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Tim Cook Won't Appear in Apple's September 9 Event Video

TruthAboveAllElse said:
Worse than Michael Spindler’s, worse than Gil Amelio’s? Or do you just mean not as good as Steve Jobs’? (In which case worst ever is hyperbole.)
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In terms of operations, especially when it came to supply chain management, Tim Cook was a much better CEO than Michael Spindler and Gil Amelio. However, in terms of innovation and user-friendliness, Cook was a much worse CEO than Spindler and Amelio.

Spindler and Amelio were not as innovative as Steve Jobs, but at least they tried to innovate like Steve Jobs did.

Do you like having a camera on your iPhone, and did you like having a standalone digital camera of another brand before you bought a smartphone? Then thank Spindler for releasing Apple’s QuickTake 100 in 1994, which was the world’s first mass-market consumer digital camera. Time magazine named the QuickTake 100 one of the 100 greatest and most influential gadgets of all time.

Do you like that your iPhone has a touchscreen instead of a hardware keyboard? Then thank Spindler again for releasing a touchscreen PDA called the Apple Newton in 1993 (and also thank the previous CEO John Sculley, who is also much more innovative than Cook, for leading Apple while it was developed).

Do you like macOS and iOS? Then thank Ameilo for purchasing NeXT in 1997, because macOS is NeXT’s operating system with an Apple facade, and iOS is also NeXT’s operating system.

Do you like that Jobs came back to Apple and released the some of the topmost innovative personal computing products? Then thank Amelio again for purchasing NeXT, which was founded by Jobs, thus bringing Jobs back to Apple.

Amelio and Spindler (and also Sculley) knew that Apple equals skeuomorphism, and valued the skeuomorphism that Apple pioneered ever since the Lisa that was released in 1983. The user-friendliness that the Mac was praised for was rooted in it having a skeuomorphic GUI. Cook was too clueless and mediocre to understand that, so he fired the world’s greatest facilitator for skeuomorphic design, which was Scott Forstall, and then allowed Apple to copy Microsoft-pioneered flat design, which continues to this day with the flat design variant known as glassmorphism.

Face it: In terms of innovation and user-friendliness, Cook was the worst CEO in Apple’s history.
 
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ThomasJL said:
In terms of operations, especially when it came to supply chain management, Tim Cook was a much better CEO than Michael Spindler and Gil Amelio. However, in terms of innovation and user-friendliness, Cook was a much worse CEO than Spindler and Amelio.

Spindler and Amelio were not as innovative as Steve Jobs, but at least they tried to innovative like Steve Jobs did.

Do you like having a camera on your iPhone, and did you like having a standalone digital camera of another brand before you bought a smartphone? Then thank Spindler for releasing Apple’s QuickTake 100 in 1994, which was the world’s first mass-market consumer digital camera. Time magazine named the QuickTake 100 one of the 100 greatest and most influential gadgets of all time.

Do you like that your iPhone has a touchscreen instead of a hardware keyboard? Then thank Spindler again for releasing the Apple Newton in 1993 (and thank the previous CEO John Sculley, who is also much more innovative than Cook, for leading Apple while it was developed).

Do you like macOS and iOS? Then thank Ameilo for purchasing NeXT, because macOS is NeXT’s operating system with an Apple facade, and iOS is also NeXT’s operating system.

Do you like that Jobs came back to Apple and released the some of the topmost innovative personal computing products? Then thank Amelio again for purchasing NeXT, which was founded by Jobs, thus bringing Jobs back to Apple.

Amelio and Spindler (and Sculley) knew that Apple equals skeuomorphism, and valued the skeuomorphism that Apple pioneered ever since the Lisa that was released in 1983. The user-friendliness that the Mac was praised for was rooted in it having a skeuomorphic GUI. Cook was too clueless and mediocre to understand that, so he fired the world’s greatest mind for skeuomorphic design, which was Scott Forstall, and then allowed Apple to copy Microsoft-pioneered flat design, which continues to this day with the flat design variant known as glassmorphism.

Face it: In terms of innovation, Cook was the worst CEO in Apple’s history.
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Do you like Face ID? Bigger phones? AirPods? Apple Watch ? Apple Pay? The Mac’s with m series. Sorry but your facts are nothing but bad opinions as to the worse ceo.
 
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I'd love for him to come out and say, 'things are going to be different from now on"

But that would probably send Apple stock prices plummeting down.
 
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I thought it would have been nice to have a passing of the torch moment. These events need more personality (And they need to be live) and this would have been a nice memorable moment.
 
Fusquete said:
Great news - the less we see or hear from him, the better.
Let him join the hallowed Michael Spindler pantheon of terrible, vision-less CEOs; no more fake praying hands nor pre-recorded events, please.
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Apple Silicon has created more value for Apple customers and shareholders than anything it’s ever made. Apple went from a premium brand selling at premium prices to the highest performance products with best build quality and battery life at every price point it competes at.

Then you have Apple Watch, AirPods, Retina screens, TouchID, FaceID, etc during Cooks tenure.
 
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I'm not surprised. Having Tim Cook appear might make people question who's in charge.

As a member of the board of directors, will he have an office in any of the Apple buildings? I have no idea what a typical day for Tim will look like now.
 
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