I think it’s naive to expect that American companies like Apple that outsource everything but design and software and reap enormous profits are going to be able to do this indefinitely. China is getting better fast at doing these things too and will have tremendous advantages when it owns the entire stack. If American companies want to stay competitive in the long run they’re going to have to break their addiction to the easy profits they’re enjoying now and do the hard work of bringing this manufacturing back on-shore.
How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
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Re: How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
#82Anyways, I doubt the management style of Mr. Jobs (that worked well in 80s and 90s with subsequent momentum) would work today.
It didn't work so well for him either, he got fired. When he came back, he was different, because he'd gotten married. The terrible official biography of him actually notices that he was better the second time around and totally ignores it, but this is the reason.
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Re: How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
#83All 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
that's Bloomberg when one hits the free article limit. open the URL in a private safari tab.
Re: How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
#84For what it's worth, I don't think Steve Jobs would have ever allowed the charging port for the Magic Mouse to ever be on the bottom and forced the user to have to leave the mouse on it's side to charge.
I think there needs to be a name for this type of baseless argument. COMPANY would never do UNPOPULAR_CHOICE under OLD_BOSS.
Apparently it happened a lot at Disney after Walt Disney was gone.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Leaving batteries on a charger can wear them out much faster than just leaving it in a drawer. This is avoided by "optimized battery charging" on phones/watches/airpods now but I don't know if mice do it.
Any battery charger circuit without trickle charge disconnect is not worth an engineering 101 assignment.
The issue is that keeping the battery full past 80% is bad for it, but if you're always charging, that implies you always want it to be 100% ready not 80% ready.
Re: How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
#86Apple 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 unbeliev…
Buying PA Semi, for one, was an interesting move. They'd shipped their embedded PowerPC chip and it was both way over the promised power budget and the errata was crazy. That was not an obvious buy in any way.
Ditto Intrinsity.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's so retarded. I have 2 magic mice. One is always charging so I can swap them out
Why would you buy two of the same terribly designed item instead of getting, I don't know, an MX Master (3)?
I personally think the MX Master 3 is pretty ugly compared to a Magic Mouse. I've never used one but generally dislike mice that are that big.
Re: How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
#88For what it's worth, I don't think Steve Jobs would have ever allowed the charging port for the Magic Mouse to ever be on the bottom and forced the user to have to leave the mouse on it's side to charge.
Steve might have actually loved it if he'd see it. It is rumoured that Apple put the charging port in such an awkward place to force people to unplug the cable as soon as the mouse is charged. I can imagine customers using the wireless mouse with the cable attached is something that would grind Steve's gears as well. Preventing the situation with a flipped tortoise design is a Steve thing to do.
> It is rumoured that Apple put the charging port in such an awkward place to force people to unplug the cable as soon as the mouse is charged.
You say this as if it's absolutely typical of Steve Jobs. I read it and think exactly the opposite. Jobs was certainly a stickler for aesthetics, but also for usability. I've read numerous accounts of him lashing out when he found a workflow noticeably frustrating.
What decisions made during Jobs's tenure would you consider comparable to the Magic Mouse's charging port?
Re: How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
#89I worked in, and around OEM electronics since 2007. I've seen many guys like Tim Cook, most worse off ones. He squeezes suppliers, and know what he is doing. Others squeeze suppliers, and don't know what they are doing. On one of my first jobs, I've been witness to one such negotiations down to single cents, and microns of plastic for a few million units customized charger order. The order was such a whopper for a sm…
He made you redo the molds 720 times? That’s insanity!
Re: How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
#90For what it's worth, I don't think Steve Jobs would have ever allowed the charging port for the Magic Mouse to ever be on the bottom and forced the user to have to leave the mouse on it's side to charge.
That’s a certainty.