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I saw some snap reactions that boiled down to “he doesn’t want to deal with the potential antitrust firestorm”, but also, the guy is 60, and has worked at what

I saw some snap reactions that boiled down to “he doesn’t want to deal with the potential antitrust firestorm”, but also, the guy is 60, and has worked at what I can imagine must be a frenetic pace for like 30 years, and maybe he just wants to slow down a bit.

guywithabike 6y ago
He's also still head of the App Store which is the center of the majority of the antitrust firestorm, so it honestly looks more like he'll be able to focus on that for now.
- MBCook 6y ago
  Steve Troughton-Smith suggested on Twitter that he may keep that role only so that they can fire him as a sacrificial lamb when the anti-trust hammer comes down.
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  - _qulr 6y ago
    Tim Cook just gave a full-throated defense of the App Store under oath before Congress. There's no possibility of Tim making Phil the fall guy. Tim owns this now.
  - valuearb 6y ago
    Steve Troughton-Smith is wish casting really hard there.
microtherion 6y ago
He wouldn't have to "deal with the potential antitrust firestorm" anyway. Apple has perfectly capable legal and government relations departments for that.
- bengale 6y ago
  There is some pretty impressive fantasy politics going on around this anti-trust stuff. As you say they have departments full of people that deal with all of this, except the times when Cook needs to essentially present their work. On top of that, nothing is going to happen anyway. Even if in a few years of the process they decide to make changes it'll be a few more years before anything is legislated. So even if people that think what's going on needs to change get everything they want, realistically, it won't be until later in the decade until anything starts to move. It must have something to do with the way politics is presented to the masses these days, but it's not a TV show. Playing guess the plot line doesn't really work.

guywithabike 6y ago

He's also still head of the App Store which is the center of the majority of the antitrust firestorm, so it honestly looks more like he'll be able to focus on that for now.

MBCook 6y ago
Steve Troughton-Smith suggested on Twitter that he may keep that role only so that they can fire him as a sacrificial lamb when the anti-trust hammer comes down.
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- _qulr 6y ago
  Tim Cook just gave a full-throated defense of the App Store under oath before Congress. There's no possibility of Tim making Phil the fall guy. Tim owns this now.
- valuearb 6y ago
  Steve Troughton-Smith is wish casting really hard there.

microtherion 6y ago

He wouldn't have to "deal with the potential antitrust firestorm" anyway. Apple has perfectly capable legal and government relations departments for that.

bengale 6y ago
There is some pretty impressive fantasy politics going on around this anti-trust stuff. As you say they have departments full of people that deal with all of this, except the times when Cook needs to essentially present their work. On top of that, nothing is going to happen anyway. Even if in a few years of the process they decide to make changes it'll be a few more years before anything is legislated. So even if people that think what's going on needs to change get everything they want, realistically, it won't be until later in the decade until anything starts to move. It must have something to do with the way politics is presented to the masses these days, but it's not a TV show. Playing guess the plot line doesn't really work.