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.
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.
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.
Made Apple what it is financially apparently.
How American.
I know this isn’t satire but it feels uncannily like satire.
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.
