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Apple CEO Tim Cook to take more than 40% pay cut Business

https://apnews.com/article/technology-apple-inc-tim-cook-business-d056553b10120c4a968b562cb7ece5d2
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u/abandon__ship Jan 13 '23

Yeah from an operational standpoint it’s also pretty insane what he has lead them through. Beef with trump, trade wars with China that trump started, COVID AND he still managed to get iphones in stores with upgrades. Plenty of other supply chains fell apart but Apple held even with production in China

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u/AnEngimaneer Jan 13 '23 • All-Seeing Upvote

Dude is a supply chain god tbh

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u/Lord_Abort Jan 13 '23

Seems to be the most important facet to a company these days. Thanks to the internet, you could be selling literal shit, and somebody would want it, but they want it now.

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u/rayinreverse Jan 14 '23

I work for a company struggling with logistics. We are a Japanese company. It is so impactful it’s hard to explain.

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u/darthjoey91 Jan 13 '23

Cards Against Humanity sold poop one year.

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u/realmastodon2 Jan 13 '23

Market your products to be luxury items and only carry a finite amount in storage. You can command whatever price you deem. Pretty smart move on Apple.

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u/ehxy Jan 13 '23

it's apple, they could sell apple toilet paper and people would buy it just so they can say they wipe their ass on apple

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u/BellowingBillie Jan 13 '23

$100 for 2 pack with proprietary ply

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u/molrobocop Jan 13 '23

$100 for 2 pack with proprietary ply

The role would be a special size that wouldn't fit on standard dispensers.

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u/Towaum Jan 13 '23

Held only using the MagSafe roll holder

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u/BellowingBillie Jan 13 '23

At checkout they will recommend Apple dispenser and offer bidet as attachment thanks to some wizardry

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u/JerryMau5 Jan 13 '23

Having owned both android and Apple products, I can says that Apples mobile products feel better, last longer, and has everything I need. There’s no reason to buy them new. Buy them one year old and you can find plenty that are in mint condition and 20%-30% off.

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u/ehxy Jan 13 '23

That's great. I've had my pixel 2 for 5yrs and it works great and have had no problems. I also have a iphone 14 and I can't stand it.

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u/joshbadams Jan 14 '23

That’s great. I have a Corvette and a Kia minivan, and they both get driven, just depends on the day/use case.

They are all just tools to get a job done.

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u/ehxy Jan 14 '23

exactly, iphone for the walled garden despite the shit apps it still lets through on its store making a cut off the scam apps too(fucking funny)

iphones are easier to manage that's for sure from an IT stand point so I get that and can live with it

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u/JerryMau5 Jan 14 '23

It’s almost as if people have different tastes and we shouldn’t shit on others that don’t feel the same way.

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u/ClankyBat246 Jan 13 '23

I recall a few bands that would sell pro-band merch inside the event and have vans and pop up stands sell anti-band merch outside the event.

People who hate things love to give their money away to show how much they hate a thing. May as well profit.

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u/Dsnake1 Jan 13 '23

The Apple Broach

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u/SolomonBlack Jan 14 '23

Manure makes excellent fertilizer but I need to spread it by Friday so you need it here on Tuesday.

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u/bruwin Jan 14 '23

As proven by the Cards Against Humanity people a few years ago when they sold literal shit.

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u/realmastodon2 Jan 13 '23

That was his whole job before becoming CEO. He joined Apple when Steve Jobs came back to Apple and the company was doing terrible. They had a lot of warehouses, inventory and whole range of problems. He basically leaned out Apple and only kept two weeks worth of inventory for all Apple products. Closed and consolidated warehouses they owned. This was before the iPod.

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u/bawse1 Jan 13 '23

Yeah given that was his role before Steve Jobs passed he better be

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u/Fatvod Jan 14 '23

I'm not sure having your balls in a vice with China makes him a God but maybe you are right

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u/dyanamo Jan 14 '23

I need his help on Anno ATM

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u/abandon__ship Jan 14 '23

Literally will be studied for a long time. HBS case and economist article and all

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u/DearName100 Jan 13 '23

Not to mention the most important of all: leading Apple successfully in the post-Jobs era. Not many people could have done it as well as he has.

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u/abandon__ship Jan 14 '23

I was amongst the many doubters and while he’s obviously not the same Visionary (no one will be nor is anyone currently alive even close) but he has proven me wrong.

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u/mrpickleby Jan 13 '23

He's got Apple's values down.

Line 2: Apple is practically a supply chain unto itself.

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u/abandon__ship Jan 14 '23

The stock is up over 1200% since he took up ceo

He built that supply chain and that’s why be was named CEO. Putting the M2 chip into the laptops during zero COVID China was a huge feat. Most car manufacturers can’t even get any chip.

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u/mrpickleby Jan 14 '23

I think you misunderstood me. He's very much in line with Apple's values.

And as a supply chain unto yourself, you can foot the bill for amazing things. Your suppliers know they can count on your orders. You get first priority in shipping and engineering talent.

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u/dkizzy Jan 14 '23

I mean it was a massive disparity in the trade profits occurring, the MSM reported the figures. The Biden administration has been happy to leverage and keep most of those trade policies intact.

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u/theBloodsoaked Jan 13 '23

It wasn't him but the people he whipped to make it happen. No CEO should take the credit for the success of day to day work.

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u/abandon__ship Jan 14 '23

He literally met with trump and Chinese officials face to face. I don’t get how it wasn’t him. Many other people who make much more money than he does and they fell by the wayside. Sure he whips the people below him, who also make millions of dollars.

No one is giving him credit for the day to day work. My post literally just talks about the navigation of his leadership.

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u/abandon__ship Jan 14 '23

Ok? What would that matter? Should probably say “who cares, I’m tired”.

Im not saying he’s over or under paid. Im saying what he has done was insanely competent and will 100% be used as an example to study in the future when it comes to executive leadership.

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u/danny12beje Jan 13 '23

"upgrades" lmao

Adding always on display and saying its only available on the newest iPhones isn't an upgrade.

Adding software features is not an upgrade to any hardware when its limited to the newest ones.

The camera has been the same garbage since the iphone 10, battery is virtually the same, M1 and M2 are nice af but i still dont get why have such overpowered chips in phones when it doesnt improve its performance over something half the performance (unless the software is so sloppily made that it needs more power to run proper).

Stop talking about Apple like they are some good corporation. They said they give the consumer their right to repair and its still more expensive to repair your own product than it is to go into an Apple store to do it which includes the actual work in the price. They still have the same scummy practices around their features.

At least the EU is putting them in their place with opening up their locked-down ecosystem (from NFC not being available for devs, to no 3rd party stores to VERY limited sideloading)

Consumers getting the exact same performance with 3 new software features for more money than the previous generation is EXACTLY what companies should do through rough times and every one of them have done this.

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u/DarkestNight1013 Jan 13 '23

Read the rest of the comment, it doesn't get any better. Dude knows fuck all about phones.

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u/danny12beje Jan 13 '23

Lmao what a good reply. Maybe go check other phones that have had AOD for YEARS and maybe you wont gobble on that apple misinformation dick that you need 1hz for AOD when there's hundreds of models that don't have screens that go to 1hz and still have AOD

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u/alexnpark Jan 13 '23

You’re missing the point of the 1hz. Other phones have had AOD for years, at huge expense to the battery. Apple is late to the party on a lot of tech but when they do arrive, they always bring a very nice bottle of wine.

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u/danny12beje Jan 14 '23

They werent the first ones to have AOD on a 1hz display. Thats literally my point.

They did nothing to improve on AOD, they just started acting like they did some cool shit by not having LTPO in their 120hz, 1100 USD iPhone 13 Pro Max so they can advertise AOD as being "limited to the iph14"

If its such a cool and good feature as well as good for the battery, why not release it for older models and prove it?

Also theres a literal fuckton of phones older or from 2021 as the iph13 that have LTPO screens at much lower prices as well as having AOD.

Y'all are buying software features and praising apple for adding them and thinking they upgrade the hardware.

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u/DarkestNight1013 Jan 14 '23

Hey buddy, I daily a Z Flip 4. I'm not an Apple Stan, your take is just shitty and uninformed.

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u/danny12beje Jan 14 '23

Good reply.

Thanks for actually discussing what exactly im misinformed about.

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u/danny12beje Jan 13 '23 edited Jan 14 '23

The fuck are you talking about?

Its been a thing since Symbian

And android phones, including mine which doesnt have an LTPO screen but has 120hz has AOD.

Here we have the perfect example of someone that got fed some apple BS and believes it.

Are you also going to tell me that the S9 went down to 1hz without an LTPO back when it released?

Because it has AOD

Or another AMOLED on a 200 buck phone that also has AOD?

Edit : i got downvoted for proving the dude that got upvoted wrong. Seems r/Technology is just r/apple

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u/abandon__ship Jan 14 '23

I’m not acting like they’re a good company. I just said what he lead them through was master class leadership.

I can’t even really call them a terrible company though because they dont have a monopoly. If you don’t like the batteries or the no right to repair or the USB C then you can just go buy an android. It’s not like they’re nestle starving Indian mothers of baby formula and trying to own water though.

Ok the M2 chip is a massive feat but you’re right in that it doesn’t make up for a lack of new features.

The right to repair does exist but you’re right its trash. But I’m sure we’ve all replaced our iphone screens at some sketchy store.

I am excited for the USB C and thank god the eu exists to put them in their place.

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u/danny12beje Jan 14 '23 edited Jan 14 '23

Considering their lawsuit on tracking people's data when all of the tracking is off, I'd say they are a shitty company.

Or the Epic lawsuit about not allowing people to make full money off their product if they feel like it. Why can Google afford to allow side-loading and 3rd party stores while still making money off the Play Store? Yeah they take their cut but consumers have a right to choose what they want, not be forced.

Hell even the huge number of smart devices that just dont work on apple or are very limited is mind boggling.

Yeah their products are awesome i cant lie about that. But to feel so limited with a product you pay so much money for, thats horrible.

They have the monopoly on making other companies make shit upgrades because people still buy their overpriced shit. When apple does something bad and people still buy their products, the other companies do it too. And that's the worst kind of monopoly

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u/abandon__ship Jan 14 '23

lol this just means theyre competitive, if you don't like it, you can switch.

true, tracking was shitty. their crimes pale in comparison to many other companies though.

again, I'm not saying they're good and I never did

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u/prochal Jan 13 '23

Trade wars with china because of your beloved biden too buddy

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u/vruss Jan 13 '23

Lmao why do people assume that if you hated trump you love Biden?? Ran into a trumper at my cousin’s wedding who kept shit talking Biden to me to try to get a rise out of me (I’m pretty obviously queer). He was kind of at a loss when I said “hey buddy! You’re preaching to the choir! We hate Biden for opposite reasons but we’re on the same page here”

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u/prochal Jan 13 '23

Not on a side here. Just find it hilarious that they both do just as trashy shit and yet many still pick a side. Like once you realize neither is doing anything for you maybe you can stop picking a side to begin with

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u/Mr_Rekshun Jan 13 '23

You pick a side because one side is demonstrably worse than the other.

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u/vruss Jan 13 '23

Yup! Didn’t like Biden, but trump and his followers literally want me dead so I felt comfortable picking Biden’s “side”

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u/Username163494 Jan 13 '23

but trump and his followers literally want me dead

Lmfao. Literally.

Bunch of children upvoting that stupid shit too.

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u/vruss Jan 13 '23

I have “literally” had my life threatened by trump supporters, and promises of rape. I’m sure you’d like to believe your friends aren’t like that, but they are

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u/Username163494 Jan 14 '23

Cook story. I still don't believe you.

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u/vruss Jan 15 '23

aw poor baby. it must be so HARD to live in a world where things happen but you can’t understand and refuse to believe them. i do envy how out of touch you are though! it must be so safe and comfy in the little world in your head. i do wonder what else of american life is so skewed up there though. take a nap, maybe things will make more sense after you’ve cried your grumpies out

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u/vruss Jan 13 '23

Plus with all this fake grooming bullshit honesty you can hear on video many many conservatives calling for the death of queer people

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u/Username163494 Jan 14 '23

You're so full of shit. Lmfao.

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u/vruss Jan 13 '23

Well that’s dumb, you’re saying that to a person that one “side” would gladly burn alive at the stake. I don’t like Biden, but when it came to “picking sides” I went for the side that didn’t openly want to rape and kill me for various reasons, my sexuality being only one of them.

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u/pepsisugar Jan 13 '23

I like how you jump on the "your side wrong too" bandwagon and didn't even take the time to comprehend what was actually written. Trade wars with china that Trump STARTED. This statement does not mean in any way that the blues are innocent.

Fuck Trump, fuck Biden, fuck most politicians in the US, and fuck over emotional half readers, they're partly at fault why crooks are in office.

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u/prochal Jan 13 '23

The trade war was inevitable regardless of what side held the presidency, covid just accelerated it.

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u/Swimming__Bird Jan 13 '23

https://youtube.com/watch?v=E7pfsneLSSM&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

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u/DarkestNight1013 Jan 13 '23

George Bush was a traitor. Add it to the pile of false equivalencies. Even Trey Parker and Matt Stone admit they were way off base with a lot of that shit in the mid-aughts.

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u/Swimming__Bird Jan 14 '23

I think the word you're looking for is "joke."

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u/DarkestNight1013 Jan 14 '23

I think the phrase "poorly aged and a bad take on politics masked as a joke" and Trey and Matt have admitted as much in interviews, but sure buddy, go off.

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u/abandon__ship Jan 14 '23

I have no idea why people took this as a political statement. The trade wars thing is bipartisan.

Whatever the hell trump did with like his technology council? That everyone ended up quitting? I dono what the hell that was or what it was supposed to do (besides a painfully obvious cringey power move) but that was him.

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u/ZoeMainsZoe Jan 13 '23

Lol the trade war with China was long long long b4 trump was even running for office.

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u/abandon__ship Jan 14 '23

Trump initiated new waves of restrictions that frayed our relationships with China and some of these restrictions directly affected apples supply chain. Obviously we’ve sanctioned China before for not faithfully participating in other economic agreements but these new restrictions were not there before trump and would not be there with out him.

I’m not saying trumps trade war was bad or good. I’m saying he caused it and Tim navigated it.

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u/ZoeMainsZoe Jan 17 '23

China caused it, the only thing Trump did was push back with the sanctions long overdue... the trade war has been going on long long before Trump sniffed a campaign trail... There is a reason why China policies are set over long-term visions. Kinda like when you set the cruise control on a car. The trade war spans more than just USA and China... China has been pushing the agenda on other countries like Australia, Indonesia, Japan, parts of Africa well pretty much anyone silly enough to do business with them.