Tim Cook's Last Day As CEO of Apple (9to5mac.com) 85
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: Today is Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to take over tomorrow. To mark his last day in the role, Cook penned an emotional memo to Apple employees today. In the memo sent to employees this morning and obtained by 9to5Mac, Cook reflects on his time at Apple and thanks employees for all of their work. He also says he takes "enormous comfort in handing the helm to someone as brilliant and wonderful and capable" as John Ternus. "Few people understand what it takes to build products that change the world the way John does and I could not be more excited for his leadership," Cook writes. "There is something truly special about Apple," writes Cook. "I am most proud of what an annual report could never capture. This place is proof that culture triumphs over everything. We share a belief that what we build matters, and that we have both the opportunity and the responsibility to leave the world better than we found it. That purpose is part of what makes this place extraordinary. Apple helps nurture it, but I believe it lived within each of you long before you arrived here. It is what brought you to this company and what continues to drive the work you do every day."
He continues: "Together, we have created something far greater than any one of us could have imagined or accomplished alone. And that's the secret to our success. We bring out the best in each other. We lift each other up. We have made it possible to leave our 'dent in the universe,' as Steve once described it, because of who we are and what we believe, because of what we value and how we see the world. How fortunate we are. How fortunate I am..."
Cook also thanked the Apple community in a post on social media, writing: "Sending lots of love to the Apple community on my last day as CEO. My title changes tomorrow, but the love I have for the Apple community never will. Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration. My gratitude is endless, and I'm excited for the next chapter!"
He continues: "Together, we have created something far greater than any one of us could have imagined or accomplished alone. And that's the secret to our success. We bring out the best in each other. We lift each other up. We have made it possible to leave our 'dent in the universe,' as Steve once described it, because of who we are and what we believe, because of what we value and how we see the world. How fortunate we are. How fortunate I am..."
Cook also thanked the Apple community in a post on social media, writing: "Sending lots of love to the Apple community on my last day as CEO. My title changes tomorrow, but the love I have for the Apple community never will. Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration. My gratitude is endless, and I'm excited for the next chapter!"
Good. Fucking. Riddance. (Score:5, Insightful)
Watching that guy grovel before that Orange Mussolini while giving it a golden trophy was truly an embarrassment to watch.
Re:Good. Fucking. Riddance. (Score:5, Insightful)
I think you're overselling Jobs/Ive (Score:5, Insightful)
Cook was a maintainer, not an innovator.
I know we're supposed to worship on the alter of Jobs, but I like the Cook era. I hated Apple under Jobs and love it now. A lot has changed in the world so it's not just the 2 men, but I think Jobs/Ive were dead set on making Apple products generally horrible and removing features for the sake of their sense of design and elegance. Cook is the one who gave us iPhone Pros with MASSIVE batteries and macbooks with all the ports....shit we actually want. Jobs/Ive tell you what you want...and call you a moron who is holding the phone wrong if you can't appreciate their genius. Is that really innovation or arrogance?
My first Apple experiences were under Jobs and they all sucked. Today, I like the Apple products....they fit my needs more and the software has gotten A LOT better. It really was dogshit until recently.
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Cook was a maintainer, not an innovator.
I know we're supposed to worship on the alter of Jobs, but I like the Cook era. I hated Apple under Jobs and love it now. A lot has changed in the world so it's not just the 2 men, but I think Jobs/Ive were dead set on making Apple products generally horrible and removing features for the sake of their sense of design and elegance. Cook is the one who gave us iPhone Pros with MASSIVE batteries and macbooks with all the ports....shit we actually want.
You mean shit we actually had before marketing got drunk and dropped their entire marketing department into a pitcher of beer.
And thus was born the IP-six-sevaaan era of fuck-your-removable-battery unitard chassis that eventually fed the idiocy of Bendgate.
(It's truly terrifying how much will be forgotten when greybeards die off and get AI-replaced by "Trust Me Bro, this is how it was..")
Are you talking phones or macs? (Score:2)
You mean shit we actually had before marketing got drunk and dropped their entire marketing department into a pitcher of beer.
And thus was born the IP-six-sevaaan era of fuck-your-removable-battery unitard chassis that eventually fed the idiocy of Bendgate.
(It's truly terrifying how much will be forgotten when greybeards die off and get AI-replaced by "Trust Me Bro, this is how it was..")
You're really hard to follow. iPhones never had removable batteries and almost no androids have them now. If you're talking about macs? Well, the removable batteries were removed before Steve Jobs left. IIRC, they weren't really removeable without taking the whole thing apart since the Power PC days. If you're pining for those days...well, I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you. Before they went intel, Macs were completely useless IMO. They were a garbage OS with reduced functionality selling t
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You mean shit we actually had before marketing got drunk and dropped their entire marketing department into a pitcher of beer.
And thus was born the IP-six-sevaaan era of fuck-your-removable-battery unitard chassis that eventually fed the idiocy of Bendgate.
(It's truly terrifying how much will be forgotten when greybeards die off and get AI-replaced by "Trust Me Bro, this is how it was..")
You're really hard to follow. iPhones never had removable batteries and almost no androids have them now. If you're talking about macs? Well, the removable batteries were removed before Steve Jobs left. IIRC, they weren't really removeable without taking the whole thing apart since the Power PC days. If you're pining for those days...well, I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you. Before they went intel, Macs were completely useless IMO. They were a garbage OS with reduced functionality selling to weird cult members who thought Windows can't support more than 8 characters in a file name. You'd pay twice as much as a windows laptop for something that was bested by an intel/AMD processor from 3 years prior....but hey, you got an elegant mouse with only one button! That's good for something, right???
If your complaint is design and removable batteries, Apple is not for you. There are plenty of alternatives. I hear Framework is pretty rad on the laptop side and I honestly don't know which specialty android phone let's you swap batteries these days.
The Battery in my 2012 Unibody Intel i7 MacBook Pro is right under the Bottom Cover. Four screws, one Ribbon Cable, and it’s Out!
Same for the HDD/SSD, RAM and Optical Drive. All the right there on the bottom. Trackpad is under the Battery.
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/... [dreamstime.com]
Now, don’t ask me about replacing the Keyboard. . . >8-(
Truth is, regardless of Architecture, like most Laptops, MacBooks have gone back and forth regarding Serviceability for decades. I just happened to luck-out with my Mode
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Yeah, the products were better under Cook.
Re:I think you're overselling Jobs/Ive (Score:4, Insightful)
hated Apple under Jobs and love it now.
This is extremely hard to believe. If you didn't like Apple products under Jobs, you shouldn't like them now. You lie. A bigger battery and ports isn't that much of a difference.
Apple products are mainstream now + fn over form (Score:2)
This is extremely hard to believe. If you didn't like Apple products under Jobs, you shouldn't like them now. You lie. A bigger battery and ports isn't that much of a difference.
Simple response: Jobs/Ive: form over function. Cook was the reverse. Each new design iteration he brought increased the functionality in some small way. Nothing got worse under him.
Steve Jobs era: Macs were an irrational cult purchase and no engineers bought them until he went to Intel processors. His era was mostly PowerPC...REALLY overpriced laptops, everything was expensive and impractical...my actual work tools were not available until the very end. I ran Desktop Linux for coding and Windows
Tim Cook oversaw user interface schizophrenia (Score:2)
Given that the user interface is how you interact with the computer, this is a pretty big deal. Today, Apple's user interface is limited by Conway's law: âoeOrganizations which design systems ⦠are constrain
UX is a solved problem (Score:2)
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Cook was a maintainer, not an innovator.
This. But it doesn't really matter when every CEO of a publicly traded company bows down and sucks the dick of Fiduciary Duty.
Every last one of them.
The price you pay. He's only going to retire with billions as a result, and I know he didn't mind.
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Re:Good. Fucking. Riddance. (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple took more risks under Jobs. But Apple made more money under Cook. And for those of us that neither use Apple products nor work there, our investment portfolio prefers Cook.
Did Jobs really risk more? I think Cook did (Score:3)
Apple took more risks under Jobs. But Apple made more money under Cook. And for those of us that neither use Apple products nor work there, our investment portfolio prefers Cook.
What risks did he take? The iPhone? The notion of a computer and a phone merged was not invented there. Half the functionality was there on the Palm Trio several years prior. We know that if they didn't, someone else would have. ..the iPod?...well, everyone knows Apple wasn't the first to make HD-based mp3 player. Create Labs had superior ones IMO already out before the iPod 1.0 was release. The iPad?...doesn't seem risky...seems quite sensible. Intel-based chips?...that was obvious. Maybe the unibo
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Re:Good. Fucking. Riddance. (Score:4, Insightful)
Watching that guy grovel before that Orange Mussolini while giving it a golden trophy was truly an embarrassment to watch.
But will it be Cook or Ternus who changes Lake Ontario to Lake America in Apple Maps? Will it be the last act of capitulation and sycophancy by Cook or the first by Ternus? Cook will either be a hard act to follow or an easy one...
Trump pushes Apple to change 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' on its maps [bbc.com]
US President Donald Trump has asked tech firm Apple to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America on its Maps platform to comply with his executive order changing the name of the Great Lake, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has said.
Burgum told Fox News on Monday that "the president has reached out to Apple directly", adding: "I'm sure we may be seeing that change coming up soon."
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Watching that guy grovel before that Orange Mussolini while giving it a golden trophy was truly an embarrassment to watch.
But will it be Cook or Ternus who changes Lake Ontario to Lake America in Apple Maps? Will it be the last act of capitulation and sycophancy by Cook or the first by Ternus? Cook will either be a hard act to follow or an easy one...
Trump pushes Apple to change 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' on its maps [bbc.com]
US President Donald Trump has asked tech firm Apple to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America on its Maps platform to comply with his executive order changing the name of the Great Lake, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has said.
Burgum told Fox News on Monday that "the president has reached out to Apple directly", adding: "I'm sure we may be seeing that change coming up soon."
Tuesday Afternoon, 9/1/26. Ternus In Charge. . .
Still Lake Ontario in Apple Maps!
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Welp, that was short-lived. Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ After Trump Order [bloomberg.com]
September 1, 2026 at 8:11 PM UTC
Apple Inc. renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on its maps service, following a similar move by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, in the wake of an order from US President Donald Trump. ... The modification was made for users in the US, with the Canadian version of Apple Maps continuing to show the Lake Ontario name and international versions showing both names.
It's what adults do (Score:5, Insightful)
Watching that guy grovel before that Orange Mussolini while giving it a golden trophy was truly an embarrassment to watch.
Grownups suck up their pride and do what's best for their company and appeasing his ego was undoubtedly good for the company...imagine the reverse?...he told Trump that his policies suck and he's a failure of a president...OK....is Trump going to change because Tim Cook scolded him?...see the light?...step down and let JD Vance run it for awhile?....you and I both know the answer to that. However, if Tim Cook stood up to Trump or ignored him, you know that petty thin-skinned failure of a president would have retaliated. Apple has 166,000+ full time employees. Should a fraction of them suffer so Tim Cook can express his political beliefs?
Tim is not a political commentator. He's a business leader. He needs to do what is best for Apple...and groveling for some horrible POS who can't even remember his name is what he thought was best for Apple & I fully agree. I'd be mad at him if he did say what I am thinking about Trump.
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imagine the reverse?...he told Trump that his policies suck and he's a failure of a president
So you obviously preferred Cook sucking Trump's dick instead. Noted.
If sucking dick is your job.... (Score:3)
imagine the reverse?...he told Trump that his policies suck and he's a failure of a president
So you obviously preferred Cook sucking Trump's dick instead. Noted.
His job is to do what is best for Apple, not my sense of social justice. As a private citizen Trump can go fuck himself. If my job is to blow the president and 166,000+ individuals relied on me to do so or else they wouldn't be able to feed their families...well...I have 2 options...find a new job or suck his tiny mushroom-shaped dick and hope he doesn't ask for a finger in his ass while I do so.
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suck his tiny mushroom-shaped dick and finger his ass while I do so.
Everyone here knows you would totally do it.
a grownup vs a man-child (Score:2)
suck his tiny mushroom-shaped dick and finger his ass while I do so.
Everyone here knows you would totally do it.
Kewl homophobia, bud...is calling me a cocksucker supposed to insult me? Are we teenagers in the 90s? That's your retort? Try sucking cock...you may enjoy it...there's no shame in giving pleasure. However, to the point....an entitled man child throws a tantrum.... a grown-up does his job. As an ambassador for a massive corporation, most thinks he needs to appease the man-baby-in-chief. They had many interests the gov could fuck up...ranging from frivolous lawsuits to suspending H1-Bs to fucking with t
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False dichotomy. There are more choices than "capitulate or die" and you know it.
He could have remained neutral, and when the government did something clearly illegal, he could have sued in federal court and gotten an injunction. This is what he was supposed to do rather than appease.
This is what Harvard did, and they won every step of the way; the rest of the targeted universities and "white shoe law firms" capitulated and now are paying tribute for nothing at all - either in dollars, in reputation, or i
Re: If sucking dick is your job.... (Score:2, Insightful)
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Harvard is an educational institution with a massive endowment that makes them independent and have to answer to no one.
Apple is a corporation with literally hundreds of billions of dollars in their warchest. That makes them independent enough to tell shareholders that we're not bending to illegal bullshit from a president who refuses to stay in his legal lane.
Nobody is buying your excuses, or reading anything past that first sentence where you seem to not understand that Apple has far more resources to bring to bear than Harvard, but none of the actual courage or fortitude to stand up for what's right.
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Well yes. That's his job. If I were a shareholder I'd be questioning why he wasn't giving Trump a reacharound. Our own CEO did the same as well. These people don't exist for some moral purpose, corporations have no morals.
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Where is my lawsuit you troll???
Re: It's what adults do (Score:2)
Adults don't kowtow to dictators. That's kiddie shit. No wonder it impressed you.
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So you think appeasement is what gets you to be the largest company by revenue in the world?
No, bold action and doing what your customers want is what gets you there. Groveling before a would-be dictator just shows you have no actual intestinal fortitude to do what's right, instead doing what's expedient while abandoning all principle that got you there.
Appeasement never works. The appeased always come back for more, and now you've created a precedent of giving it to them. And when political winds change
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Yeah... he had a fine legacy until he turned coat and reinvented himself as a maga stooge. Steve would never have done that.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass in the way out, Timmy.
"leave the world better than we found it"? (Score:5, Insightful)
...by promoting a fashion-based culture of disposable products and fighting every attempt to repair old devices and keep them working?
By constantly making hardware incompatible every few years?
Re:"leave the world better than we found it"? (Score:5, Insightful)
The world is much better for him as he wanders off with hundreds of millions of profits gained primarily through treating customers like the dumbest dipshits on the planet. CEOs of megacorporations don't care about other people, if they did, they wouldn't have what it takes to become CEOs of megacorporations.
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Treating them "like"? Remind me, who keeps buying these products? /s
Re:"leave the world better than we found it"? (Score:5, Informative)
by promoting a fashion-based culture of disposable products
It's funny people keep bringing this up. After seven years I'm still using my iPhone 11 Pro and see no need to replace it. In the same time frame my coworker has gone through two Galaxy S phones. The first hasn't had an OS update in four years. The second isn't going to get the latest OS update, so he's looking to upgrade again.
Cell phones used to have a usable life of a year or two. Motorola would completely stop supporting Razers after two years. You might get two years of device support from Blackberry, maybe a bit more if you were using their server software. Nokia was a bit better, Samsung was a bit worse. Apple supporting software updates for five to seven years on consumer devices is unheard of.
Re:"leave the world better than we found it"? (Score:5, Informative)
I have to agree with you. I'm am Apple user since early 2000s and I'm only on my third Mac. My wife swapped her iPhone last month just for the 2nd time since 2016.
Not to mention that in all of these cases, our previous devices were still up and running and we managed to sell them for a fair price.
Usually the people I hear claiming Apple devices are disposable never have really bought/used them.
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I have to agree with you. I'm am Apple user since early 2000s and I'm only on my third Mac. My wife swapped her iPhone last month just for the 2nd time since 2016.
Not to mention that in all of these cases, our previous devices were still up and running and we managed to sell them for a fair price.
Usually the people I hear claiming Apple devices are disposable never have really bought/used them.
I imagine many/most things, specifically here phones, are like this. They (can) keep working just fine even after they stop being supported by the manufacturer - which, arguably, should longer for most things - but some (many? most?) people balk at continuing to use them. Seems like planned obsolescence to drive continued new sales - and generate a lot of eWaste...
Others are content to keep using a device until they literally can't. For example, my first cell phone was a Qualcomm QCP-1900 I had from 1
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It's funny people keep bringing this up. After seven years I'm still using my iPhone 11 Pro and see no need to replace it.
Your anecdote is irrelevant. I also am wearing a 2 year old t-shirt right now, that doesn't mean the fast-fashion industry doesn't exist. My 10 year old Galaxy S7 still works, and I still use it for some things (mainly for navigation on my road bike) How's that fit your anecdote?
The reality is Apple very much positioned their product line as fashion items, and while you may have the common sense to not participate in the disposable culture the reality is a very great many people do and the world is full of
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The reality is Apple very much positioned their product line as fashion items,
Then why support said hardware longer than any other cell phone manufacturer? They could have been just like Motorola or Samsung or Blackberry and provided two years of software updates then abandoned it. Seven years later my 11 Pro is on the latest version of iOS. Crap my 5S got an out-of-band security update a year after they dropped official support for it entirely. That's ten years after it was released, and seven years after they stopped selling it. Here's another fun anecdote. I bought a dirt-old $50
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Having an Apple product hasn't been a "status' symbol of any sort for decades now....
They're just commodity products, nice ones....but commodity products and no one buys them or sees them as a fashion or status symbol purchase...
That's been a thing of the past for quite awhile now...
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...by promoting a fashion-based culture of disposable products and fighting every attempt to repair old devices and keep them working?
By constantly making hardware incompatible every few years?
Fighting every attempt to Repair. . .
https://support.apple.com/self... [apple.com]
Apple seems to have full Repair Manuals for everything back to at least 2020: and Full Tech Specs far back beyond that. I’d consult iFixit for truly Legacy Repairs, like for my 2012 MacBook Pro.
But you do you, Hater.
Mixed feeling ... (Score:5, Interesting)
However he did overdo things with build everything in China to minimize cost. Never become dependent upon a single source. I think Apple has learned that lesson. Second sources are an engineering best practice for a very good and hard learned reason. Never put your fate in someone else's hands. With a real engineer coming in perhaps more attention will be played to such things.
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He collects massive amounts of data on Chinese citizens and then "Follows all laws and regulations". There is a reason the Chinese government takes such good care of their great friend. Very few companies in China enjoy such protected status.
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Re:Mixed feeling ... (Score:5, Informative)
However he did overdo things with build everything in China to minimize cost. Never become dependent upon a single source. I think Apple has learned that lesson. Second sources are an engineering best practice for a very good and hard learned reason. Never put your fate in someone else's hands. With a real engineer coming in perhaps more attention will be played to such things.
It's probably worth clarifying that this was done by Tim Cook in his previous job as senior VP of operations, and was long complete by the time he became CEO. But yes.
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Funny that you think a country with a billion people with massive engineering and manufacturing capabilities is a "single source"
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See: Trump Tariffs.
self-inflicted wounds are easy for stupid fucking people with way too much power.
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If the Chinese government says "no more shipping things to Apple" then the entire country is a single source.
This isn't hard to understand. And it's absolutely in China's power to do so.
Dont let the door hit ya. Bye Felicia (Score:2)
Dont let the door hit ya. Bye Felicia.
Maybe we have a chance to see some real changes now. I *vastly* dislike the ditching of nvidia which really made the platform shit the bed until only recently with the latest M series. The Intel Radeon only days yuck. Magsafe had to come back. Now no way to get more than 1 gpu in any apple machine as I'm trying to spec massive parallel gpu machines for AI work. Dialed back the unified memory of the Studio... I just hate all of his decisions. The whole "have courage" thi
Re: Dont let the door hit ya. Bye Felicia (Score:1)
Why are you doing AI work with GPUs? For the cost of a pair of GPUs you can have a DGX Spark.
Re: Dont let the door hit ya. Bye Felicia (Score:2)
lol I have multiple Sparks, and a Jetson Thor, and a 256 core EPYC with 4 gpus (256gb a piece ones).
Sad I could justify dropping $20k on a Mac Studio if one was available north of 128gb these days (check the site all above 96gb are gone)
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I believe they are advertising the 512's gbs are coming in a few months.....
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If he's in the Mac ecosystem and talking about a Mac Studio he doesn't even need that. Available with 128GB of unified RAM and enough GPU units to use it effectively, and this thing can run 70B models on your desk. Doesn't even need to be a current one, a used M3 studio can do this.
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. Now no way to get more than 1 gpu in any apple machine as I'm trying to spec massive parallel gpu machines for AI work.
Let's be honest, you're going to be using a Linux box for that stuff, even if Apple still sold a big tower with a bunch of slots.
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Now no way to get more than 1 gpu in any apple machine as I'm trying to spec massive parallel gpu machines for AI work.
Sounds like you're trying to fit a square peg in a round hole and blame Apple for that. First of all, for AI work, why aren't you using the Apple Neural Engine that has existed since the M1. Second, you can get external GPUs if you wanted. But again neither the Mac Mini nor the iMac explicitly designed for the task you want. I don't complain a Toyota Prius can't move large pieces of furniture.
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Don't you mean put a cylinder in the square hole [youtube.com]?
For you people bitching about Cook.... (Score:5, Insightful)
During his 15 year tenure:
* Stock rose 2,279%
* Annual revenue rose 400%
* Profits rose by 430%
Like him or not, he accomplished exactly what Apple paid him to do in his role.
Did nothing to Fix the Supply Chain. (Score:4, Informative)
The vast majority of Apple products—including iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks—are assembled in China by major manufacturing partners like Foxconn.India and Vietnam:
Apple has shifted a growing portion of its assembly (especially for iPhones bound for the U.S. market) to countries like India and Vietnam to diversify its supply chain.U.S.
Component Supply While final assembly happens overseas, Apple does source some raw materials, semiconductors, and specialized glass from U.S.-based partners (such as Corning and various chip fabricators) and invests heavily in domestic supplier programs, but the end products are assembled abroad.
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What percentage of Apple products are made in the USA?
What percentage of consumer products in general are made in the USA? Very little.
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On the contrary it sounds like he did a ton to fix the supply chain.
But he fixed it for Apple Shareholders and customers, instead of Americans in general.
As a Canadian, I'm probably happier buying from China than the US at this point.
Re:Did nothing to Fix the Supply Chain.m (Score:2)
What percentage of Apple products are made in the USA?
Probably the same as Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung products. Probably in the same factories that made Apple products.
The vast majority of Apple products—including iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks—are assembled in China by major manufacturing partners like Foxconn.India and Vietnam:
So just like Dell, HP, etc.
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Is the answer "Who cares?" Apple exists to make profit not to promote American manufacturing.
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During his 15 year tenure:
* Stock rose 2,279% * Annual revenue rose 400% * Profits rose by 430%
Like him or not, he accomplished exactly what Apple paid him to do in his role.
Could you explain that first one, "Stock rose 2,279%" further?
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Could you explain that first one, "Stock rose 2,279%" further?
Sure. I'll be your Google or ChatGPT for you today!
Apple stock was $13.74 (split adjusted) on Tim's first day. Today's closing price was $316.85. That's a 2,206.04% increase in value.
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Timmy Apple (Score:2)
Tim Apple left a company far more powerful and influential than when he took control. It's going to be a roller coaster to see what happens next.
Tomorrow's title (Score:2)
What's his title tomorrow? We had a CEO who got paid to stick around to show the new CEO where the coffee cups lived etc for about a year at $50k/month. He got that money for spending an hour a week in the office.
Gadget to Appliance (Score:1, Interesting)
Perhaps a new Product Red iPhone now? (Score:2)
Upgraded my iPhone 6 to an iPhone XR back in 2018 (got a deal which let me keep the 6, which I gave to my mom since she'd needed a new phone, while allowing me to get the XR without increasing my monthly bill) and, because I liked the deep red metallic colour, I got the (PRODUCT)RED [apple.com] version; it was also nice knowing a portion of the purchase price went toward AIDS research, but I mainly got it for the colour.
Now it's 8 years old and while it still works it's starting to show it's age, plus the lightning por
Knowledge Navigator (Score:2)
Tim could have made 1987 real by 2022.
https://youtu.be/HGYFEI6uLy0 [youtu.be]
He made various sizes of Job's last product instead. :shrug:
There are varying interpretations of "shareholder duty" and rent seeking isn't the only valid one.
Kudos for a decent northbridge in the M series, I guess.