How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
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How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
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#3I think the biggest change Tim made from Steve is that Tim’s decision and management style seems more committee/group based, whereas Steve was much more autonomous; this is how it is now do it. I know he didn’t want everyone thinking what would Steve do, but I do often wonder what someone with Steve’s authority would do.
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#4Apple M1 is the kind of thing that truly impresses in the post-Jobs era, IMO.
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#5All these great minds at work yet somehow clicking on this link in iOS with the Bloomberg app installed takes me to its homepage instead of the actual article
I hope between Tim Cook's and Michael Bloomberg's successors we can finally invent the technology to make that work as expected
Re: How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
#6I think the biggest change Tim made from Steve is that Tim’s decision and management style seems more committee/group based, whereas Steve was much more autonomous; this is how it is now do it. I know he didn’t want everyone thinking what would Steve do, but I do often wonder what someone with Steve’s authority would do.
The impression I got was that Steve operated in a way that 'seemed' autonomous, but in terms of the results he was still letting folks around him do their thing, even if it went through him. Maybe it was the case of a strong personality / operational style that seemed more autonomous than it was?
I find that people often seem to read strong personalities as sort of autocratic by default, even if they're not. Often when in those situations I've had to explain to coworkers that "No, he wasn't shooting you down, that was your chance to explain further / show him more."
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#7Apple M1 is the kind of thing that truly impresses in the post-Jobs era, IMO.
Years of snapping up brilliant companies/minds[1]!
* PA Semi, 2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi
* Licensing then hiring most of the Imagination Technologies GPU engineers, including setting up an office down the street from them in St Albans, 2017-2020.
* some of Dialog Semiconductor, 2018
* Intel's smartphone division, 2019
* Intrinsity, who had some cutting edge chip design, 2010
There's also an unbelievable ton of photography, micro-display, motion capture, ar, computer vision companies they've acquired. They're plucking up 3-5 promising talented players a year in terms of microminiature sensors/displays/optics.
Apple, the most exciting, gigantic, talent-acquiring behemoth that capital has ever given rise to. They do deserve accolades for doing great work, yes. But I also just am so very very sad to see so much talent disappear off the open market, distressed that the lead seems to only grow & grow over everyone else. At least if these engineers were working at Qualcomm or MediaTek the fruits of the labor could be shared, but Apple has total iron claims on their chips. It's imbalanced as it is, & Apple seems to have all the money & all the power to keep tipping.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
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#8The article seems to hinge around China and etc more than most things. I do wonder how capable any company is to move manufacturing out of China at any kind of large scale.
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#9"The 2014 iPhone 6 was “the poster child” of this transformation, according to a person involved in the product’s development. While the device had complex internal components and a larger screen, it dropped the diamond-polished edges and the precisely cut glass parts of the back of the iPhone 5 and 5s, which had been difficult to produce."
well, that explains why the iPhone went from such a unique design to generic plastic android. Glad the 5-esque design is back for the 12 series at least.
Re: How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
#10All these great minds at work yet somehow clicking on this link in iOS with the Bloomberg app installed takes me to its homepage instead of the actual article I hope between Tim Cook's and Michael Bloomberg's successors we can finally invent the technology to make that work as expected
But it takes you to the wrong page faster than any Android!