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Tim Cook is a less technically inclined version of Steve Ballmer. He was brought in to milk every current iteration of an Apple product until there is nothing left. Quality be damned.

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This is simply false. The following things have occurred under Cooks tenure:

  - Apple Watch
  - AirPods
  - Apple Pencil
  - Apple Music
  - HomePod
  - ARKit

Each of those represent entirely new product categories, have captured the majority of a pre-existing market, or have opened up entirely new use cases for previously existing products.

Apple has significant challenges in front of them, as evidenced by this week, and Cook shoulders the responsibility for that. But, he is not Ballmer, and Apple had major security bugs and issues under Steve.

I hope the "Cook is Ballmer" trope will quickly die.

Yeah, completely unfair — under Ballmer, Microsoft seriously improved their security, going from a complete disaster to actually quite solid. It clearly wasn’t Ballmer’s engineering prowess which accomplished this, but resource allocation and prioritization in response to the market.

Well, they had a very low base point to being with. Easy to improve on that.

17+ years later, and 10000 articles about how Macs aren't really immune to viruses (duh), OS X/macOS still doesn't have any virus outbreak that wasn't actually a trojan in fact, that at worst affected only like 1% of the user base or less.

Windows had actual viruses affect tons of people regularly.

Each of those represent entirely new product categories

Smartwatches are an Apple invention? Wireless headphones are an Apple invention?

I call shenanigans.

There is an ‘or’ between each descriptive clause.

Both Apple Watch and AirPods have essentially captured their entire market.

Bette to explain why is great target then market capture. Else you would need to move goal posts later. iPhone at one time captured it's market.

Maybe in the bay area. Not in the rest of the world though.

Why did you stop reading that sentence at the first comma?

They were new categories to Apple, thus he was NOT brought in to milk every current iteration of an Apple product until there is nothing left, like the gp comment suggested.

Sorry, I disagree. Tim was not brought in. He was already there and recommended by Steve himself. He also ran the co for 2 times while jobs was on medical leave. Your comment sounded like he was brought-in from some outside org just for ceo’s Job.

Take a look at apple’s new patents . There is some serious innovation happening. There is also an attempt to replace iPhone with headgear. Although, current quality bar is a matter of concern

Right I think that explains why so many hardware devices have been delayed until they were ready. Yea definitely couldn’t be Craig or other software mangers.

Blame always runs up, never down.

That's how it should be anyways. A good leader always assumed responsibility.

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