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Apple worked that way; maybe it still does. If a product wasn't important enough for Steve Jobs to review it then they simply didn't develop that product.

• I-M-S 1y ago
  Apple was built around Steve Jobs - he didn't parachute in the company like your average bean-counting CEO does
  • supportengineer 1y ago
    This is what I wonder about Elon Musk. In retrospect, of course humans could build sexy electric cars, reusable rocket boosters, and ubiquitous satellite data services. But humans, or perhaps more accurately, corporations and governments, DID NOT do those things. It takes an overwhelmingly powerful personality to get anything done, despite the fact there are billions of capable people on this planet.
    • 8note 1y ago
      to a large extent, the government built those things, and chose musk as the guy to manage the build
    • geodel 1y ago
      Yeah, at best those billions are capable of taking orders and executing it.
• scarface_74 1y ago
  I can assure you that Tim Cook doesn’t review every product. I seriously doubt he even knows what’s going on with half of them. There is absolutely no way that he used the butterfly keyboards and said they were acceptable. Compare that to Jobs who after he announced the iPhone and started using it, saw how much the screen scratched and went back to the drawing board and had then re-engineer it before it shipped six months later. He even announced they were doing it. Better yet, the infamous “what does Mobile Me suppose to do?…Then why the f%%% doesn’t it do that?”. You noticed that Cook didn’t wear the Vision Pro once during the introduction? Compare that to Jobs introductions of the iPhone and the iPad. Rumors are, that Cook doesn’t even use a Mac day to day. On the other hand, Jobs didn’t use a Mac after his return until OS X was released. He was also definitely not a fan of the Motorola phone with built in iTunes that he introduced on stage. Can you imagine Cook writing an open letter on Apple.com like “Thoughts on Music” or “Thoughts on Flash”?
  • samrus 1y ago
    > Rumors are, that Cook doesn’t even use a Mac day to day. This has to be false. Your telling me the CEO of apple is using windows 11? With ads in the start menu? Thatd be hilarious
    • wmf 1y ago
      Obviously he uses his iPhone for everything.
    • readthenotes1 1y ago
      I think the true part of the rumor is that people misinterpreted a reporter reporting that the reporter did not use an apple mouse. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that/ https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that...
    • scarface_74 1y ago
      An iPad. But the CEO of Google did use a BlackBerry years after Android was introduced.
• samrus 1y ago
  Yeah but there arent alot of people like steve jobs out there. Despite what these CEOs think
  • supportengineer 1y ago
    Corporations and governments have strong incentives to squash such people.
• cyberax 1y ago
  The current CEO is an MBA empty suit. His greatest accomplishment on Wikipedia is "being the most connected CEO".