Tim Cook Named 'CEO of the Year' by CNN

[CalWizrd]

Then how is he special? Don't you think a lot more eyes are on Tim Cook? More expectations, worldwide?

Boeing doesn't get any press compared to Apple. It's a superbly managed company, competes worldwide, and has an order backlog exceeding $400 billion. Their products are incredibly complex pieces of technology, and managing their manufacturing, QA testing (significantly better than Apple!) and delivery scheduling is a daunting task.

Mr. McNerney does an excellent job at this.

 

[FieldingMellish]

Does winning the award have anything to do with his coming out this year?

 

[aloshka]

Good synopsis. I must be biased as I have never really considered an iMac - it serves no purpose to me as I use an HDTV as my Mini's monitor and I have a 23" LCD monitor for when I want to "dock" my MBP. That's not to say I don't think other people can have a use for it. That said, I don't see it as any more of an intermediate step than the more recent Minis. Certainly not in terms of expandability or the like.

Why is everyone so obsessed with expandability. It doesn't exist across ALL apple lines including the Mac Pro. Even with the old mac pro, there was not much you could expand outside of harddrives and memory. Processor? Sure, void warranty pay out of the a** and get no support from Apple for it. Video card? Sure, the two options that Apple had and maybe a few more options requiring an insane amount of hacks and most of the time not even seeing the boot screen because the hacks aren't any good. Apple never allowed expandability because expandability means doing what Windows does, working with other vendors. But everyone complains about Windows drivers mess and compatibility issues. Apple will lose that stability and have the same exact issues that MS is having if they allow "expandability"... whatever that truly means.

TB is Apple's answer for expandability. It's tightly controlled, external and forces vendors to deal with all the "drivers" since they are not part of the mac hardware and not apple's responsibility. An analogy is and iPhone case. If it breaks, you deal with vendors. IF Apple had it built in, they would have to deal with it.

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Boeing doesn't get any press compared to Apple. It's a superbly managed company, competes worldwide, and has an order backlog exceeding $400 billion. Their products are incredibly complex pieces of technology, and managing their manufacturing, QA testing (significantly better than Apple!) and delivery scheduling is a daunting task.

Mr. McNerney does an excellent job at this.

Is boeing's market cap higher than Apple's right now?
EDIT: Does boeing touch more people's lives than apple products? Do more people use Boeing Airplanes than apple sold devices? Are there boeing rumors sites about potential releases? If Boeing had a ton of publicity would anyone outside of investors TRULY care?

CEO of the year is not just for fortune 500 exposure.

 

[LordVic]

Good synopsis. I must be biased as I have never really considered an iMac - it serves no purpose to me as I use an HDTV as my Mini's monitor and I have a 23" LCD monitor for when I want to "dock" my MBP. That's not to say I don't think other people can have a use for it. That said, I don't see it as any more of an intermediate step than the more recent Minis. Certainly not in terms of expandability or the like.

I have serious moral issues with "all in ones" TBH. And I don't like Apples push of them as "throw away" devices to be replaced on a yearly / cyclicle use.

Everytime a user of an iMac replaces their iMac with a new one, there are is the carbon footprint of disposal of that display panel, metals and materials that go with it. Often quite unnecessary. Displays are one thing that has historically always lasted longer than the actual lifespan of computer hardware. Forcing a display change everytime you change your Computer is an excercise in excess and waste. Good displays (as apple claims to use) should last easily half a decade if not longer. Heck, there are LCD based panels that are still perfectly useable that are 15+ years old!

By forcing users into the iMac for a real "desktop" computer, you're forcing everyone into the "throw away" mentality. There's no reason for it. There's no reason for the carbon and waste. its all further to the corporate greed at the expense of all else.

By refusing to have a mid-tier computer that is not bundled with a monitor, Apple is perpetuating this and even encouraging the rampant consumerism at the expense of waste. it bothers me a lot and I will never, EVER buy an all in one.

 

[CalWizrd]

...Is boeing's market cap higher than Apple's right now?

No. Boeing's market cap is about $92B.

Does boeing touch more people's lives than apple products? Do more people use Boeing Airplanes than apple sold devices? Are there boeing rumors sites about potential releases? If Boeing had a ton of publicity would anyone outside of investors TRULY care?

CEO of the year is not just for fortune 500 exposure.

I suspect that you don't quite understand how one evaluates a CEO's performance, as opposed to the number of individual products a company might sell.

 

[justinthesommer]

Tip of the Hat to Tim Cook

 

[aloshka]

I have serious moral issues with "all in ones" TBH. And I don't like Apples push of them as "throw away" devices to be replaced on a yearly / cyclicle use.

Everytime a user of an iMac replaces their iMac with a new one, there are is the carbon footprint of disposal of that display panel, metals and materials that go with it. Often quite unnecessary. Displays are one thing that has historically always lasted longer than the actual lifespan of computer hardware. Forcing a display change everytime you change your Computer is an excercise in excess and waste. Good displays (as apple claims to use) should last easily half a decade if not longer. Heck, there are LCD based panels that are still perfectly useable that are 15+ years old!

By forcing users into the iMac for a real "desktop" computer, you're forcing everyone into the "throw away" mentality. There's no reason for it. There's no reason for the carbon and waste. its all further to the corporate greed at the expense of all else.

By refusing to have a mid-tier computer that is not bundled with a monitor, Apple is perpetuating this and even encouraging the rampant consumerism at the expense of waste. it bothers me a lot and I will never, EVER buy an all in one.

If you truly care about a carbon footprint go vegan. Factory farming is about 90% of issues that the world is having and now with more than 1/3 of the Amazonian forest destroyed (remember, trees convert carbon into oxygen). I think no amount of wasted iMacs will compare to the amount of burgers you all eat. See a movie called cowspiracy. Not a conspiracy theory and not pushy about veganism. Just proved documented facts of what's really damaging and issues with sustainability. But comfort is the most important thing, easier to buy a hybrid car than change your lifestyle.

**Sorry this is off topic**

 

[sofila]

You determine this by a single facebook post? The only other thing that is worse is determining this by some kid on youtube.

If this was completely true, investors would start pulling out. yet sales go up and investors are putting more in. I think once sales start declining, then they will absolutely address this. But right now, it seems majority of users rather have something newer than getting updates of software that is purely bug fixes.

But I do agree, software quality has been on a huge decline. But I would even argue that is actually something that is happening globally and not just Apple. I think the demand for all sorts of software is on such a rise and hurry, that developers are getting lazy. Some things are getting fixed in iOS, but I think they just don't have the resources to do bug fixes and release new stuff. One or the other, people can't have it both ways. Would you not have an iWatch release just so they can fix some issues? It seems they are fixing the big ones, but nothing that is considered small or is affecting majority of users. Case in point, iOS can't make phone calls. That got addressed pretty quickly.

Why not?If not Apple, who in the world has resources to take care of more issues in one time?

 

[Mums]

This exemplifies how out of touch MacRumors users are with the rest of the world.

Wrong. It's that "the rest of the world" has become Apple's target demographic, whereas quality used to be Apple's focus. Mentalities like yours are what's wrong with the world - you mediocritize everything.

 

[Cyrax]

QA testing (significantly better than Apple!)

Heck of a job they did with the Dreamliner batteries.

 

[Aluminum213]

He won the award for being gay. What did apple do that was so special this year? Bigger iPhone? Thinner iPad? Higher res iMac?

These are basic and boring expected updates

 

[aloshka]

Why not?If not Apple, who in the world has resources to take care of more issues in one time?

If you ever worked on team of developers (not sure what you do for a living) you realize the more developers, no matter how good the communication the worse the product is. A good case-in-point is Oracle Apps. I do not remember where, but I believe iOS team of developers is like 8 people (don't remember, but it was a small number). Introducing more developers can actually result in more bugs. If anything introduce a ton more QA.

 

[spectrumfox]

But they set records in 2011, 2012, and 2013 too, back when the iPhone was still tiny.

And there was actually a bigger jump in opening weekend sales from the 5 to the 5s than there were from the 5s to the 6.

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The only issue with that is the 5 and 5S were still Jobs' creations. Cook had very little to do with their success, he was just at the helm at the time. iPhone 6 was the first iPhone created completely under Cook's reign.

 

[aloshka]

He won the award for being gay. What did apple do that was so special this year? Bigger iPhone? Thinner iPad? Higher res iMac?

These are basic and boring expected updates

Hope you are kidding.

 

[LordVic]

No. Boeing's market cap is about $92B.

People keep using market cap as some sort of gold standard of a companies worth.

That word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

Market Cap is the total value of all outstanding shares if sold today at the market going rate.

Market cap has no direct correlation to companies value.

believe it or not. These are two distinct numbers.

Apple for example is one of the highest Market Cap companies in the world, with a current market cap of over 700 Billion. Yet the company itself is only worth on paper the equity + goodwill.

People need to stop using "market cap" to make some sort of claim of any companies performance. it's a market / trading number that only really matters to those who trade.

 

[CalWizrd]

People keep using market cap as some sort of gold standard of a companies worth.

That word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

Market Cap is the total value of all outstanding shares if sold today at the market going rate.

Market cap has no direct correlation to companies value.

believe it or not. These are two distinct numbers.

Apple for example is one of the highest Market Cap companies in the world, with a current market cap of over 700 Billion. Yet the company itself is only worth on paper the equity + goodwill.

People need to stop using "market cap" to make some sort of claim of any companies performance. it's a market / trading number that only really matters to those who trade.

I'm quite aware of that, thank you.

I didn't raise the question... merely answered it.

 

[Aluminum213]

Hope you are kidding.

What did Apple do that was so amazing this year?

 

[Macboy Pro]

I stand corrected.

So the new upgrade actually removes an Additional drive bay for those who used 2x drives, making this "upgrade" even worse than I had said.

Well, you can use their proprietary PCIe Flash in one "bay" and any standard Sata drive in the other (with a cable from iFixit/OWC, etc).

 

[aloshka]

People keep using market cap as some sort of gold standard of a companies worth.

That word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

Market Cap is the total value of all outstanding shares if sold today at the market going rate.

Market cap has no direct correlation to companies value.

believe it or not. These are two distinct numbers.

Apple for example is one of the highest Market Cap companies in the world, with a current market cap of over 700 Billion. Yet the company itself is only worth on paper the equity + goodwill.

People need to stop using "market cap" to make some sort of claim of any companies performance. it's a market / trading number that only really matters to those who trade.

Equity of goodwill? OK, let's see even some facts. Any fact, really.

 

[LordVic]

If you truly care about a carbon footprint go vegan. Factory farming is about 90% of issues that the world is having and now with more than 1/3 of the Amazonian forest destroyed (remember, trees convert carbon into oxygen). I think no amount of wasted iMacs will compare to the amount of burgers you all eat. See a movie called cowspiracy. Not a conspiracy theory and not pushy about veganism. Just proved documented facts of what's really damaging and issues with sustainability. But comfort is the most important thing, easier to buy a hybrid car than change your lifestyle.

**Sorry this is off topic**

I know still off topic, but the Cow myth is blown out of proportions. Yes, Cow farming has attribute to an extreme amount of CO2 release into the atmoshpere.

What they fail to address is that CO2 is consumable by trees and plant matter. CO2 gets converted into Oxygene. enough trees (if we stop destroying our forests and start rebuilding them) will have greater impact on the CO2 emissions from farming.

On the other hand, the byproducts of production,e specially of electronics tends to be heavy elements, CO (Carbon Monoxide, not convertable to O2 by trees) and other chemicals. Throwing out displays also adds those chemicals that make up the display into the ground and well waters and make up for increased waste products that need to be disposed of, which zero real way of alleviating that problem other than consuming less.

 

[Sabretooth78]

Why is everyone so obsessed with expandability.

Maybe I should have said expandability/fixability.

While being able to not have to max a machine out upon purchase is obviously a desirable trait, I also like the idea that if a RAM chip goes bad or (more likely) a SSD/HDD goes bad I have the option of replacing it as quickly as either a trip to Best Buy or waiting for the part to show up in the mail as opposed to running to the overcrowded PITA mall with the Apple Store, waiting in line for a "Genius" and paying Apple to ship it off to an RMA center somewhere and being without use of the device for however many weeks.

I'm no more obsessed about it than any other moderately-inclined Windows/Linux PC user is. Frankly, even if I never do it I like to have the ability to do it. Take that away from me, and I'll go find it somewhere else once it's time to replace the ones I have.

Both of my current Macs feature that as I just happened to have bought each one at or just before the "peak" of their respective lines (as I see them - 2011 Mini and 2012 cMBP for those interested.)

 

[RenoGuy]

Agreed

The rest of the world? Really/ More people buy iPhones than Apple computers. I assure you people who buy computers won't disagree with the statement that their machines are not up to snuff and are over priced for what they offer



Mac OSX, not iOS. Yosemite is a disaster

I had installed Yosemite 10 (Imac mid 2011) and the update last month....After a bit of thought and a bunch of bugs; + a lot of my limited Os X software was broken by Yosemite; I reformatted and reverted to Mavericks, from a Time Machine Backup! I Know this happens to many products after an OS "Upgrade"...But not this many, which still have not been fixed!

As far as thinner is better...Bleh...I still value my CD\DVD even though I do not use it so much!

Plus at least I was able to easily upgrade the Ram, without going through the outrageous price Apple wanted for the new Imac with more ram! BTW: I wonder what will happen in the rare instance where a ram module goes bad in a new Imac......$1100 is not cheap for a computer but I am happy with my present Imac!

I Liked Mavericks and still do; and am going to give a bunch of credit to Cook for making these OS upgrades Free!!

Plus: I personally think Yosemite is Butt UGLY. Progress is great (been in computing before the Inet even existed (the CPM days) and I welcomed most of the changes Like the switch to OSX in the 1st place! besides the bugs, It would have been a nice touch to give the consumer the option to revert to the Older UI! (Not have a 3rd party do it!

As side note, with all the complaining, it seems unusual that a 2nd update has not been released at the moment! They must be working pretty hard though.

Hey, MS takes a pretty close 2nd in its release of W 8.1 which BROKE the image making function that was at least present in ver 8..(even though I really disliked the Metro interface!)

Oh well, each to their own! I own 2 Win PCs, an Imac and a Mac mini tablet, but no Iphone. I am not thrilled not to be able to have it all Apple, but the Iphone is just so overpriced IMHO! Non user replaceable batteries (easily that is) just is not for me in such an expensive product! I do not need the phone that much so I stay with a less (no contract) Android where I can just pop off the back and replace the battery myself for under $20 USD in less than a couple of minutes!

If I really needed a Cell that much, I would have probably gotten the Iphone, but....I do not,nor do I need a Contract will a Provider!

I can also do without Ipay, and wonder how long it will take before it is hacked!

 

[LordVic]

Equity of goodwill? OK, let's see even some facts. Any fact, really.

I'm not going to teach you accounting 101. Something most people learn in highschool

A companies book value is determined by Assets - Liabilities = Owner's Equity.

Goodwill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_(accounting)) is a value that is assigned to the equity portion of a companies value based upon perceived future growth and potential.

Market cap only refers to the total value of all stock at current market rate. Stock, while can be influenced by company performance, is not a direct causation of stock price fluxuation.

According to the Q4 2014 financial's, the Owners Equity of Apple is actually Approximately 110 Billion. (231B Assets - 121B liabilities = 110B Equity). This is a far, FAR cry different from the market cap of over 700B

And heck, despit ethat, if you listen to some "experts", like iCahnn, who believes Apple should have a market value of 1.5Trillion.

 

[teslo]

He won the award for being gay. What did apple do that was so special this year? Bigger iPhone? Thinner iPad? Higher res iMac?

These are basic and boring expected updates

holy confirmation bias. he's a CEO. does it surprise you that a (happens to be) gay man who grew up in mobile, alabama now oversees the most profitable company in the world after overcoming the personal and professional challenges of (growing up gay in alabama and..) being picked to replace arguably the most famous and beloved CEO in recent memory?

did you conveniently skip the sales figures in your assessment of this 'gay man' you speak of?

sounds more like you have challenges of your own to overcome before you can start snidely assessing prominent & successful multi-millionaire businessmen who are on the rise in massively big (record breaking) ways, buddy. lol

 

[Aluminum213]

holy confirmation bias. he's a CEO. does it surprise you that a (happens to be) gay man who grew up in mobile, alabama now oversees the most profitable company in the world after overcoming the personal and professional challenges of (growing up gay in alabama and..) being picked to replace arguably the most famous and beloved CEO in recent memory?

did you conveniently skip the sales figures in your assessment of this 'gay man' you speak of?

sounds more like you have challenges of your own to overcome before you can start snidely assessing prominent & successful multi-millionaire businessmen who are on the rise in massively big (record breaking) ways, buddy. lol

I'm not a homophobe, thanks for trying. Apple was successful last year and the last 10 years before that. This year the continued it, spent the entire year with boring and predictable updates. So why is he the CEO of the year? For continuing Steve Jobs success? No, because him coming out sent a positive message and this award reinforces this positive message