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[Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/25140646
karlbode.com/apple-ceo-tim-cooks-legacy-is-dull-products-and-spineless-capitulation/Replying to @GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works
His tenure is that of a businessman, not an innovator or visionary. Good or bad, Jobs was all three.
Replying to @minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
Vissonary maybe but innovator?
IPhones & MacBooks were well built & marketed but neither was really innovative.
Replying to @RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
We can accurately point out that the technologies of the iphone (processors, cellular telephony, cellular data, GPS, touchscreens, bluetooth, cameras, etc) were not invented by Steve Jobs.
But his company took those parts and put something together that a few billion people decided was far more valuable than the sum of those parts. And they all decided to start carrying all these tools and using them fifteen times per hour, when they didn’t before.
It’s really hard to argue that’s not innovative.
Replying to @VinegarChunks@lemmus.org
How do you define innovation?
I don’t consider being in the right place when the tech fell into place, innovating (see also Tesla, MS-Dos, etc).
I think he was a visionary in that he had a vision and made it reality, but what was the innovation?
Replying to @RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
Innovative marketing of a product users couldn’t break (easily).