For goodness sakes it is like the negative nellies on here have never left for a promotion or something. There is a limit to how high "the head of Apple Music" can rise at Apple, especially in a relatively short time if she is one of those "never stay in one place more than 5 years" types. But at Uber this is a significant promotion and if she succeeds she could jump into the top executive ranks. If she fails ... well hey let's face it she is already rich so who cares, she'll be fine and it isn't as if she won't be able to get another job. If nothing else she could go to Google and do something with the mess that is Play Music (almost as much a lost cause as Uber). So this is no big deal. Just climbing the corporate ladder, which is what a lot of folks did when they joined Apple in the first place.
It's the surprise to see someone move from a company that, despite its faults -- as any organisation would have --, has striven to rise above the rest in its ethics of production and focus on value creation that benefits its users to one that seems to embody the very worst of corporate culture.
I myself thought about actually writing her directly to ask if she wanted to re-think her decision. I find it baffling.
For goodness sakes it is like the negative nellies on here have never left for a promotion or something. There is a limit to how high "the head of Apple Music" can rise at Apple, especially in a relatively short time if she is one of those "never stay in one place more than 5 years" types. But at Uber this is a significant promotion and if she succeeds she could jump into the top executive ranks. If she fails ... well hey let's face it she is already rich so who cares, she'll be fine and it isn't as if she won't be able to get another job. If nothing else she could go to Google and do something with the mess that is Play Music (almost as much a lost cause as Uber). So this is no big deal. Just climbing the corporate ladder, which is what a lot of folks did when they joined Apple in the first place.
It's the surprise to see someone move from a company that, despite its faults -- as any organisation would have --, has striven to rise above the rest in its ethics of production and focus on value creation that benefits its users to one that seems to embody the very worst of corporate culture.
I myself thought about actually writing her directly to ask if she wanted to re-think her decision. I find it baffling.
OR ... Uber is a great idea that has the potential to revolutionize the industry and market, create a ton of entrepreneurs who are able to earn extra money - or support themselves entirely - while setting their own hours and operating independently and offer great value and convenience to its consumers but is seeing its potential ruined by a combination of:
A) a bad executive/management/PR team existing companies who are no more in favor of disruption than IBM, Sony, media/cable companies, Microsoft, mobile companies etc. were when Apple disrupted those industries with the Macintosh/iPod/iTunes/iPhone. Oh yes and tried to do with next-gen Apple TV but was blocked by regulators, cable companies and content creators working together to protect their own turf from the new industry that Apple was trying to create (similar to Uber is doing now). C) political types who dislike innovation in general and in particular dislike the way that Uber's business model allows them to evade regulations. Keep in mind: these same people hate pretty much everyone who is successful ... oil companies, tobacco companies, soft drink companies, McDonalds, Wal-Mart and APPLE have been targets of theirs in the not-too-recent past. Then they shifted to Google and Yahoo over the Snowden stuff, and then Google and Facebook over the 2016 election ... you name it. I am not saying that Uber is entirely innocent but there is a definite pattern here. And Uber should have the ability to correct their problems just as other companies have, and this includes companies whose actions resulted in lots of people getting seriously ill, maimed or killed via their products or actions. It is amazing: compare the things that Uber is accused of with how cab companies operate and a lot of the things that cab drivers do. The anti-Uber types focus on one and not the other because the latter is far more regulated. Even better: compare the accusations against Uber to the stuff that goes on in a ton of public school districts, municipal governments and especially the nonprofit organizations that these people support. They wouldn't be able to stand up to the same scrutiny that they subject Uber - and whoever else they will decide that they do not like this week - to.
Apple had problems in the not too distant past - you know the whole nearly going bankrupt and out of business thing ... it got so bad that Microsoft gave them money to stay in business because Microsoft felt that Apple's continued existence would keep the anti trust regulators from doing to them what was done to AT&T - and got the chance to bring in a bunch of new people (and a few old ones!) who saved the company and put it on track to being what it is now.
An Uber that cleans up their problems and makes money would be the best revenge on these types and if Bozoma is a part of it good for her.
For goodness sakes it is like the negative nellies on here have never left for a promotion or something. There is a limit to how high "the head of Apple Music" can rise at Apple, especially in a relatively short time if she is one of those "never stay in one place more than 5 years" types. But at Uber this is a significant promotion and if she succeeds she could jump into the top executive ranks. If she fails ... well hey let's face it she is already rich so who cares, she'll be fine and it isn't as if she won't be able to get another job. If nothing else she could go to Google and do something with the mess that is Play Music (almost as much a lost cause as Uber). So this is no big deal. Just climbing the corporate ladder, which is what a lot of folks did when they joined Apple in the first place.
It's the surprise to see someone move from a company that, despite its faults -- as any organisation would have --, has striven to rise above the rest in its ethics of production and focus on value creation that benefits its users to one that seems to embody the very worst of corporate culture.
I myself thought about actually writing her directly to ask if she wanted to re-think her decision. I find it baffling.
Are you kidding? You don't know her or her motivation. Don't be daft.
What does that say about her, going to a company with a image issue especially how it treats women and employees let along the fact those who drive for them hardly make minimum wage after you take out all the costs they incur. Does she think she will be able to turn this company and how it treats people by changing its external image. Lets be real here. if I was success business woman and asked to go to a company which did what they are alleged to have done I would steer away from it. They are just using her to say they have changed.
I am not say she is not talented, but I think her success backed by Apple's money and other people's work all add to her success went to her head. Just because she was involved in Apple Music and Apple money and pass successess open doors for her does not mean she will do the same at Uber. We all have seen it before, people leave apple thinking they will be successful on their own. Who was the guy that was going to turn JC penny around, but forgot all the Apple store success was really Job's doing.
I thought she was hopeless at the Apple presentations ... maybe she can do better elsewhere.
That's an interesting perspective. I thought she was the best presenter on the stage at that event.
She was charismatic. She was joyful. Her humor may have been scripted, but it wasn't forced like it was with Eddy Cue's prior presentations. Given her history in music, she was well-qualified to present the content she was demonstrating. Honestly, this year's keynote went by so quickly that I can't even recall who touched on Apple Music this year, and I was typing in the liveblog as it happened.
It's probably not good that this year's presenters weren't as memorable. The only thing that really stood out among presenters this year was how much weight Phil Schiller appears to have lost.
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I myself thought about actually writing her directly to ask if she wanted to re-think her decision. I find it baffling.
A) a bad executive/management/PR team
C) political types who dislike innovation in general and in particular dislike the way that Uber's business model allows them to evade regulations. Keep in mind: these same people hate pretty much everyone who is successful ... oil companies, tobacco companies, soft drink companies, McDonalds, Wal-Mart and APPLE have been targets of theirs in the not-too-recent past. Then they shifted to Google and Yahoo over the Snowden stuff, and then Google and Facebook over the 2016 election ... you name it. I am not saying that Uber is entirely innocent but there is a definite pattern here. And Uber should have the ability to correct their problems just as other companies have, and this includes companies whose actions resulted in lots of people getting seriously ill, maimed or killed via their products or actions. It is amazing: compare the things that Uber is accused of with how cab companies operate and a lot of the things that cab drivers do. The anti-Uber types focus on one and not the other because the latter is far more regulated. Even better: compare the accusations against Uber to the stuff that goes on in a ton of public school districts, municipal governments and especially the nonprofit organizations that these people support. They wouldn't be able to stand up to the same scrutiny that they subject Uber - and whoever else they will decide that they do not like this week - to.
Apple had problems in the not too distant past - you know the whole nearly going bankrupt and out of business thing ... it got so bad that Microsoft gave them money to stay in business because Microsoft felt that Apple's continued existence would keep the anti trust regulators from doing to them what was done to AT&T - and got the chance to bring in a bunch of new people (and a few old ones!) who saved the company and put it on track to being what it is now.
An Uber that cleans up their problems and makes money would be the best revenge on these types and if Bozoma is a part of it good for her.
What does that say about her, going to a company with a image issue especially how it treats women and employees let along the fact those who drive for them hardly make minimum wage after you take out all the costs they incur. Does she think she will be able to turn this company and how it treats people by changing its external image. Lets be real here. if I was success business woman and asked to go to a company which did what they are alleged to have done I would steer away from it. They are just using her to say they have changed.
I am not say she is not talented, but I think her success backed by Apple's money and other people's work all add to her success went to her head. Just because she was involved in Apple Music and Apple money and pass successess open doors for her does not mean she will do the same at Uber. We all have seen it before, people leave apple thinking they will be successful on their own. Who was the guy that was going to turn JC penny around, but forgot all the Apple store success was really Job's doing.
She was charismatic. She was joyful. Her humor may have been scripted, but it wasn't forced like it was with Eddy Cue's prior presentations. Given her history in music, she was well-qualified to present the content she was demonstrating. Honestly, this year's keynote went by so quickly that I can't even recall who touched on Apple Music this year, and I was typing in the liveblog as it happened.
It's probably not good that this year's presenters weren't as memorable. The only thing that really stood out among presenters this year was how much weight Phil Schiller appears to have lost.