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Thanks for correcting me on the R&D, I was under the impression (based on product output) that nothing had changed and had in fact worsened. I still don't rate

by yapcguy 13y ago

Thanks for correcting me on the R&D, I was under the impression (based on product output) that nothing had changed and had in fact worsened. I still don't rate Tim Cook though - he allowed Maps out of the gate. Scott Forstall took the fall for that one, but Tim Cook was ultimately responsible.

ghshephard 13y ago
...And Steve Jobs let MobileMe out of the gate. If you rate anyone based on a few missteps instead of the aggregate of their performance, you are missing the big picture.
- yapcguy 13y ago
  That's a fair point, although he did hire that British guy to head up retail... only to then fire him after just a few months. Let's see how he does in 2014.
gress 13y ago
Maps launched poorly, but the alternative - not launching it at all, or delaying it, may well have been considerably worse. That's why Cook let it out of the gate, but fired the engineering manager responsible.
lostlogin 13y ago
Heh, was talking about this today. A big MRI manufacturer's manager has been widely quotes in my little world as comparing their crashing/non functional MRI scanner software update to the Maps drama. Not sure how the two situations are related, but a crashing and non functional MRI scanner is kind of a big deal when you are sick. Mapping software not so much.