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Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by nsxwolf »

sgt wrote: post #2

> Your AirPods just connected to the wrong device. Again. > iMessage is taking twenty minutes to sync a message between your laptop and your phone sitting six inches apart. HomeKit forgot the kitchen lightbulb exists, and will remember it again in three hours like nothing happened. I've literally seen nothing of this happen (or to my family all on Apple devices). While I don't doubt they do happen to some unfortunate…

If you have a lot of Apple devices, and kids that are constantly borrowing them, you'll notice the "AirPods connected to wrong device" problem a lot. All I want is a feature that allows me to say "lock my AirPods to this exact device until further notice."

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by bonesss »

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #40
eddieroger wrote: post #9

It is so easy to sit on and critique from the sidelines. Steve Jobs had a passion for product, and it showed - he pushed the teams to make things he approved of, and that was the measure. Tim Cook had a passion for growth, and as the article states, Apple's income now rival some GDPs. They're different people with different drives. In fact, Jobs told Cook not to do what he would do, but do the right thing, and to Coo…

> Apple's income now rival some GDPs But so has the rest of FAANG. Did Tim Cook really overperform? Growth compared to 2011: Apple ~8× Microsoft ~13–14× Google ~10× Facebook* ~10–15×

> Apple's market capitalization in 2011 was approximately $350 billion to $377 billion by year-end 2011

> Microsoft's market capitalization in 2011 was approximately $220 Billion

Those are post iPhone numbers being multiplied.

Also, arguably, iPhones made everyone else on that list stupid rich and drove insane demands for their products. Instagram and Snapchats fortunes need more than Windows Mobile phones ever gave. Apples rising tide helped the web giants.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by montgomery_r »

jtfrench wrote: post #22
montgomery_r wrote: post #3

I think the criticisms of the current software stack are well founded. There is friction there, stuff doesnt work that should. OP even neglected to mention the glaring Finder column view bugs or the Taboe corner radius window selection issues. But as a user since System 6.x, including A/UX and MacOS X since public beta - it was ever thus. Macintosh pre OSX was well known as an acronym for Most Applications Crash, If…

Working on Snow Leopard was one of my most rewarding experiences at Apple. Loved the ethos behind that update. No new fluff, just make everything work better.

Totally agreed! And I loved Snow Leopard. (And I still love Mac OS - just making the point, there have always been things to complain about :-) )

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by [deleted] »

eddieroger wrote: post #9

It is so easy to sit on and critique from the sidelines. Steve Jobs had a passion for product, and it showed - he pushed the teams to make things he approved of, and that was the measure. Tim Cook had a passion for growth, and as the article states, Apple's income now rival some GDPs. They're different people with different drives. In fact, Jobs told Cook not to do what he would do, but do the right thing, and to Coo…

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Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by prmoustache »

kgwxd wrote: post #24

It doesn't matter who's sitting in the chair, no one is reversing our decent toward the bottom of the barrel in tech, any time soon.

I think so too.

I don't think Steve Jobs would have been kept as CEO had he survived cancer.

Most Apple customers of today aren't necessarily the same customers as 15 years ago, the same way a Rolex, Porsche, Louis Vuitton customer in 2026 is not the same person as in the 80's. A lot of current customers are used to mediocrity in everything, from food, to entertainment or tech. I'll exclude Linux desktops because most people do not even know it is a thing, but look at the commercially available alternatives to iOS and MacOS? Android and Windows. That's it. While I appreciate the sadly dwindling additionnal freedom in android, I can hardly call these 2 a frictionless experience either. Are chromebooks still a thing nowadays? I haven't encountered one or a user in years.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by nsxwolf »

anonthrownaway wrote: post #34

Amazing HW. SW that is stunningly bad. My example that makes me want to divest myself from my all-in on Apple's ecosystem: Native save as dialog box with a filename text box that shows (at most) 32 characters on the screen at once. Even with the smallest dialog box width possible, there is room to make the filename more than 64 characters. Resizing the box does nothing. They can't be eating their own dogfood here rig…

macOS may be stunningly bad, but Windows 11 and any flavor of Linux are far worse.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

tonhe wrote: post #72
leoedin wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you do any kind of AI assisted proofreading or grammar? So much of the structure of the article screams AI. Stuff like this: > Each one of these, on its own, is just a bug. Together, they’re a culture. And the headings starting with "The" AI seems to have adopted a style reminiscent of startup marketers circa 2020 - really simple, lots of one liner quips and far too much incredulity about minor things. Now we've…

I do usually do a pass through Grammarly, and there are some times when I ask AI for help getting my point across. But I always try to change what they write into something I feel I would say. I'm the first to say I'm not the best writer...

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Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by AstroBen »

eddieroger wrote: post #9

It is so easy to sit on and critique from the sidelines. Steve Jobs had a passion for product, and it showed - he pushed the teams to make things he approved of, and that was the measure. Tim Cook had a passion for growth, and as the article states, Apple's income now rival some GDPs. They're different people with different drives. In fact, Jobs told Cook not to do what he would do, but do the right thing, and to Coo…

So much of Apple's growth is anti-consumer.

You can't repair your device.

They're intently focused on locking you in as much as possible, making it hard to leave, and not by making such a good product.

They try their best to force app developers to pay them their 30% tax, even when the devs brought the customers in from elsewhere.

They, for so long, refused to support RCS and downgraded the messaging experience with android.

They were trying to intentionally downgrade SPAs so people again need to go through their app store.

Anything I missed?

They make good hardware, yes, but I can't support them as a company.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by prmoustache »

stavros wrote: post #38
buttocks wrote: post #20

This author misses the point because he is a geek. Ordinary users love Apple and do not care about these issues. Ordinary users throw money at Apple. Apple has some bugs to fix but overall the product is good, and that’s why they keep raking in cash. Saying good riddance to Tim Cook because of the system preference pane, among other trivial things (to most people), is simply misunderstanding business.

Let me guess, anyone who thinks Apple products are a buggy mess is a geek, and everyone else is ordinary, No True Scotsman style? Personally, I don't think the fact that the Apple keyboard is unusable is a "geek" thing.

The thing is most people are:

1. used to mediocrity and enshittification everywhere 2. live in one ecosystem or another. Appart from developpers, I don't know many people who use Mac AND Windows, iPhones AND android. And resistance to change is there to limit moves between one to another. They wouldn't care if apple keyboard sucks if they never used a better one.

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