When Cook took over, people expected him to fail.

I don't think even Steve Jobs would've been able to imagine that Apple can get this big.

elzbardico 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

To be honest, a lot of industry analysts were skeptical of Jobs' second coming. And when he did a deal with Microsoft, most of them thought they were right in their initial pessimism.

Over the time I developed the instinct to not take pundit's opinions too seriously.

	▲	Aachen 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Pundits... or might it just be that people can't predict markets and behavior without large error margins and compounding effects that magnify these errors further over time?

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rhubarbtree 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Guilty. I predicted they would decline, due to a lack of new products. I guess I was right in a sense, but I didn’t see the potential of optimising what was already there.

I also love the Vision Pro, actually, I think it’s brilliant, so that was an exception to the rule too.