Comment by latexr
3 years ago
> Let things get even worse
From Tim Cook’s point of view he’s seeing a line go up. Things aren’t getting worse for him, they’re getting better. He’ll probably be gone by the time the consequences of his management have an impact on Apple’s coffers. Assuming that ever happens, because what’s making Apple a crappy company is that it’s becoming indistinguishable from the alternatives.
> This needs entire departments to be shutdown.
This needs Tim Cook to retire.
> This needs Tim Cook to retire.
The problem is that there's no good replacement, because Cook has cooked the entire company. It's "Tim Apple" now. Next in line is likely someone like Cook clone Jeff Williams.
The stockholders own the company, and all they care about is money. Remember way back when Steve Jobs forced Apple stockholders to choose between him and John Sculley? Well, they chose Sculley. Jobs only returned many years later when Apple was desperate and had to acquire NeXT (their second choice behind Be). Apple would have to be in desperate straits again to choose a non-traditional (i.e., non-MBA) CEO candidate.