Before President Donald Trump’s recent Middle East trip, the White House invited CEOs and representatives from numerous U.S. companies to accompany him. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, chose not to attend, according to two sources familiar with the matter. This decision seemed to irritate President Trump. During his visits to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, he made several remarks critical of Mr. Cook and Apple. Tripp Mickle for The New York Times:
We’ve long been the canaries in the coal mine. This lack of focus, lack of attention to detail, lack of striving for perfection will catch up to Apple eventually if it is not arrested and corrected in time. So – sigh – we once again present to Apple CEO Tim Cook, where the buck supposedly stops, the Trophy for Misplaced Priorities:
— MacDailyNews, November 29, 2017 Apple is not firing on all cylinders. The quality has been slipping for years and the mistakes, bad designs, stupid decisions, product delays and worse have been piling up. – MacDailyNews, May 18, 2017 Steve Jobs is irreplaceable, but someone with vision, taste, and focus is what’s required here. The magic of Steve Jobs was vision, focus on the products from the user’s point of view, fastidious attention to detail, and next-level marketing acumen. – MacDailyNews, January 29, 2018 Steve Jobs could make a power cord seem insanely great. Tim Cook could put a room to sleep while unveiling teleportation; he makes watching paint dry seem like must-see event. Apple is currently helmed by a charisma black hole. Sparks are therefor not emitted. Lacking a charismatic leader who could sell ice cubes to eskimos, execution is the key. High quality products and services that just work with timely updates in sufficient supply at launch… Apple’s issues with late, old, sometimes problematic products and services do more to dampen excitement and devotion than anything. – MacDailyNews, January 4, 2019 You know, some people get upset when we point out that Tim Cook is a boring, reactive caretaker who’s not really the best person to be running Apple today or for at least the past several years. Operations manager Cook should have been a 3-5 year stopgap after Steve Jobs’ untimely passing, running the iteration playbook, providing continuity for the company while it found a real CEO. Instead, he hung on — and keeps hanging on — well past his sell-by date. – MacDailyNews, August 22, 2024 Support MacDailyNews at no extra cost to you by using this link to shop at Amazon. The post Apple CEO Tim Cook miscalculates, goes quiet as his influence with President Trump fades appeared first on MacDailyNews. You're currently a free subscriber to MacDailyNews. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook miscalculates, goes quiet as his influence with President Trump fades
Apple appears ready to flex its AI model muscles
Since Apple Intelligence launched last fall, the company’s AI efforts have mostly amounted to a string of setbacks. The biggest one? The full suite of Apple Intelligence features still hasn’t rolled out and likely won’t for another nine months,” Gene Munster writes for Deepwater Asset Management. “That puts it about a year behind schedule, a kind of delay I haven’t seen in all my years following Apple.’ Gene Munster for Deepwater Asset Management:
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Apple working to remove mechanical buttons from iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
A rumor from China suggests Apple is developing solid-state buttons with haptic feedback for not only the iPhone but also future iPad and Apple Watch models.
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Siri AI is REALLY good — WSJ’s Joanna Stern’s week-long test proves it (with video)
After more than a decade of memes, frustration, and unfulfilled promises, Siri is good. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
