouble with managing heat inside the Mac Pro and MacBook Pro are also stuff I see as a red flag for the future. As much as I love the iPhone, I think Macs are more important to the ecosystem than pure consumer experiences like the iPhone, iPad and the Watch. As much as I would love to create with an iPad, I still think it helps secretaries alot more than engineers.
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I mourn this day more than any other in Apple history. The day Apple's soul departed us. The moment a great company turned into just another faceless corporation thanks to a beancounter who doesn't get what made the company so beloved...
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Fair to say a worse CEO could've quite easily driven the company into the ground by squeezing more profit out of cheaper and worse products, with more gimmicks and less substance - but it is starting to get to death by a thousand cuts with lingering old hardware, the 16GB iPhones having reiterated themselves as 128 and 256GB Macs at various price points that amount of storage is unsuitable for, nickel and diming on things like dongles and mac power cords. Unfortunately I don't see anyone who can rescue Apple from the Wall Street demands for more and more profits, and with pretty much stalled volumes the only thing they can do is try to eke more money out of each sale and attract people to Apple services. Hopefully the services prevail to keep products from ballooning further in price...
FaceID is only on the iPhone X. They are still releasing 3000 dollar laptops with 720p cameras without this technology. I guess they are just milking this last product before everybody owns three generations of smartphones that no one will be able to distinguish, just like they did with 6, 6S and 7. Intel hasn't raised their IPC since 2011? Do you think they will be able to make ARM CPUs faster in five years? Do you then need larger phones to cool the ARM cpus?
I would also love to see this company fail, because I think with the power Apple has at the moment, very few dare to challenge the status quo. I think they have a lot of respect and they kind of deserve the respect, but the creators tools like the Mac is neglected and all you can do with the iOS devices is to consume. They are more or less interactive televisions, and YouTubes latest stats seems to prove this. YouTube is challenging FaceBook with almost 2 billion monthly active users.
I use one service from Apple and that is iCloud, and it is just to get rid of the nagscreen they are providing me with when the 5GB of free space is used. The rest of the services just have better alternatives from competing companies. According to Glassdoor, even In-N-Out Burger is a better place to work than Apple, along with FaceBook, Google, LinkedIn, Nvidia, Fast, Blizzard, Adobe, Microsoft, Yahoo and Chick-a-Fil. Apple is at 84th place. In 2011 they were at 20th place. I just think there are better places to work than Apple, and they can't attract the same talent as they did when Steve Jobs was alive. In the end that will manifest itself in the products they launch.
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Tim Cook is not the evil – bad was (is?) his weakness against some foolish ideas of Jony Ive... I hope this has been changed in silence meanwhile
Serious. Jobs used to routinely park his Mercedes in handicap parking close to the front door at Apple Headquarters.
EDIT: And this was when he was healthy and fit. Because he could, apparently.
Tim makes money for apple because he gives customers what they want? As a general statement, it seems some of the customers that say they have been with apple since the beginning don't really like Tim's management of the company. However, the universe seems to disagree with much of this sentiment.