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by duped 1154 days ago
Tim Cook quintupled the value of Apple and passed on a lot of the fads that other tech companies fell victim to.
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Value for who? No innovation, just hoarding massive profits. Quintupled stock price for shareholders.
I can't live without my airpods. There aren't many things that I would buy immediately if they were destroyed. Airpods alone are a multibillion dollar company. So i'd say that's innovation.
To many, that's probably the foremost goal of a CEO, no?
Many? To the shareholders it is. But as a consumer I prefer innovation and not money hoarding. Shareholders think otherwise.
The Apple Silicon chips are a massive innovation which have just massively changed the laptop landscape. People are buying new MacBooks left and right because they can do all their work on a tiny laptop now which doesn't run hot and has a battery like an iPad.
>The Apple Silicon chips are a massive innovation

I have seen this repeated again and again. As if Apple Silicon was made for the Mac.

Apple Silicon came from iPhone and iOS. Using the same Ax SoC on MacBook just happened because they became fast enough.

As much as I am impressed by Apple Silicon, I haven't seen the buying habits of people I know change.

Windows laptop owners still continue to buy windows laptops.

Maybe I am in a bubble, but in my family I was the only Apple user 5 years ago. Today we have got not a single Windows device left anymore. My wife has a MBA now, my mum has a MBA now, my sister has a MBA now.

Same goes for the .NET community. So many developers who some time ago would have only developed on a Windows machine all switched to Apple over the last few years and most people don't ever look back.

I appreciate that those personal anecdotes don't mean anything, but let's put it this way, I was not surprised to see a 30% drop in Windows sells in Microsoft's last financial statement.

> Value for who? No innovation

Apple silicon?

I urge you to research how much cash and investments Apple currently holds. Last year it was around 200B.

Yes, Apple Silicon is innovation. But is a drop in the bucket. A sense of scale is very important.

He snatched failure from the jaws of success by ruining the cool. Accomplished fragile machines that routinely breakdown, are difficult to repair, and then have the gaul to demand piles of coin from users of said new systems under supposed warranty periods. He has no vision and continues to ride SJ's legacy without innovating. He should step down.
Apple was on a winning streak when Tim Cook took over, so it does not look that impressive. But it is hard to imagine how he could have done a better job. Maybe Apple could have created a better browser :)
Good CEOs don't screw up the current business. Great CEOs make big bets that work out. Tim Cook is clearly in the "good CEO" category.
false. Great CEOs maximize returns for the shareholders. this is inclusive of big bets.
False, great CEOs maximize NPV, not returns.
returns in this context would be inclusive of NPV
The need of Apple fanboys to always have to plug in.