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The article is a bit disingenuous. Steve’s main claim to fame was Apple 2.0 when he brought the company back from the brink of bankruptcy. He had almost no cho
by cmiles8 1mo ago
The article is a bit disingenuous.
Steve’s main claim to fame was Apple 2.0 when he brought the company back from the brink of bankruptcy. He had almost no choice but to take radical bet-the-farm bets as the status quo was the company goes bankrupt.
Tim Cook inherited a company on an upward trajectory and kept it going. His core job was don’t $&@? it up, and at that he was very successful. Was Apple potentially less innovative during his tenure? Yeah probably, but it was stable and grew massively under his oversight, which was the job. Most shareholders that held their stock after Steve left are very happy with their returns since then.
- throwuxiytayq 1mo agoI think I, and maybe even Jobs, would be more interested in whether phoneholders are happy with the phones they’re holding.
- ang_cire 1mo agoConsidering he told them they were holding it wrong when they weren't happy with it, I doubt that.
- detourdog 1mo agoHe was correct that changing hand positions had a positive effect and a minor imposition. If they had recalled the phones I wouldn't have sent mine back the iPhone 4 was great and I was a satisfied customer. This was a long time ago and it is probably time to move on. https://news.macgasm.net/iphone-news/how-apple-fixed-antennagate/ https://news.macgasm.net/iphone-news/how-apple-fixed-antenna...
- daveoc64 1mo agoThat article and your memory glosses over the fact that Apple redesigned the antenna to fix the actual problem in later devices - the antenna was changed in the Verizon iPhone 4 (which came out later), as well as the iPhone 4S and all subsequent models.
- detourdog 1mo agoNo where did I say the phone didn’t need a redesigned antenna. Just that as shipped it did function.
- brazukadev 1mo agoif the design was bad then people weren't holding it wrong.
- detourdog 1mo agoHow semantic do you want to get?
- ang_cire 1mo agoThe article is literally still talking about said guy you're telling me to "move on" from... I didn't bring him up, the article did, and it's totally fair to discuss the stuff he did when he was alive.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 1mo agoWell that’s a fickle and non-homogeneous bunch. You place too much importance on your own opinion.
- throwuxiytayq 1mo ago> You place too much importance on your own opinion. No, I don’t. It’s worked brilliantly for me for decades. You should try it sometime - if you have any decent opinions, that is.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 1mo ago[dead]