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Personally, I'd hate to have his position. I can't imagine the pressure of trying to fill the shoes of Steve.

beamatronic 10y ago
All he has to do, really, is just not fuck up what Steve built. Focus on continuous iteration of all profitable products. Maybe introduce a few new ones, but make sure they are best-of-breed, premium products. Apple's status quo is (was) elegance and excellence.
- harryh 10y ago
  This is wrong. It's the tech industry. The world changes fast and requires companies to make big bets if they want to stay on top.
  - beamatronic 10y ago
    Well one kind of big bet is "Let's make 1 TB of RAM standard on all Mac Book Pros" and another kind of big bet is "Let's remove keys and connector ports", so I would have to say I prefer the first kind of big bet.
    - harryh 10y ago
      Neither one of those are big bets. A big bet is abandoning a major product line in favor of a speculative one.
existencebox 10y ago
People always say this about CEOs, but I'd take that position in an instant. I'd let someone rake hot coals over my face for 100m+ (frankly, for 10m+ as well) The problem I find is ever climbing that ladder without being in an extremely lucky position. I've had a career track I'm both proud and grateful of, and still see no "feasible" route to ever having even orders of magnitude less than that sort of earning potential short of winning the lottery (real or startup, take your pick.) I'm sure I'll get the traditional rebuttle of "but CEO's provide some service worth xxxm"/"the job is so much more difficult" but what little research I've found on correlation of executive salary to performance has disagreed, and I'd respond with the somewhat engineer-centric answer that without a CEO, you still have a product. Without your line devs, you have nothing but a talking head.
- atomi 10y ago
  Money fetishization. I personally would rather be middle class and supporting something that improves the lives of all people than having exhorbitant personal wealth that insulates you from reality. Look at money as a means to an end and it becomes less of a fetish.
xj9 10y ago
I would love to be there, even if i failed, it would be fun to steer the thing.

All he has to do, really, is just not fuck up what Steve built. Focus on continuous iteration of all profitable products. Maybe introduce a few new ones, but make sure they are best-of-breed, premium products. Apple's status quo is (was) elegance and excellence.

harryh 10y ago
This is wrong. It's the tech industry. The world changes fast and requires companies to make big bets if they want to stay on top.
- beamatronic 10y ago
  Well one kind of big bet is "Let's make 1 TB of RAM standard on all Mac Book Pros" and another kind of big bet is "Let's remove keys and connector ports", so I would have to say I prefer the first kind of big bet.
  - harryh 10y ago
    Neither one of those are big bets. A big bet is abandoning a major product line in favor of a speculative one.

existencebox 10y ago

People always say this about CEOs, but I'd take that position in an instant. I'd let someone rake hot coals over my face for 100m+ (frankly, for 10m+ as well) The problem I find is ever climbing that ladder without being in an extremely lucky position. I've had a career track I'm both proud and grateful of, and still see no "feasible" route to ever having even orders of magnitude less than that sort of earning potential short of winning the lottery (real or startup, take your pick.) I'm sure I'll get the traditional rebuttle of "but CEO's provide some service worth xxxm"/"the job is so much more difficult" but what little research I've found on correlation of executive salary to performance has disagreed, and I'd respond with the somewhat engineer-centric answer that without a CEO, you still have a product. Without your line devs, you have nothing but a talking head.

atomi 10y ago
Money fetishization. I personally would rather be middle class and supporting something that improves the lives of all people than having exhorbitant personal wealth that insulates you from reality. Look at money as a means to an end and it becomes less of a fetish.

xj9 10y ago

I would love to be there, even if i failed, it would be fun to steer the thing.