What are all "the deals" that Eddie Cue has done? Why do people call him Apple's "fixer?" As best I can tell, Jobs made the deals with the record companies and Eddie hasn't done much.
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Tim Cook Rises and Eddy Cue Drops on Vanity Fair's 2017 New Establishment List
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Eddy found his level of incompetence with the miserable Planet of the Apps.
I would tread lightly when using the word "hi-fi" to describe the homepod
Or his ability to pull a Steve balmer and bring in record profits. You can't blame tech when you chase profits above all , Microsoft learn the long term result of this
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Let's see .....supply guy taking over from a visionary .... cause yeah.... Tim could have got apple to were he inherited it...
it's just one of those times when a break or sabbatical is due. he's gotten stale now. he doesn't have any new ideas and the ones he does have simply aren't good. he needs a break. i would relive him of his duties and hope that the break inspires him.
Lol. Cue is an idiot plain and simple. He can't get content for really anything, he's clumsy on stage and considering he's had more and more of his....heh..."work" taken away from him and given to vastly more competent people his "influence" as you claim is nothing more than that of a carnival barker.
Cue does less with more and nothing with less
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The company is making record profits, high customer satisfaction and record sales with more people joining its ecosystem....Why is it his fault how much RAM is in the phone?
Steve Ballmer had way too many misses that were way too obvious and took M$ customer satisfaction to record lows...
DOOM! APPLE IS DOOMED!
Those pundits sure are taking some liberties in their depiction of the situation. "So desperately needs" made me laugh.
What hits has Tim had? Tim played it ultra safe, milking steves product range..... to a point where we have a 4th year design of the 6 at last years price and that fugly notch which is a useability nightmare .....for a company whose strength was user accessibility / design.
Yeah the x will sell! Also Steve would have never approved that notch! Tim only cares about profit and had no issues approving it...... the misses are coming .... though I'm sure the iPhone 5 and 6 designs will be milked for years to come still....
The Smart Phone industry is plateauing at this point in general.
The Apple Watch is having great success, yes I know it is from Jobs's playbook, and Tim helped launch it successfully.
I'm not too thrilled with the Mac line overall to be honest but again I more blame the lower tier management not as much on Tim.
What are you basing this claim on? Apple intentionally obfuscates Apple Watch numbers in the "Other" catagory and refuses to release them but then can't stop crowing to everyone about iPhone numbers. Something isn't adding up.
Not quantifying it in sales numbers but the amount of Apple Watches in the wild and how happy people are with them on the forum and ones I meet is generally a good indicator.
I'm one consumer who hasn't rejected the new MacBook Pro. Can't judge the specs as my workflow doesn't require intensive CPU and GPU performance but the new interfaces afforded by the Touch Bar has been a great, great, great boon for my editing work in Pages and Keynote. Makes mouse-driven menu diving feel old and cumbersome.
I know plenty of people complained about the touch bar, myself included, but I don’t recall it negatively impacting sales.
I bought the MBP despite the touch bar and it’s fine. I would have preferred a traditional keyboard, but it doesn’t get in the way. I do, however, really like the Touch ID integration. So while people were certainly vocal about it, I think people bought it anyway.
Touch bar aside, the new MBP is still a great laptop.
I bought the MBP despite the touch bar and it’s fine. I would have preferred a traditional keyboard, but it doesn’t get in the way. I do, however, really like the Touch ID integration. So while people were certainly vocal about it, I think people bought it anyway.
Touch bar aside, the new MBP is still a great laptop.
Compared to the Echo or Google Home it’s hifi. Compared to my audiophile system at home it’s not. As I said, Sonos should be worried.
Apple is backing out the products that don't really leverage much of their in-house hardware/software innovations...like the Cinema Display and WiFi routers. ATV and HomePod are both centered around Apple developed technology.
Tim Coook's Bachelor's Degree is in Industrial Engineering and his Master's is in Business Administration, so both. If he "got lucky" when Steve Jobs asked him to come to Apple after their first meeting in 1998, he's stayed lucky for 19 years.