mikethemartian

Wesley Hilliard said:

9secondkox2 said:

Tim’s ai, headset, and car haven’t panned out so far. 

Would love to see a return to the days of Apple not releasing something until it’s 100% ready and captivating. I’ll give Cook’s car a pass since it was never officially announced. 

Even the watch was closely guarded. And it was a success when it finally launched. A return to form in that regard would be most welcome. 

No more public experiments and betas please. 

I'll never understand what people mean when they say this other than "I don't like it so it didn't pan out." By what metrics are you measuring the panning? 

Other than delaying one feature, Apple Intelligence is doing fine. Apple didn't promise a sentient machine like others in the space did. Is that a bad thing? Them delaying something that isn't ready instead of releasing it anyway is exactly what you're asking Apple to do, yet you're criticizing them for it.

And unless you know something about how Apple Vision Pro has done so far and Apple's expectation for the product, there's no way of knowing "how it panned out." It's been pretty awesome from my perspective.

charlesn said:

Totally not surprised this happened although I didn't expect it to take this long. Tim Cook is the proverbial iron fist in a velvet glove. It's worth recounting this tale from an urgent meeting Cook had called:

"One day back then, he convened a meeting with his team, and the discussion turned to a particular problem in Asia. “This is really bad,” Cook told the group. “Someone should be in China driving this.” Thirty minutes into that meeting Cook looked at Sabih Khan, a key operations executive, and abruptly asked, without a trace of emotion, “Why are you still here?”

Khan, who remains one of Cook’s top lieutenants to this day, immediately stood up, drove to San Francisco International Airport, and, without a change of clothes, booked a flight to China with no return date, according to people familiar with the episode. The story is vintage Cook: demanding and unemotional."

macxpress said:

The Apple Intelligence rollout reminds of iTools which had a very rough rollout and wasn't widely accepted, then switched to .Mac which was better but still not create, which was switched to mobileMe which was a little better and now iCloud which still isn't 100% but works pretty well for what it does. BTW this was all under Steve Jobs so I guess we should have fired him too by how some people are calling for Tim Cook to step down. 

Nobody needs to be fired. They just need to take the feedback, learn from it and make appropriate changes to make it better. I think people have very unrealistic expectations of new services. They seem to expect everything to be perfect and great out of the gate and that's usually never the case. Apple has very talented people working for them and they can make changes and make it better than is today. We also don't know why features are delayed, why things are the way they currently are, etc. 

I just don't get this well something failed out of the gate so people need to be fired! How would you like if you were fired because something didn't work quite right out of the gate and perhaps it wasn't even your fault (or anyone's fault directly)?