Quite. For using off-the-shelf Intel hardware, licensed ARM designs, open source software, he made quite a savings... he's a businessman.
And you don't ever blame the customer, especially if you know about a product's defect before launch and then blame the customers for the problem by saying "you're holding it wrong". No small or medium business would survive such sloppiness, never mind other products that people have complained about on Apple's website. Being bigger does not give a company a free pass. Not ever.
I prefer to revere people who aren't amoral or mean to each other just for a passing buck.
Tim Cook has some work to do. And he's done some already.
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Great at business and telling people what they want, which is the sheer essence of marketing. I would never ever use a blanket statement to define a person. Only deities deserve such stereotypes.
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Have you ever run a company?
No single human being can wake up say, "today I will be great and innovate and make something new" and actually do it.
It's amazing when something grand happens once.
Indeed, the iphone is a bit more original than the GUI (since someone else other than Steve Jobs took the time and effort to make it in the first place.) Even then, I was using PDAs and smartphones long before the iphone and enjoyed what other people were missing out on before it became popular. The return of the stylus and external keyboards also proves the arrogance of those who say that nobody needs such peripherals as touching the glass on its own is all anyone needs.