Tim Cook to Apple Employees: "Apple is Not Going to Change"

[CWT1965]

Apple will be fine post Jobs, people underestimate Cook, he is quieter than Jobs but he is utterly ruthless more so than Jobs was and Apple won't change with him being CEO

Cook has been running the show day to day for years and there has been more complaints about Apple in the Cook era than any other time (lawsuits, Apple suing other companies, the GalaxyII court case, the allegations of using Apple's position to block suppliers from supplying to other tech companies), all that has been under Cook's watch so now he has a free rein Apple will crush the market even more so.

 

[vvswarup]

people say he is less visionary and more the pragmatic operations guy. I hope that translates in Apple making more enterprise friendly solutions and in Apple making more productivity focussed software and hardware and less toys

e.g Please Tim: I want a real stylus on my iPad! Not that wide soft tip stuff that you can already buy!

I've seen posts by people (I won't name names but you know who you are) which say that Tim Cook should step in and fix the damage caused by Steve Jobs. Tim Cook should rebuild the bridges that Jobs supposedly burned.

At the end of the day, CEOs are judged by results. And the fact is that with Jobs at the help, Apple crushed it. Steve Jobs did an awesome job. People shouldn't expect Apple to be everything to everyone. The path that Apple was going on gave it incredibly successful product. Why would Apple abandon that approach?

 

[MattInOz]

I've seen posts by people (I won't name names but you know who you are) which say that Tim Cook should step in and fix the damage caused by Steve Jobs. Tim Cook should rebuild the bridges that Jobs supposedly burned.

At the end of the day, CEOs are judged by results. And the fact is that with Jobs at the help, Apple crushed it. Steve Jobs did an awesome job. People shouldn't expect Apple to be everything to everyone. The path that Apple was going on gave it incredibly successful product. Why would Apple abandon that approach?

I think to many people put to much stead in the "Steve" factor. The full team has been there for years and have been actively involved in the recovery and in promoting ideas up the chain in to released products. Tim himself has been there for 13 years doing his thing. By all reports he's been doing the work of an average CEO for years now.

I'm not saying Mr Jobs hasn't had a massive effect on the company, more that the biggest effect was to build a home grown team to drive an effective company. The team made the products that turned the company around. The team still gets what it is that made good products and a good customer relationship the other big stand out feature of the new Apple.

Unless there is a real technological or market change to make the equation different then I'm pretty sure that team would still think the products that didn't make sense to release with Steve still make no sense sans Steve.

 

[AidenShaw]

I've seen posts by people (I won't name names but you know who you are) which say that Tim Cook should step in and fix the damage caused by Steve Jobs. Tim Cook should rebuild the bridges that Jobs supposedly burned.

If you won't name "names", you should fut the shuck up. It's simply innuendo to say "someone said something, but I won't name names". If you can dispute other member's posts, then do so. The "I won't name names" lines is extremely lame....

Jobs did burn a few bridges....

 

[twoodcc]

well i hope he's right and that apple continues to impress. the next couple of iphones will be very important for the iOS vs Android though

 

[darster]

I have no doubt Tim Cook will be a great CEO, but will he be a great visionary? How do you replace a genius amongst school boys?

 

[MattInOz]

Again : requirements. Enterprise IT in-house development work is done based on customer requirements. User interface and experience rank low because the time to get it right is often quite longer than the training time required for something that works.

Why waste a programmer's time that's best spent implementing and Q&Aing a business requirement with trivial interface details when you can simply train the users and use the time spent doing so as a tax deducation ?

Woah... that must be serious amount of time to get it right?
Or your dev's are not very good and it takes them a very long time.
If you consider that in 100 person company the improvement only needs to average 10 seconds a week to more than recover a day of Developer Time, if we allow a bit of extra for the average dev hour being more expensive.

Still little frustrations in the system can easily be minutes a week. The real difference is most of that comes out of the workers time not the companies so no one cares. Although a more intuitive system shouldn't require as much training either. Tax deductions only work if you have a tax bill, which is generally only if you make a profit.

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(Must.....not.......bite. *grinding teeth* Temptation.....so.....great.)

Whew! It passed.

BTW, great avatar! +1! Rocking it old skool?

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I wouldn't be surprise if Tim Cook wasn't behind killing the old logo. Solid colour simpler production.