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Today Marks 10 Years Since Tim Cook Became Apple's CEO
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Favorite toys since then,,,, my iPhone XR in 2018 and an MBA 2020 last year.
And I do like Big Sur better than Catalina...
Steve didn't make a mistake on Cook.
And I do like Big Sur better than Catalina...
Steve didn't make a mistake on Cook.
It is very easy to explain Apple after Jobs. Iterative and obsessive products, dominated by dark patterns design psychology (removing the jack, dongles, 1000 dollars monitor stands, air-pods, faulty laptop keyboards, killing MacOS X, flat UI with no controls diferentiation, mouse with upside charging, hyper expensive smarphones, blatant fashion and "social status products".) The Apple of new uses mix of psychology and marketing to lure extreme consumerism. That's why they are sure about success of governments backdoor. They know their new audience well, they know that their products are "consumers drug", the idea of success measured by materialistic narcissism.
Comparing this with Jobs era of producing creative tools and stimulating individualism trough creativity is absurd.
Did Apple needed this expansion? No. Hardcore capitalism marketed as human advancement under the name of common good. The hard part is that the new kids are lost in this, they measure the world by products, designed by marketing committee mainly of old corporate dogs and cats who dominate over the product people and butcher innovation with smile.
I hate Tim Cook. I hate the false smile. I hate "the praying hands" and the lack of emotion on his face. This guy is useful when planning production by pushing partners to the ground and optimizing for profit. Now he wants Apple to police the world.
Jobs was no angel, but he had more than 70 percent intuition about product people and surrounded himself with like-minded. Tim follows this mantra also. The difference is that he has no product sense what so ever. And the results are clear.
Apple has gained all the money and success imaginable, but has lost the creative soul and user focused approach.
Comparing this with Jobs era of producing creative tools and stimulating individualism trough creativity is absurd.
Did Apple needed this expansion? No. Hardcore capitalism marketed as human advancement under the name of common good. The hard part is that the new kids are lost in this, they measure the world by products, designed by marketing committee mainly of old corporate dogs and cats who dominate over the product people and butcher innovation with smile.
I hate Tim Cook. I hate the false smile. I hate "the praying hands" and the lack of emotion on his face. This guy is useful when planning production by pushing partners to the ground and optimizing for profit. Now he wants Apple to police the world.
Jobs was no angel, but he had more than 70 percent intuition about product people and surrounded himself with like-minded. Tim follows this mantra also. The difference is that he has no product sense what so ever. And the results are clear.
Apple has gained all the money and success imaginable, but has lost the creative soul and user focused approach.
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ApPlE hAs LoSt ThE uSeR FoCuSeD ApPrOaCh
iOS users when Jobs passed away (sadly) ~60M
iOS users today 1 billion
Isn't it weird when 1 billion users literally disagree with you. That's a strong indictment on your conclusion.
iOS users when Jobs passed away (sadly) ~60M
iOS users today 1 billion
Isn't it weird when 1 billion users literally disagree with you. That's a strong indictment on your conclusion.
data isn’t going to convince anyone around here that their preconceived “feels” are wrong
Look Who Zoomed Past Apple Since It Lost Steve Jobs
It's been exactly 10 years since Steve Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO. And Apple stock lost its wow factor in the S&P 500.
www.investors.com
Shares of the technology giant are up 1,022% since Tim Cook replaced Jobs as the Apple CEO on Aug. 24, 2010.
But it ranks Apple stock just 45th for stock gains in that time in the S&P 500.
What's the top S&P 500 stock since Jobs' stepped down? Elon Musk's Tesla (TSLA). It's up 15,281% in that time, running circles around Apple stock's 1,022% gain. And it's not just stock market speculation. Tesla's revenue since 2010 is up nearly 27,000% from 2011 — making Apple's 320% top-line growth look pedestrian.
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Oddly enough, shortly after that hardware was a time period when using an Apple device felt like “it just worked.” After around 2011, navigating your IPad or IPhone started requiring occasional googling or calling your younger family member to help figure something out that just wasn’t as obvious as before.
Apple has a less user focused approach somewhat? Yes, evidenced by various UI compromises still focused on light, airy, “modernism” over efficiency and convenience and obvious intuitiveness. But, many keep buying Apple products when we need to because they’re still a better option than anything with Microsoft or Android…just not as good as they could be. And many like me have morphed to waiting till when we need it, no longer when we really want it. A subtle but huge difference !
Steve Jobs can never be replaced. But remember, one of Steve Jobs final decisions was Tim Cook. Not bad.
Tim Cook stepped into some huge shoes and has filled them
He may not be type of visionary as Steve Jobs but Tim Cook has visionary characteristics
Some of the best products are yet to come ( VR , AI) the Apple Car
But these are all years off at best
Bottom Line: Steve Jobs would be proud of Tim Cook
He may not be type of visionary as Steve Jobs but Tim Cook has visionary characteristics
Some of the best products are yet to come ( VR , AI) the Apple Car
But these are all years off at best
Bottom Line: Steve Jobs would be proud of Tim Cook
To me, it’s not any one particular product, but the rounding out of the apple ecosystem. So to me, the best product Apple sells is the apple experience.
Apple is best at service and guarantees. I know no other company that replaces broken stuff or teething troubles material no questions asked. I have had an iPod, powerbook battery and MacBook mainboard replaced at no cost for me, not even mail - without apple care. This is outstanding and made me stay a long time with apple. They might be more expensive but their stuff is built to last. Tim Cook, even being a "numbers guy" did NOT scale down on this. If they get their privacy thing right I will stay.
I give Cook credit for steering Apple in an innovative direction - away from physical products and towards services. It's not fair to compare him to Jobs since it is a very different time, and the fact is that Apple is more open a platform than it's ever been. Apple is unfortunately a victim of it's own success - a company that is so big the expectations of the market and it's users has become insane, and it's clear in some ways they're struggling to keep up (the reliability and stability of their software releases for example).
I think people forget that most of Job's "innovations" came from his staff, Jobs simply had the marketing and strategic skills to make those products popular and usable. He was also not great with getting Apple's services offerings to an acceptable standard, something that Apple has markedly improved over Cook's leadership.
I think people forget that most of Job's "innovations" came from his staff, Jobs simply had the marketing and strategic skills to make those products popular and usable. He was also not great with getting Apple's services offerings to an acceptable standard, something that Apple has markedly improved over Cook's leadership.
Tim "Empty Box" Cook. What a disgusting photo. Who poses like that? Is like a prom Queen photo. Cook is an empty shell. An inept speaker, a leader without vision of any kind, a hollow paper pusher and cash counter, possibly one of the most boring human beings ever born. Apple is becoming something so plastic, so shallow it is frankly depressing. The entire leadership seems clueless. Making things "thin", moving buttons around, eliminating every useful feature just to show they can. This is a big turd farm.
I got into Apple products via the iPod followed by an iPhone 3 and was so impressed with the ease of use that my wife and I rapidly expanded our purchases to include an iMac, MacBook Pro, two iPads, updated iPhones, 3 Apple TVs and various other products in a very short time span. Since Tim Cook's appointment, I have disliked Apple more and more easy year and see an endless cycle of the introduction of new features no one wants that must be endured for a few years until Apple finally realises yet another mistake has been made and reverts back to a previous design (Macs with next to no ports, the touch bar, no MagSafe, natural scrolling, the disastrous Apple maps rollout, the Photos app that did nothing but store your photos until five years after launch it had enough features to start to resemble iPhoto and become usable, the terrible Apple TV remote....the list is endless). This is against a backdrop of a culture of pure greed and a mission to crush potential competitors while they are too small to resist.
On this day ten years ago, Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of the company he built and officially named Tim Cook as Apple's new head. Two months later, Steve Jobs passed away and the future of Apple lay solely on the shoulders of Tim Cook.
Tim Cook took over Apple at a turbulent time when Jobs was battling pancreatic cancer and the company's future seemed uncertain. Questions were widespread after Tim Cook took over, including whether Cook would continue in the footsteps of Jobs or create a new vision for the future of Apple.
A day after he became CEO, Cook sent a letter to Apple employees, promising that despite Jobs no longer being at the helm, Apple "is not going to change."
The first device that launched with Tim Cook as CEO was the iPhone 4S in 2011, which was announced one day before Jobs' death. Jobs had overseen the development of the device, but it was the first iPhone that had launched under Tim Cook.
The first iPhone to have been fully developed under Tim Cook was the iPhone 5 in 2012. The iPhone 5 represented a major turning point in the iPhone's history, as it was the first time since the iPhone 4 in 2010 that the device got a significant redesign. The iPhone 5 featured an all-new thin design and was the first iPhone with a larger display.
Two years later, the Apple Watch was announced as Cook's first "One more thing" product announcement, a phrase that Jobs had pioneered and used only to signify major revolutionary products. The Apple Watch was not only the first completely new product from Apple in the post-Jobs era; it was also the first new product for Apple under Cook.
Cook's second "One more thing" reveal would arrive in 2017, the year that marked the tenth anniversary of the first iPhone. For this special occasion, Apple announced the iPhone X, featuring the biggest redesign to the iPhone in its history.
In the years that followed, Apple under Cook would release new products and services, and would go on to become the world's first trillion-dollar company. Looking forward, Cook has said he doesn't expect to remain Apple's CEO for the next ten years, but his influence on the company is surely not done just yet.
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Oh yeah. I'm sure you (and pretty much every fanatic in this forum board) would know what Steve would or would not do if he was still alive. Seriously, this "If Steve was alive...." got old real quick. No one would know, not even people who worked closely with him.
Wow, did not know someone could be so angry ad someone else's opinion.
Chill dude, just ignore comments that make you so angry, it's not healthy for you, and disagreeing with me won't make me angry (if that was the purpose.....if there was a purpose to that comment).
It's called opinion, it's not a fact, it does not alter the stock market (as you won't lose money if it was true or not ), nor Apple way of deciding things (even if Apple / Tim reads this very forum, my opinion won't change his mind), it's MY opinion, deal with it.
P.S. Not everyone disagreeing with you is a fanatic.
Gave you a positive reaction, hope it makes you feel better.
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I can’t hate on Tim as strongly as you
but: Two key personnel who (I think) let Apple morph away from the company with products I couldn’t wait to buy into the company with products I still prefer over Microsoft & Android are Tim and Jony. Jony’s finally gone, and shortly thereafter Apple started decreasing the “what’s new for this year is we’re removing at least something compared to last year.” Coincidence? Will a new Steve-like leader replace Tim? I don’t feel it will happen. But it could. Kind of like replacing David Lee Roth — it’s awfully hard to recreate lightning in a bottle at the right place at the right time, especially when the accountant, music producer and/or committees start calling the shots (or most of the shots) instead of the creative band or bandleader.
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If Steve was alive, we had so many more innovative products we cannot even imagine. That was his power. RIP
Ok not to get too far off topic here, but autopilot is a driver assistance system. It requires the driver’s hands to be on the wheel at all times and to take evasive action if necessary. If you’re referring to this incident:
Then the driver’s hands were off the wheel for 8 seconds before the crash.
Investigators Say Tesla Model 3 Driver Killed In Florida Crash Was Using Autopilot
The NTSB's preliminary report finds that neither the semiautomated system or the driver took evasive action to avoid slamming into a commercial truck.www.google.com
I like iTunes (though it could use a little debugging), and I fully support the CSAM scanning. The battery thing was bad though.
There have been at least 4 deaths. At least.