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Apple under Cook has done all the cost-optimization things you would expect a COO-turned-CEO to do, but thus far it doesn't seem to have hurt their ability to c
by plorkyeran 5y ago
Apple under Cook has done all the cost-optimization things you would expect a COO-turned-CEO to do, but thus far it doesn't seem to have hurt their ability to continue to innovate and produce new high-quality products. A possible answer is that Tim Cook is simply much better at it than most CEOs, and understand where he can get away with a focus on cutting costs and where he can't. It may also be that they've just gotten lucky, or that Apple just had _that much_ momentum that a decade isn't long enough to start seeing problems.
- oblio 5y agoThe iPhone is one of those breakthrough devices that every person needs and probably needs to have on them at all times and they've converted that ubiquity into many adjacent markets. At this point the only way out for us, from both iOS and Android, is if they both miss the next big form factor, maybe smart glasses and AR/VR. Basically, the next OS.
- allie1 5y agoI am of the opinion it hasn't affected them YET. Just a lowly developer waiting for his MBP for over 11 weeks now, waiting for Intel's mobile Alder Lake to roll out so I can cancel my order and pick one up.