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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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That's a great distinction that applies far and away beyond apple. Most CEOs and members of the executive committee don't "earn" their compensation, they "receive". I like that.
Mostly I agree with this, but I don't think Tim Cook deserves more spankings than the rest of humanity in not learning from history. Everyone acts from their own perspective and point of reference. Tim's ultimate goal isn't to provide products, it's to make money and assets for the company and ultimately for himself. Many corporate leaders have a certain character trait. Ideas need to come from themselves and not from feedback from people who "knows better than them".
I'd be careful of calling Apple's leadership stupid. The question is more in what way they see Apple in 10 years. Are they still running it and what kind of products are they producing. Perhaps these kind of salaries are counterproductive in the long term... who knows?
If one would like to go about pointing fingers at ignorance, maybe people shouldn't take the paid cybertrolls so seriously.
But satisfying the majority of your customers, while at the same keeping the investors and board of directors happy is.
Of course that's why most Tim Cook critics can't be taken seriously.
Can someone explain to me whats the difference between his salary "8m" and compensation and stock bonus?
I know that low level employees get a bonus as incentive to work better because their pay is relatively low, but when you are paid $730k a month... what other incentives do you need?
I know that low level employees get a bonus as incentive to work better because their pay is relatively low, but when you are paid $730k a month... what other incentives do you need?
And yet, after almost 6 years he is still CEO and probably will be until he leaves of his own volition.
What Stance... iCloud is practically Transparent.
That stance is something he takes publicly to look good.... Until he publicly announces Zero Knowledge iCloud he and Apple is just as transparent to the Government as Facebook or DropBox. Anyone can read what YOU read.
Cook can only ride Job's train for so long before the truth comes out. Macbook pro is a joke. IP7, is blah. Apple continues to do pulse checks w/ their users to see if they will just buy anything they put out on the market. If everyone continues to buy, they won't change a thing and continue w/ the minimal upgrades.
Hey, weren't you saying that in the Blackberry forum around 2010?
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"My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products," Jobs told Isaacson. "[T]he products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It's a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything." --- http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-products-versus-profits-2011-10
And yes Steve was a business man who was happy to not do what he said, but his track record as CEO shows that's exactly what his passion was.
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Which devices are you looking at? The unibody macbooks were a work of art and a marvel of engineering on the inside. The current crop of MBAs and EmojiBar macs are ugly kludges on the inside. Though I admit it is a marvel of engineering that they have a decent yield on a product so sloppily designed on the inside.
It's single percentage share by operating system, not by manufacturer. Apple is top OEM by marketshare. (If you believe comscore is accurate enough)
https://www.comscore.com/Insights/R...ry-2016-US-Smartphone-Subscriber-Market-Share
