What We Dislike About Tim Cook
Tim really does have to leave.
Podcast: Accidental Tech Podcast
Episode: 679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself
John
Just because Tim Cook has selected him doesn’t mean the person he’s selecting agrees with everything Tim Cook does and will do exactly what Tim Cook did. I mean, Steve Jobs picked Tim Cook and they were very different CEOs. So our expectation, our hope is that John Ternus will be different than Tim Cook in the same way that Tim Cook was different than Steve Jobs.John
Now, he could be worse, could be better, could be worse. But like we’re hopeful because the things we hear are good. You know, like we we want to be hopeful. But the real point is, I think we’ve all basically resigned ourselves to the fact that nothing about what we dislike about what Tim Cook is doing is ever going to change until he leaves. So he has to leave.John
So if you want to think of it this way, you can say, it’s not so much that we’re excited about John Ternus coming, it’s we’re excited about Tim Cook leaving. And we feel like anything’s got to be like, it’s the only chance we have for improvement. And I think it’s a little bit of both. Because again, we have very little info on John Ternus. So that is, we’ve said that before, like we don’t actually know he’s been in, he’s been in presentations for years. We see him on stage talking, but like he’s more of a cipher. We don’t have, he doesn’t have a track record that we know of other than he was in charge of hardware and hardware is great. Right.John
But I’m, I’m personally optimistic, mostly because a transition, a departure, a change in leadership is the best opportunity for things to potentially get better. And I’m currently choosing to believe that they won’t get worse. We’ll see.