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Apple doesn't need Steve. Tim Cook is doing a great job.

• Cthulhu_ 8y ago
  You say this tongue-in-cheek but Apple's market value and revenue multiplied five-fold since Jobs died so Cook is doing something right.
  • sjwright 8y ago
    A fair observation, though you could equally argue that Apple's market value and revenue is almost entirely the result of evolutionary progression of ideas already in play during Jobs' lifetime. But for all their present economic success there has been a subtle yet distinct erosion of product clarity and software quality since his passing. Take 3D touch as an example: a great idea in theory but from a UX perspective it's just a bunch of hidden easter eggs. Or the iOS flat UI which sometimes gives zero affordance to the tapability of many elements. Another one: Watch was released with a whole pile of bad assumptions[1] and basically hoping that a market would darwinistically emerge. Luckily one did—fitness and heart health. It could just have easily been an epic flop. [1] Wrapping the equivalent of an iPhone 2G or Macintosh 128k in 18-karat gold. With zero upgrade path. Seriously? Did they really think a first generation wrist gadget was going to be purchased as an heirloom? (And it gets magnificently worse with their rose gold, where the same expensive raw material is chemically molested to look nothing like what anyone would interpret as expensive.)