Because coming out publically as gay isn't exactly an award-winning achievement.
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Tim Cook Named 'CEO of the Year' by CNN
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Because coming out publically as gay isn't exactly an award-winning achievement.
I guess it really doesn't take much to be named Person of the Year or CEO of the year anymore. I mean, really, what did Tim do again? I'm pretty sure Apple stock would continue to climb anyways, and let's be honest...the iPhone 6 launch was far from magnificent. Shortages prevailed and it's still buggy after all these months.
Either I'm missing something, or all the other CEO's around the world have been on vacation all year.
Either I'm missing something, or all the other CEO's around the world have been on vacation all year.
Haven't had any problems with Yosemite and I'm not exactly running high spec hardware.
Is it coz he's gay? I can't see any other reason for giving him this award. Two new product launches in a whole year is just pathetic. Only reason the share price has gone up is coz he's wasted billions of dollars buying back their own shares. What a criminal waste of money in a world full of poverty and starvation. Happy Christmas Mr Cook you useless sack of ****.
Honestly, I haven't given it much thought. But Tim Cook definitely doesn't cross my mind as a CEO who has done much of anything out of the norm.
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.
IMO I would have went for Elon Musk, with Tesla and Space X...Tim Cook is running Apple, but from where I am standing they seem to be teetering at the brink of disaster. Sales are good, sure, but there have been so many quality assurance blunders, one after another. Apple was never perfect even under Jobs, but it seems like they are having some major growing pains as they continue to expand product lines. I still have high hopes for Apple's future, but they really need to pull through with some major wins in 2015.
Apple has superb financial performance every year. Why does Tim Cook deserve an award for staying the course?
Really, what has he done this year that is so amazing besides release a new iPhone and a new version of iOS, both bogged down with constant QA issues, and still manage to turn a profit?
Actually, now that I think of it that is kind of amazing... /s
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I'm realising lately how messed up perception of Apple is. Someone on here commented that Apple has just run out of tricks that Steve Jobs left and their success will stop. Someone I spoke to last week said 'Apple won't succeed without Steve... Look at the iPhone 5! That was rubbish.'
Come on people, look past the charm Steve had on stage, look at what the company is doing. Are they making great products? Yes. Are things like soldered RAM anti-Steve? No. Has Apple licenced iOS to third-party hardware makers? No.
Come on people, look past the charm Steve had on stage, look at what the company is doing. Are they making great products? Yes. Are things like soldered RAM anti-Steve? No. Has Apple licenced iOS to third-party hardware makers? No.
I had more issues with iOS 8 than OS X Yosemite. For iOS on iPad 2, the occasional freezing happens but that's just it. I have OS X Yosemite installed on my MacBook Pro (mid 2010) and even my unsupported Macbook (early 2008) only seeing the 'expected' graphics acceleration problems.
Because he has moved Apple forwards and grown the profits with new product releases. The iPhone 6 is not a glorified 4S. Nearly everyone has said he would fail, that Steve Jobs was perfect and had made a mistake picking Tim.
This exemplifies how influenced you are by the rest of the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
So we're not allowed to criticize someone whom we don't feel is necessarily deserving of this award because of the shortcomings of their company?
Was anyone stopping you? You're allowed. Just don't expect us all to be grateful for your rather weak opinions.
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Linking to a Latin phrase doesn't make you right... actually, in my experience, it almost always means you're wrong.
Thinner is almost always better. I'll take soldered ram if that's what it takes to keep it thin.
You're missing something:
iPhone 6 with record breaking sales on opening weekend. Shortages prevailed because it was so popular. Metal. Swift. Apple Watch. Apple Pay. iPad Air 2.
All ignored.
Samsung releases a tablet that's thinner and faster than before? Innovation!
Really? Who would you have put on the short list instead of him? Just curious if there is anything behind that statement (other than the obvious).
Of course it was 'ONE of the reasons'. It wasn't the ONLY reason or the MAIN reason though.
It's extremely hard to take over after a major influential founding CEO leaves.
Examples:
* Walt Disney died. Disney floundered for 20 years. Recovered in the 90s after many CEOs.
* Bill Gates left. Balmer did a poor job where Microsoft isn't relevant anymore.
* Jim Henson died. The Muppets floundered for 15 years. Just trying to recover now.
It's very hard to continue success.
So we're not allowed to criticize someone whom we don't feel is necessarily deserving of this award because of the shortcomings of their company?
You can criticize whoever you want. But your criticism of Tim Cook is shallow, because you'd criticize him or whoever was CEO at Apple no matter who they are or what they did.
By stating that MacRumors users are not in touch with the real world, you can somehow figure out what makes me tick?
You're looking for a personal statement of belief where there is none. I was simply pointing out that the concerns that people raise about Apple are trivial to most other people, which obviously includes CNN. And yet people here seem to think that things like hardware expandability would even be taken into consideration in an award granted by a non-tech organization.
For the record, I don't consider Mac's overpriced for the quality of the product.
What I don't like, and what stops me buying a Mac is lack of "Choice"
That IS APPLE these days.
Apple decide what you need, what you should be using, and how you should use it.
Unless they ever change this, I cannot see myself buying a Mac.
To be brutally honest, the only time I could see myself buying a Mac is when I'm a lot lot LOT older, and have just given up bothering, and want someone else to make all the choices for me, but I'm no where near that point now.
What I want, is what many want, and what Apple won't make, and may well never ever make as it goes 100% against their "Apple knows best" policy, and that's a "Proper" desktop Mac computer, that I can fit my own memory, SSD's, and most importantly graphics cards into.
Millions of real loyal loving Apple users would jump on such a machine, but Apple probably will never make it, as Apple has realised the big money is in the mass market of customers who don't really know much about computers and just wants a very nice looking box that just works.
Of course, there is a BIG market for that.
I just find it such a great shame Apple now sticks 2 fingers up at any real computer users, and all those people that Actually made Apple a company in the 1st place.
Apple has left those loyal fans with nothing
And that's a great and sad shame
Well, if Apple thought millions of users would go for a traditionally expandable desktop, it would be on the market right now. In the grand scheme of things, not many people ever try to open up their computer. As much as I would like such a machine, as well as rMBPs with more replaceable parts, that's simply not Apple's future. I think there will always be a Mac Pro line with some sort of expandability, but the days of an Apple desktop for the "rest of us" are likely gone.
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