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  • The next Apple CEO: Who could succeed Tim Cook?

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    nubus said:
    9secondkox2 said:
    Forstall would not have made a great ceo. He was great at attaching himself to people in power and playing the game. He gets a lot of miles out of being the team lead over the iOS fork that was built on Mac OS. But that’s his claim to fame. After that, crickets. Before that, crickets. Oh and that initial maps hiccup that took forever to be forgotten. And since then? What? Broadway? Nah. Not missing much. Even as a presenter, he was super awkward. 

    Joz is brilliant guy and it seems he’s been groomed for the ceo role for a while. He knows enough of the business complexities, is careful with media, and cares about what made apple what it is. He’s the number one pick I’m sure. 
    Fully agree about Forstall after how he handled Maps. He did the wrong thing. Joz... we simply can't have one more COO going CEO at Apple. This is not HP. I would rather see Michael Dell. He reimagined distribution using tech from NeXT (later Apple used the same for their online shop), started from nothing, and well... he worked with Jobs. However, it likely is going to be a corporate insider, and the COO is the most likely candidate. It would however be nice to have one with a vision for the products and one that wouldn't accept 10 years of Car-to-nowhere or 6 years of butterfly keyboards. One that can push us forward and is better at global politics than Cook without being Elon Musk.
    Joz is not COO.  He's SVP of Worldwide Marketing.
    tht

  • The next Apple CEO: Who could succeed Tim Cook?

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    tht said:
    I thought Jeff Williams had a deputy that is the de facto COO. The person who does the day-to-day running of Apple which allows Williams to be the C-suite operations strategist and allows him to lead all the other things he has to manage. The blood-glucose sensor for the Apple Watch is one of those high payoff R&D tech projects that warrants a push.

    It's definitely Jeff Williams in the immediate future. He will be acting CEO if Cook decides to take a one month vacation. Sometime after 5 years? Who knows. A lot can happen in 5 years, like the retirement of most of the 60+ year olds on this list. Not mentioned on the list is Mike Rockwell, who led the Vision work, and is in control of all the special technology projects at Apple, no?

    Too bad Scott Forstall is done as a tech manager. I think in hindsight, it was a huge fork in the road when Cook decided to keep Jony Ive over Scott Forstall. There have been excesses in "design" from Apple in the past 10 years while there would have been differently things happening everywhere. Swift would be different if Forstall was SVP of software at Apple. The iPads would have more PC features. Machine learning would be further ahead.

    I'd like to see a more computer oriented product person be the CEO. 
    "Too bad Scott Forstall is done as a tech manager. I think in hindsight, it was a huge fork in the road when Cook decided to keep Jony Ive over Scott Forstall. There have been excesses in "design" from Apple in the past 10 years while there would have been differently things happening everywhere. Swift would be different if Forstall was SVP of software at Apple. The iPads would have more PC features. Machine learning would be further ahead."

    Completely agree with this except for the part of Forstall being done as a tech manager. I still think there's a chance he could come back and he deserves a look as a possible CEO for Apple.  Another "outsider" who I think deserves a look is Tony Fadell.  He's one of the few ex-Apple execs who's done well for himself post-Apple.
    9secondkox2nubusbyronl

  • Apple's failed 'Project Titan' was a Full Self Driving gamble

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    chasm said:
    canukstorm said:

    Apple, in the last 10 years bet on the wrong horse.  They bet on autonomous systems while the world was heading towards generative AI. 

    Nobody in the automotive industry was "heading" towards generative AI in 2014.
    That's not what I said.  Read it again.
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  • Apple's failed 'Project Titan' was a Full Self Driving gamble

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    "The way we've succeeded is by choosing what horses to ride really carefully, technically. We try to look for these technical vectors that have a future, and that are headed up. And you know, technology, different pieces of technology kind of go in cycles. They have their springs and summers and autumns, and then they go to the graveyard of technology.

    And so we try to pick things that are in their springs. And if you choose wisely you can save yourself an enormous amount of work versus trying to do everything.

    ... Sometimes you just have to pick the things that look like they're going to be the right horses to ride going forward."


    -- Steve Jobs, June 2010 (Has Apple, Inc. Been Betting on the Wrong Technology All These Years? | The Motley Fool)

    Apple, in the last 10 years bet on the wrong horse.  They bet on autonomous systems while the world was heading towards generative AI.  That said, I still think Apple should have made a go in the EV market even if it only had Level 2 autonomy.  Like the rest of their product lineup, they could iterate over time.  I would be more interested in seeing an Apple Car than a Vision Pro.

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  • Forty years of the Mac, the computer for the rest of us

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    The mantle of "computer for the rest of us" has passed on to the iPhone & iPad. The Mac has now graduated to being high-end tool for professional users. 
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