Zero facts, all conjecture in your post.
Watch sales are growing rapidly and are likely the biggest driver in the “other products” category, which is bigger than most companies in the s&p 500 at around $20B in annual sales.
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Seven Years Ago Today: Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple, Tim Cook Named His Successor
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Watch sales are growing rapidly and are likely the biggest driver in the “other products” category, which is bigger than most companies in the s&p 500 at around $20B in annual sales.
right so big timmy does not want to reveal apple watch numbers,
this is the first product under his tenure, if the number is so good
he should be beating his chest. and this is also his chance to step
out of steve job shadow. while i do see more apple watches in the wild,
still a niche product.
and other product category include other things besides the apple
watch too, like dongles.....
I just find it amusing when people play the form over function card. As if that never happened when Steve was CEO. People have been complaining about Apple caring more about aesthetics than function well before Tim Cook became CEO.
Wow has Tim aged in just seven years.
That aside though I never think Apple will return to where they were with Jobs. While I still will support Apple and continue to enjoy their products, I'll always treasure the products I own that were announced during the Steve Jobs Era of Apple.
That aside though I never think Apple will return to where they were with Jobs. While I still will support Apple and continue to enjoy their products, I'll always treasure the products I own that were announced during the Steve Jobs Era of Apple.
The iPhone was already a cash cow when Cook took over. You could have placed any ceo at the top and it would still have helped Apple reach 1T. What’s difficult is coming up with the product in the first place. A big fat inheritance and expanding it is no big deal.
I am glad your happy about your portfolio. Too bad those who got burnt by Touch Disease and throttlegate aren’t but I guess those who did are probably (like me) a part of that 20% in Timmy’s marketing chart.
I am now waiting for the day when Apple issues a software update secretly when they find out something wrong with the LG OLED display instead of a recall and how you justify it.
Not everyone can be like Steve. I think Tim is doing a great job.
I thought the same thing.
Cook has aged terribly in these seven years. Seems like twenty years have passed by in his life instead of seven.
The iPhone was doing well when Cook took over. Cook took the iPhone and apples earnings to a whole new level.
So that's the argument, anyone could have done it. If that was the case Jobs wouldn't have appointed cook and would have told the board to pick anyone they feel is qualified. If Jobs thought that "not anyone" could have done it, why should I listen to a random internet poster with an axe to grind about apple.
What's touch disease and throttle gate? Are those car recalls? Oh wait, nothing ever goes wrong in the manufacture of a product and car companies never issue recalls because they get it right 100%.
You mean like "pink screen"?
Profits are not TCs vision, they happened due to TCs vision. In other words, customers first.
Profits= Tim Cook. Innovation-Jobs. I challenge you to find anything resembling Touch Disease or Throttlegate in Jobs era. You won't find anything. You won't find any down quarters either.
Vision = TC and profits = vision. Jobs innovated sure. So does Cook. I'll leave it to the reader to find out things that went wrong in Jobs eras, but I will mention the iPhone 4.
May not find any down quarters, but you won't find 1T either. A down quarter is only a good internet talking point. Certain people should talk about 1T the same as a down quarter.
It’s a matter of priority and it reflects in the product catalog which is a mess currently.
SJ was product minded first. TC cares about appeasing wall street first and product 2nd.
Example: why can’t an iPhone X connect to a new MacBook Pro without a dongle?
So, you have no real arguments and can only point to money, gotcha. Cook has no vision, see: Mac lineup.
The first thought that comes to mind is charging customers $10 for a 3.5mm to lightning adapter. Then $19 for a usb-c to lightning/usb-a. Let’s not forget you can’t connect an iPhone to a 2016+ Mac without buying an adapter.
Definitely customer first
Look at the MacBook Pro specifically. Even the most ardent Apple acolytes would be hard pressed to call the MacBook lineup the result of customer and product first minded thinking
Jobs was handed a bankrupt company which he single handedly turned into the most profitable company on the planet. Tim Cook took what Jobs gave him and iterated on it. Without Job’s vision the iPhone product category does not exist. Just look at the profit share. iPhone makes up a majority of the pie as it did when Jobs was around. No changes.
The iPhone 4 antennagate was a flaw with Apple’s then flagship product. No company is stupid enough to sabotage its current flagship. Touch Disease and Throttlegate affect only older phones.
Apple would have reached 1T even if Jobs was still CEO. The iPhone was already shooting off the charts when Cook took over.
Which is easy to do. If I gave you 1 billion dollars and asked you to innovate that’s relatively easy to do. Coming up with innovation from zero which is what Jobs did is difficult.
Jobs picked the person he thought would be the best. That doesn’t mean everyone else would be disqualified. Once the Cook era is over, Apple will be handed over to anyone who the Board feels like it and I guarantee you will see absolutely no difference.
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Do car manufacturers intentionally put in defective components in cars?
The LG display can’t even display colours and I mean this literally. It displays yellow as orange. Literally every one of their displays is infested with problems. Every one of Samsung’s displays is not infested with problems. [/quote]
Couldn't agree more. I hate all the new Macs. Even from a phone perspective, the phone I want is $1200 which is nuts and doesn't have a headphone jack. My old Mac Pro and previous gen Macbook pro are where it's at for me.
OK, now that you're a Trillion Dollar Behemoth, can you take some chances again?
[doublepost=1535327898][/doublepost]And no, "thin" isn't a risk.
[doublepost=1535327898][/doublepost]And no, "thin" isn't a risk.
You won't find any down quarters in Jobs era? That's not right, not at all. Apple had a lot of down quarters while Steve Jobs was CEO.
Three years into his tenure as Apple's CEO, Apple began a string of 4 consecutive quarters which were down YoY in both revenue and net income. Net income was down YoY in 10 out of 11 quarters spanning from late 2000 to mid 2003, and revenue was down YoY in 7 of those quarters.
I'm not researching to see if this in correct or not, but all tech companies pretty much took a beating during this time. Between the "dot com" bubble bursting and then 9/11, the tech industry along with many other industries suffered.
There were also Apple specific reasons why it experienced numerous down quarters during that period of time. I wasn't, e.g., suggesting it was because Mr. Jobs was a bad CEO. The point was that the notion that Apple didn't see down quarters under Mr. Jobs (as, e.g., a comparison to it having seen some under Mr. Cooks) was quite wrong.