| >How is Tim Cook still CEO of Apple? Because he was the COO that made them the most valuable company on earth, and the CEO that hit record points and maintained that position? >just consider the damage Apple's brand is suffering. $300 books, headphone jacks, unreliable cloud services, missed product launches. They always had BS hyperbole against them. It's the easiest click-bait target for hack journalists. And those "unreliable cloud services" not only are much more reliable than they were in Jobs day (their old Cloud stuff was a joke) but earn tens of billions (just the iOS app store paid around 20 billion dollars to developers in 2016 alone), and are used by close to a billion people. Your whole list of complains for damage to the brand is BS: "$300 books" -> They put out a high-end, limited run, coffee table book. Didn't force anyone to buy it, and it's just a homage to their 30+ years of design work. "headphone jacks" -> Competitors already had models out without headphone jack, and Samsung is following suit too. Some people might lament them, but going forward they bet on wireless for most people -- plus they offer an adaptor so all existing headphones can be used. "unreliable cloud services" -> Compared to what? And how? I already spoke about their Cloud services above anyway. "missed product launches" -> It's not the first time and it's not a big deal either. When you design for million unit production runs (unlike the smaller runs of competitors with 50+ product configurations), and you push the envelope in construction, machining, engineering tolerances, etc, you get those things. Not many places that can arbitrarily manufacture your stuff. They could always put out cruder products and get them out faster, but that's not their thing. Besides, Intel delays launches all the time, Microsoft has done it time and again, Google and co put out BS projects that often get lauded from the press for innovation but are half-thought, sell badly and get pulled (Google Glass for one, several first iterations of the Surface, etc.). |