Better Apple CEO: Steve Jobs or Tim Cook?

[Jackgamer91]

Who is/was a better Apple CEO between Steve Jobs and Tim Cook? 

[Derkoli]

2 minutes ago, Jackgamer91 said:

Who is/was a better Apple CEO between Steve Jobs and Tim Cook? 

Apple wasn't overpriced when steve jobs was around, was a good guy.

[Zando_]

Jobs but 1) this is like a generally known fact, guy is a legend for a reason, but 2) he's dead now  so yeah doesn't really matter to current Apple whether Jobs was better than Cook or not, Cook is Cook and Jobs was Jobs. Apple is still doing well for itself, though I do think they made better stuff in the Jobs era, probably due to his extreme perfectionism. 

[akio123008]

If jobs was around that stupid bump wouldn't have been on there

[Origami Cactus]

Who is Tim Cook? Isn't the current CEO named Tim Apple?

/s

[Zando_]

Just now, akio123008 said:

If jobs was around that stupid bump wouldn't have been on there

But y'see they got rid of the bump and now it's 2-3 bumps on one bigger bump because more bumps = better or something. 

 

*hides iPhone X in shame because smh only one bump for both cameras, what kinda 2017 shit is this*

[akio123008]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

But y'see they got rid of the bump and now it's 2-3 bumps on one bigger bump because more bumps = better or something. 

 

*hides iPhone X in shame because smh only one bump for both cameras, what kinda 2017 shit is this*

more bumps more better innit

 

[Zando_]

Just now, akio123008 said:

more bumps more better innit

 

4x the bump for 4x the pleasure 

[Derkoli]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

4x the bump for 4x the pleasure 

[jiyeon]

Unanimously Jobs, he was the entrepreneur who strived to create perfection. Cook by comparison appears to bank on design and relying on Apple's current porfolio, very little innovation, and when there is, it's incremental at best.

[Drak3]

6 minutes ago, Derkoli said:

Apple wasn't overpriced when steve jobs was around

No, Apple was outrageously overpriced and outdated when Jobs was around.

 

6 minutes ago, Derkoli said:

was a good guy.

No, he wasn't. Jobs was a scumbag in every aspect of his life.

[Tamesh16]

TLDR I don't know

 

if the question is based entirely on customer satisfaction through the period of working as CEO then the answer will be purely subjective

while the better at running the company should be much more complex 

 

 

[Drak3]

Just now, sowon said:

very little innovation, and when there is, it's incremental at best.

Just like Jobs.

 

Just now, sowon said:

Unanimously Jobs

I voted Cook.

 

Just now, sowon said:

he was the entrepreneur who strived to create perfection.

Jobs stole ideas, he was a scam artist.

[RollinLower]

10 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Jobs stole ideas, he was a scam artist.

welcome to tech. everyone in the industry does that.

 

that being said, jobs was a genius in marketing his (stolen?) ideas, and that is why he eventually made apple what it is today. cook is just "meh"

[Guest]

Rem is trash.

[Touch My Hamm]

Steve Jobs pushed Apple into the direction they are at today. His charismatic attitude and passion for what he was doing assisted with what made Apple big. When he teased the Iphone his personality carried that conference. yes there was a piece of technology but nothing that we havnt seen in some iteration before. He pushed the apple team to make great looking products that just worked and worked with each other without any hassle. 

[Drak3]

3 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

jobs was a genius in marketing

Not really. Hell, his most remembered campaign for iPod, using silhouettes dancing, was "borrowed" from Nike.

 

5 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

everyone in the industry does that.

Not really, and definitely not to the extent of Jobs stealing an idea and its implementation, patenting it in the US, and then suing the original creators for patent infringement.

[5x5]

Steve Jobs was a visionary. Tim Apple is a shadow of what Jobs was

[The_Prycer]

Steve Wozniak is the only Apple person we worship round these parts.

 

But to answer your question, Steve Jobs from an innovation/cult of personality standpoint and Tim Cook from a less terrible person perspective.

[Donut417]

Steve Jobs all the way. He might have been an Ass Hole. But all of these recalls and programs Apple has to setup due to piss poor hardware, wouldn't have happen under him. I think Apple probably would have been a bit more innovative with Jobs at the helm as well. 

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Steve Jobs all the way. He might have been an Ass Hole. But all of these recalls and programs Apple has to setup due to piss poor hardware, wouldn't have happen under him. I think Apple probably would have been a bit more innovative with Jobs at the helm as well. 

Exactly. The OP was asking who was the better CEO/leader of Apple, not who was the better person outside of that role (apparently Steve was extremely, extremely perfectionist and pretty much an asshole, though from what I've read he respected those who opposed him so long as they had actual reasons for doing so). 

[wasab]

6 hours ago, Derkoli said:

Apple wasn't overpriced when steve jobs was around, was a good guy.

Steve job was a total ass hole. You don't know?

[wasab]

4 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

he respected those who opposed him so long as they had actual reasons for doing so

And if these people proved to be right. If they are wrong, Steve job will be downright nasty. 

[Drak3]

6 hours ago, Donut417 said:

But all of these recalls and programs Apple has to setup due to piss poor hardware, wouldn't have happen under him

Only because Jobs ignored the issue and/or blamed the user.

[TheSLSAMG]

I'm a Timothy Cookothy kind of guy myself. He's honest, which is refreshing in such a trying time.