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Reddit mentions of Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs
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| Height | 9 Inches |
| Length | 6 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | March 2014 |
| Weight | 1.15 Pounds |
| Width | 1.21 Inches |
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While this is technically not accurate, its close enough.
I recently read the book [Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs] (https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Empire-Apple-After-Steve/dp/0062128256/) and was interested to find out a lot of interesting things.
In the book they talk about how Tim Cook was basically the operations guy who would break the backs and stomp on the nuts of the suppliers to get them to churn out millions of iphones at dirt cheap prices for Apple. He was the guy who completely revamped the supply chain from the bottom up - in a very heavy handed, ruthless, cut throat manner. Then, in a blink of an eye, he took over. The nuts and bolts guy who only cared about numbers took over for a guy who only cared about design.
Nobody should surprised at where Apple is now or how they got there. Yeah, they still churn out phones with some minor, new features. Sure they still have new "models" on the same schedule they always did, but there's something fundamentally missing. There isn't any more huge design breakthroughs like they used to have. They haven't taken something and made it beautiful like they did with the ipad, the iphone, the mac book. They haven't had a product that really disrupts anything anymore.
And what's happening now? The design guy is gone, the numbers guy is in. The only thing that matters now to Cook is staying on top, making sure Jobs' legacy is still cemented, but it's fading fast. Companies have caught to them and in many aspects are now passing them. People are leaving Apple in droves:
Apple's notebook shipments plummet
Samsung overtakes Apple in U.S. smartphone market on the strength of Galaxy S7
Apple Q4 2016 financial results | Apple earnings report: iPhone, iPad and Mac sales down, profits down
The very guy Jobs talks about in that video is the same guy who took over for him when he passed away. Sure the numbers are there, but the innovation Jobs was known for is bit a distant memory.