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Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

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Re: Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

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LarsDu88 wrote: post #284
ryandrake wrote: post #13

Cook's been great for massively scaling Apple (and its stock price) up, but the art, vision, and soul of the company is gone. It's just a stock price maximizing lawnmower now, just like every other corporate stock price maximizing lawnmower. If that's what shareholders want, fine, I guess. But I'd be bored just manufacturing the same boring rectangles every year. I think Steve would have been, too.

They shipped AirPods and the Apple Watch during his tenure. And the ahem, Vision Pro. The M-series chips are probably the biggest win for Apple in the past 15 years. There hasn't been lack of category killers during his stint. If anything they are running out of places on the human body where you can stick a small computer. Surely the next CEO will hopefully not ruin the company and brand by cramming ads into everyth…

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Post by resonanttoe »

walthamstow wrote: post #295
astrange wrote: post #291

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Telemetry is opt-in. It asks you during setup.

Isn't the checkbox already ticked though? I'd say that's opt-out. The user must take direct action to avoid telemetry.

It's not a check box, its a button choice ("Share diagnostics" "Don't Share")

It's pretty explicit in intent.

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Post by matwood »

wilg wrote: post #251
jaredklewis wrote: post #215

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Not as a shareholder, but as a customer and user I’m very ok if they just focus on making those rectangles. Makes no difference to me if Apple does the new “innovative” products or if some other company does it. But if Apple starts getting “visions” and those interfere with the iOS and macOS experience that I have and like now, I’ll be annoyed. I like my MacBook, AirPods, and iPhone how they are now. If they don’t sc…

The problem is Apple’s software quality is the worst it’s ever been while the hardware is the best it’s ever been.

> software quality is the worst it’s ever been

I feel like this is a recency bias. Snow Leopard famously had 'zero new features' so they could focus on cleaning things up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard

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Post by pasc1878 »

microtonal wrote: post #296
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #175

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I have the 22 SE and I suspect I’ll get 3 more years out of it before they EOL it. I would have bought the 16e if it wasn’t such a blatant money grab. Touch ID is going to be hard to give up

Touch ID is going to be hard to give up I'm kind of the opposite, I would never want to go back to Touch ID. It's so nice that you can set your notifications to be private by default, but the contents will be revealed when you glance at the phone.

I just had to get a new phone old was a 2020 SE (Previous was a 6S plus) so 5 years.

The new phone is FaceId ioty is much less reliable than touch id. With touch it just fails if I have wet hands or in cold weather with gloves, faceId fails in many places.

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Post by matwood »

viraptor wrote: post #176
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #139

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Cook's Apple got you: - Apple Watch - Airpods (& Pro) & Beats - Apple Silicon - Vision Pro

Beats started without Apple. They bought the existing brand.

I read the comment as Cook acquired Beats which, in addition to the hardware, became the basis for Apple Music streaming and growing service revenue.

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Post by pasc1878 »

snowwrestler wrote: post #223
gota wrote: post #173

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My go-to example for this is Turing. The genius of our field, and apparently duped into credulity about telepathy (probably based on faulty/fraudulent results by people at then-respected institutions)

To be fair, tons of scientists and technical people believed at that time that telepathy might be real. For example if you go back and read science fiction from the 40s, 50s, even 60s, there is a ton of telepathy and mental powers. This reflects both the authors’ efforts to predict future scientific advancement, and their audience’s willingness to believe it.

No it represents the editor's (John W. Campbell) passions - he would suggest using those ideas to authours and was more likely to accept stories with those ideas.

He had an overwhelming presence in SF until the New Wave of the 1960s

Re: Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

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Post by raincole »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #139
ryandrake wrote: post #13

Cook's been great for massively scaling Apple (and its stock price) up, but the art, vision, and soul of the company is gone. It's just a stock price maximizing lawnmower now, just like every other corporate stock price maximizing lawnmower. If that's what shareholders want, fine, I guess. But I'd be bored just manufacturing the same boring rectangles every year. I think Steve would have been, too.

Cook's Apple got you: - Apple Watch - Airpods (& Pro) & Beats - Apple Silicon - Vision Pro

And it perfected iPad.

Re: Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

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Post by matwood »

epolanski wrote: post #111
wk_end wrote: post #14

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Listen, I don't really like the direction Apple has taken either, but since Tim Cook became CEO of Apple in August 2011 the company's stock went from like $15 to like $275; it had a value of $400 billion and now it's worth $4 trillion, ten times as much. Any characterization of him as some kind of failure who killed Apple ("once the biggest tech company on the planet", "isn't growing", "only saved"...) is completely…

As a customer and tech enthusiasts I couldn't care less about the stock performance of Apple, truly. It's a tech company, I'm interested in the tech they produce. On that front, the company hasn't been innovative for ages.

APP and my AW are instant-replace products if I lose/damage them. The M-series chips have made my MBP the same.

It's hard to say Apple hasn't innovated for both regular consumer and tech enthusiasts.

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Post by matwood »

sharts wrote: post #25
wk_end wrote: post #14

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Listen, I don't really like the direction Apple has taken either, but since Tim Cook became CEO of Apple in August 2011 the company's stock went from like $15 to like $275; it had a value of $400 billion and now it's worth $4 trillion, ten times as much. Any characterization of him as some kind of failure who killed Apple ("once the biggest tech company on the planet", "isn't growing", "only saved"...) is completely…

How can we be sure this is specifically due to Cook and not the ecosystem overall? A lot has changed since 2011. Some was likely Cook continuing execution of things lined up by Jobs. Some could just be tech sector in general, etc.

> likely Cook continuing execution of things

I love how people say 'execution' like it's an insult. Execution on the scale of Apple is an incredible challenge. Apple sells something like 425 iPhones per minute. It could be argued that execution is the biggest Apple innovation ever.

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Post by s1mplicissimus »

resonanttoe wrote: post #312
walthamstow wrote: post #295

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Isn't the checkbox already ticked though? I'd say that's opt-out. The user must take direct action to avoid telemetry.

It's not a check box, its a button choice ("Share diagnostics" "Don't Share") It's pretty explicit in intent.

Usually, there's a default blue bordered button and a non-highlighted grey one. Any chance the default blue button says "Share diagnostics"? Because that would still make it an opt-out
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