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I see a major problem at Apple. They are being run by committee. Tim Cook is not a visionary or entrepreneur at heart. He is a logistics guy. The best run tech
by nodesocket 10y ago
I see a major problem at Apple. They are being run by committee. Tim Cook is not a visionary or entrepreneur at heart. He is a logistics guy.
The best run technology companies are run by dictators with a strong technology and product background (Jobs, Elon Musk, Reed Hastings). Let me say it again... Yes dictator. You are never going to get a large group of people to agree on something, if you do it's watered down, compromised, and lacks ambition.
- draw_down 10y agoI think this is more about their growth than any of that. Things like routers and monitors just aren't worth making to them anymore. I'm not sure a different CEO would have seen things differently. I think a lot of people have seen this sort of thing coming, but I wonder if it's happening now because they're not breaking financial records every quarter anymore and want to cut non-essential (from their perspective) biz units. Recall that one of the first things Jobs did upon his return was to focus the product mix, and he got rid of lots of stuff. Cameras, printers, and most famously the Newton.
- dpark 10y agoYeah, but Jobs did that when the company was in steep decline and genuinely at risk of failing. The current Apple is in a very different place financially.
- draw_down 10y agoTrue. But he did that in order to refocus on the company on what was important to it.
- avar 10y agoI suspect that it's very deeply ingrained in their company culture that they need to maintain focus in order to continue to be successful. Apple was also very financially successful in the early 90s, which led to the massive product fragmentation which Jobs needed to be brought in to sort out.