"Intensely Private" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-16 16:45 (#245) Sorry, but his closeted status is the ONLY interesting thing about the guy. He's an apparently competent and boring manager, period.People keep wanting him to be a showman / asshole like his predecessor. It's good that he's not.May the cult of Apple die a nice slow slide into overpriced obscurity.I'm not exactly sure the point of the Times' ballwashing exercise. Re: "Intensely Private" (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-16 17:03 (#246) Seriously, no one gets credit for being quiet and competent. And reading the article made me feel slightly sick that the only thing people are really interested in is either:For the consumers: entertainment via some shiny new toy, orFor the investors: huge amounts of increased value in their stock portfolio, whatever that takesBoring! Re: "Intensely Private" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-16 19:30 (#24A) And while you certainly CAN polish a turd (Jobs was nothing if not that), it's much harder to polish an ordinary brick, even if in this strained analogy Cook is the capstone or cornerstone brick of the enterprise.Gah. Analogies make me gag a but. :)
Re: "Intensely Private" (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-16 17:03 (#246) Seriously, no one gets credit for being quiet and competent. And reading the article made me feel slightly sick that the only thing people are really interested in is either:For the consumers: entertainment via some shiny new toy, orFor the investors: huge amounts of increased value in their stock portfolio, whatever that takesBoring! Re: "Intensely Private" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-16 19:30 (#24A) And while you certainly CAN polish a turd (Jobs was nothing if not that), it's much harder to polish an ordinary brick, even if in this strained analogy Cook is the capstone or cornerstone brick of the enterprise.Gah. Analogies make me gag a but. :)
Re: "Intensely Private" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-16 19:30 (#24A) And while you certainly CAN polish a turd (Jobs was nothing if not that), it's much harder to polish an ordinary brick, even if in this strained analogy Cook is the capstone or cornerstone brick of the enterprise.Gah. Analogies make me gag a but. :)