Obscene renumeration, especially Angela Ahrendts, who's done nothing to make Apple Stores more inviting or interesting and could be replaced for a 10th of the money by any number of retail execs.
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Tim Cook's Pay Was $1.5 Million Less in 2016 as Apple Missed its Own Performance Targets
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I'm happy the quote didn't edit too. People might think I'm a pervert
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Well where is the proof of that? I haven't see any in years
Yeah, eventually Apple is so bad and force you to use other techs. There goes your privacy.
The customer is not always right, but they are always the customer.
Mrs. Ahrendts did get a pretty sizable RSU grant when she was hired by Apple. Her reported income for 2014 was over $70 million and the RSU grant accounted for almost all of that. Most of those shares - 800K or so, accounting for the 2014 stock split - were to vest over the following three years.
Scary....we might be reliving history
Only MACRUMORS can write an article that says:
"Failure Tim Cook made 1.5million less because Apple sucks and doesn't listen to tech blog wannabes!"
and then in small print...
"he actually made 145 million more than he ever has"
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"Failure Tim Cook made 1.5million less because Apple sucks and doesn't listen to tech blog wannabes!"
and then in small print...
"he actually made 145 million more than he ever has"
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Only the in the minds of the utterly delusional.
Why delusional? The video does bare resemblance to history, and it won't be the first time that history has repeated itself.
It's hilarious how many people here with no business sense or acumen think they can run Apple better than Tim Cook.
Maybe not better, but probably as good as!
Exactly... although I would assume he has the final say on any product or decision that is brought to him.
Just curious though... how many people working at Apple today were there when Steve was there?
We know Scott Forstall is gone... but shouldn't there be many (thousands?) of people still there from the Jobs-era? Don't they have any good ideas left?
How do you know we don't know how to run a business ?
Never presume
Never presume
How are them short-term gains looking now, Ballmer...I mean Cook?
Steve says a number of key things here:
1. He says when he was there Apple was never about making big profits. Apple always aimed for marginal profits and increases in market share.
2. And if someone doesn't pull a rabbit of a hat these companies (Apple) will glide down the slope.
Both to me highlight what Apple is doing right now, increasing their profit margins as much as they can, and paying the top guys mega $$ to be there.
And they have stopped innovation (also discussed in the video). The are just "gliding" on the products that they have and the user base that has been built up. But eventually that will begin to decrease.
I can see that happening with both the iPhone (iPhone 7, an iPhone 6s without the headphone jack) and certainly the Mac (Hello iMac, Mac Pro and Mac mini refresh please).
Sad that Steve predicted the demise of his own company again....
Why? I'd imagine it would be a huge difference?
Yeap I did and was equally disgusted! I don't even know many people that earn £28,000 a year! People who kick leather balls around get paid what £120,000 a week basic pay before they get into the advertising deals etc. American sports stars are also paid obscene amounts, people literally cannot get clean drinking water, on one side of the planet, people who can hit a ball and run round a pitch, kick a leather ball, are CEOs are paid millions and millions every year on the other side of the planet.
Then today I read a story about in the UK a survey was done where half of the households that earn £70,000 consider themselves to 'just about scrape by'... too much greed.
Sorry for the rant but this world has messed up prioritys sometimes. It truly does.
lets all cry for Tim Cook. Apple has gone from Innovation to Stagnation
Well those that think they could run Apple could always submit their resume, right?
Apple is selling more devices than ever. What is that if not increasing market share?
If anything, Tim Cook appears to be following Steve Job's guidebook.
The tech that makes sure you Apple Watch is unlocking your Mac and not someone with a Bluetooth relay device pretending to be your Watch is really well thought out, too.
Did you not watch the video? And if you did....you don't see any truth in it ?
This is what I always wonder as well. What was it Steve saw in him? He strikes me as being completely unlike Steve - clearly I know neither of them, but he seems like his priorities are everywhere but where they need to be while Steve was laser focused on providing the best experience and cutting anything that did not meet his standards. With Steve, it had to 'just work', with Tim I feel like it just needs to be profitable.