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lkrupp said:

78Bandit said:

Apple needs to be grooming a talented engineer with great design skills to be the next CEO.

CEOs need to know how to run a business, not engineer and design. Jobs was a visionary, not a coder, not an engineer, and not a designer. He had Woz first and then Ive. Tim Cook is doing a great job. And by the way, try thinking for your self instead of parroting the troll army talking points about innovation, Cook being a supply chain guy, and Jobs being dead. Those memes have been making the rounds ever since Cook took over and they don’t hold water.

"CEOs need to know how to run a business, not engineer and design"  ...

It's that sort of rubbish that saw Apple replace Steve Jobs with the likes of Sculley - which almost resulted in bankruptcy. To run a company like Apple, you need to understand technology - not handbags or accountancy. I don't think Tim Cook has any vision - I think the Mac is lost on him - he's a number cruncher, a bean counter living off Steve's legacy of creativity. The Mac is stagnating under Cook - and the only time he ever gets things going is when user forums / press complain about product stagnation at Apple:  other than that, all we see is new colours of iPhones and smiley poos. That's not tech - it is crass commercialism gone wrong. Cook has destroyed the very concept that Jobs created of the Apple product 'eco-centre' providing integrated hardware and software. You can't even buy an Apple monitor anymore - which frankly illustrates that he has no clue.

First BREXIT ... next:  IREXIT

The performance comparison to the 2016 Macbook is very helpful. Many thanks. That by itself makes a perfect review -- only missing perhaps is a comparison of the 2017 1.2GHz to 2017 1.3GHz models. The comparison of the Macbook to the Macbook Pro is, in my view, confused. If power matters, and portability does not, then buy yourself a Mac Pro or top end iMac. The Macbook Pro may have extra ports, larger screen etc, but aside from weight, it loses out on its chunky square design which is frankly ergonomically inferior to the far superior wedge shaped Macbook and Macbook Air designs, both of which are a pleasure to rest your wrists on.

adios

I thought she was hopeless at the Apple presentations ... maybe she can do better elsewhere.