Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Two years after Steve Jobs' death, how's that new CEO working out? Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 08:02:01 +1100 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <52506c9e$0$10761$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net GksBKCKzB8Fi0/l0mROzZwLYRw3pwQ1PeWuPLubmDnKXxKTS4= Cancel-Lock: sha1:UQFzojYKsqunXfNehPKyJekb67M= In-Reply-To: <52506c9e$0$10761$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:28042 comp.sys.mac.system:49473 JF Mezei wrote > Michelle Steiner wrote >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/05/tim_cook_and_apple_two_years_after_steve_jobs_death/ > It should be noted that at either the June or September keynote, > Cook mentioned the great collaboration within the teams. Not > so subtle hint that things had changed since the corporate re-org. > The article does make one mistake though. When comparing > gaps between the totally new products, he mentions it has > only been 2 years since death or Mr Jobs. > But his death was not a new product. Yes, but it is the time during which Cook was driving the bus. > The last new product was the iPad Yes. > (and it can be argued that the last totally new product is really the > iPhone since the iPad is just a bigger iPhone without voice support). Nope, tablets are just as different to phones as say the iphone is to the ipod touch. You can claim that the iphone is just an ipod touch with voice support and that would be accurate. It is very different for that reason tho. Although you can certainly claim that the ipod touch is just the iphone with some capability missing. Its much close to that than the ipad is.