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Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

#121

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…

Have you considered that critics might not care about Apple investors?

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

#122
I think the criticisms are valid but I also still find that Apple has created one of the best ecosystems in the marketplace. It’s hard for me to pin any of the individual complaints on a broad failing of Tim Cook.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

#123
Agreed, System Settings was the worst redesign in entire Apple history in my humble opinion. Previously it was so simple that you didn’t have to scroll.

At some point Apple should realize that, it’s okay to not touch core design principles.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

#124

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×

Dell?

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

#125
Can we add to the software failure list that Finder is an underpowered mess? Like the author said, fixing Finder won't have a correspondingly visible ROI. But haven't any of the Apple developers using these machines just said "ENOUGH" already. I used to like Pathfinder and was willing to just pay for that as an alternative but that software is just buggy enough that it's annoying to rely on for something as important as file management.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

#126
It’s overreacting. HW is fantastic. some SW less so. Some bugs feel ridiculous and they’ve been around for ages - true. But overall, try to fire up a windows machine once in a while. It will give you a very quick reminder that you’re just used to a very high bar.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

#127
post #14

"But here's the thing" Is it really so hard to write your articles by yourself? The blandest tone imaginable, all the usual LLM tells in the sentence structure. You are polluting HN and the broader internet by posting this publicly.

Honestly... I think I've been reading too much AI content, because I 100% wrote that. I do use AI to help make outlines and gather thoughts. But the Article was written by me.

English is not my first language, although I am ok with it, whenever I write I always pump it through an AI first with a prompt of "Make it better English", especially if its a business email with English speaking clients.

I enjoyed your article and shared it on my family-geek-whatsapp group

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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> 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…

Paste a screenshot into TextEdit doc and make a pdf.

Tested this now. Works like a bomb. https://imgur.com/a/t1ufCqr

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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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.

Parent's workaround was literally to use software frequently found on Linux desktop (and typically absent on MacOS and Windows)

Whatever's going on in Cupertino, it's hard to arguethe people working on the Linux ecossytem don't eat their own dogfood

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

#130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You might find that you are in the minority though. Nothing wrong with this at all but apple makes some of the best selling products in the market place and that has largely been because of Tim Cook.

Nothing you say is in disagreement with the comment you're responding to. And yeah, Apple is doing really well, in part because of their anti competitive practices. Good for them, bad for us.

These responses talking about Apple's bottom line kind of feel like this convo:

> Cigarettes are bad, they cause cancer. Philip Morris shouldn't be selling them

> Yeah but they sell so many cigarettes! Isn't that great?

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