“We can argue until the cows come home whether or not Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs would do some of what CEO Tim Cook has done, but it should be obvious that Jobs gave something Cook cannot,” Wil Gomez writes for Mac360.
Fear.
“By all accounts, Jobs’ management style was much different than Cook’s. Think confrontation vs. collaboration and you’re probably close,” Gomez writes. “Since Jobs passed away, new products from Apple have gone into an interesting stage of evolution not seen often in the past. New products are announced, then launched, and then, over many months, brought up from the obvious beta stage to an acceptable version 1.0 product (but with a higher version number than 1.0).”
“Through the years, especially on hardware but software, too, Jobs pushed designers and engineers to deliver a usable, shippable, basic version of a product that would work great out of the box. Jobs acted as the company’s mental floss which issued a bit of pain to scrub away to build up of a substance with no value, but plenty of opportunity to cause damage,” Gomez writes. “If Cook does the same thing then it does not appear to be as visible because recent product launches– iOS and OS X, Watch, Apple TV, iPad Pro– all appeared publicly as more beta than finished products ready for prime time.”
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MacDailyNews Take: There is a pattern of botched/incomplete launches from Apple Inc. under Tim Cook that is rather glaring and worrisome.
Apple’s management team should really stop whatever they’re doing right now and take a long, hard, cold look in the mirror.
This is one time where Tim Cook & Co. really should be asking themselves, “What would Steve do?”
Because what Steve would do is push harder, not settle for less than the best and not be carelessly frittering away the brand equity that he (along with Jony Ive, Tim Cook, Phil Schiller, Eddy Cue et al.) worked so incredibly hard to build.
Rest assured that we’ll shut up about this when it’s fixed.
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Tim Cook’s mea culpa: iMac launch should have been postponed – April 24, 2013
Tim Cook open letter: We fell short with new Maps app; we are extremely sorry – September 28, 2012
With obtuse iPad 2 launch, Apple fails to delight 49,000 customers per day – March 21, 2011
I blame it all on Eddy Cue’s eye-searing, fashion flamboyance.
Steve was great and irreplaceable but Apple made its share of screwups with him at the helm. Who could forget the round mouse? Anyways, not fair to place every Apple mistake on Tim Cook’s head.
It’s amazing how people compare apples to oranges. If anyone other than myself recalls a comment made when Mr Cook took over for Steve that Steve told him don’t do what I would do (steve) do what Tim Cook would do. So to out it simple if you don’t like the direction Apple has headed is heading the don’t buy the products. Plane and simple.
Yes world. Steve Jobs died October 5, 2011. That’s over four years ago. And techTard journalists STILL have nothing better to do all day than to compare Steve Jobs, who is DEAD, to Tim Cook, who is alive.
Jobs is DEAD. Get it? He DIED. Compare a LIVING person to a DEAD person, as if Jobs could be reanimated and be the Apple CEO again. OMG stupid stuff.
Dude…get over it. Take the Steve Jobs shrine down, and find a girlfriend or other of significance. I’m sorry your Apple stock trades haven’t made you a billionaire…maybe next quarter. Oh and Apple TV, maybe that’s next quarter too. The only thing there are more of than Steve Job mistakes, is the long list of ex-Apple execs “who coulda been contenders.” Right.
I’ve been coming to this site for years and have always enjoyed the discussions and comments. Question: What in the hell has happened to this group? Obviously, everyone here must be secretly working for Samsung because this entire comment section reads like a bunch of brain damaged high school students hijacking a Reddit post about another One Direction’s breakup rumor! Scratching Head/…. Are we really complaining about a magnetic night stand dock and calling for Tim Cook’s job? Hahahahahhahahaaaaaa Wow! How will we deal with our first world problems….
Here’s my opinion- Get a job and do something actually positive and productive today, give someone a complement (might even give you some good karma), sell your shares of Apple stock to someone else, and go back to your android life.
I’d love to hear everyone’s 6 year old version of an argument – based on mis-information and false assumptions but I’m done with this site (of almost 20 years). Good Bye & Good Riddence….. Sorry MDN!
Long live APPLE!
Nick
Steve Jobs was a genius. I did not expect the company to continue to operate at the same level after his departure and it has not. I did not expect the most glaring problem to be pushing unfinished products to market. That isn’t lack of vision, that is stupidity.