It got a little politcal too
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Tim Cook Challenges Graduates to 'Think Different' in Duke University Commencement Address
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Of course it did. Cook never misses an opportunity to lecture others.....
Tim is trying to brainwash the kids to think like a global society and share their money with others. Given he is worth around 1billion dollars give a or take a few million here or there.
Sadly, "think different" to most people is putting that other shoe on first or sucking on the wrong end of a doobie.
Else, we would see thousands of Steve Jobs.
You are either born with "it" or not.
If you have to be told...you already have lost that battle.
Else, we would see thousands of Steve Jobs.
You are either born with "it" or not.
If you have to be told...you already have lost that battle.
Think different as in make shht up: 
Car, TV, AR, Glucose Monitor, and when all else fails, more stock buybacks. Cook's employment deal with the board of directors will be in the money soon enough. I hope he takes Ive and Schiller with him as he heads for the exit.
Car, TV, AR, Glucose Monitor, and when all else fails, more stock buybacks. Cook's employment deal with the board of directors will be in the money soon enough. I hope he takes Ive and Schiller with him as he heads for the exit.Are you certain that was his intention? In an era when it was common, even necessary, to “build” or modify a PC to suit One’s needs, the Macintosh was an out-of-the-box solution that appealed to persons who didn’t want to tinker with such things.
Fast forward to today and what was once a selling feature has morphed into a handicap that exacerbates repair costs and accelerates product obsolescence.
There is always those who hate on those enjoying and enriching other people's lives, everyday.
I enjoy seeing Tim being a positive influence, he does commencements every year. Just like a lot of important, inspiring people.
For being forced to endure that incoherent rambling, graduates should seek to get part of their tuition fees refunded and also get a cut of the platform marketing time Cook paid.
Hope the students started a “we want a new Mac mini” chant while Tim was there.
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True, but that doesn't mean they skated to the right place. They skated to where they THOUGHT the puck would be, or even skated to where they wanted to and expected the puck to follow. After writing that I think it was the former.
Tim Crook is incapable of "Thinking Different". His tiny little brain only has one gear, "Think Profit".
Everything you said is your anectodal opinion. The numbers (practically all of them) tell a different story.
Cook is doing a phenomenal job, period. Every company has problems. Apple manages them well.
What a hypocrite, he doesn’t like guns and the violence they have brought yet also refuses to help in brining evidence against those who do....
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For those of you with bitterness or animosity towards Tim Cook and/or Apple, please watch this video:
In related news, Phil Knight tells graduates to "Just do it", Steve Easterbrook tells them "I'm lovin' it", and Lowell C McAdam asks "can you hear me now?"
Amen. Users can scream from the mountaintops how they can like the modern look or can work with the "clean" (but so-unfinished-looking and hard to quickly digest) look of:
but too many have forgotten how just a little bit of contrast, boldness, colors, framing, grids, buttons, etc., add a certain context that is almost subconsciously registered and lends itself to providing that "it just works" reputation Apple used to have, such as:
Steve Jobs.
[doublepost=1526241425][/doublepost]Timmy: "Think Different! Make the World a better place! All You need is your iPhablet your iWatchU and the Twitter/Facebook/Instagram App. You don't need Mac minis, thats why we don't sell them anymore"
Its just a bunch of people who want a public figure to beat up on because the company did or didn't do something to their liking. Also, they don't know him personally, so the disconnection of relationship breeds contempt toward him. It helps some of them feel better about themselves because they feel they can run the company better.
Statistically that would be about 0.2% of them that own a mini. If we are generous maybe a quarter of them really care enough about an update to want to chant about it. Those 19 students would make a thunderous noise.
He's trying to get the word out, instead of giving people the opportunity to actually decide for themselves.
Steve was basically talking about Apple only.... That's defiantly how how the way it is, otherwise every other company would like like Apple as well.
I wish Apple would instead focus on making products instead of trying to push everyone down a path they don't wanna go down.
I like Tim but I disagree with him on some key issues. I think his "crime" in the Apple community is not being Steve Jobs and head of a company no longer making leading edge tech products. Since Steve passed there has been very little "new" innovation while at the same time, making debatable design choices (premature removal of headphone jack, Magsafe axed, no legacy ports on MacBook Pro, etc.)
Steve is an incredibly tough act to follow....for ANYONE!!!
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yes--if you're a stockholder. But with the loyal core of users the past twenty years that made Apple--he could do a lot better.
Hmm, I don’t think that fits to people like those who spent thousands on the new MacBook Pro, only for its keyboard to break when it gets dusty. Or those of us with iPhones who had their performance deliberately throttled for over a year without knowing about it.. in fact your post is pretty naive and genralistic.