Oh please let this mean iCloud is being transferred under Craig Federighi.
Like he doesn't have enough on his plate already. I think a better way would be is to make Eddy Cue SVP of Apple Software / Services (Music, Movies, TV, iWork / iLife apps, Pro Apps) and have an SVP of iCloud
Except Eddy Cue can't get himself out of a wet paper bag when it comes to managing anything at Apple....hence why everything he manages ends up under someone else and then succeeds.
Oh sure, yeah that’s why his boss and the entire board keep him on staff and give him multi million dollar bonuses. Because that’s what your boss would do if you were incompetent, right?!
Nope. Just because you and your online friends like to read rumors and play armchair executive on websites doesn’t mean the things you say are remotely close to factual. You’re a guy on a fan site, about as far removed from the business and reality as you can get. But but but rumors say...!
I have yet to have anyone explain to me what he actually does then....nobody!
Oh please let this mean iCloud is being transferred under Craig Federighi.
Like he doesn't have enough on his plate already. I think a better way would be is to make Eddy Cue SVP of Apple Software / Services (Music, Movies, TV, iWork / iLife apps, Pro Apps) and have an SVP of iCloud
Except Eddy Cue can't get himself out of a wet paper bag when it comes to managing anything at Apple....hence why everything he manages ends up under someone else and then succeeds.
Oh sure, yeah that’s why his boss and the entire board keep him on staff and give him multi million dollar bonuses. Because that’s what your boss would do if you were incompetent, right?!
Nope. Just because you and your online friends like to read rumors and play armchair executive on websites doesn’t mean the things you say are remotely close to factual. You’re a guy on a fan site, about as far removed from the business and reality as you can get. But but but rumors say...!
Steve Ballmer is a billionaire. I guess that’s means he was a brilliant leader of Microsoft.
This has been coming for awhile. Apple has been in the process of building data centers. I think they wanted to move a lot faster in deploying them and perhaps this guy wasn't doing it fast enough.
Apple knows its future profits will be in services. The writing has been on the wall for a long time.
The profit from services will not be greater than their hardware profit, where they make the vast majority of their money. Just look at Netflix.
Depends on r&d costs for hardware. Apple may end up making more money in profit thru iCloud services and shrewd negotiation with content with Apple Music and Apple TV services that may result in a subscription based service for 4K content from Apple.
Oh please let this mean iCloud is being transferred under Craig Federighi.
Like he doesn't have enough on his plate already. I think a better way would be is to make Eddy Cue SVP of Apple Software / Services (Music, Movies, TV, iWork / iLife apps, Pro Apps) and have an SVP of iCloud
Except Eddy Cue can't get himself out of a wet paper bag when it comes to managing anything at Apple....hence why everything he manages ends up under someone else and then succeeds.
Oh sure, yeah that’s why his boss and the entire board keep him on staff and give him multi million dollar bonuses. Because that’s what your boss would do if you were incompetent, right?!
Nope. Just because you and your online friends like to read rumors and play armchair executive on websites doesn’t mean the things you say are remotely close to factual. You’re a guy on a fan site, about as far removed from the business and reality as you can get. But but but rumors say...!
Steve Ballmer is a billionaire. I guess that’s means he was a brilliant leader of Microsoft.
He still doesn't want to tell me what Eddy Cue actually does or how its a valuable asset to Apple. Nobody can tell me. They can only half-ass defend him.
Oh please let this mean iCloud is being transferred under Craig Federighi.
Like he doesn't have enough on his plate already. I think a better way would be is to make Eddy Cue SVP of Apple Software / Services (Music, Movies, TV, iWork / iLife apps, Pro Apps) and have an SVP of iCloud
Except Eddy Cue can't get himself out of a wet paper bag when it comes to managing anything at Apple....hence why everything he manages ends up under someone else and then succeeds.
Oh sure, yeah that’s why his boss and the entire board keep him on staff and give him multi million dollar bonuses. Because that’s what your boss would do if you were incompetent, right?!
Nope. Just because you and your online friends like to read rumors and play armchair executive on websites doesn’t mean the things you say are remotely close to factual. You’re a guy on a fan site, about as far removed from the business and reality as you can get. But but but rumors say...!
Steve Ballmer is a billionaire. I guess that’s means he was a brilliant leader of Microsoft.
He still doesn't want to tell me what Eddy Cue actually does or how its a valuable asset to Apple. Nobody can tell me. They can only half-ass defend him.
You can ask the same about any of Apple's employees. What's Bob Mansfield/Craig Federighi/Jony Ive/Greg Joswiak doing all day? Nobody knows, so being critical of them when people literally know nothing about what any of them are doing is pretty silly. Eddy Cue could be the brains behind the whole operation or he could be drunk and/or asleep most of the time. There's a whole series of operations with thousands of employees under each of the SVPs. At the very least, they are managing all of those people. They are each only individuals and can only put in the same hours as any other individual and managers typically don't do the actual legwork, they tell other people to do that.
People who are critical of Cue should examine why they are annoyed at him, what is it they think he's doing or not doing that is annoying them? If it's the state of the services he manages like Apple Music, iCloud etc, the services are run by teams of people. When there's a service outage, it's not Eddy Cue that caused it to happen. All he can do is find the people responsible for it and deal with them like he did with Maps at one point:
What's more important for managers at the top is their people management skills and decision making skills and they need to be trusted that they'll make the best decisions. A lot of managers don't care one bit about the companies they work for, they want to deliver a good performance on paper so they can show off their merit badge. Apple doesn't need people like this (Browett etc). The top staff at Apple are all multi-millionaires, some close to billionaires, they can walk away from the job any time they want. Why do they willingly go into a difficult high responsibility job every day when they can just walk away and live a life of luxury? There's no way they're doing it for even more money that they'll never know what to do with. They are emotionally invested in the company and want to see it being run the way it was intended and Cue has shown as much of that dedication as any of the other top level people.
Oh please let this mean iCloud is being transferred under Craig Federighi.
What that basically means is that Apple now has its own Internal PaaS (
Platform as a Services ). The Platform will ( or hopefully ) evolve
independent of the Product running on top of it like Siri, iTunes, etc.
I wrote that in 2015. I guess it takes two years for Apple management to realize the obvious. At least now we have the confirmation iTunes, iCloud will move to Siri's infrastructure. Better late then never. ( Sigh )
Classic armchair executive fallacy — you forget ideas are the easy part, implementation is the hard part. Anybody can say somebody should do a thing. But it takes massive planning and talent to do the thing, especially if we’re talking migrating an entire platform used by millions and millions and millions of people.
Let just say when I wrote it in 2015, it was already obvious, and it was late. It wasn't something brand new. And it took them two year for them to act, not finished. Mesos was started because of Borg, an Internal Google tools wasn't available anywhere, that was 2009, and 2-3 years after being used in Google, We are talking about nearly decade worth of work.
And on services and Cloud, I also wrote a long time ago, if it wasn't Google and Amazon setting the bar so high, Apple's Cloud Services would still have been fine. And because they have SO MUCH to learn about these Web Scale services that is why it is better to start early.
One reason recently unveiled was that Internally Apple wanted to have Swift to be used in their Backend, but they never had their ABI settled and any library for web services simply wasn't there.
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People who are critical of Cue should examine why they are annoyed at him, what is it they think he's doing or not doing that is annoying them? If it's the state of the services he manages like Apple Music, iCloud etc, the services are run by teams of people. When there's a service outage, it's not Eddy Cue that caused it to happen. All he can do is find the people responsible for it and deal with them like he did with Maps at one point:
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2223578/data-center/apple-s-eddy-cue-fires-head-of-ios-maps-team.html
What's more important for managers at the top is their people management skills and decision making skills and they need to be trusted that they'll make the best decisions. A lot of managers don't care one bit about the companies they work for, they want to deliver a good performance on paper so they can show off their merit badge. Apple doesn't need people like this (Browett etc). The top staff at Apple are all multi-millionaires, some close to billionaires, they can walk away from the job any time they want. Why do they willingly go into a difficult high responsibility job every day when they can just walk away and live a life of luxury? There's no way they're doing it for even more money that they'll never know what to do with. They are emotionally invested in the company and want to see it being run the way it was intended and Cue has shown as much of that dedication as any of the other top level people.