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0 pointsComputerGuru19d ago0 comments

> but recovered nicely afterwards

After Ives was fired/forced out/decided to leave to pursue his creative vision.

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iwontberude19d ago

I love that he instantly flopped repeatedly and showed it was actually Apple that was great all along.

33MHz-i48619d ago

OpenAI acquired his company for Billions. maybe the products flopped but he did fine for himself personally

tsunamifury19d ago

This is, by far, the most insane take i've ever heard.

The guy litterally built modern apple from the ground up in equal with Jobs.

vishnugupta19d ago

Apparently it required someone with the personality and product taste of Jobs to rein in Ivy. Cook on the other hand being a logistics/operations guy didn’t have the similar skills and we ended up getting absolute shitshow of hardware products from apple in late 2010s.

Thankfully he was fired and sanity prevailed which coincided with Apple Silicon line professors. The MacBook Pro that was immediate predecessor to M1 series was by far Apple’s worst hardware. It was bad on nearly every count.

dkga19d ago

I have one such mac. Things I like: the keyboard feels smooth, the speakers are great and the touchbar (yes you read correctly). Things that make me partially agree with this post I am responding to: annoying overheating, including when I plug an external monitor (!); the camera was really subpar, it always seemed as if I was facetiming using a 2002 cybershot rather than a 2019 MacBook Pro; the screen has nice colours but very easily feels smudgy. Other than this, I love using that computer as a secondary device.

DonHopkins19d ago

For what it's worth, the Intel MacBook Pro Espresso Machine and Milk Foamer expansion pack that water cooled the cpu while making you a hot fresh latte was pretty useful. The M4 just isn't capable of working up a proper head of steam.

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