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Tim Cook Named 'CEO of the Year' by CNN

I knew he was going to win something this year

spectrumfox said:
Why do I get the uncomfortable suspicion that one of the reasons why he was awarded this was because he came out publically?
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I share your suspicion that it was one of the reasons (not necessarily the only reason). I like Tim Cook and I like the products Apple has released under his direction. I own many of them and I am really looking forward to Apple watch. His company is making a boat load of money right now and is raising a lot of money for charity.

All of that puts him on the short list for CEO of the year. But I knew the day he came out publicly that he was guaranteed to win at least one "______ of the year" award.
 
hlfway2anywhere said:
in a world where you can literally still be imprisoned or killed in some countries for that, i'd say as a CEO it's actually kind of big. but i'd be surprised if it had anything to do with that at all, and everything to do with Apple's superb financial performance this year.
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I don't think Tim lives in that part of the world where he is at risk of death or imprisonment for being gay. Like I said in a previous post, I like him and I think he is leading Apple in the right direction.

Have there been problems along the way? Absolutely. But I bet there are a lot of companies that would gladly trade their problems for Apple's problems. Problems like there is so much demand for your products that you are struggling to keep up with orders.

I personally don't care what his or anyone else's sexual orientation is. However, in the United States in 2014, I don't think it is much of a risk, especially for someone of his social status, to announce they are gay.

I predicted to my wife the day he came out publicly that he would win "something" of the year for 2014. CEO of the year could be 100% the result of Apple's financial performance but I still suspect that his "Person of the Year" nomination by Time was connected to him publicly coming out.
 
cdmoore74 said:
I think everyone on this planet would call iPad mini 3 a fail. Worse tablet update in history. Why defend Apple for sleeping at the wheel?
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Note I didn't say much about iPad Mini 3. I take it as if they never refreshed it, literally.
 
LoL

That is laughable!

I'm sure he only got it because he came out & gayes up apple. He is a hero!
 
Piggie said:
Really?

I don't see ANYTHING he's done that's new.

Other than the watch, which is a dubious device to start with, it's just been tweak what's already out there.

Believe me I'd LOVE to see new ranges of new products, but I know we won't.

It will just be a thinner Mac Book, a fiddled with iMac, a different size iPhone.

Where are all the NEW things?

To be honest, The iPad was the last bit of innovation Apple did, and that's stagnated as on day one it was just a blown up iPod Touch really with a BIG screen and years later, they still have done nothing with it, it's STILL just the same device.

All I see, is a total and utter lack of innovation, just tweaking and fiddling with stuff in little ways, to re-sell basically the same items again and again year after year to make more money.

I want to see new ranges of new products to make me want to go and buy new things.
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I've seen apple declining since around 2009. Let's get real here. All apple has done is copy jailbreak tweaks and android features, make it look really pretty and streamlined, give it a fancy, gimmicky name, say that it's "revolutionary" and try to call it their own.

By the time apple came out with video recording and MMS on the 3gs, Jailbreakers had been doing it since the dawn of the iPhone 2g.

Apple releases things later to keep the sheep coming back.

Apple could make a really great phone if they quit limiting the software. They could make better features than android if they wanted to but they don't. They keep it limited.

Let's face it, apple's software keeps getting worse and worse, it started with snow leopard and lion and then it went downhill from there.
 
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DoctorTech said:
I share your suspicion that it was one of the reasons (not necessarily the only reason). I like Tim Cook and I like the products Apple has released under his direction. I own many of them and I am really looking forward to Apple watch. His company is making a boat load of money right now and is raising a lot of money for charity.

All of that puts him on the short list for CEO of the year. But I knew the day he came out publicly that he was guaranteed to win at least one "______ of the year" award.
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I believe that's true and so do many other people. That's the world we live in tough now. I don't think as a CEO he's anything special at all. Apple is a very well established company that was more or less on cruise control. It's the same thing as a job applicant that has one of the "bonus" traits like being gay, disabled, minority, etc. like it or not, they get a second look because of their issue. Same as when it comes to layoffs..... Companies have to be careful with whom they lay off nowadays too.

A good analogy is when the Dallas Cowboys teams of the 90s ended up with Barry Swtizer as their head coach and WON a super bowl with him. That team was a machine and my mother could have likely guided them to a super bowl title with so much talent that had been together for a while.

Just saying.
 
Thanks Cook for the iOS 8 mess and designed for obsolescence with deficient DRAM!
 
AppleScruff1 said:
I guess it's better to be a cheerleader and praise everything Apple does. :eek:
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No, it's better to make an informed judgement based on everything.

Not 'Tim is ruining apple' despite evidence to the contrary and 'soldered ram?! They're mad!' Which must have been a decision Apple thought made sense, wouldn't stop their products being good, or annoy a large portion of their audience.

A lot of people on here agree Steve Jobs work s on the iPhone 5, and that Apple has an 18 month roadmap planned. Well, I spoke to someone who believed Apple could not function now that Steve Jobs had gone, and their evidence for this was the iPhone 5.
 
mi7chy said:
Stock performance isn't much to talk about when it's just recovering to 2012 level.
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Well, revenue and profits then... Not bad at all. Those are the most important. Stocks growth usually proportionally play around profit and profit growth numbers long term, except when there is large long term macro economic pressures.

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s2mikey said:
I believe that's true and so do many other people. That's the world we live in tough now. I don't think as a CEO he's anything special at all. Apple is a very well established company that was more or less on cruise control. It's the same thing as a job applicant that has one of the "bonus" traits like being gay, disabled, minority, etc. like it or not, they get a second look because of their issue. Same as when it comes to layoffs..... Companies have to be careful with whom they lay off nowadays too.

A good analogy is when the Dallas Cowboys teams of the 90s ended up with Barry Swtizer as their head coach and WON a super bowl with him. That team was a machine and my mother could have likely guided them to a super bowl title with so much talent that had been together for a while.

Just saying.
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Cook is part of why it is "established", he's the reason their supply chain and operations are so good; that was the case even before Jobs died. He's a key part of Apple before and After Jobs.
 
mi7chy said:
Stock performance isn't much to talk about when it's just recovering to 2012 level.
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Apple stock is up 97% in the last 3 years. That's more than Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Dow, Nasdaq or S&P 500. The only big name tech stock that's performed better in the past 3 years is Facebook.

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Keirasplace said:
Cook is part of why it is "established", he's the reason their supply chain and operations are so good; that was the case even before Jobs died. He's a key part of Apple before and After Jobs.
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The reason Steve was able to focus on things he cared about (like design and marketing) is because he had Tim to focus on everything else.
 
tigres said:
iPhone 6,+ win
iPhone 6 plus +win
applepay, +win
iPad Air 2 +win
iMac 5k +win

iOS 8 -Fail
Yosemite, -problematic
Mac Mini -fail
iCloud -fail
iCloud drive -fail
iPad Mini 3 -fail
No Apple TV updates -fail
iPhotos (or lack thereof) -fail

;)
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I have to disagree with several of these. In particular iOS 8.1.2 is a win IMO as was Yosemite. It was the first time Apple managed to do an OS X release that didn't blow away my Mac. Also SWIFT was a win.

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theelysium said:
LoL

That is laughable!

I'm sure he only got it because he came out & gayes up apple. He is a hero!
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No he did the right thing and it took courage. He should be able to live as himself. That's like telling people they shouldn't talk about their wife or kids at all when discussing their success/failure etc... It's a part of who someone is and why they make the decisions they do.

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DoctorTech said:
I share your suspicion that it was one of the reasons (not necessarily the only reason). I like Tim Cook and I like the products Apple has released under his direction. I own many of them and I am really looking forward to Apple watch. His company is making a boat load of money right now and is raising a lot of money for charity.

All of that puts him on the short list for CEO of the year. But I knew the day he came out publicly that he was guaranteed to win at least one "______ of the year" award.
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Considering who else was on that CEO list who would you have picked instead? Lets face it. Tim Cook had a big impact over the last few years and this year in particular.

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wikiverse said:
I would also throw John Legere of TMobile in there for trying to shake up the US carrier market.

It really depends on your criteria, because Elon Musk created a market where there wasn't one, and McNeary has seen Boeing enter the space market and take on Airbus with the 787.

But the most successful CEO currently alive would be Jeff Bezos of Amazon.

The company had increased $140Billion in value with him at the helm... Far exceeding any growth at apple under Cook. That is more than 15,000% on share holder returns (industry adjusted) under his reign.

I personally think there are far more inventive, influential and better performing CEOs than Cook. Although this is a CNN story, so it's likely more clickbait than based on anything substantial. Cook is the most well known CEO, but it's hard to identify anything exceptional that he did do warrant such recognition - especially in the last 12 months.
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He would've been a solid choice also IMO. The fact that some of the others were considered over him is mind boggling.
 
Funny how many people here consistently think Apple is awful and doing terribly, yet they keep buying their products... :roll eyes: And the rose-tinted glasses looking at the past is funny too. Because people complained just as much, if not more, when Steve was in charge and announcing products.

iOS 8 - fantastic update
Yosemite - another great update
Apple Watch - will sell millions and will improve just like the iPhone did
iPad Air 2 - great update
iPhone 6/6 Plus - record-shattering sales
 
iOS 8 is the buggiest it's ever been. Pretty silly to be throwing around the word 'innovation' as the leading factor. More like finally catching up with the times is the real reason for peak sales. We all know it's due to the increased screen size.
 
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good, he deserves it and that will make BBC have something to cry over xmas lol

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rorschach said:
Funny how many people here consistently think Apple is awful and doing terribly, yet they keep buying their products... :roll eyes: And the rose-tinted glasses looking at the past is funny too. Because people complained just as much, if not more, when Steve was in charge and announcing products.

iOS 8 - fantastic update
Yosemite - another great update
Apple Watch - will sell millions and will improve just like the iPhone did
iPad Air 2 - great update
iPhone 6/6 Plus - record-shattering sales
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you know, you couldn't be more right. I personally don't really want the watch but I know it will sell like hotcakes. I just upgraded from a 3gs running ios6 to an iphone 5 running io8 and love every bit of it. Dunno why all the complainers don't like ios8. My brother has the iphone 6 and it looks amazing, better than any phone I have seen to date. Actually every generation of iPhone has always looked better than all the competition of that generation. I really like the look of the sony phones but even they don't stack up against the iphone. Samsung look like garbage but that's what I would expect from a company who is focused on profits rather than quality products. Yosemite, loved it since release.
 
He has stepped into SJ's shoes, with all the hoopla that no one can replace Steve. SJ wouldn't have given us the steady and growing stream of Android features, bigger screens. While you cannot say enough about SJ, he was holding Apple back with the "we know what you want" routine, and his ideas being out of date with the rest of us. This bigger screen rant has been going on for years.

TC has stepped up, recovered the stock price, innovated (Im thinking Handoff and Continuity, Apple Pay) Take Apple Pay, thats just started but the numbers are taking off. That may well be the payment of choice for a growing number, that will help sales.

For a large company that is always in the critical spotlight, yes he gets my vote.
 
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