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Re:Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed by threeseed on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:27AM (#18844628)
What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense to me. Tim Cook isn’t from a Sales/Marketing background whilst many of the VPs at Apple are from Product backgrounds. Also the company is one of the most product centric companies around.

Also under Tim Cook’s reign Apple has dominated the wearables market with a product that everybody dismissed in the beginning.

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Re:Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed by lalo2302 on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:56AM (#18844756)
The Apple Watch was the last product Steve Jobs envisioned and planned. You can't put that on Tim Cook.

And right now they are being more number centric rather than innovation centric as in the past years.

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Re:Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed by threeseed on Monday January 07, 2019 @08:02AM (#18844782)
No evidence Steve Jobs was involved in the planning/design of the Apple Watch. In fact during the Wired interview with Ive:

“Ive began dreaming about an Apple watch just after CEO Steve Jobs’ death in October 2011. He soon brought the idea to Dye and a small group of others in the design studio.”

And plenty of innovations for me: A12X/T2/W1 SOCs, FaceID, Apple Watch ECG, HomePod spatial detection, Beats1 Radio, Handoff/Continuity, Apple Pay.

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