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Apple's Angela Ahrendts calls rumors of being Cook's successor 'fake news'
Intel is stagnating Macs and IGZO development is stagnating monitors. The monitor situation won't improve until Foxconn/Sharp come online, or LG has enough oxide-backed LCD capacity to work with Apple on monitors to their standards.wozwoz said:lkrupp said:
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.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" ...
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.
Cook's vision is still locked up in R&D like micro LED that you can't (or won't) see.
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Apple's Angela Ahrendts calls rumors of being Cook's successor 'fake news'
Apologies for returning your personal attack against Cook — he's just a "supply chain guy," great or not. Have you not seen or read him saying he's so excited about AR that he could scream? (I'm not going to look that up for you.) Have you not seen Apple buying up machine vision and AI companies left and right?78Bandit said:
Personal attacks aside, I stick by my belief that a company like Apple needs a visionary at the top, not a manager of processes implemented by a person who has been dead for years, and certainly not a fashion marketing expert. Apple needs a leader who is passionate about technology advancements and has a strong desire to make great, innovative products for as many people as possible. If Tim Cook is that person he hides it well. His focus seems to be on revenue growth, manufacturing efficiency, and social issues while he lets others in the company focus on product development. There certainly are "many visionary hardware people in his retinue" and it is one of them that needs to be groomed to be the next CEO.flaneur said:
Cook's various remarks on Augmented Reality alone refute your simplistic view. You are thinking like a typical left-brained Microsoftie.78Bandit said:Wow, kiss Apple good-bye if it does turn out to be true. Apple has already lost a lot of its innovative spirit with the death of Steve Jobs. Tim Cook is a great supply chain guy but is having difficulty doing much more than polishing the iPhone line as much as possible. To even suggest that a marketing executive whose experience is primarily in fashion goods would be an appropriate leader for one of the greatest technological companies in the world is ludicrous.
Apple would do well to take a note from Microsoft. Steve Balmer did his best to ruin it because he simply didn't have the technical ability to see where the company needed to be in five-to-ten years. Now they've finally got someone back in the big chair who has degrees in electrical engineering and computer science as well as an MBA. You need to be a high-level user of your company's products to be able to predict where the future lies. Nadella is doing a lot to turn Microsoft around.
Apple needs to be grooming a talented engineer with great design skills to be the next CEO.
Jobs left behind a design and vision PROCESS, an entire system of innovation that's basically centered on Ive-and-company's labs. (Even Ive's innovation and design strategies are distributed across the process/system.)
You can't see this working for another reason besides your hemispheric blindness to the big picture — the coming AR revolution depends on wearable screen technologies that aren't up to Apple's standards yet. Pay attention to micro LED development, along with the usual chip miniaturization from Apple. Cook knows exactly he's doing, and he has many visionary hardware people in his retinue.
There's a revolution coming — the next iPhone-like product or products — that you're oblivious to. Oh, and the idea of Ahrents as CEO is, like she says and you say, ludicrous. Unless they add some mechanism for hardware innovation to cover for her, the point being that hardware innovation is already established under Cook and Ive.
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Apple's Angela Ahrendts calls rumors of being Cook's successor 'fake news'
Cook's various remarks on Augmented Reality alone refute your simplistic view. You are thinking like a typical left-brained Microsoftie.78Bandit said:Wow, kiss Apple good-bye if it does turn out to be true. Apple has already lost a lot of its innovative spirit with the death of Steve Jobs. Tim Cook is a great supply chain guy but is having difficulty doing much more than polishing the iPhone line as much as possible. To even suggest that a marketing executive whose experience is primarily in fashion goods would be an appropriate leader for one of the greatest technological companies in the world is ludicrous.
Apple would do well to take a note from Microsoft. Steve Balmer did his best to ruin it because he simply didn't have the technical ability to see where the company needed to be in five-to-ten years. Now they've finally got someone back in the big chair who has degrees in electrical engineering and computer science as well as an MBA. You need to be a high-level user of your company's products to be able to predict where the future lies. Nadella is doing a lot to turn Microsoft around.
Apple needs to be grooming a talented engineer with great design skills to be the next CEO.
Jobs left behind a design and vision PROCESS, an entire system of innovation that's basically centered on Ive-and-company's labs. (Even Ive's innovation and design strategies are distributed across the process/system.)
You can't see this working for another reason besides your hemispheric blindness to the big picture — the coming AR revolution depends on wearable screen technologies that aren't up to Apple's standards yet. Pay attention to micro LED development, along with the usual chip miniaturization from Apple. Cook knows exactly he's doing, and he has many visionary hardware people in his retinue.
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Apple's Cook repeats benefits of AR in interview, says AR glasses tech not mature
Here's a link to the interview:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/apple-iphone-tim-cook-interview-features-new-augmented-reality-ar-arkit-a7993566.html
Edit: Not really the interview, but a write-up of it. Nice think piece from The Independent's tech editor.
Not to be missed are the hilarious comments. A collection of the bitterest hard-loser Brits that you could imagine. Worse than MacRumors.
Anyway, it strkes me that Tim is thinking about micro LED as the missing technology necessary for wearable AR, along with eye-tracking, which will allow the computer to sense exactly where in the 3D field you are looking. Combined with Search and something like Wikipedia, this would be totally revolutionary as an interface with the world.
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Report backs up claims of slow 3D sensor production for Apple's iPhone X
I'd say it was a risky move, and it may constrain sales, but it's way too soon to say it was a mistake. That depends on the outcome months from now. And Apple is always doing risk-prone moves like this. It's what make their products so desirable.80s_Apple_Guy said:If true this is a mistake on Apple's part IMO. If they couldn't get the parts in sufficient quantities they should have gone with alternate tech till it was ready. I get lower demand means better pricing and interest however if a large majority or even most people can't get the phone until several months into next year that's going to get a lot of people angry.
