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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by blindriver on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:21AM (#34790552)
He has brought no innovation and his fearfulness has ground Google down to a halt. What new successful products has arrived during his tenure? All he did was not fuck up.

He's lucky because the entire market has increased, but that's his doing. He could be replaced by any overly cautious algorithm and the results would have been the same.

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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by muzz on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:38AM (#34790833)
Sounds more like Tim Cook
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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by blululu on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:03AM (#34791306)
Going to have to disagree with you on this. AirPods and the Apple Watch both came out under his watch. But the biggest area of expansion for Apple is going to be in software which has seen a ton of innovation in the past decade (Cloud services, payments and a whole slew of improvements to the OS) which all happened under Cook's watch.
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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by snapcaster on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:09AM (#34791419)
Airpods, apple watch, m1 processors. I'm sure there are others but I've bought and enjoyed a bunch of new apple products since Tim Cook took over
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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by theGnuMe on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:37AM (#34790820)
Before he was CEO he led the Chrome, ChromeOS/Chromebook, Google Drive projects.

What is interesting though, according to Wikipedia, is that he is not a software engineer nor a computer scientist by training. He is a materials scientist with an MBA and apparently briefly worked at McKinsey.

Does this limit his tech vision? Hard to say.

Satya Nadella however has a Master's in Computer Science + an MBA comparatively.

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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by malfist on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:31AM (#34790701)
Stadia! Oh wait..
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Re:Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” respon... by myko on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:35PM (#34798919)
That probably is the greatest innovation Google launched in his tenure, and they killed it! How frustrating.
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