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Apple vs the Law

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378 points tempodox | 3 comments | 11 Jul 25 06:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.51s | source
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nntwozz ◴[11 Jul 25 10:36 UTC] No.44530579[source]▶
I dream of an alternate reality where Steve Jobs makes snide remarks about politics, sets things right with the App Store (worldwide), Siri, Ai and the lackluster UI and quality control of software lately. Steve would get on top of things and speak his mind and we were all better off for it.

There's a severe lack of character in Tim Cook, I think the best thing to come out under his reign is the M-series hardware and return to sane computer design. He's timid, and his penny pinching fuckery is costing Apple a lot of goodwill that's a lot more precious and harder to gain back.

Maybe it's a shareholder problem, whatever—the early 2000's spirit of Apple was splendid.

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rTX5CMRXIfFG ◴[11 Jul 25 11:16 UTC] No.44530844[source]▶
I admire Steve Jobs as a visionary as much as everyone else, but I never thought it was fair for people to keep discounting Tim Cook as the “lesser” man between the two. He was the one who took the company to a trillion dollar valuation. He took on the operations and supply chain work that no computer nerd or product visionary ever wants to take. He did the hard, unsexy work that no one wanted to do and yet people see him as worse for it.
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1. MatthiasPortzel ◴[11 Jul 25 12:06 UTC] No.44531188[source]▶
It's easy to assume that Apple is where it is today because of Jobs. But when you look back, there are actually a number of key decisions made by Tim Cook since Job's death that led Apple here.

Cook has plenty of leadership vision. He's led Apple into the VR space with Vision Pro, and has pushed into services/content (Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Fitness+), and wearables (Beats acquisition, Apple Watch, AirPods). He's defined Apple as a company that cares about privacy, and it's because of him that Apple is so stubbornly fighting regulation in the EU and US.

If anything, you could criticize Cook for being too ambitious, if you thought that his attention to these areas came at the expense of iPhone & Mac quality.

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2. bmicraft ◴[11 Jul 25 17:16 UTC] No.44534724[source]▶
You might call it ambitious to "so stubbornly fight regulation", I'd call it immoral and corrupt.
3. ksec ◴[12 Jul 25 06:18 UTC] No.44539780[source]▶
>He's defined Apple as a company that cares about privacy

My God, No. The privacy thing started with Steve Jobs. Steve was such a private person he would change his car every few months to avoid having car plate. He started the war against Android on privacy when 99% of media including HN thought Google was NOT invading on privacy and were the media darling.

>actually a number of key decisions made by Tim Cook

>He's led Apple into the VR space with Vision Pro

Engineer Led.

>has pushed into services/content (Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Fitness+),

Eddy Cue lead and actually worst decision ever. The services you listed are burning money. And as I have repeated again they are only there to dilute the real profits from App Store and Google Pay search.

>wearables (Beats acquisition, Apple Watch, AirPods).

Beats acquisition was about streaming. None of the hardware headset engineer actually made into AirPods. AirPods are done by old guards Apple who Steve brought in from B&W. Apple Watch was Willian's and Jony Ive project.

As someone on HN once said which I think sums it up perfectly, Apple has been left on AutoPilot since Steve Jobs passed away.