Re:The Mac Platform Decline
by jamisteven on Sunday October 30, 2016 @02:44PM
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Its not just the mac but the entire product line. Unfortunately Jobs did not do a good job of finding a sufficient replacement prior to his health issues getting the best of him.
- Round edges on the iphone6
- protruding lens on the iphone6
- removal of 3mm headphone jack on iphone7
- forcetouch keys on the new macbooks
- video cam on the pro
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Sorry, but Steve Jobs also released lots of products with rough edges like that. (Remember "antennagate"?)
I think we won't see how Apples management really works until there's a new product space that Apple entirely misses, and I don't think we've seen that yet (it could be AI, VR, or something entirely different we haven't thought of). If they miss that just like Microsoft did in the tablet / mobile space, then we can start comparing Tim Cook to Ballmer.
Steve Jobs died just over a year after antennagate. He had already been extremely sick for years at that point.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but he was still CEO at that point (his biography has a section about how he dealt with the antennagate issue) after having made a recovery from the transplant.
My point is being sick may have affected his abilities.
I'm getting the impression that Steve didn't pick a replacement as such, just someone that would keep things ticking over until he recovered.
He certainly picked a replacement he believed in. He made very sure that Jony Ive had certain powers inside Apple. He didn't die overnight, and had plenty of time to consider how to set up Apple.
On the other hand, last time he picked a successor in the 80s he picked the wrong guy.