Post #1465502

2026-04-20 21:58 UTC

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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@pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-20 22:01

Then keep him in the c suite running the logistics, not spearhead a giant company and run their reputation in the ground. This is what you get when you don’t keep the creatives in the c suite.

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@Soup@lemmy.world 2026-04-20 22:35

His biggest failures, as I’ve heard it, revolve around the fact that he only cares about making short-term profits and doesn’t understand human beings. Steve Jobs did a lot of telling him to go fuck himself back in the day, to the great benefit of kot only the company, but to the customers. Why he was put in as the next guy to lead the company is beyond me.

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@RustySharp@programming.dev 2026-04-20 23:27

RAM prices exploding only means Apple takes a tiny hit to their profit margin per device, considering how inflated they were in the first place.

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@gopher@programming.dev 2026-04-21 06:27

The work done by the hardware dept to build CPUs has been a great achievement though. While this started under Jobs, Apple now arguably makes the best CPUs in the market. Competing with AMD/Intel is no easy feat.

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