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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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loloquwowndueo wrote: post #24
grumblingdev wrote: post #21

Yes!!! Such great news. Apple has really gone to shit. I am confronted by Apple performance and bug pain every hour of my life. I always think: how can someone think this is acceptable? Steve Jobs wouldn’t. Everything is such trash I could go on for hours. I realized a long time ago that if the person at the top doesn’t care then no one will. It seems hard to believe but it makes sense when you consider individual in…

Wow such anger. > I am confronted by Apple performance and bug pain every hour of my life. Why do you keep buying Apple then?

I had a 13 Pro and I thought it was too out-dated which was why my Safari was ridiculously slow, so I bought the 16 Pro...noticed literally zero improvement. Overheats, bugs galore, search for apps is slow and still doesn't work.

I am seriously looking at Android now, first time in my life.

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

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Post by grumblingdev »

UnreachableCode wrote: post #30
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #24

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Wow such anger. > I am confronted by Apple performance and bug pain every hour of my life. Why do you keep buying Apple then?

Is it at all possible he has an Intel Mac from 2018 that he hasn't been able to upgrade yet, likely due to insane cost? Because that's my thing

This Intel is my secondary laptop - but give it any kind of non-cricial task and the fan is on max and its practically unusable. I have M3 Max now.

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

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Post by grumblingdev »

coconut08 wrote: post #31
grumblingdev wrote: post #21

Yes!!! Such great news. Apple has really gone to shit. I am confronted by Apple performance and bug pain every hour of my life. I always think: how can someone think this is acceptable? Steve Jobs wouldn’t. Everything is such trash I could go on for hours. I realized a long time ago that if the person at the top doesn’t care then no one will. It seems hard to believe but it makes sense when you consider individual in…

their software is not great but they literally make the best hardware on the planet right now. you don't get to being a 4 trillion dollar market cap by being trash. they must be doing something right.

> right now

Yes I admit the Silicon MacBooks are pretty good - albeit losing external GPU support and max 4 external monitors.

The Intel MacBooks were unusable though.

There is such a lack of competition. We really some new polished Linux variant.

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

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Post by gcanyon »

easton wrote: post #365
gcanyon wrote: post #163

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Similar -- I'm currently nursing a 13 mini (the lightning port barely works, so I'm on magsafe). and before that I had an iPhone XS I think -- that one I managed to break the screen (the only time I've ever done that, I dropped it in a metal elevator). I replaced the screen but it was never the same. So I didn't go 11 years on two models, more like 7 years or so. But I'm definitely not on the two-years-and-upgrade pl…

Did you try cleaning the lightning port out with a toothpick or something? Mine was full of lint and now it works like new.

Thanks, I did. Maybe I just have linty pockets? It can charge sometimes if I press the lightning cable end down or up just so. And that gets a little better maybe if I toothpick it, but only maybe and only for one or two times?

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

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Post by runjake »

vasco wrote: post #298
dalant979 wrote: post #277

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Cook is on record in 2012 as using an iPad for 80% of his work, which mostly involves communication activities such as making decisions, responding to emails, and viewing documents. With how Apple has since then differentiated iPadOS and released accessories to make the iPad more laptop like, I'd guess that percentage has only increased.

The iPad was launched in 2010 and seen as a device to play around with - a big ipod. Two years later they were in the midst of the big push for using iPads for business, in hospitals, in cafes to replace PoS, in factories, etc. So you say the CEO of Apple uses it for work, if it's good enough for him it's good enough for you. I highly doubt he doesn't use an actual computer.

He’s a CEO with a strong C suite backing him. I doubt Tim Cook has a need for an actual computer. I struggle to think of why he’d need one to perform his job duties.

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Post by bigyabai »

jen729w wrote: post #231
rkomorn wrote: post #57

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> I always think: how can someone think this is acceptable? Steve Jobs wouldn’t. The same Steve Jobs that was at Apple when it made the puck mouse? The overheating Intel laptops of the mid 2000s? The "you're holding it wrong" iPhone? The "unusably slow after two years" 11in MBA? The Cube? He wouldn't what, exactly?

> the puck mouse? My mate Tim, professional graphic designer, used it for years. Loved it. He might still have it for all I know. > The "you're holding it wrong" iPhone? Was always nonsense. None of the Apple team used 'the bumper' and neither did I. > The "unusably slow after two years" 11in MBA? Are you seriously here criticising one of the most revolutionary hardware products of the last 20 years? FWIW I used mine…

Calling the 11" MBA "the most revolutionary hardware" of anything is one for the books.

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

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Post by bigyabai »

BirAdam wrote: post #369

Apple gets a lot of shade, but… I used Linux for about 25 years. With the rising cost of hardware, I bought an M4 Max MacStudio earlier this year as it was the best bang for the buck on CPU/GPU and the savings on those offset the extortionate pricing on RAM/SSD. You know what? Despite Liquid Glass being a bit of a downgrade recently, macOS is still good. Do I enjoy it as much as the old lampshade iMac or even 68030 M…

> macOS is still good.

> yet, I think Cook did okay.

Kindly, I think your reality is being distorted. macOS could have gotten so good over the past 15 years; today, it's a pale imitation of Windows 8. It's got live tiles, radical acrylic accents, constant cloud service nags, and preinstalled advertisements everywhere across the system. OCSP won't let you launch certain apps unless your DRM API is online, for crying out loud!

It is insulting.

Tim Cook, in his wisdom, pivoted Apple harder into services. AppleTV, App Store, all the kinds of meaningless high-margin slop that can be created without direct competition. This has damaged macOS and iOS perennially, they are feature-poor operating systems when compared with desktop Windows and Android today. Can you imagine how much Apple would be worth if they didn't refuse to sign Nvidia compute drivers right now? Or how iOS would look with Vulkan 1.2 compliance and the Steam Deck's Proton stack? Apple is the #1 party holding Apple back, here!

I daily drive Linux now, but the state of macOS is so ad-ridden and walled-off that I would rather do Linux development with WSL than bother setting up a Mac. It's that bad.

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Post by creer »

stinkbeetle wrote: post #166
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #139

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

No, Apple had been doing their own silicon (presumably you mean for their phones) while Jobs was still CEO, and he bought PA Semi in 2008 which put them on the path to do their own CPU cores (iPhone 5 with Swift CPU was released the year after he died so he'd obviously seen the core design process through from the beginning to likely initial tape-out or very close to).

"Put them on the path" is nothing compared to the plan and decision to switch CPUs. Any CPU family switch is a giant bet with massive implementations issues. Exactly like the other CPU family switches were massive bets (although they did prepare the following ones - for sure). PA Semi was only a tiny step in that direction. Credit to Cook then.

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

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Post by creer »

bnchrch wrote: post #2

If you check my comments Im a routine critic of Apple. Specifically its mis-management of Siri. But, in my mind, Tim Cook is also responsible for the only exceptional qualities of Apple. Namely its production of the M series chips and the Vision Pro (yes really). They better have someone outstanding in mind as a replacement. Otherwise I could easily see the successor mildly improve Siri/AI functions, while continuing…

As to succession, Cook is an operations maniac. Hopefully that carries to preparing and planning potential successors.

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

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Post by creer »

klelatti wrote: post #332

Cook’s greatest achievement - Apple’s supply chain - has, as set out in the ‘Apple in China’ book [1], turned into Apple’s biggest risk and weakness. The next CEO won’t be worrying about Siri or Vision Pro; they’ll be trying to deal with Apple’s reliance on China. [1] https://open.substack.com/pub/thechipletter/p/apple-in-china

I sure hope Cook and teams have been actively working on this for a decade already.

The book is interesting in showing both a lack of early awareness of this weakness, AND some people clearly noticing, AND Apple being very powerful and resourceful when it notices a problem.

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