Build a design school in the Philippines for artists who can't afford college, to help them become accomplished graphic designers, get great jobs, and escape poverty.
From everything I've seen, I can't imagine how Cook got a reputation for being able to execute well.
Please elaborate. And please don't just list a some minor gripes. Be grown up and put it in a real world context that relates to the problems and challenges he had to deal with.
Including MobileMe which was launched too soon and was buggy. It's better to be late than lame.
MobileMe was just a minor upgrade to .mac
Apple are not good at this. iCloud have many of the same problems that MobileMe haves. The problem is that the management without Steve accept non perfect products.
Iphone4S: Battery time 1/4 of the old iPhone4. I get a bit over 3 hours when using WiFi
OSX 10.7 is the worst OSX version. The memory leaks are ridiculous.
Apples arrogance: I have a MacPro 1.1 with upgraded CPUs. Have worked every single OS, except 10.7. Apple have decided that people who upgrade their machines have "non supported CPUs". Somehow this worked with 10.4-5-6.
iCloud. I have about 10 devices that sync. I have exact the same problem I had with MobileMe. iCloud can't manage to decide witch device that have the latest Bookmarks. So iCloud ads the same bookmarks to Safari. 10x with the same bookmarks. The fun thing is that Safari uses 100% CPU time when it sync. I try to delete the added bookmarks as fast as I can, but as soon I power on another iOS device, so syncs those bookmarks out.
Please elaborate. And please don't just list a some minor gripes. Be grown up and put it in a real world context that relates to the problems and challenges he had to deal with.
I had to return my iPad2 3 times because of light bleeding- Enuff said!
I had to return my iPad 3 times because of light bleeding- Enuff said!
And I had to return my PBG4 because some keys fell off. Then, I had to return my late '08 MBP because it had a screen flicker at the 2 or 3 lowest brightness settings. Big deal. Your bad iPad proves nothing about Cook.
Apple are not good at this. iCloud have many of the same problems that MobileMe haves. The problem is that the management without Steve accept non perfect products.
I'm going to go ahead and give Apple a little exemption here: launching an Internet service that is as intensive as iCloud to millions of iOS users is very very hard to do perfectly. If you have any background in programming or server management you would understand. And compared to how badly it could have gone, iCloud went great and it boggles my mind how Apple was able to do such a thing.
Their only mistake was announcing it when they did. They should have under promised and over delivered when it was ready.
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Delayed iPads for months
Because demand was so unpredictably great that they couldn't keep up. This was actually a good thing.
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Originally Posted by iKol
Bleeding iPad screens of death
While I don't doubt you had some problems with yours, my iPad was fine and so were all the other ones my friends and family bought. Or are you referring to the iPad 2?
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Originally Posted by iKol
Lousy keynote
We all know Cook doesn't have the flair for the keynotes that SJ had. It's silly to expect otherwise. Besides, he probably knew that SJ was on his death bed. That probably put a little bit of a damper on his day.
Please excuse my ignorance on how iTunes Match works exactly.
As I understand it, iTunes Match looks through your iTunes library and matches the songs you have with songs already in iCloud. So for example, your have Michael Jackson's "Beat It" in your library and iTunes Match make that available in iCloud for you.
My question is: how does it prevent people from creating 'fake' audio tracks in their iTunes libraries by calling a bogus audio track "Beat It" (artist name: Michael Jackson) and tricking iTunes Match into thinking that you actually have and own "Beat It"??
Did that even make sense??
I was wondering the same thing, when I was wondering about what might account for the delay. Unless there's some sort of hash tag or other sophisticated method, I'm not sure how Apple will prevent fraud and abuse.
I've heard that any lower bitrate version (which is currently for sale on iTunes) can and will be updated. How exactly will Apple determine what is a legit low-bitrate version, and which is not?
Maybe just random audits? Non-random audits?
And how will the original "low-bitrate" version be handled? Will it be overwritten on all your iDevices and Macs? What if it was a rare recording, or one that you had made yourself? Would the songs be overwritten everywhere?
ISTM that Apple is somehow going to use tags for identification. ISTM that they are big into them already, and that using them for legitimation purposes and to reduce "false positives" might be one way to do it.
Please elaborate. And please don't just list a some minor gripes. Be grown up and put it in a real world context that relates to the problems and challenges he had to deal with.
Dunno what is a minor gripe and what is a relevant point. But several other posters have listed some things which seem like problems of execution to me.
Could be that they happened DESPITE Cook's unrivaled expertise. There's really no way to know.
But I've never really understood how Cook got his reputation WRT execution.
Yes, ever since Steve went knock knock knockin' on heaven's door, things certainly have.
Do you honestly think that things changed that quickly that caused the departments to go in despair and everyone stopped knowing how to do their jobs within a couple of weeks? Really?
I'm going to go ahead and give Apple a little exemption here: launching an Internet service that is as intensive as iCloud to millions of iOS users is very very hard to do perfectly.
Do you really think that after the delay, they will do it perfectly? Doubtful.
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From everything I've seen, I can't imagine how Cook got a reputation for being able to execute well.
White iPhone 4 delay
Delayed iPads for months
Bleeding iPad screens of death
Lousy keynote
Lost the head of retail operations
For all we know Fiscal October isn't over until this Saturday.
Har! Good one!
Real artists ship.
Yep. That is what Steve used to say.
He will be sorely missed.
The times they are a changin' (since Steve is gone)
Yes, ever since Steve went knock knock knockin' on heaven's door, things certainly have.
Build a design school in the Philippines for artists who can't afford college, to help them become accomplished graphic designers, get great jobs, and escape poverty.
Why the Philippines?
Why not, say, Detroit?
However, if given the choice between launching it with bugs and fixing them later or fixing the bugs and delaying, I will gladly wait.
Would you be even gladder if there were more than those two choices?
From everything I've seen, I can't imagine how Cook got a reputation for being able to execute well.
Please elaborate. And please don't just list a some minor gripes. Be grown up and put it in a real world context that relates to the problems and challenges he had to deal with.
Including MobileMe which was launched too soon and was buggy. It's better to be late than lame.
MobileMe was just a minor upgrade to .mac
Apple are not good at this. iCloud have many of the same problems that MobileMe haves. The problem is that the management without Steve accept non perfect products.
Iphone4S: Battery time 1/4 of the old iPhone4. I get a bit over 3 hours when using WiFi
OSX 10.7 is the worst OSX version. The memory leaks are ridiculous.
Apples arrogance: I have a MacPro 1.1 with upgraded CPUs. Have worked every single OS, except 10.7. Apple have decided that people who upgrade their machines have "non supported CPUs". Somehow this worked with 10.4-5-6.
iCloud. I have about 10 devices that sync. I have exact the same problem I had with MobileMe. iCloud can't manage to decide witch device that have the latest Bookmarks. So iCloud ads the same bookmarks to Safari. 10x with the same bookmarks. The fun thing is that Safari uses 100% CPU time when it sync. I try to delete the added bookmarks as fast as I can, but as soon I power on another iOS device, so syncs those bookmarks out.
Please elaborate. And please don't just list a some minor gripes. Be grown up and put it in a real world context that relates to the problems and challenges he had to deal with.
I had to return my iPad2 3 times because of light bleeding- Enuff said!
I had to return my iPad 3 times because of light bleeding- Enuff said!
And I had to return my PBG4 because some keys fell off. Then, I had to return my late '08 MBP because it had a screen flicker at the 2 or 3 lowest brightness settings. Big deal. Your bad iPad proves nothing about Cook.
I had to return my iPad 3 times because of light bleeding- Enuff said!
You're sure to have kept it if it was heavy bleeding.
MobileMe was just a minor upgrade to .mac
Apple are not good at this. iCloud have many of the same problems that MobileMe haves. The problem is that the management without Steve accept non perfect products.
I'm going to go ahead and give Apple a little exemption here: launching an Internet service that is as intensive as iCloud to millions of iOS users is very very hard to do perfectly. If you have any background in programming or server management you would understand. And compared to how badly it could have gone, iCloud went great and it boggles my mind how Apple was able to do such a thing.
White iPhone 4 delay
Their only mistake was announcing it when they did. They should have under promised and over delivered when it was ready.
Delayed iPads for months
Because demand was so unpredictably great that they couldn't keep up. This was actually a good thing.
Bleeding iPad screens of death
While I don't doubt you had some problems with yours, my iPad was fine and so were all the other ones my friends and family bought. Or are you referring to the iPad 2?
Lousy keynote
We all know Cook doesn't have the flair for the keynotes that SJ had. It's silly to expect otherwise. Besides, he probably knew that SJ was on his death bed. That probably put a little bit of a damper on his day.
Lost the head of retail operations
Read some articles about why Johnson left.
http://articles.businessinsider.com/...-america-shops
Please excuse my ignorance on how iTunes Match works exactly.
As I understand it, iTunes Match looks through your iTunes library and matches the songs you have with songs already in iCloud. So for example, your have Michael Jackson's "Beat It" in your library and iTunes Match make that available in iCloud for you.
My question is: how does it prevent people from creating 'fake' audio tracks in their iTunes libraries by calling a bogus audio track "Beat It" (artist name: Michael Jackson) and tricking iTunes Match into thinking that you actually have and own "Beat It"??
Did that even make sense??
I was wondering the same thing, when I was wondering about what might account for the delay. Unless there's some sort of hash tag or other sophisticated method, I'm not sure how Apple will prevent fraud and abuse.
I've heard that any lower bitrate version (which is currently for sale on iTunes) can and will be updated. How exactly will Apple determine what is a legit low-bitrate version, and which is not?
Maybe just random audits? Non-random audits?
And how will the original "low-bitrate" version be handled? Will it be overwritten on all your iDevices and Macs? What if it was a rare recording, or one that you had made yourself? Would the songs be overwritten everywhere?
ISTM that Apple is somehow going to use tags for identification. ISTM that they are big into them already, and that using them for legitimation purposes and to reduce "false positives" might be one way to do it.
Anybody know about this stuff?
... my Johnson left.
...
You have my condolences. Have you tried Viagra?
Please elaborate. And please don't just list a some minor gripes. Be grown up and put it in a real world context that relates to the problems and challenges he had to deal with.
Dunno what is a minor gripe and what is a relevant point. But several other posters have listed some things which seem like problems of execution to me.
Could be that they happened DESPITE Cook's unrivaled expertise. There's really no way to know.
But I've never really understood how Cook got his reputation WRT execution.
You have my condolences. Have you tried Viagra?
LMAO!
Yes, ever since Steve went knock knock knockin' on heaven's door, things certainly have.
Do you honestly think that things changed that quickly that caused the departments to go in despair and everyone stopped knowing how to do their jobs within a couple of weeks? Really?
I'm going to go ahead and give Apple a little exemption here: launching an Internet service that is as intensive as iCloud to millions of iOS users is very very hard to do perfectly.
Do you really think that after the delay, they will do it perfectly? Doubtful.