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One of these three Apple executives will probably be Tim Cook's replacement
While I agree with many of your points on a musk and how successful he has been - the guy is an absolute genius. I see a lot of similarities between him and Jobs.discountopinion said:
Thank you, it is definitely an option. I suggest parking your likely personal views on Elon’s politics as it does not help your line of argument.Wesley_Hilliard said:
So you want to replace the CEO of one of the most profitable and globally popular companies on Earth that continually pumps out astronomically successful products with someone from one of the worst run companies in the history of silicon valley with one of the worst reputations on Earth?discountopinion said:Hey Jony, here’s a dopey idea - make someone outside of Apple the CEO. Someone who can act as a massive talent magnet in AI. Someone with incredible vision.
i sense that Apple would benefit from a 1997 Steve Jobs like entrance and transformation.
Apple has had decades of incredible profits and share price growth, only to stagnate and likely suffer from common corporate malaise. It would not be hard to imagine most staffers cruise their stock options rather than want to change the world.
Unpopular opinion - poach someone very senior from Tesla.
implement Elons work ethic and relentless innovation ethos.
i doubt you can get Elon but you can potentially get one of his protégées.Solid plan.
Perhaps a brief moment reviewing his track record of innovation and building world class engineering teams can help. It is unparalleled and don’t take my word for it, listen to luminaries in the business. Most people would be exceptional running just one of the portfolio of companies. Tesla is an exceptional company (or collection of companies rather) taking huge risks shaping and building markets.
Hence any protégée of Elon will have much of his innovation DNA which is what Apple needs to make a meaningful difference in the next couple of decades. This is the most evident on the software side where evolution speed has been a large meh for quite some time. Look at xAi moving from standstill to parity or leadership in model quality in about 2 years. Apple is slow coach evident of a stagnant company.
Tim Cook says that Apple will be best known for its Health work in the future (paraphrased). Well ok, Apple Watch is nice and all but sorry it pales with the real hard problems that Neuralink is tackling which has a reasonably good chance at game changing improvements in the quality of life for many people. Yep, its an Elon company
But also some glaring differences.Musk’s connections, visionary mentality, focus on innovation and success, along with ether efficiency in getting to market make him seem like a good fit in many ways.But there are some other aspects of his persona that could be a liability.A. He very publicly grts into political dogfights. Jobs was extremely careful to not do that. Though Steve had his bias behind the scenes, you never see him polarizing people where it was not necessary, no matter how strongly he may have felt personally. He knew Apple has a responsibility of being the best products for everyone. Not some favored group.It works with musk’s companies, but will not fly at Apple.B. Musk gets into personal spats in public. While we see countless politicians doing this nowadays, it’s no less petty than it ever was and belittles the image of companies represented by said leader. Neither Jobs nor z cook have done this. And Apple has been kept out of the mud as a result.C. Musk is known to kill things if they seem to struggle whereas Apple stands by its products rven if they aren’t blockbusters (AVP, various Mac models, services, Apple TV, etc) for a very long time. If a customer buys an Apple product thst doesn’t fare too well, they aren’t simply abandoned.D. Musk will take time from his CEO role to pursue political interests. No matter which side of the coin you’re on, he may have helped uncover waste and fraud, but his companies suffered in his absence. Neither Jobs nor Cook would ever do that. Apple is the ultimate priority. Musk would likely not see it that way.Ultimately, while Musk may have the genius and leadership chops to lead Apple, he seems to lack the moral character, discipline, and fortitude necessary to prioritize Apple above all other ambitions and see difficulties through for the sake of customers.Ultimately, it would be great to have a visionary CEO, but the reality is that tech has matured. This isn’t the dark ages of computing where literally every product to come out was an “innovation” because nothing really existed before. Now, we have exceeded science fiction in many ways. There’s not much left to do. AI isn’t even new tech. It’s scripts and algorithms (and piracy/plagiarism in many cases).If we could have a Tim Cook for another 15 years, it would be great. But the guy has earned the opportunity to enjoy the fruit of his labors. Whoever the next CEO is, it almost certainly will be someone within, someone who already has authority, the respect of his colleagues, and who will be recommended by Tim Cook personally. We may see this person at the next iPhone launch and begin to be “featured” publicly often from here on. I don’t see that being Federighi, Khan, or Ternus. But it’s someone in that general circle. Whether they lead the company for a decade plus is another matter. But it’s definitely not Elon Musk. Nor should it be.
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Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China
Apparently Liberty Mobile is the company behind the whole thing. And uses the same "graphic designers" as the licensed name service.
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Sonos abandons its streaming Apple TV rival even as it was in testing
Sonos must have figured it wanted to stay in business and that it’s not able to take on a money pit hobby like streaming.If you’re not a studio or a streaming pioneer, then you’ll just get killed. Apple was throwing money into a black hole for a long time building (sparse) content and may still not be seeing much in the way of ROI. and licensing from studios and brokers ain’t cheap. Not to mention it would take forever for Sonos to establish enough credibility to get customers. They’d have to go big on acquisitions, marketing, and then give their service away initially to with tie-in deals on speakers, phone plans, etc. to generate a sense of something worthwhile being there. And even then it may simply not catch on.Sonos should just stick with what they are good at. They don’t have the ecosystem to support something like this.
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Apple's C1 modem signals the end of its Qualcomm dependence
I doubt apple will be pursuing 5g only with this modem. They’ll need for for fallback and likely borrow the tech, leading to some fees paid to due the minefield of 5g patents.But 6g… that’s likely what apple is spending their respurces on, possibly being the first to get there and be a big part of setting the standard.
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China threatens App Store probe in retaliation for trade tensions
China showing its true colors.After cook invested insane amounts of money in the country snd looking to do more, they turn around and pull this - just to get back at someone else.Shameful.If China did things properly there wouldn’t be anything to worry about. Finally someone steps in and charts a course-correction.China can be upset, because they didn’t get their way. But if they want to escalate, they’ll find the gravy train no longer delivers to that area.
