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Comment by emchammer

8 hours ago

Tim Cook has shown everybody what he is good at. It’s not running a user-first computer company. It’s time for him to be shown the door.

Can’t even scroll right in the text editor. Trillion-dollar company.

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eCa  6 hours ago

Mu favorite Macos bug (haven’t upgraded to 26 yet, so not sure if it is still a thing):

1. Have Bluetooth on.

2. Turn it off from the menu option, but don’t close the menu.

3. The shortcut to lock the computer don’t work.

It’s been like this for 5+ years.

Funniest thing is if you’re quick enough it’s possible to close the menu using a Bluetooth mouse after BT has been turned off. It’s my daily challenge to pull that off.

runjake  7 hours ago

The stockholders have something different to say about that. He's been a cash cow for them and that's how the game is played.

It's really hard to be a publicly-traded corporation and user-first. Those goals are often at odds with each other.

  • ebbi  1 hour ago

    Exactly. I'm conflicted, because as much as I benefit from being a shareholder of companies, I am also acutely aware of the fact that once a company is listed on the stock exchange, there is an inverse relationship between profit-focus and user-focus.

    Not being on the stock exchange, a company like Apple could be like, you know what, we make enough money from our hardware and services to both grow and pay our people well, so we will remove the 30% fee on apps and keep our developers happy and loyal, increase the cloud storage capacity for our customers, etc. But they simply can't do that, because it's all about YoY revenue growth to keep the shareholders happy.

  • LadyCailin  7 hours ago

    > It's really hard to be a publicly-traded corporation and user-first.

    You aren’t wrong, but I hate that you aren’t. It’s a shame there is so little regulation and that things are getting more and more expensive and complex to initially develop, that there just isn’t really a free market anymore for many important things.

    • runjake  5 hours ago

      I hate that I'm not, too.

      Particularly since the 1980s, I feel like we've veered too far toward obtaining maximum profit at the expense of true innovation and developing products that truly serve the customer.

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