This article is pretty terrible and I’m not a fan of Apple but honestly he’s taken a pretty measured approach and the fact that their product is garbage isn’t his fault so much as the hype train being off course.
If anything people should be thankful he didn’t waste more money, but right now the measurement isn’t how successful your business is or how good your product is but how much money you flushed down the toilet chasing the dream of “AI”. Because this is a bubble not a revolution.
Tim Cook is a CEO. His job is to make money for a board of directors and he does that job well. He is not interested in else because that is what a corporation is about.
I know this isn’t satire but it feels uncannily like satire.
I’ve never stumbled across Apple Insider before, it’s quite the apologist for the company. Here’s some tone deaf quotes from the article that made me laugh:
“It’s true that the buck stops at the CEO, but without Tim Cook, Apple would not have so many bucks.”
I guess if you make a lot of money you get a pass for allowing misleading and anti-consumer marketing campaigns?
“If billions and trillions are hard numbers to imagine, here’s another one. Apple could, if its valuation could be converted to cash without loss, give every person living in the continental USA a free iPhone 16e — and then 13 spare ones. Each.”
I love how they chose to illustrate Apple’s obscene level of wealth with how much it could benefit people if they ever distributed that wealth through altruistic giving 😂
I guess if you make a lot of money you get a pass for allowing misleading and anti-consumer marketing campaigns?
He is appointed by the people for whom he is making money and not by the customers. So the answer is likely yes.
Supported and justified by the stockholders isn’t surprising. It’s the fact that this column writer is so unabashed in their reasoning that surprised me. It’s not often that you see regular, bottom level consumers enthusiastically using the same reasoning as a stock holder. Usually they come at it from more of a “they produce great products, they care about providing a great service” standpoint. However, someone who writes articles for a platform called “Apple Insider” is likely to have some level of stock in the company.
AppleInsider has always had its nose planted firmly up Apple’s corporate ass crack.
It’s interesting to see them still kissing Apple backside when Gruber eviscerated Apple and he’s usually very uncritical.
I don’t know that Cook needs to go, but Apple have a big reputation and this has harmed them. They need to fix that somehow.
Made Apple what it is financially apparently.
How American.
AI is garbage.
Tim Apple is garbage
I read the headline up until “he has made Apple what it is” and then I was, like…
A company that is now focused more on creating value for shareholders than on innovation? I’d say that’s pretty accurate.
Tim the creep can get fucked… Disgusting parasite should get the rope with the rest of them for their crimes against the american people
