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If nothing else this shows the lack of leadership from Cook. Steve Jobs signed his name to corporate letters that appeared on the front page like “Thoughts on Flash” and “Thoughts on Music”


The guy who took the company to a multi-trillion dollar market cap has no leadership skills because he didn't write you an autographed philosophical treatise?


So in that case, I am sure you agree with Ballmer’s leadership at Microsoft?

Microsoft missed mobile under Ballmer. Apple is missing both AI and whatever becomes of AR. Isn’t kind of sad that Meta is pushing the envelope on AR more than Apple?


> So in that case, I am sure you agree with Ballmer’s leadership at Microsoft?

No. I don’t see how that necessarily follows.


Microsoft had explosive growth under Ballmer. If that’s your metric for a good CEO.


Does that necessarily follow from my comment?


AR is kinda useless


“No wireless. Less space than the Nomad. Lame”.


Whatever AR product Facebook is selling, it's not the next iPod. MP3 players had a use, iPod was the coolest one.


This generation maybe not. It may not even be Meta. But Apple thinks it’s a product category worth pursuing. They just did it badly


Yeah that's fair, Apple should've done AR well if they were going to do it at all




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