Post #1465474
2026-04-20 21:34 UTC
Replies (8)
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@lemmyng@lemmy.world 2026-04-20 21:37
Help them switch to GrapheneOS!
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@Zagorath@quokk.au 2026-04-20 21:58
Cook’s expertise was in the logistics. He’s definitely not been a great leader for them putting out exciting products, but he’s the reason they’re so much less affected by things like global shipping crises or RAM prices exploding than many other companies are.
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@boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-20 22:08
Lol I’m a former diehard Apple hater that’s been using an iPhone for 4 years and loves Apple Silicon Macs. But I still do think they’ve done a lot of idiotic things lately. iOS 26 works fine on my phone (some people are reporting performance issues), but the UI is hit and miss. Apple Vision Pro seemed doomed from the get go, but they really made it worse by not launching a cheaper headset with Air branding half a year or a year in to actually drive market share enough to make it worthwhile for developers. Could’ve given it an A series CPU since we now know it works in a laptop so why not in XR or whatever they’re calling this.
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@homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2026-04-20 22:19
It’s the biggest company in the world. (Well, unless GPUs are here to stay). He’s done pretty good.
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@panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2026-04-20 22:49
Yeah. The hardware is fantastic. The software is like one of those brides where they bind the feet so they can never become independent. And then services revenue is a goitre on this creatures neck constantly throwing it off balance as it tries to shamble forward. I very much want ~2010 apple, where the hardware was maybe a bit meh, but the software was top tier.
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@Veedem@lemmy.world 2026-04-20 23:06
He may not have the product vision or salesmanship of Jobs, but he’s a logistics genius and was a MAJOR part of saving Apple when he came on. I’m reading the book “Apple in China”, and he was very responsible for Apple’s incredible supply chain and the fact that Apple, itself, holds relatively little inventory with the exception of its stores. The company has grown exponentially under Cook. The problem is that there hasn’t really been an awe inspiring new product developed fully under him.
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@skisnow@lemmy.ca 2026-04-20 23:19
I’m not optimistic on this one, since one of the features of huge corporations is that the institutional shareholders that own them appoint the person they think will deliver the best YoY growth and Earnings Per Share. For a company that’s mostly saturated its market, this means enshittification and thumbscrew-tightening on its existing customers.
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@VAK@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 06:55
Less fanboyism, helluva lot more profit. He was fine…