Apple Has a New Cook
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Apple Has a New Cook
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#2Steve jobs did let Ping and Mobile Me go out the doors.
Oh yes, and the Apple Cube.
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#3Steve jobs did let Ping and Mobile Me go out the doors. Oh yes, and the Apple Cube.
I thought the Cube was cool. The Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power iMacs on the other hand? ugh. http://daysofourlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/crazy-imac-des...
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#4Steve jobs did let Ping and Mobile Me go out the doors. Oh yes, and the Apple Cube.
Neither Ping nor Mobile Me replaced previous crucial functionality.
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#5"Yes, some may raise the argument that the reason why Jobs was rarely in situations to apologize, was because, for the most part (minus Siri), he pushed excellent and complete product"
Please, macosx releases have an history of being bug ridden. So much that one upgrade was free (the first one, if I recall correctly).
The man built his own legend by rewriting history and bullying press. And selling computers, phones and walkmans, too.
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#6"Cook didn’t think the iPhone needed to remain at 3.5" 4:3 forever (as made plain with the iPhone 5)."
Does the OP really think that Jobs didn't know about the next iteration of iPhone (or any of Apple's other upcoming products)? He stepped down as CEO just over a year ago and the iPhone 5 was announced only recently. Designing, prototyping, iterating, building and shipping stuff takes time.
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#7To my memory, Jobs did publicly apologize for the Mobile Me problems. He also responded to public pressure and changed direction on allowing native apps in the iPhone, with a public letter linked on the homepage of Apple.com.
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#8Steve jobs did let Ping and Mobile Me go out the doors. Oh yes, and the Apple Cube.
Wait, what was wrong with the cube, aside from price? I have that is still running today.
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#9Steve jobs did let Ping and Mobile Me go out the doors. Oh yes, and the Apple Cube.
Neither Ping nor Mobile Me replaced previous crucial functionality.
E-mail is pretty crucial to me, and some MobileMe users couldn't access their mail for days.
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#10I hate how everyone has decidedly become a Steve Jobs expert, so I won't even begin to make a comment or guess on what Jobs would or would not have done.
But it's suffice to say that Tim Cook's apology really isn't something that's so mindblowing. The debacle over Apple Maps is so huge that Cook had no choice but to apologize. People around the world are not only outraged by how inferior Apple Maps is, but they are now ridiculing it, to the point where many believe it could actually impact sales of the iPhone 5, and drastically slow down migration to iOS 6. Someone had to do something to quell the outrage, and for something of this magnitude, that someone had to be the CEO.
It's pretty coincidental that another huge debacle, the NFL replacement ref situation, both came to a head in the same week. Roger Goodell, also had to issue an apology to fans as well, for letting the situation get so out of control that it affected the quality and reputation of the NFL. It's the exact same playbook (pun intended) as Tim Cook's.