Well, if it turns out to be Craig Federighi, I’m out. 🙄
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Will John Ternus Really Be Apple's Next CEO?
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You mean, like a certain someone who founded Apple, then left to make animated movies?
Here me out... Scott Forstall.
I'm team Scott.
He was probably given an impossible task, like "Design a keyboard that's 0.001mm thin". And he did just that. And it worked, sort of. And maybe he should take the blame, but he could also have tried to deflect by saying it was a task doomed to failure.
Probably what happened was he had a keyboard design that was working, except when it got dirt in it, and he thought his team could make it work, so Apple started tooling up the cases, and then "oops!" they couldn't actually make the keyboard dust-proof, but by then it was too late. So it was his fault, even if Ives publicly took the fall for trying to design something that was just too thin.
Ive sucks without Jobs to control his nonsense.
Plot twist....
Turns out the next CEO is Alan Dye 😂
Turns out the next CEO is Alan Dye 😂
Looks like he can't even figure out how to run an electric razor. Or how to button a shirt.
If and when Sabih Khan becomes the Apple CEO, it would mark a significant point in the US tech industry, with Satya Nadella as Microsoft Chairman and CEO, Sundar Pichai as CEO of Alphabet and Google, Shantanu Narayen as CEO of Adobe, Arvind Krishna as Chairman and CEO of IBM, Sanjay Mehrotra as CEO of Micron Technology, and Nikesh Arora as CEO of Palo Alto Networks, among others. Having an Indian-born CEO would be beneficial for Apple.
(I am not an Indian.)
He's 59 years old. If he's not getting the CEO spot after Tim Cook steps down, his chances are near zero.
Then, Apple will likely struggle with the next non-Indian CEO, when all the other top US tech companies have succeeded with them.
You're saying that while Steve Jobs founded and ran a computer (hardware and software) company and also owned a company that was making the first all-CGI-animated feature film, that he was out of the technology game? Really?
This sentence can be interpreted in two different ways. Wanting Scott or wanting Scott.
I don’t have any opinions on him as CEO, but it’s wild this is presented as a bad thing.
He was right about the Vision Pro, right about the Apple car, right about AI. Had Apple heeded his warnings they’d have billions in resources back that could have been directed to a useful purpose.
I don’t know that qualifies him to be CEO. But I’ll give him some respect for swimming against the current on Apple’s three biggest blunders.
Disagree. Apple should have continued with their autonomous car efforts (think Waymo).
I think both are very qualified for what they do, but they don’t give me charismatic CEO vibes. Also, with AI going mainstream, we now need a CEO that is more entrepreneurial and creative minded like Steve Jobs was. Tony Fadell fits that mold the best out of all the Apple related people mentioned.
Calling Craig risk averse because he’s against the continuation of the failed Vision Pro…now I’ve heard it all.
I think the jury is out on AI but I think he was right about Vision Pro. Especially considering the rumors that Apple is pivoting towards more simple Meta Ray-ban style glasses.
I hope there’s room in the market for both styles of devices. It’s hard to imagine glasses being anywhere near as immersive as a headset.
Even Meta is scaling back its VR efforts
Meta Reality Labs Reportedly Facing Up To 30% Budget Cut
Meta Reality Labs is facing up to 30% budget cuts, Bloomberg reports, higher than the 10% Mark Zuckerberg normally asks for during budget cycles.
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A product person doesn’t necessarily equal a visionary.
Apple is gone with Jobs. It will never come back. There will be a new Apple which replaces the current Apple
I'm saying people are multifaceted. Just because Forstall produced a Broadway show doesn't mean he's no longer a tech guy.
What are you trying to suggest? For all I know he's actually older than Cook...
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