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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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Post by tyleo »

pqtyw wrote: post #340
LarsDu88 wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> The M-series chips are probably the biggest win for Apple in the past 15 years. In a way yes. But from a business perspective there was a significant spike in Mac sales in 2021-2022. It has mostly levelled off and not that massively above what it was back in the Intel days. They probably also inadvertently increased the upgrade cycle too since there is no longer that much point to upgrade more frequently than every…

Your point reads as pro Cook to me. We got hardware that decreased obsolescence.

If anything I’d be pissed if Cook was out and the new CEO’s strategy involved making chips that needed upgrades every other year again. Or if they were like, “Macs don’t sell well, let’s cancel the product line.”

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

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Post by smugtrain »

s1mplicissimus wrote: post #320
resonanttoe wrote: post #312

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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

Technically yes, but most would consider an opt-out some tiny little nearly illegible that confuses the user into allowing it without deselecting. This is a clear choice given to the user. No gimmicky opt-outs.

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

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Post by zeagle »

freediver wrote: post #195
Razengan wrote: post #180

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Does any CEO actually use their own company's products? The richest and most "powerful" people still have meat-based assistants do all their shit: Take their notes, check their calendars, make their appointments, toast their bread.. And it shows: This is how you get features like "Edge Light" and an Invites app before fixing basic functionality that the peasants rely upon. Like how we get the weird iOS Journal app ev…

Hm I live and breathe our product portfolio. That is the entire reason for me waking up for work every day. I do consider myself a 'product' CEO though and passion for great products is what keeps me in tech.

Kudos to that! I kid you not: yesterday I used bing to search for “CRA my business account” (Canadian IRS equivalent) to set up some payments and the first result below copilot was a phishing site with a cloned UI! Makes me thankful for services like yours (and angry about the other things).

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

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Post by jmkni »

rakejake wrote: post #239
mvkel wrote: post #123

Be careful what you wish for. Satya Nadella is by most accounts the best person to lead Microsoft, currently the largest software company in the world. "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste," said Steve Jobs. That largely remains true. Jobs called the computer "a bicycle for the mind." It immediately evokes a sense of freedom, magic, and fun. Satya Nadella calls AI "a cognitive amplifier," which…

I often wonder why Satya Nadella is so venerated on HN compared to say, Cook or Pichai. As innovators, MS lags way behind both Google and Apple. I can't think of one bleeding edge product released during Satya's tenure. Say what you will about Apple and Google, they still consistently put out products that make you sit up and pay attention. What has MS been doing other than squeezing the MS Office and Azure cash cows…

I'm just incredibly disappointed with how Windows has ended up

As the CEO of Microsoft, he must use Windows, right? Unless he has a Mac

Like how can he use that ad-riddled mess every day and think it's fine, knowing he could make it so much better?

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

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Post by Shadowmist »

s1mplicissimus wrote: post #320
resonanttoe wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

With Liquid glAss CarPlay on non touchscreen cars they changed the button colors so that gray is the selected item and blue/green are not selected. Also they changed the back on-screen button to be the default, or sometimes they select the item you want but then a second later change focus to the back button.

When you first use CarPlay there are consent screens so there are definitely people out there who have picked the wrong one.

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

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Post by NaomiLehman »

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…

The M silicon is the best thing that happened to computing in this millennium, in my opinion. And it will change the future of other OSs.

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

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Post by pqtyw »

tyleo wrote: post #351
pqtyw wrote: post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The M-series chips are probably the biggest win for Apple in the past 15 years. In a way yes. But from a business perspective there was a significant spike in Mac sales in 2021-2022. It has mostly levelled off and not that massively above what it was back in the Intel days. They probably also inadvertently increased the upgrade cycle too since there is no longer that much point to upgrade more frequently than every…

Your point reads as pro Cook to me. We got hardware that decreased obsolescence. If anything I’d be pissed if Cook was out and the new CEO’s strategy involved making chips that needed upgrades every other year again. Or if they were like, “Macs don’t sell well, let’s cancel the product line.”

I don't necessarily see any reason to attribute this specific outcome to Cook, though. But from a stockholder perspective this is a bit mixed.

Of course Macs are still very profitable compared to what PC makers are making. Now they share a lot of the hardware and software stack with iPad/iPhone. So it shouldn't be too costly to maintain. And well Apple's entire ecosystem is built on them anyway. It's not like anyone besides masochists would consider actually developing apps on iPads...

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

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Post by trenchpilgrim »

bdangubic wrote: post #349
cedws wrote: post #348

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Apple seems to be avoiding building server hardware for some reason. It seems like a big opportunity, besides AI, the power efficiency of their chips would surely be attractive for datacentres. I think momentum is building for moving away from x86.

Given how hot my Mac is when I do anything they’d need Pacific Ocean to cool that data center :)

My Apple Sillicon macbooks are the coolest running computers I've had in decades. Something might be wrong with your cooling system.

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

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Post by tyleo »

pqtyw wrote: post #357
tyleo wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your point reads as pro Cook to me. We got hardware that decreased obsolescence. If anything I’d be pissed if Cook was out and the new CEO’s strategy involved making chips that needed upgrades every other year again. Or if they were like, “Macs don’t sell well, let’s cancel the product line.”

I don't necessarily see any reason to attribute this specific outcome to Cook, though. But from a stockholder perspective this is a bit mixed. Of course Macs are still very profitable compared to what PC makers are making. Now they share a lot of the hardware and software stack with iPad/iPhone. So it shouldn't be too costly to maintain. And well Apple's entire ecosystem is built on them anyway. It's not like anyone…

> I don't necessarily see any reason to attribute this specific outcome to Cook

I do: he was CEO when the outcome was realized. Shouldn’t CEO performance be judged by outcomes the company realizes during their tenure?

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