Never once said Apple is doomed. Sales and financials going down does not imply Apple is doomed.
I believe once Cook leaves, Apple will continue to function like it did before with similar patterns of record breaking quarters and I'll be here telling the Cook fans, I told you so.
Of course Apple would function. Any ceo worth their salt could have also fixed apple instead of Steve Job. The way you're discussing this any two people could have kicked started Apple and moved it to 1T, it just happens to have been Jobs and Cook. So what's the point of this? Cook brought apple to a new, stable level, leaving a highly functioning company for the next person. Succession planning is probably underway, Jobs didn't have the luxury of a long time to be able to succession plan.
And yes, you have been saying apple is doomed for 5 years, and the only evidence is two down quarters in otherwise stellar record breaking years. You were once worried about Tim Cooks bonus, are you still worried?
So when car manufacturers know about a flaw, they keep quiet about it? Because that's what Apple did
Yes.
We have 2 companies. One of them is a veteran manufacturing OLED displays for a decade now. The other is an amateur and so far has produced substandard components with quick burn in and in 2017 cannot match a product from 2012. The company which is going to use both companies as a source for OLED displays is known for being quiet about flaws and believes in degrading customer experience rather than issue a recall if the flaw rears its ugly head a few years down the line.
Knowing this, any rational customer would be a complete fool or ignorant if he buys an iPhone XS Plus with an LG display. Remember you are on your own if something happens to it a year later
You still don't know because you can't show me any new iphone model that has a display that is sub-par.
The homepod was a flop. The ATV4 flopped. No exact sales figures for the AW. The services were near zero when Cook took over the company. There was no way to go but up. That 1T is solely because of the iPhone. The iPhone which Jobs came up with finds a mention in articles about the greatest inventions of all time. It isn't hard to look at the competitors and come up with products which is what Cook did.
How can you know if Homepod was a flop? How do you know what the sales targets are? (I can give a hint here, but it's not needed). Some here even thought AW was a flop when it was first released. All you can do, is apply your own biases and come up with an opinion, which most probably is different than Apples' view point.
No doubt the iphone 1,2,3,4 and 5 were great successes. But Tims' 5s, 6, 6s, 7,8,X were also. In fact, Tims' iphone 6 catapulted apple at the time it was released. Service revenues also increased under Timmy.
Cook opened his wallet only after his company was caught degrading customer experience. Even then he was silent about it and it was only after 20+ lawsuits worldwide did he finally relent. Jobs otoh admitted the flaw at the keynote. Jobs is a complete saint compared to Cook
Jobs gave away free cases, yep opened apples wallet. (I'll use that one example, because there is the best one
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Whose customer experiences were downgraded. Can you enumerate who? Mine wasn't. There are several hundred million apple customers, and it's easy to file a lawsuits. Lawsuits mean nothing. And Tim did what the CEO of all companies do, when faced with products that exhibit engineering issues, they analyze and then decide on the best course of action.
The only job of the new CEO is to look at the upcoming trends and implement it in the phone which is the reason for that 1T. So yes, now its easy. Coming up with a product which can match the 65% revenue share of the iPhone in Apple's financials. That's hard and I don't think anyone can.
Anybody can be handed a company if they are given a few billion in R&D develop new products. That's the new mantra, anybody can do it. If a monkey could do what Cook did, an ape could have done what Jobs did.
