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Tim Cook Named 'CEO of the Year' by CNN
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Introduced a 5k monitor with a special chip when even all 4k monitors are awful. either 30hz or 60hz with motion blur, etc. Introduced a new line of products, the iWatch... i know it's not out yet. The iPad is thinner, but don't forget it has a MUCH more powerful graphics card that now almost competes with mobile graphics cards (when using bare metal). Introduced continuity that is unheard of right now. Some android phones with extra software come close but no way they are closely integrated. Released a mac pro, a vastly new innovative cooling system making it essentially quiet no matter what you throw at it. Some will argue it's not expandable, but neither is any other apple product. Nothing new. Very new, something no one has ever created.
Need I keep going? Or are you one of those people that if a person finds the cure for cancer will pretty much be.. pshhh who cares, not innovative or new.
There is no answer that will satisfy someone who is determined not to be amazed.
Go ahead: Name something amazing that another company did this year. I have a yawn and a
just waiting... You won't win that game.You can name your own CEO of the Year, if you like. CNN isn't going to change their choice.
There is no answer that will satisfy someone who is determined not to be amazed.
Go ahead: Name something amazing that another company did this year. I have a yawn and a
You can name your own CEO of the Year, if you like. CNN isn't going to change their choice.
In all honesty, 2014 was quite a dismal year all around for technology and innovation. I wouldn't have given the award to anyone.
"We will not be awarding a CEO of the Year for 2014. Better luck next year."
No, not really. The 2014 $499 mini is lower-priced and somewhat less powerful than the 2012 $599 mini. The 2014 $699 mini is more powerful than the 2012 $599 and comes with more RAM. But it's less powerful than the 2012 $799 mini (more RAM though). 2014, across the board, have better iGPU...
I'm not really defending the 2014 mini update. It was totally underwhelming. (Personally I would have preferred that the mini went up-market, not down. If you want to switch topics to that, then fine, and we can have a good ol' time agreeing with each other.)
I'm just pointing out how the claim you made, that consumers got zero benefit, is not true.
Apple is now worth more than it was under Steve Jobs, and they completely reversed that years-long slide in stock price. Basically, Tim Cook did exactly what all the naysayers have been saying he couldn't do for years. They introduced a new line of wildly successful phones, a new product category (watches), and an AIO PC with an industry leading 5K display. They are more popular than ever and setting up for the future. But yea, other than that, who cares?
This is not humanitarian of the year. It is CEO of the year. A CEO exists to make the company more profits. And TC did that very well, hence he deserves the award.
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Apple do not do new. Apple take ideas and products that others failed at and turn them into raging successes.
If that's what you are worried about, let's talk fracking. Nation's current most growing industry. No matter what anyone's argument is a single well uses 2-4 million gallons to drill (keep in mind they redrill every 5-10 years). Heavy metals? How do you like radioactive metals and unknown chemicals being evaporated into the air using evaporation pools all around the country. 1% of fracking liquids is those chemicals, the math is is at the lowest, 20,000 gallons of those chemicals. 1 cup exposure to any of the radioactive chemicals over the course of a year will kill you or mutate you enough to kill you.
And yeah, CO2 converts to Oxygen via plantlife, so don't you think it's a HUGE environmental impact to stop both the destroying of trees by an alarming rate and slowdown the production of what is BOTH causing CO2 gases as well as the core reduction of what actually takes care of CO2. Kind of a double-whammy no matter how "overblown" it is.
My point is, if you have these huge thing(s) that are impacting the world 5x-10x, why would your focus be on something that is so much smaller? Wouldn't it be wiser to focus on the huge things first? Even if you stop ALL production of LCDs, you didn't really change the path of destruction nor but yourself any time because of the bigger issues. What you are talking about will only matter IF the bigger issues are taken care of and soon.
Thin in John Ive's agenda. The funny part that Jon pushes thin but he is obese.
Tim Cook's agenda is equality. He wants everyone to be treated equal. And I 'd be glad if all CEO's pushed true equality on their companies. It would improve so many companies.
Most people will not know how to take apart their macs and change memory no matter how easy it is. They will not know what memory to buy, etc. I'm in IT, even the smarter ones have no idea. They usually take their machines to Geek Squad in best buy. What's the difference between taking it to Geek Squad or Apple at the mall? I for one hear great things about taking it to Apple with sometimes people just getting full-blown exchanges on the spot. I am asking people to stop telling me horror stories of geek squad breaking more than they fix or the AWFUL customer service they provided.
The option would be nice, if you are a geek (I mean it in a good way). That's why I like my custom PC and use it more of the time than my Mac Pro.
I'd agree to some extent. Computing is evolving to the appliance state and nobody fixes their toaster any more.
My major complaint is with Apple's software. They have severely been falling down on QC and user interface standards. Even the best hardware in the world is useless with kludgy unintuitive software. Even the most beautiful systems are worthless if the software doesn't work, is buggy, or crashes regularly. Even the most impressive device is crippled with a cloud implementation that simply doesn't work well or right or at times at all.
I would argue that the "cloud" is something Apple has always struggled with. You'd think with their resources, they could do better.
First of all thanks for the explanation. Second of all you do not need to be a ******* as&&ole about it. That just makes you lose all credibility really... "learn in highschool". Yes, something people learn in highschool.
If you remember YOUR highschool days, you will also realize that market cap = more money that Apple can spend, either in credit lines or straight up cash. We are not talking about what a liquidated company's worth is. I don't think apple is going away, so it's true worth is irrelevant right now. It's ability to make more money is vastly unlimited as they can go in quite a few markets and raise revenue (yes, revenue, not net profit). A great example is getting into the TV / cable business (pushing iTunes even further really, maybe even venture into Netflix's territory). Let's look at GoodWill? Open new stores, great! Open up charities, great! You can't deny that personal electronics will keep rising. Software will keep rising, again potential.
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I was thinking that when I was watching the last keynote. Overtime he really chubbed up. Maybe the thinness is compensation, or stress makes people fat too.
I Apologize for any snark. But it still doesn't change the fact that people like to tout the "market cap" number as Apples value. It is not. Simple as that.
if Apple sold today, it would likely sell for far greater than the "market cap" as well (in my opinion), likely because the perceived value by the big players is pretty high. Plus, if there was a sudden wave of stock purchasing going on, current holders would probably hold off selling till the price goes up (as usualy does when a buyout occurs). Again though. Stock isn't directly related to the actual company value.
I just wish that non share holders (or non principle investors) would stop throwing the Market Cap number around on the forums like it's some golden number to justify a companies behaviour.
Reading through these forums consistently reminds me that most people who comment are truly, and seriously whiners of mass proportions.
Can no one just be happy for someone else without having to criticize everything they do? I would like to see anyone negatively commenting be able to do 1% of what Tim Cook has to deal with.
Can no one just be happy for someone else without having to criticize everything they do? I would like to see anyone negatively commenting be able to do 1% of what Tim Cook has to deal with.
I'm also 100% against fracking
Most people I know either don't care or hate it. I live in Northern Colorado and actually moving soon because of the insane amount of fracking that is going on. Thank God at least we don't have evaporation pools here in the North (we do in the mountains though). I just hope they don't contaminate one of the biggest aqua pools in the nation that is in eastern colorado. I think we are on the same page, just different focus on trying to solve the worlds issues. Can't always go against the big companies, sometimes start with yourself.
Microsoft IS increasingly irrelevant.
In the 90s businesses and consumers both looked to Microsoft to set the standards. Now, business do NOT rely on Microsoft like they once did. Consumers do not either.
Consumers look to Google, Apple and Samsung to see where the market is heading. Businesses do not step in line with Microsoft anymore - they don't just blindly agree to Microsoft licensing schemes anymore. My last company, a Fortune 500 company, for the past 3 years avoided Microsoft's advances at every step. They still use Microsoft - they still run Windows XP, but they don't follow Microsoft blindly and upgrade as Microsoft is releasing new products. They went away from Microsoft Office a long time ago as well.
You seem to have a huge Microsoft allegiance for some reason. They're just not relevant anymore. People might still use their products, but they aren't actively paying Microsoft for upgrades, or buying their latest products, like the Surface.
If Microsoft WERE relevant, then the Surface would be flying off the shelves and a huge success. It's not.
And relevant players are usually copied. Who has copied Microsoft in the last 5 years? Nobody.
Phones wasn't a new category. Neither was tablets. Or MP3 players. Or computers.
They were new for Apple, though, and they are credited with much of Apple's success.
You can play the "that's not innovation" game, but that could apply to anything Apple has ever done. They don't make new categories. They win by successfully exploring newly opened categories (usually).
Well all that I agree on and sorry for snarling back at you. I see what you mean by people talking about market cap but not really understanding what it is or sometimes that it can be irrelevant. I'm not sure anyone is big enough to buy Apple
And I own 100 shares
. HELL YA
yeah, we're probably thinking the same, just different approaches. There's nothing wrong with that. If everyone did a little to help with their carbon footprints, maybe going Vegan. Maybe reducing a little bit of waste, it would have a global impact. Even if we're takling about the tiniest. We're something like 7billion people. The USA is what? 350 million? if every American reduced their output by just 1tonne of garbage a year, they'd be saving 350 million tonnes of landfill and chemicals going back into the earth.
every, little helps. here in Canada, we've got fracking in Alberta. it's the poster boy of our conservative government and they've been pushing these "green" commercials allover TV telling everyone it's perfectly safe. Perfectly clean. They have nothing at all to worry about. has no ill affects on the environment (lol,c ause they are taking care of it) and that it's the best thing to ever happen to Canada. So much so that they are pushing the controversial pipeline projects despite overwhelming popular opinion being anti-fracking.
I'm just saying that at somepoint, the desire for record profits is too much, when it must go directly against environment concern. At somepoint it would be nice for companies, like Apple to step back away from the rampant consumerism that seems to have taken hold in the last decade, where everyday someone has to have some new product and feature at the expense of throwing away their older, but perfectly working tech. To me, the iMac is just this. Excess for the sake of profit.
But to bring it back on topic:
Despit all the above. the complaints, the critics, the perceived lack of true advancement. Products that haven't actually been released to software bugs and glitches galore...
Apple still makes insane profit.
ThIS is why Cook deserves to win.