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Tim Cook Says iPhone Launch Was His Favorite Apple Moment in 50th Anniversary Interview
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It's interesting to see him say they use phones every day, presumably the iPhone.
It really feels to me like they don't sometimes. They can't be happy with all the little papercuts. Maybe they only use first party Apple applications with intranet sites and nothing else.
It really feels to me like they don't sometimes. They can't be happy with all the little papercuts. Maybe they only use first party Apple applications with intranet sites and nothing else.
There is more humanity in the collapsing Disneyland Olaf robot than in the standing Tim Cook. Even Apple Intelligence would be more spontaneous and talkative... This man freeze-dries me every time he talks.
Brrrrrrr.
Brrrrrrr.
RMMediccc
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Art Mark
macrumors 6502a
Apple was very lucky to have Tim follow Steve and I think Steve knew that. The danger would have been looking for 'another Steve Jobs', when there is no such thing. Tim seems to be honest and share a lot of the common sense attributes of Steve - like asking of a product, is this good enough? What can we do to make it better? Not how cheap can we make it to sell a bunch (Like Dell Computer). What happens once Tim leaves will be the real danger. Who is the choice. The Roman Empire couldn't keep it going and obviously this country can't. So a lot is riding on the next CEO.
Art Mark
macrumors 6502a
Probably not his job to make you have chills. I'll take intelligently running a trillion dollar company.
Art Mark
macrumors 6502a
I think there is probably more to the man, or Jobs wouldn't have put him into this position. He never said he was Steve. He never said he was an amazing artist, but he seems to get how to keep the company running as it was.
M4irmidnight
macrumors regular
It has to be an early dev kit that the public can buy , right ?
Personally I’m not sure I want my eyes being so close to the screen and being constantly scanned.
loby
macrumors 68020
It was a mark in history for sure..incredible day for innovation and technology. Truly changed the world.
Personally, my favorite was when Steve Jobs pulled the MacBook Air out of the envelope. My jaw dropped. That was another historical moment for sure.
It's these types of conclusions that completely miss the boat. The Apple Vision Pro is and has always been about breaking new ground, not about becoming a mainstream product. It's the research and development behind it that will lead to the mainstream products yet to come out.
The iPhone was unique, as it was immediately a mainstream product due to its extreme simplicity on design, and the already-broad adoption (and necessity) of mobile phones.
Steve's launch of the iPhone was a classic example of his unique presentation style, and how he connects with the audience. We miss you Steve.
loby
macrumors 68020
I think you may be correct if history repeats itself as we mostly see..
But Apple could ride out a slow decline. Though popular belief, Rome did not fall in one day, but a slow decline with spurts of comeback but was continuing down regardless after their prime (usually when doing well).
Apple did financially well under Cook and he will go into history as successful contra to many on these forums. Silicone M-series falls under Tim’s realm, though probably the concept was in the works probably shortly after iPhone. He gets that credit regardless.
Who takes the helm after will show the direction Apple is looking to take. With all of the money they have now, I would like to see risk taking again in innovation, but Tim set the course for stockholder and profit focus, so we will see..
No one likes a “pirate” until history rewrites the narrative. Steve was kicked out of his own company, so it is hard to see in the present (and at the time) what is best until we see the results later. Glad that happened or we may not be where we are today, but during that time, we might have seen things or “think” differently about it..
Dark_Omen
macrumors 6502a
Even Tim was caught by surprise when he learned how innovative Apple used to be compared to now.
Imagine having your whole career based on excellent products someone else designed.
Imagine having your whole career based on excellent products someone else designed.
loby
macrumors 68020
And Steve was wise to see where Apple needed to go after him to survive in the long run. I think having to suck up to Gates to bail the company out had a tremendous impact on him. I think Jobs understood his limits and knew that a company to survive needed someone like Gates’ business prowess around to become number one or financially sustainable, while producing inferior products that does not deserve the number one status as Gates did.
Regardless of personal opinions about Tim Cook expressed on forums, the man did good for Apple, the next we will see.
Dark_Omen
macrumors 6502a
Not my fight, but the AVP is a flop. I forget it even exists most of the time.
The product has been out for two years and I have yet to meet anyone that talks about it, yet alone, has one.
I could take the $3,500 budget for an AVP and build an entire home theater system area in my house and still have money left over.
Compared to what the iPhone, iPad, iPod, and the MacBook Air did when they first came out -- the AVP isn't the same type of groundbreaking product. It's not even a successful product.
Spot-on analysis. Seems some people believe it should have sold at iPhone rates (600,000+ iPhones per day).
Exactly. You only end up at a mature product by building the early versions, prototypes, failed projects, etc. Innovative companies playing chess while forums members are eating their checkers.
Yeah... Those here who are gleeful that AVP didn't sell at iPhone rates have never developed a tech product in their lives and have no understanding of how R&D works.
What's amusing is that they don't feel the same way about the previous CEO, who had somewhere between a dozen and two dozen flops.
100%. Most can't see 5 feet in front of their face. The long term vision guides true innovation and it is usually filled with what most people see as "failures", but those that get it see it as one experiment, one possibility eliminated or something learned from while continuing to focus on that vision.
FloatingBones
macrumors 68000
I fondly hope Tim's next hit is mobile device instrumentation on Apple Watch and AirPods to detect environmental red and near-infrared (NIR) light. Cumulative exposure of sunlight could be monitored with Apple Health services to monitor daily minimums of light in this spectrum -- a fourth fitness ring.
Apple has already deployed IR sensors in the AirPods Pro 3 model to record heartbeat.
There are over 9550 science papers listed in the Photobiomodulation Datatabase. Intriguing papers in that curated list include Light stimulation of mitochondria reduces blood glucose levels and Longer wavelengths in sunlight pass through the human body and have a systemic impact which improves vision. Awareness of the benefits of Red/NIR light could have a profound impact on our health.
The Newton was a great example. Sales volume was a failure, but the device was ahead of its time. The learnings from that device led to the modern day iPad (and potentially others). Even though Steve Jobs pulled it, he learned from it and they got to a now highly touted product that was the original vision.
Apple_Robert
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You don't get banned for saying something negative about Tim. What you can get banned for is breaking established rules over and over that you agreed to follow when you signed up.