He was after-all more of an operations guy than a product guy before moving into the CEO role.
Apple had more money when they killed these than they did when these products were introduced. It’s not a resources issue. It’s a care issue. Same reason they fired the Mac OS Automation team. Same reason their documentation sucks hot diarrhea and all their good stuff is in the “documentation archive”. Penny pinching. “Shareholder value”. New blood destroying shit they didn’t understand.
On top of that, it only performs so well on consumer devices because they control the hardware and OS and can tune both together. Creating server hardware would mean allowing linux to be installed on it, and would need to run equally well. Apple would never put the development time into linux kernel/drivers to make this happen.
There is of course a market for that. Not everyone needs a $4000 electric bill. Apple just can’t take the typical lions share of the profits in that market so they don’t bother.
Not at the moment, no. I feel like the Apple silicon team probably would rise to that challenge though
Can you elaborate on this? Maybe with some useful metrics?
And I suppose we’re giving credit to other people for Watch, AirPods, Vision Pro?
I remember when the iPhone X became a thing, it was because consumers were extremely underwhelmed by Apple at the time. It's like they kicked it up less than a notch sadly.
If Tim Cook decided to be a little more of a visionary, I would say keep him. I would at least prefer he would delegate someone to do the visionary work, he will eventually need a successor.
