Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
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Re: Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
#2Now that we have Nadella, it's kind of scary for Tim Cook to be compared to Ballmer...
Re: Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
#3Now that we have Nadella, it's kind of scary for Tim Cook to be compared to Ballmer...
How so? To an outsider who knows very little, Nadella seems to be doing great.
Re: Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
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#6Apologies for this most gratuitous of bikeshedding, but if you're going to use proper superscripts, please sort out the line-heights.
Re: Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
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#8No.
Re: Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
#9That's a dreadful comparison and makes no sense.
Re: Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
#10Tim Cook is a "Bozo" - He has moved the focus away from computers and the companies core professional users and turned Apple into a fashionable health services company. They will coast for a while on their dominant mobile market share but eventually the stagnation and lack of new products will catch up to them.
He built a watch, which was a "me too" product and answered a question that no one asked. Jobs would never have done this because of the marginal increase in utility that smart watches provides users.
He also wasted company time and resources on trying to build a car, which is completely outside Apple's skill sets (the supply chains and profit margins are radically different). It seemed like he was just trying to do something innovative instead of actually looking at the needs and demands of users inside the computing industry where apple should be focused.
Its unfortunate that Jobs didn't see his lack of product development skills when he made him CEO - Jobs always talked about how product companies falter when marketing/sales/supply chain guys run the company and not product guys.