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> If anything, under Cook, Apple more consistently achieves near-perfection. Tolerances are tighter. Ship dates seldom slip. I'm surprised that Gruber doesn't
by pazimzadeh 2y ago
> If anything, under Cook, Apple more consistently achieves near-perfection. Tolerances are tighter. Ship dates seldom slip.
I'm surprised that Gruber doesn't mention the fact that Apple is now in the habit of announcing products or features 6+ months before they ship, both software and hardware (not talking about things like the iPhone which have to be submitted to the FCC). And sometimes, they never ship at all (see AirPower). This would never happen under Jobs.
Also, while Steve Jobs straight up lied in order to protect future announcements (i.e. 'we're not making a video iPod', Tim Cook will say things like 'we are very interested in the AR/VR space' for close to a decade before announcing any products).
- xuki 2y agoSteve Jobs announced a white iPhone 4 and couldn’t ship it for 6 months.
- DaoVeles 2y agoI agree with you sentiment. That said there are two vague exceptions I can think of on this. The original iPhone but that was because its existence would have been leaked/semi announced once they tried to get it approved for public use. So their hand was forced on that. Also we never did get a 3Ghz G5 or mobile variant of it. This is something that Jobs mentioned when unveiling their Intel switch. As an aside, I did find it funny that PA Semi did end up designing their PWRffcient PowerPC chips with the goal of getting into Apple products. They eventually were purchased by Apple and now do all their hardware stuff. So I see the PWRffience chip has being one of the best job applications produced.
- pazimzadeh 2y agoYeah I am excluding the original iPhone announcement for that reason. Same with the apple watch