“Former chief operating officer of Microsoft, Bob Herbold, said in an article Monday that he doesn’t believe Apple has the vision and leadership that it once had and the ‘Apple era may be on its way out,'” Mark Knapp reports for Wall St. Cheat Sheet.
“Herbold said that Steve Jobs had what it took to lead the company in the right direction,” Knapp reports. “He named off several industry leaders that he thought fit the profile: IBM’s Lou Gerstner and Sam Palmisano, Qualcomm’s Paul Jacobs, and of course the late Steve Jobs. Notably omitted from the list was Apple’s current CEO, Tim Cook.”
Knapp reports, “In his opinion, the company could turn it around if it launches something revolutionary in the next 6 to 9 months, but otherwise, there may be little future for Apple as an industry leader.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Wishful thinking from a former exec at a badly beaten company. Tim Cook has more leadership in his pinky than Microsoft has had for the last 13 years.
Herbold’s comments have been iCal’ed for future use.
he might be right. you don’t know how apple will go near the future. but if apple will continue to move like this, it will be ended its era like he said. it’s natural. there is no permanent NO. 1 leader in business. by the way, Tim Cook is not a right person to lead Apple. he fired all important people last year. it will cause a big trouble next decade. it was the biggest mistake. during that time what Tim did was selling most his APPL stock to make huge money. Steve Jobs didn’t even get paid ($1). of course he owned most APPL stock. but he had different mind, and had passion to lead Apple. Tim Cook only knows money, business. it will make apple just average company soon. I think that you guys don’t believe it once you hypnotized by all apple tricks. wake up. magic is over.
Could you please write this in your native tongue… I may have a better translation programme than you seem to have.
Question: How many Apple products have you ever touched, much less owned? (I can translate that for you, if you’d like).
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“Steve Jobs didn’t even get paid ($1). of course he owned most APPL stock. ”
just from this statement i know you have no clue what you are talking about.
— Jobs didn’t take any stock options after 2003
— the vast bulk of his wealth was in DISNEY stock which he got from selling Pixar to them.
He had relatively few apple shares as he sold most of them when he left apple to start Next.
It’s going to be sooner or later…..
More notable, to me, is that he also didn’t include Bill Gates on the list. That makes me think that he may not be completely just spewing leftover brainwashed propaganda from his previous post at MS. The fact that he obviously realizes that Bill Gates was just a lucky, ruthless, and visionless hack, makes me think that he actually may have given this SOME thought.
Of course, I also think that he is wrong about Apple, and it is likely just wishful thinking on his part, as I’m sure he still has a large position in MSFT, and he is regretting that he wasn’t able to buy a huge AAPL position back when shares were ridiculously cheap, due to him working at MS.
Well Bob, here’s some advice – AAPL is still cheap at its currently ridiculously undervalued price, so sell whatever MSFT you may have left before its too late, and buy AAPL long – as we WILL get back to a sane valuation at some point in the not too distant future.
Microsoft was introducing a business model based on dodgy licensing deals and then sold the same products again and again for DECADES just by changing the version number. And now this guy thinks Apple is going down because they don’t innovate enough and not going ‘in the right direction’? this is laughable
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Spoken by someone who’s company is already “out?”
Funny.
Former chief operating officer of Microsoft…
Microsoft. <– HAHAHAHA!
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All it TechTards love to FUD Apple, every since 1984.
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