This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
This article is pretty terrible and I'm not a fan of Apple but honestly he's taken a pretty measured approach and the fact that their product is garbage isn't his fault so much as the hype train being off course.
If anything people should be thankful he didn't waste more money, but right now the measurement isn't how successful your business is or how good your product is but how much money you flushed down the toilet chasing the dream of "AI". Because this is a bubble not a revolution.
This article is pretty terrible and I'm not a fan of Apple but honestly he's taken a pretty measured approach and the fact that their product is garbage isn't his fault so much as the hype train being off course.
If anything people should be thankful he didn't waste more money, but right now the measurement isn't how successful your business is or how good your product is but how much money you flushed down the toilet chasing the dream of "AI". Because this is a bubble not a revolution.
their product is garbage isn't his fault so much as the hype train being off course
He as a CEO is ultimately responsible for all products of the company. A hype train demands willing participants to jump in.
The failed Project Titan over 10yrs investment is still a massive colossal but this is not the first time given that we have AirPower for another example or iOS features in general itself.
Tim Cook is a CEO. His job is to make money for a board of directors and he does that job well. He is not interested in else because that is what a corporation is about.
I know this isn’t satire but it feels uncannily like satire.
I've never stumbled across Apple Insider before, it's quite the apologist for the company. Here's some tone deaf quotes from the article that made me laugh:
"It's true that the buck stops at the CEO, but without Tim Cook, Apple would not have so many bucks."
I guess if you make a lot of money you get a pass for allowing misleading and anti-consumer marketing campaigns?
"If billions and trillions are hard numbers to imagine, here's another one. Apple could, if its valuation could be converted to cash without loss, give every person living in the continental USA a free iPhone 16e — and then 13 spare ones. Each."
I love how they chose to illustrate Apple's obscene level of wealth with how much it could benefit people if they ever distributed that wealth through altruistic giving 😂
I guess if you make a lot of money you get a pass for allowing misleading and anti-consumer marketing campaigns?
He is appointed by the people for whom he is making money and not by the customers. So the answer is likely yes.
Supported and justified by the stockholders isn't surprising. It's the fact that this column writer is so unabashed in their reasoning that surprised me. It's not often that you see regular, bottom level consumers enthusiastically using the same reasoning as a stock holder. Usually they come at it from more of a "they produce great products, they care about providing a great service" standpoint. However, someone who writes articles for a platform called "Apple Insider" is likely to have some level of stock in the company.
However, someone who writes articles for a platform called “Apple Insider” is likely to have some level of stock in the company.
That would be Apple Insider Trading.
AppleInsider has always had its nose planted firmly up Apple's corporate ass crack.
It’s interesting to see them still kissing Apple backside when Gruber eviscerated Apple and he’s usually very uncritical.
I don’t know that Cook needs to go, but Apple have a big reputation and this has harmed them. They need to fix that somehow.
AI is garbage.
Tim Apple is garbage
Tim Apple isn’t garbage, but he’s overstayed his welcome. I’m hoping Craig Federighi takes his place.
Why would Craig be any better? Modern macOS and iOS are far from innovative.
I read the headline up until "he has made Apple what it is" and then I was, like...
A company that is now focused more on creating value for shareholders than on innovation? I'd say that's pretty accurate.
Apple's stock has grown by 1,000% since Tim Cook took over as CEO. But obviously that has nothing to do with Tim Cook being a good CEO…
I didn't say anything different. If the last thing you bought from Apple was their stock, Tim Cook made it what it is. As a CEO that's his primary goal, so he is a great CEO.
Made Apple what it is financially apparently.
How American.
Tim the creep can get fucked... Disgusting parasite should get the rope with the rest of them for their crimes against the american people
The good news is you and Tim are unlikely to be attending the same class of barbecues.
Having said that, I’ve postponed my MacBook purchase as part of my boycott of the US. And because as nice as Apple hardware is, it’s hard to shake the feeling that they’re just treading water.
You seem like the kind of person I would avoid at a barbecue.
CEO dindu nufin mate...
