Yeah, you can put me in that category. The road to CEO will be a toxic cesspool of passive aggressive players.
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Will John Ternus Really Be Apple's Next CEO?
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I don't think so. It's curious, though, that Mark Gurman or other reporters with sources don't reveal who the new CEO will be. Apple's CEO is probably already shadowing Tim Cook. Based on Gurman's past reports, he has has sources close to the executives (the sources might be executives).
Oh absolutely. I’ve worked for lesser companies that have solid succession plans. There’s almost no way Apple doesn’t have a good one. Whoever it is is being developed for the role already.
From the outside it always looks like they don’t have it together. These massive corporations always have well laid plans.
A huge part of Apple's success has been due to what the hardware looks like
From what you wrote, I feel you don't understand the very ethos of Apple, and the fundamental reason for its successes over the decades. Building hardware and its software, allows for a better product. What a product looks like, how it feels in your hands, or on your lap/desk, is vital. There have been many studies to show, as humans, that we do care what our tech looks like. And for anecdotal proof, take a look at the PC market in recent years, all beginning to look a lot like mac's. The iPhone design was copied and tweaker. Who remembers smartphones before iPhone? They were ugly, and now they all follow quite a similar form factor.
Tim Cook is approaching retirement age, and the Board will have long had a succession plan in place for this eventuality (Tim Cook would have had 1 vote on the matter, if it got to that). There is no doubt financial implications on Tim's stock holdings, and other renumeration he has received over the years.
He has amassed considerable wealth, and whilst seemingly not a 'spender', will want to wind down at some point, and enjoy the fruits of his labor. He'll know doubt get offered positions on boards going forwards.
So i wasn't the only one who didn't forget him. With Scott Forstall I could love Apple again. For me, as a user, Cook always been a terrible CEO. He understand nothing about computers and gadgets, he only understands profits.
I like him, and I think it was too bad he was ousted. But it's silly to suggest he would be a good fit for CEO now.
Apple is two Meta poaches away from making the security guard the next CEO.
Hi all,
As usual, the Apple crowd is one passionate group of people, as evidenced by the wide range of opinions about the company, its history and legacy, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, etc.!
As a long-time Apple user, I can understand both ends of the spectrum regarding the successes/failures of Apple.
Still, I'll offer a small counter-point to all of the "negative" sentiment towards Tim Cook.
I think that Steve Jobs was very careful when he hand-picked Tim Cook to be his successor. Steve probably could foresee the many challenges that Apple would face, after he was gone. Had Apple been run by some other "visionary/pioneer" after Steve, Apple may not even exist today! There were countless powerful hi-tech companies which NO LONGER exist today, after their founder(s) left. It's easy for people to play "arm-chair" quarterback.....saying Apple should have done this and/or not done that, etc. Easier said than done! I would imagine that most of us would NOT be able lead Apple forward if given the chance (despite our enthusiasm) and instead, would end up destroying Apple into non-existence.
Just my opinion....
richmlow
As usual, the Apple crowd is one passionate group of people, as evidenced by the wide range of opinions about the company, its history and legacy, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, etc.!
As a long-time Apple user, I can understand both ends of the spectrum regarding the successes/failures of Apple.
Still, I'll offer a small counter-point to all of the "negative" sentiment towards Tim Cook.
I think that Steve Jobs was very careful when he hand-picked Tim Cook to be his successor. Steve probably could foresee the many challenges that Apple would face, after he was gone. Had Apple been run by some other "visionary/pioneer" after Steve, Apple may not even exist today! There were countless powerful hi-tech companies which NO LONGER exist today, after their founder(s) left. It's easy for people to play "arm-chair" quarterback.....saying Apple should have done this and/or not done that, etc. Easier said than done! I would imagine that most of us would NOT be able lead Apple forward if given the chance (despite our enthusiasm) and instead, would end up destroying Apple into non-existence.
Just my opinion....
richmlow
USE AI TO BRING STEVE JOBS FROM THE DEAD! (but don't use SIRI to do it)
If Federighi likes tackling technical problems, he's not very good at it because Apple software in their weakest link at the moment. The amount of bugs and inconsistencies throughout the OSs is insane. Bugs that are years old and new ones piling on every year.
I tend to agree, and do wonder if Apple are trying too hard, to offer too many 'features', versus solidifying some old features/issues...
I’d honestly prefer to see someone like Tony Fadell be the next CEO (threw his hat in the ring recently). Ternus is an engineer, but is more like an operations-engineer (in some sense a bit like Tim). Whereas Tony’s personality is more of designer-engineer—more Jobs than Cook. Fadell could use people like Ternus to get things done (transition to Apple Silicon) but he could help make Apple a design-first company once again. Ever see Fadell talk about his watches? Ternus feels business as usual (the logical choice), however, from a product standpoint Fadell is a far more exciting choice (a better choice).
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Craig and he should be on the homepage playing one of his guitar solos.
Probably, but Jobs also had some terrible ideas within Apple that had pushback that never came to pass. To name a few: all Apple execs are wearing black turtlenecks, iMac is called MacMan, iTunes isn’t coming to Windows, no third party apps on iPhone, voice-only iPhone (in 2005)—Fadell and Ive shot it down.
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I misread “pick”. 😂
I do agree though. Ternus is hella-boring, Fadell is a designer-engineer (more so than Ternus).
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The end of an era is near and I still consider that Tim should have been a transition CEO until the road map of Steve ended to get a proper product guy as CEO which is what apple is about … But Tim has done great managing the company for the shareholders with little innovation in the product line and only two new products (one being a flop). I believe the next one will change this … Looking forward to new range of product in new management style Apple Store …
I don't care who it is, as long as they stop selling height adjustable stands and wheels, I'm happy.
He’s right about AI being over-hyped and too unpredictable. It’s literally wrong all the time. Will it improve in the future? Of course. Is it overhyped now? 100%.