Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals

Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by chc on Friday January 06, 2017 @01:37PM (#13338899)

Lightning came out pretty long after Steve Jobs died. And I thought it was generally agreed — not right at the time, but not long afterward — that Apple made the right call getting rid of floppy drives on their Internet-focused consumer machines.

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by TetOn on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:04PM (#13340177)

Nope. The reaction to floppy-less iMac was more or less a direct replay of the current headphone jack, escape key, and USB-C "outrage":

>Long-time users were outraged that they'd be forced to buy new peripherals and couldn't back up the 4 GB hard drive with a waist-high pile of diskettes. They also wondered about the wisdom of using USB ports, ports that weren't yet widely accepted by the industry.

http://www.applematters.com/article/may-6-1998-the-original-...

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by sbuk on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:35PM (#13341312)

So much this! The parallel-to-USB dongles for printers were ludicrously expensive and really flaky! For us old-time Apple users, this current round of caterwauling is highly amusing.

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by chc on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:50PM (#13340576)

You said "nope" and then posted something that agrees with what I said. I suspect you did not read my comment very carefully.

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by jonknee on Friday January 06, 2017 @01:45PM (#13338995)

Fair point, though it was close enough that I bet he knew about it (iPhone hardware has a long lead time).

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