Exactly. Jobs being an asshole meant he would have the foresight to see the Trump regime was statistically likely to be a boat of turds powered by old time racist bigotry that wouldn’t age well as a legacy.

Cook is one of those guys who sinks the ship with complacency, cowardice and is only waiting to cash out and retire with someone who doesn’t really respect him. A true bottom.

Jobs was an individual. Cook is a politician.

I’ll take the raging asshole.

I would love to have seen this.

Is giving a shitty mocking “gift” to someone who can destroy your company and put every one of your employees out of work “acquiescing”?

Exactly like saying you shouldn’t kiss the ring of the mob boss who will be beating your family with pipe wrenches if you don’t.

That’s victim blaming that’s easy to do when you were never in that position and I have no time for that kind of jackassery.

Jobs aside, Cook did what a CEO is supposed to do in that situation. Political change ironically doesn’t come from a CEO taking a stand and jeopardising hundreds of thousands of workers, product lines and tariffs.

The time to take a stand was any time after Jan 6 on any level. None of it happened and then Elon helped him hack the voting machines by his own admission.

That said, Cook was fairly spineless. If you look at the cash he burned on R&D and what little he has to show for it, it’s a bit tragic. The phones, pads and macs are all in a really good place so those products (with serious setbacks) are finally really mature, but the Vision goggles and the Car were really missed opportunities, not to mention the rest of the iceberg we don’t know about.

Hopefully Ternus will turn us around hey

Well I can't unbox and review a 800 dollar apple supply chain on YouTube for clicks, can I?!

Exactly. Whiners gonna whine.

I’m sure he, a 70-something exec, had a huge role in that engineering feat 🙄 Probably just said “yes” when actual value-adding employees pitched him the idea. Bravo, rich white man. Another amazing achievement 👏

His legacy is giving Trump gold while bending the knee to America’s killer.

Jobs put in place a 10 year plan right before he left in 2010, the ARM switch was one of the final parts of that plan. This is why right around 2018/19 going into the ARM switch you see a bunch of foundering and weird shit like bringing back the Touch Bar and vaporware products like the charging mat. Because they literally had no fucking clue what to do for the next 10 years and there was a battle going on between the UX first people and the marketing first people. We can see who won by how many ads are being added and the whole Siri AI fiasco.

Totally agree. The m series chips were not only good, but the transition went perfectly. There were a hundred different ways this should have gone wrong. It went great. Credit where it’s due, Apple were the only to ones to pull that off. Microsoft is still spinning their wheels.

The Vision Pro? Flop. Expensive, never found a niche. Really cool device but it never solved a problem for anyone.

Apple Watch? Had potential but they kept changing focus and now it’s just a heartbeat monitor that gives notifications. App development on them stalled out. It stagnated.

Mouse? Mouse.

Keyboards? They killed butterfly finally but that’s just going back to what was already fine.

MacOS is just fucking ugly and hard to use. They broke their own visual design rules to make things clunky and weird.

iPad is useless. Simple app split screen is a pain to use now and why are they applying desktop elements to it? There’s a reason that wasn’t done in the first place.

iPhone is actually doing fine though the AI shit is obnoxious and by now they should have had an answer to Samsung dex.

Airport was idiot proof wifi they killed for no damn reason.

All of this to serve shareholders and not users, then talk down to those of use displeased by it with the Tonedeaf statement “we think you’ll love it.”

I have zero problems with power buttons on the bottom of minis. It’s a total non issue that’s another clickbaity thing for people to bitch about.

No Mac user I know ever shuts their machine down completely. It’s very quiet so they just go to sleep and wake instantly when the mouse or keyboard are used.

Not anymore.

It's Tim Cr'Apple

I think AirPods is also one of the largest businesses out there. Say what you will, but they created a problem and sold you a solution.

Great headphones and I’ve never worn wired since.

airpods are also really popular.

also Jobs may not have had any great products released in the last 15 years either. paradigm shifting stuff like ipods and iphones only come along once in a while.

granted the products that have been released probably would have been different in some way under jobs. For example, maybe Vision (or something like it) would have been more successfull under him. But we will never know.