Much as I find some of Ahrendts ideas to be unhelpful, eg removal of name badges for retail employees, I don't thik you can blame her for a lack of availability at launch. Tim Cook chose the launch date, and production failed to meet it. That's Cook's fault, not Ahrendt's.
Under Steve, deadlines really were that; they were never missed, but under nice Tim we've had quite a few 'soft' deadlines of one sort or another. This Watch debacle is the result.
Much as I find some of Ahrendts ideas to be unhelpful, eg removal of name badges for retail employees, I don't thik you can blame her for a lack of availability at launch. Tim Cook chose the launch date, and production failed to meet it. That's Cook's fault, not Ahrendt's.
Under Steve, deadlines really were that; they were never missed, but under nice Tim we've had quite a few 'soft' deadlines of one sort or another. This Watch debacle is the result.
Never missed? White iPhone, one of the OS X updates due to ios. Some revisionist history you have there.
Never missed? White iPhone, one of the OS X updates due to ios. Some revisionist history you have there.
Anyone who's been around for awhile can cite any number of screw-ups that occurred during the Saint Steve years. People can be so forgetful and binary. It's all either completely perfect or totally horrible.
You have nothing but my deepest sympathies over your heartbreaking first world problem. I hope you and your fiancée's relationship not only survived this cataclysm but has grown stronger for it. Let them eat cake!
Priceless , nothing more hilarious than a totally spoilt person pissed at the cheek of apple keeping him away from his favorite rattle. Considering all the life and death crap going on in the world, posts like this certainly show us exactly why the terrorists have a point!
Priceless , nothing more hilarious than a totally spoilt person pissed at the cheek of apple keeping him away from his favorite rattle. Considering all the life and death crap going on in the world, posts like this certainly show us exactly why the terrorists have a point! Next they will be telling em to eat cake
So who did Steve fire when the white iPhone was months late?
You have no idea how mgmt works.
It didn't have enough inventory so it switched gears. No big issue. The worse thing to do was stay on course and have people lineup for no reason when supplies are limited.
Ha! Yet another armchair blogger that believes Apple is at the mercy of is supply chain, and not the other way around.
Factors that Apple has direct control over that have nothing to do with "how fast the Chinese can churn them out":
- When production begins
- The size of the production line
- The planned number of devices produced per day
- The scheduled dates for shipment waves
- The entire retail distribution channel
- The launch date
- The intended launch experience
The Chinese don't determine any of that. Apple does. Apple determines when they start making the product, and how many they make. They also determine when the 'launch' will take place.
You can blame Tim Cook, as the CEO is responsible for everything, but you can more acutely blame Ahrendts, because she was likely directly responsible for many of the above decisions. Doesn't matter what product you're launching...if you make a mistake with those decisions, you will botch your launch. Apple botched it.
Ha! Yet another armchair blogger that believes Apple is at the mercy of is supply chain, and not the other way around.
Factors that Apple has direct control over that have nothing to do with "how fast the Chinese can churn them out":
- When production begins
- The size of the production line
- The planned number of devices produced per day
- The scheduled dates for shipment waves
- The entire retail distribution channel
- The launch date
- The intended launch experience
The Chinese don't determine any of that. Apple does. Apple determines when they start making the product, and how many they make. They also determine when the 'launch' will take place.
You can blame Tim Cook, as the CEO is responsible for everything, but you can more acutely blame Ahrendts, because she was likely directly responsible for many of the above decisions. Doesn't matter what product you're launching...if you make a mistake with those decisions, you will botch your launch. Apple botched it.
You forgot to mention Yeild.
And Ahrendts' role is not manufacturing so you can blame her for very little of what you listed.
- Retail distribution systems - which actually would have been configured long before her arrival.
- The intended launch experience - this you might blame on her and then compound it with unknowable demand.
Ha! Yet another armchair blogger that believes Apple is at the mercy of is supply chain, and not the other way around.
Factors that Apple has direct control over that have nothing to do with "how fast the Chinese can churn them out":
- When production begins
- The size of the production line
- The planned number of devices produced per day
- The scheduled dates for shipment waves
- The entire retail distribution channel
- The launch date
- The intended launch experience
The Chinese don't determine any of that. Apple does. Apple determines when they start making the product, and how many they make. They also determine when the 'launch' will take place.
You can blame Tim Cook, as the CEO is responsible for everything, but you can more acutely blame Ahrendts, because she was likely directly responsible for many of the above decisions. Doesn't matter what product you're launching...if you make a mistake with those decisions, you will botch your launch. Apple botched it.
Most of that is manufacturing and not retail. So blaming Angela or anyone else is stupid. And you're also assuming all the components are sitting in warehouses ready to be used. You have no idea what the supply chain is like.
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This is the reason he doesn't work for apple or any big company most likely
Really nothing was late under Steve? Hmmmmm
Never missed? White iPhone, one of the OS X updates due to ios. Some revisionist history you have there.
Never missed? White iPhone, one of the OS X updates due to ios. Some revisionist history you have there.
Anyone who's been around for awhile can cite any number of screw-ups that occurred during the Saint Steve years. People can be so forgetful and binary. It's all either completely perfect or totally horrible.
Steve sure delivered on the 3GHz PowerPc. My PowerMac G9 say so.
Priceless , nothing more hilarious than a totally spoilt person pissed at the cheek of apple keeping him away from his favorite rattle. Considering all the life and death crap going on in the world, posts like this certainly show us exactly why the terrorists have a point!
So who did Steve fire when the white iPhone was months late?
You have no idea how mgmt works.
It didn't have enough inventory so it switched gears. No big issue. The worse thing to do was stay on course and have people lineup for no reason when supplies are limited.
Ha! Yet another armchair blogger that believes Apple is at the mercy of is supply chain, and not the other way around.
Factors that Apple has direct control over that have nothing to do with "how fast the Chinese can churn them out":
- When production begins
- The size of the production line
- The planned number of devices produced per day
- The scheduled dates for shipment waves
- The entire retail distribution channel
- The launch date
- The intended launch experience
The Chinese don't determine any of that. Apple does. Apple determines when they start making the product, and how many they make. They also determine when the 'launch' will take place.
You can blame Tim Cook, as the CEO is responsible for everything, but you can more acutely blame Ahrendts, because she was likely directly responsible for many of the above decisions. Doesn't matter what product you're launching...if you make a mistake with those decisions, you will botch your launch. Apple botched it.
You forgot to mention Yeild.
And Ahrendts' role is not manufacturing so you can blame her for very little of what you listed.
- Retail distribution systems - which actually would have been configured long before her arrival.
- The intended launch experience - this you might blame on her and then compound it with unknowable demand.
Most of that is manufacturing and not retail. So blaming Angela or anyone else is stupid. And you're also assuming all the components are sitting in warehouses ready to be used. You have no idea what the supply chain is like.