This is a great point. Context is key and the bloatedness of Apple’s lineup is usually taken out of context. While I personally don’t see the benefit of a 10.5” iPad Air and 10.2” iPad (just keep the 10.5” Air) the marketing folks at Apple are far more in tune with what to offer than I am.
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Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs on 8th Anniversary of His Death
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Steve was a weirdo but not too much weirder than other visionaries. Apple has been in a decline now since his death. Very sad.
Post your evidence. Apple is worth $1T now and was worth about $250B when Steve died.
Contrary to what you say, Apple knows exactly what they are doing...evidence is in the data.
I gave your whole post a "Like", but I really have to stress this bit particularly. Not to judge the person you quoted, but in general. People all too often just "forget" to include a significant part of what they're quoting, leading to wrong impressions and unnecessary fights.
The analogy to me is meaningless, Apple is not a biological child. Apple has to change with the times and TC is making sure that is happening.
Okay if we accept that Steve was a visionary and that Apple died with him... then he should have saw that Cook would drive Apple into the ground with in 5 years of his death and liquidated the company and returned the money to the shareholders. People would probably at that point, insist he copied the idea from Michael Dell.
Steve Jobs was a great man. The world is a better place for the work he did. Tim Cook is a great man. The world is a better place for the work he is doing. Apple is a great company and the world is a better place thanks to the work they do.
It baffles me that all the people who condemn Tim Cook and think that he ruins everything Steve Jobs stood for seem to constantly forget that Steve himself chose Cook as his successor.
I just gave you examples of the dodgy products. Steve's momentum took it to where it got today. It's naive at best to think otherwise.
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It's disingenuous to compare Cook to Steve. History won't remember Tim Cook.
This was a stroke of genius, imo.
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It’s disingenuous to say they can’t be compared and contrasted. History will remember Tim Cook.
This is demonstrably untrue. Apple has not declined a bit since his death. It's really a quite silly statement on it's face.
Than again perhaps not.
Perhaps without Apple we may not be in a situation as below which is happening all the time over the entire world.
Are humans better for it in all ways I wonder?
Seriously. You look across the tech landscape -- any business landscape -- and Apple is mostly firing on all cylinders. In fact, look how good Apple is doing to navigate the tariff and China dispute nightmares, not an easy thing because logisticis is both expensive and complicated. If Apple is on a "decline," I so desperately wish I could decline, as Apple purportedly does, in my personal and business affairs.
Not a fanboy. Anyone with a weak grasp on reality knows and understands the hyperbolic negative comments are beyond stupid and demonstrably false.
While I get what you’re saying, nothing that a few hundred, a few thousand or even a few million crap-posters from the Apple hate crowd can do or post would affect Apple at all. This powerlessness is partly what fuels their anger, and further decreases their happiness.
If Apple didn’t exist, they’d be going to a Nikon forum or a BMW forum and crap-posting there to get a rise and the attention they crave, which they’re not getting in the real world. The actual target doesn’t really matter; if Jobs was still alive they’d be posting crap about him too.
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Yes. The positives outweigh the negatives, imo. Without going through a list.Than again perhaps not.
Perhaps without Apple we may not be in a situation as below which is happening all the time over the entire world.
Are humans better for it in all ways I wonder?
Tim Cook has done a fantastic job at bring Apple to a $1T company, but he's still a share holder first, customer second kind of CEO. For example, there was no reason to remove the MagSafe concept. 3rd party companies make magnetic USB 3 connectors. Tim Cook did it because there's more money in people accidentally tripping over the cord and breaking the computer. I would love to see a logical reason where lack of USB3 MagSafe actually benefits the customer first and not the stock investor. Does anyone want to provide an explanation? I believe SJ would have made Apple a $2T company by now.
Lol, that's not evidence. That's your opinion about what consistutues a "dodgy" product and is totally irrelevant.
Apple would be pretty much the same today if Jobs was still in charge. The worship of him is really weird and dumb.
This was my thought when I read about it being 8 years since Steve's passing - Just how long was the road map that Steve allegedly prepared - how far did his genius go beyond his death - has the map been re-routed...
I don't know if Steve was an "inventor"? Did he invent - or did he guide and refine the inventions brought the table by his staff (whilst insisting on perfection along the way).
Always remember that quote about Steve Jobs by philosopher Voltaire. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Steve Jobs. God doesn't exist, Steve Jobs did, but he was just a man, and now he is gone.
What privacy issues, be specific and let’s see if we agree. Battery scans, poor quality both hardware and software. Be specific. Let’s determine if you’re cherry picking.
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I’m still not convinced that Apple would have been better off with Jobs at the helm with the company at its current size and trajectory anyway. I have to wonder if he would have stepped aside anyway by now.
Being a billion dollar company means exactly what to the regular consumer? Steve wanted to make things to make people's lives better with things they didn't even know they needed. A lot of the products we wanted cost more because he wanted the product for the people using it.
Tim is out for every buck that isn't nailed down. Tim talks a good game when on stage, but that doesn't translate to the innovation of ideas.
Two opposite ideals.
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Because Steve wouldn't be obsessed at being the biggest. He just wanted to be the best.
I see MR is chock full of future CEOs. Who knew?
Perhaps. But it is also a fact that I have bought many more Apple products under Tim Cook’s stewardship (which anyone here can attest to if they have been following my responses for any amount of time), and am enjoying them very much.
You can argue that many of them were iterations of products that were released under Steve Jobs. Maybe. I don’t really care. Suffice to say that I really have little issues with the current direction and trajectory that the Apple of today is headed in.
And I wonder if Steve Jobs would have done this.
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Seems like the steady hand Apple needs right now.
Tim Cook - not the firebrand CEO you all want, but the CEO Apple needs.
Tim Cook's rapport with President Trump rare among company leaders | AppleInsider
Apple CEO Tim Cook's ability to nudge the Trump administration into altering policies that could have hurt the iPhone maker is down to a carefully cultivated relationship between the CEO and the U.S. president, a report claims, one that functions despite each having different ideologies.
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Seems like the steady hand Apple needs right now.
Tim Cook - not the firebrand CEO you all want, but the CEO Apple needs.