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Apple and Microsoft are arguably much better off today with their new leaders than they might've been. I don't see your point? I think Facebook, too, could use
by hbosch 6y ago
Apple and Microsoft are arguably much better off today with their new leaders than they might've been. I don't see your point?
I think Facebook, too, could use a new face at the top as a matter of fact.
- ianai 6y agoI think it’s more the case that so many years have passed that it’s not like they were likely to fail. They just failed to succeed quite as much as their original CEOs could have made them. Steve left Tim a cash machine.
- telltruth 6y agoThey are not. On the surface revenues keeps growing, profits are enormous but underneath there are virtually no new product lines. If you look at Microsoft of 1990s, there were new $1B business each year - MSSQL, Sharepoint, Dynamics etc etc. For Apple, Jobs made it a point for one new product line every 2-3 years. For Google, you had new stuff like Gmail, Maps keep coming. Now its mostly barren land. Amazon had a lot going on with Alexa, pharmacy, Fire tablets, prime video etc. Don't expect these stuff 2-3 years down the road with new business suit at the helm. There are real impact of not having a "product person" at helm. Business suits will squeeze out revenues and profits no matter what but there are no more tech that truly leap frogs existing art.
- ianai 6y agoExactly. Expect Prime membership to cost more and deliver less. New suits aren’t going to be beholden to Jeff’s mode of thinking and this historical precedent. We may well see Video culled outright or spun off into another media subscription, etc.
- hbosch 6y agoI think consistently improving existing products is just as good as, and oftentimes preferable to, creating entirely new products.