For people who manage money well, not a whole lot more than a normal person. Many billionaires are surprisingly cheap. Not sure if that applies to Cook however.What are your bills like when you make that much? Anyone here know?
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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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Wow, it's as though that video was made today.
So they gave Angela $100 million for every good idea she had this year! Thank you, I'll be here all night
Steve Jobs didn't make the iPhone or the iPad all by himself either. He conceptualised the end product, then farmed out the various components to the respective engineers.
"I want you to code a glass keyboard."
"You, shrink the circuit board down to the size of my fingernail."
Etc.
That's what distinguishes Apple from the other companies. Other companies let engineering have all the say. They make the product, then design is responsible for dressing it up. Here at Apple, design takes precedence. That's how we have stuff like the Apple Pencil's clever charging mechanism. Precisely because design has as much say at Apple, if not more.
Tim Cook is a YES MAN. A people pleaser who hasn't pleased many of Apple's consumers. He is a puppet president like how Obama is.
Apple Executive Compensation in 2016
• Apple CEO Tim Cook: $8,747,719
- Accordingly, Cook earned roughly $145 million last year, his biggest payout yet as head of the company.
• Apple CFO Luca Maestri: $22,803,569
• Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts: $22,902,892
• Apple services chief Eddy Cue: $22,807,544
• Apple hardware engineering chief Dan Riccio: $22,807,544
• Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell: $22,807,544
No, this is why they can't build a Mac in the USA, they need half a billion dollars the feed the pigs at the trough.
(no the above does not add up to half a billion, but the above does not include all executives.)
They killed the mac and at the same time got paid like they actually were producing something great.
And Charging $3000 for an out of date computer.
What is the exec to worker pay ratio at Apple now?
Disgusting.
https://www.amazon.com/Pigs-Trough-Corporate-Corruption-Undermining/dp/1400051266
• Apple CEO Tim Cook: $8,747,719
- Accordingly, Cook earned roughly $145 million last year, his biggest payout yet as head of the company.
• Apple CFO Luca Maestri: $22,803,569
• Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts: $22,902,892
• Apple services chief Eddy Cue: $22,807,544
• Apple hardware engineering chief Dan Riccio: $22,807,544
• Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell: $22,807,544
No, this is why they can't build a Mac in the USA, they need half a billion dollars the feed the pigs at the trough.
(no the above does not add up to half a billion, but the above does not include all executives.)
They killed the mac and at the same time got paid like they actually were producing something great.
And Charging $3000 for an out of date computer.
What is the exec to worker pay ratio at Apple now?
Disgusting.
https://www.amazon.com/Pigs-Trough-Corporate-Corruption-Undermining/dp/1400051266
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I wouldn't call a long stick that protrudes from your iPad, waiting to break off, a clever charging mechanism. It's the complete opposite of good design.
It's the only way I charge my iPad. I find it's clever, gets the job done without the need for any extra cables or adaptors, and isn't as silly as people here seem to be making out to be.
there's more to life than money, i'd like to see their bonuses based on the number of ports or some other happiness metrics.
Yes you are right, but by the same measurement Steve Ballmer was a fantastic CEO for Microsoft. Under Ballmer's leadership Microsoft made money hand over fist like never before. But they lost out on mobile because he didn't have that vision, he just stuck to what made lots of money.
I see the day when Apple will start to close branches due to poor sales.
Performance targets under Steve Jobs: The best products, customer experience
Performance targets under Tim Cook: More $$$
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Both completely enraged their customer base.
Performance targets under Tim Cook: More $$$
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Both completely enraged their customer base.
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Where do you get those figures from?
Apple stated in 2016 it had over 1 billion active devices (iPhone, iPad, watch, mac, apple tv).
In 2012 they had approx 700 million active devices.
So that would suggest they have grown active devices by 300 million in 4 years.
As they say past performance in no predictor of future performance, look at IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, Yahoo...
(Albeit that Microsoft might actually be turning it around)
Isn't Apple plateauing at the moment?
He's great as COO...not CEO. If he wants to play "maximize profit" that's what COO would do. CEO has to be balanced in all areas...not one sided.
What's even more dire is smartphone marketshare is also approaching single digit like Steve Jobs warned while Cook and crew are painting a rosy picture and misleading small investors.
This community is quick to get bent out of shape when just about anything is posted these days. What is happening to Apple and at Apple is definitely of interest, but it's no different to any other tech company.
The difference is that there are lots of Apple customers who are woven into the fabric of Apple because of the great product and service we have been accustomed to over the years.
For me personally, being embedded in the Apple ecosystem means that I take a critical view of every breath Apple take, and I would say that I am not just customers, but a Stakeholders (I don't own shares). I've seen many a comment in this forum about jumping ship or migrating to Microsoft, and have even had these thoughts too. It would take a Huge amount of effort, not to mention culture shift, to move platforms after being with Apple for the best part of three decades.
The difference is that there are lots of Apple customers who are woven into the fabric of Apple because of the great product and service we have been accustomed to over the years.
For me personally, being embedded in the Apple ecosystem means that I take a critical view of every breath Apple take, and I would say that I am not just customers, but a Stakeholders (I don't own shares). I've seen many a comment in this forum about jumping ship or migrating to Microsoft, and have even had these thoughts too. It would take a Huge amount of effort, not to mention culture shift, to move platforms after being with Apple for the best part of three decades.
What's even more dire is smartphone marketshare is also approaching single digit like Steve Jobs warned while Cook and crew are painting a rosy picture and misleading small investors.
History seems to be repeating itself. Apple focusing on reaching record high profits and losing vision while its flagship platform is decreasing to near single digit marketshare. Resting on laurels like in the 90s.
I would suggest a 12 step Apple to Windows program. You could start by installing Windows 10 via Bootcamp and play with it for a while. I did that and learned to enjoy it. To the point where I purchased a touchscreen Windows 10 laptop for business. I too live in an Apple eco system, but as time goes by and Apple starts to drop the hardware ball in areas like networking and set top boxes, I have looked elsewhere.
I have already replaced my Airport time capsule router with a faster and better Netgear router and a QNAP NAS for storage. Very satisfied, and I still have the time machine backup option on the NAS as well.
I also went with an AppleTV four but was not happy. Went to a Roku. Works great. There is life outside of Apple.
But don't get me wrong. I still have an iPhone 7 plus, a 6 plus, two iPads, two MacBook Airs, and a Mac Mini.
I find both operating systems can coexist. I installed iCloud on my Windows machine. Syncs with contacts and calendars across devices just like it does on my MBA.
Yes, and Americans love it! Given the chance, they will vote for corporations to take more and more money for executive pay and give less and less to workers. The average voter will rally in the streets cheering corporate greed and asking for MORE! Give them Washington and Wall Street elites for every elected and appointed office in government! It's amazing to listen to working people forcefully defend the very people who are keeping them economically enslaved. They'll tell you have you shouldn't have "sour grapes" because you're not rich - "if you want to be like these billionaire executives, you just need to get an education and work hard - otherwise quit whining!" The real triumph of propaganda is to be able to convince citizens to advocate for something that's not in their best interest. It's succeeded.
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What's even more dire is smartphone marketshare is also approaching single digit like Steve Jobs warned while Cook and crew are painting a rosy picture and misleading small investors.
Unfortunately, your graph is entitled "Smartphone Sales", but it graphs OPERATING SYSTEMS. If it were a graph of smartphone sales, iPhone would be far in the lead, as always.
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I'm assuming your not a health expert by any standards, that said, you do know Jobs ignored treatment order by Doctors to battle his cancer? Which by the way, was reported he would purportedly still be here today if he had not been stubborn and participated in the treatment advised by his Physician. Jobs instead, decided to Go on his own self cleanse, which failed.
So you can subjectively say that Jobs worked himself to death, but nobody can speak for genetics and how that disease manifested itself, where it took his life when he had various control. It was a decision that ultimately took his life.
Timmy should be put back in his cave he came from. He did very good in that cave! And I admire him for the good things he's done under Steve. Sadly, he proved not to be a visionary or a tech lover who's able to push the bar higher. If he would put the same amount of energy in hard-, software and services as they put in campus 2 and Apple stores, they would be doing so much better. Sadly they've changed into a fashion shop but don't recognize their fashion is out of date
STOP! STOP! Every one of your posts is making way too much sense, we don't accept that here.
I seriously could not agree more with you on everything.
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Always found it catching me off guard with the period to separate large numbers instead of the comma. Yep, I'm from the states and we like to pretend only we exist in this world. hehe
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green credentials?
not really - he is an inconvenient truth on the Apple Board