People forget that without Cook apple would’ve probably sank. Having a visionary is one thing, having someone that can actually make it happen is another. Cook is what made Steve’s vision come to life. Give credit where credit is due.
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The end of Tim Cook's reign is near.
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So what ? They control the keys to the ecosystem and no other LLM will be allowed to integrate with it other than apple’s own LLM when it comes out. What are apple fans going to do ? Leave and buy an android for AI stuff ? They didn’t left for a decade, they’re not to leave now for some superfluous gimmicky AI features like Wallpaper generation. Give me a break
Well i tried the AVP and it’s a gimmick, period. It sure lacks a purpose and one just can’t help but ask - why did not apple try to bring devs to develop (or port) high profile games for mac? They have the hardware, they have the resources, the vision headset would be a total gamechanger as far as VR / AR gaming is concerned, yet they market it as a nerdy screen-like accessory for nouvelle riches.
Eye headsets don’t work & will never be successful because people don’t like to wear one all the time
Hence this piece
When the product was released, estimates pegged initial sales at around 200,000 units, though it’s not clear how many of those were returned. Even people who kept their devices have recently been sharing on social media that they rarely use them anymore.
Everything is expensive when it’s new like that. It will come down in price in time.
This reminds me of the profound declarations from the anti-Apple analysts - "Apple stock will drop. Nothing can keep going up forever", "Everything that goes up must come down" ... well, Duh 🙄, and "The Law of Large Numbers will catch up with Apple" (actually, that is not what the Law says, at all) 🤦♂️.
My first computer nods in approval. I can only what it would cost today considering inflation.
I know, but it was even funnier when they started using Twitter and Facebook a year later to follow the artists on iTunes. Imagine if Tim Cook had similar stuff happen now. Pitchforks will be out in no time.
Under Steve Jobs's time as CEO, I think Tim Cook did an excellent job with supply chain management. When I say that I really hope Apple fires Cook, what I specifically mean is that I hope Apple fires Cook as CEO, but not fire him entirely from the company, and instead put him back in his previous role in charge of supply chain management.
Apple needs a CEO like Jobs, and the perhaps the closest known thing to Jobs is Scott Forstall. Like Jobs, Forstall is a visionary.
Like Jobs, Forstall can be a jerk to his fellow employees, but he cares a lot about customers. Forstall actually kept a jeweler's loupe at his desk so he can examine individual pixels on skeuomorphic designs closely in order to give customers the best experience. That's how much he cared about user-friendliness. Cook doesn't give a damn about any of that. Cook cares more about shareholders.
I figured out recently that the SE/30 sitting on my desk right now (I have a collection of classic macs around), adjusted for inflation, would cost $20,000 today
Imagine with the billions they spend on R&D what they are developing that we don’t know about 🫣
Aka, the people that decide whether he stays or goes...
But really, on the one hand we have the argument that Apple "lacks vision" and improves only existing products.
Yet when they do venture into new categories that don't produce massive success out of the gates "they have failed".
Reality is, Apple today is far better in any way than it was when Cook took over, noone can tell how the next 10 years will work.
What I am pretty sure of is that a "visionary CEO" is o.k. when he is also the (co) founder, "Visionaries" taking over existing companies will wreck more than they build and a "visionary employed engineer/designer" promoted to CEO is a just asking for disaster (unless he is flanked/controlled by people experienced in the business side).
Cook is still the best person for the job at Apple. Under his stewardship we have seen the return of utility to product lines that had become over-designed and an industry-standard smartphone whose design is now considered as timeless as a Porsche 911, the Coca-Cola Bottle and the Converse Sneaker.
I don’t think that really ever happens. The CEO of a huge successful firm stepping down to a far-more junior previously-held role in that same firm? Yeah, could happen but don’t think so.
The literal (collective) owners of the company? Is he not supposed to?
It's to their direct benefit that the company succeeds, and their detriment that the company fails.
Since they hired Tim Cook, they've seen the company bring in $100B per year, $25B of which is profit, to almost $400B with $100B profit. I think they care about him, too.
Founders sometimes step down because they still have significant control/interest, but dont want all the executive duties.
But employees like Cook... would rather retire than step down. It's not as much the money as its the sense of responsibility thats keeping him working day to day.
Tim will be able to stay as long as he wants to, unless Apple starts having repeatedly poor quarterly earnings that shake investor confidence in him. Investors don't respond to product problems; they respond to profit and revenue problems. If Apple starts making crap, investors won't care as long as and people still buy it in the same quantities and at the same margins.
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Yeah, this seems incredibly overdramatic.
Would it be the MacRumors forum if it wasn't?
Right, laptops and desktops are in a similar place and have been for, what, 25 to 35 years. The biggest thing to happen to laptops in the past ten years or so was probably the introduction of Apple Silicon. (Not for a lack of trying on Apple’s part. Remember, they went all in on TouchBar, which was at least an attempt at trying something new.) Prior to that, at least in the Applesphere, was probably the introduction of the MacBook Air back in 2008.Actually I would say all phones are "boring" as we are in the refinement stage of smartphones at least IMHO and in this article I feel states it pretty well. Of course we all have our preferences so you may be quite happy to change when upgrade time comes. I'm fine for awhile yet.
The Best Phones Have Boring Designs (And That's a Good Thing)
Just IMHO of course...
eh, I'd argue the air was a big deal, it ushered in the era of "ultrabooks", which have taken over a huge chunk of the laptop market, even if we don't have that stupid name attached to them anymore.