It’s been a long time since I read the book, but I seem to remember that exact quote being in there. Am I wrong?
Steve being a product person while running the company is arguably the exception rather than the norm.
And he had other blind spots instead, some of which Tim doesn't have.
Does Apple currently lack a good products guy near the top? Maybe. But it doesn't follow that Tim is a poor CEO, which seems to be the argument that Isaacson is making (if Isaacson is really saying anything at all other than "hey guys remember my book?").
Tim Cook ruined Apple. Apple is a product company, it need more revolutionary product to survive. I agree that Tim Cook make Apple the most profitable company, but that doesn’t last long if there aren’t more revolutionary product being launched.
Why do people keep forgetting this?Plot twist in 12 months' time: Jony and Scott start to collaborate having realised the wedge was driven between them by Tim. And hopefully the world get the third way tech co it so desperately needs.
Dream big or go home.
Why do people keep forgetting this?
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/11/0...edly-influenced-by-scott-forstalls-departure/
Tim has been a good leader in his own right with his commitment to privacy, ethics in big tech etc., but it is just telling when Scott Forstall, Steve Jobs, and Jony Ive all had the same issue with him. Jobs notwithstanding, Forstall and Ive left before the ship started sailing adrift
Forstall was basically pushed out by Cook. Forstall resigned because he wouldn't take the fall for the Apple Maps debacle.
I’m just saying everyone says Ive and Forstall didn’t get along yet the only story we have is about Bob Mansfield. The last we heard about Mansfield is he was leading the car project.That worked out well. Apart from Watch, which may or may not have involved Mansfield, where are these 'new products' he was charged with delivering? It's been more than six years since he moved into his new role. https://www.macrumors.com/2013/08/0...ucts-other-execs-take-over-management-duties/
Scott Forstall seems to be a great excuse to use for execs having a midlife crisis at the time.
Or maybe he was sick and not in his right mind in those moments. Meaning sometimes people say things they would never say when they are sick.Interesting how this tidbit surfaces 8 years later.
But “Tim can do everything” but he’s not “a product person”? Seems contradictory or maybe he got it wrong.
Sticking it under Eddy Cue after Forstall left didn’t help. When Forstall left Cook should have brought on an SVP to oversee iCloud, Siri, maps and have the role eventually transition into overseeing all of Apple’s ML and AI efforts. Leave Eddy Cue to manage content services and pro apps like logic and final cut.Apple Maps and Siri were Forstall's responsibility. I think most people would agree their early/premature release was a failure.
You mean skewomorphic guy?Plot twist in 12 months' time: Jony and Scott start to collaborate having realised the wedge was driven between them by Tim. And hopefully the world get the third way tech co it so desperately needs.
Dream big or go home.
I wonder how many users here actually read the book. I read the book and can tell you that this "revelation" (quote from Steve)) was already in the book. So, I don't know why this have come up as something new.Weird how once every couple of years Isaacson comes forward with another revelation that for some reason didn’t make it into his book.
ExactlyWalter Isaacson is an opportunist who wants to milk his horribly-written biography even more.
He was totally disengaged and the products suffered as a result. He needed a break from apple.
I have no issues with Cook not being a "Product Person". It doesn't have to be his job. He is great at being the face of the company.
But make sure you hire someone who really is the product person and make them in charge of that area.
Also, get rid of dead weight with 1990s ideas like "Fast" Eddy Cue.
It seems like Cook is loyal to a fault.
Privacy ain’tTim has been a good leader in his own right with his commitment to privacy, ethics in big tech etc., but it is just telling when Scott Forstall, Steve Jobs, and Jony Ive all had the same issue with him. Jobs notwithstanding, Forstall and Ive left before the ship started sailing adrift
Then why did Jobs wanted Tim to be CEO? I see Tim as a PC guy and not a MAC guy.