Al Gore To Leave Apple Board After 21-Year Run; Company Reveals CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Dropped 36% In 2023 After Shareholder Pressure::Former Vice President Al Gore will exit Apple’s board of directors, the company said in an SEC filing that also revealed a pay drop for CEO Tim Cook.
Maybe he failed to meet expectations?
It’s to my understanding that these shareholders expect constant growth to continue to increase the returns on their investment.
About 50% of Apple revenue comes from iPhones. So if an iphone sells less then expected it’s a big impact on the company and stock price. The iPhone 15 was OK, but not innovative or interesting enough for people to ditch the previous one and get a new phone.
Also investors really look at future growth, so when the main product they sell shows signs that the end of growth has been reached they are not happy.
In reality the only thing that has unlimited growth is cancer, I just like to add this…
On the contrary, it has one of the biggest possible changes: USB-C.
I suspect that causes some hesitancy among less tech-savvy users, or users with a lot of peripherals.
I suspect most people simply don’t care. “USB-C everything” exists in a tech bubble, outside of this bubble many don’t even know what port their phone uses. Most of the time when I was asked for a charging cable and asked which one they needed, they either said “iPhone”, “Samsung” or whatever or just showed me the port.
not despised, but i think the Apple Watch injunction really hurt them because it was around the holiday season. That, and the general consumer pretty much knew there wasn’t anything new with the new iPhone that warranted an upgrade. Even my rich, boomer dad said he didn’t see why it would be worth it to upgrade and he always gets the newest models.
If they released one every 3 or 4 years, I’d buy them all, but they’re just such small bumps in tech that I end up just sticking to what I’ve got. I bought the 15 and did that Apple courier thing where they bring it to you like door dash. It was Black Friday and $9, so it seemed like a deal. The driver stole it. So, that rubbed me wrong and I’m gonna wait for the 16.
AI Gore? AI generated gore? How did apple have access to this technology for 21 years? And why would they generate gore? Just why?
TIL he was on the board.
It would be nice if the US government also had a rule prohibiting those 75 and older from running in elections.
I disagree. Ageism is morally wrong. (We should also remove the age floor from positions.)
That being said, an independently operated competency test for candidacy sure seems reasonable.
We definitely should have a cap and floor on important governmental positions regardless of anything to do with ageism. Objectively speaking, the body changes significantly as we age, and neither young people with their underdeveloped decision making centers, nor old people with reduced overall function and greatly reduced ability to learn and apply new concepts should be making important political decisions and be responsible for the well being of a nation.
And all those complaints are not really about age, but mental capability. So we should measure what really counts instead of age.
I dont want to comment on one opinion over the other, just wondering how a system like this would work given the fact that the line where age typically takes a serious detrimental toll is both highly varied between individuals and also moving farther back (in theory at least) as medical technology and understanding progresses.
Ageism exists because people above a certain age cannot keep up to the demands of the job. I am sure a lot of folk disagree here… but you would agree that old people’s brains aren’t as fast as young people and even old people experience can only hinder them in a world thats all but changed completely.
This test you speak of is how mostly it works now, but only inverted: reject the vast majority of old people… and only hire the outliers.
Wait, the guy who claimed to be for the environment was on the board of a company that contributes unnecessary e-waste by not allowing their hardware to last its rightful lifespan?? Wish I could say I was shocked…
You say that, meanwhile Apple is the benchmark in providing software updates and support for their devices. Just a few years ago, Android manufacturers were not even providing 2 years of updates.
yeah, that green company that artificially impedes reusing parts by firmware.
the very same company that sells premium laptops with not upgradeable 8 GB of RAM. The very same company which sells laptops in which even the SSD is soldered, so when it dies or when it is full (the base model is 256 GB and they make you pay a big premium for more) you have to replace the whole thing.
Is 8GB RAM laptop even relevant to this discussion? You seem to be going off on the “Apple doesn’t provide enough RAM with their base models” rant which is a completely different discussion. Regarding soldering the SSD, many manufacturers do it and it’s certainly not good practice for the environment.
I never said Apple is the greenest company in existence but they are also not the worst like the original company implied and they are certainly not forcing early retirement of their products. On the contrary they are doing the opposite by providing software support even 5-6 years after purchase.
Both are bad, Apple needs to stop the parts locking (like not being able to use all the features on a replaced screen without their approval), and Android companies have to be better about giving support for their phones.
Keep both accountable, let’s leave the console wars bs in 2008.
I agree, and I am not here trying to start some Apple vs Android war. My comparison was just to give some perspective on the competition.
Yes but the android phone will still work fine for at least the next decade and all apps on the play store will still work on that phone for the next decade.
On apple, if you never update your phone, eventually you won’t be able to update or install apps because they require a version on iOS you’re not on. We don’t have this problem on android. Most android apps can run on Android 6 and up.
We are now on Android 14. 6 was a very long time ago…
My 2013 MacBook Pro is running Linux and kicking ass. So, although they dropped os upgrades after 7 years, I think it says a lot about their desktops. The same cannot be said with their iOS devices, as I have an iPod Touch V1 that could be put to good use if only I could run Ubuntu touch.
Literally any PC made in the last decade will run Linux like a champ. It has nothing to do with it being made by Apple
That is specifically not true of Apple. They don’t make drivers for Linux, and often change components which means there are several Apple devices that are really hard to run Linux on. The touchbar MacBooks are a nightmare for Linux, and the ARM Macs are slowly getting support, but it is sub par last I looked.
