Ask HN: Do you miss Steve Jobs in 2020?
In a way yes. I often ponder on what he would do, which we will never know. As he was the only product guy that understands products and user better than anyone else. And on a CEO level, he was the only person who would admit mistake and change course. Something extremely rare in any large cooperation.<p>Would he have preferred the Butterfly &#x2F; Current Magic Keyboard with awful low key travel. After all he was the one who wanted MacBook to be Thinkpad like because of the keyboard. Why make MacBook like Tablet, when it should have a <i>perfect</i> PC keyboard with decent key travel.<p>We wouldn&#x27;t have to wait 3 years before the whole Keyboard thing was done.<p>Would he have trusted Iovine? He knew Iovine way before Apple Music, but he never bought him in to Apple. Even when Iovine was trying to sell him Beats, he didn&#x27;t buy it. Would he have been sold to the god damn stupid &quot;next song&quot; idea like Eddy Cue did. At least I am glad those awful quality Beats headphones did not end up on Apple&#x27;s speaker and Headphones.<p>May be Apple Music would have been way better designed.<p>Scott Forstall wouldn&#x27;t have left. Jony Ive wouldn&#x27;t have made iOS 7, and Apple spend the next 3 to 4 years trying to fix or revert all the damage that has done to its UI.<p>Where is the &quot;real&quot; Apple TV?<p>He understand Media possibly better than anyone currently at Apple. Would he have still ventured into Apple TV+ making TV series? Directly competing with Disney and Netflix? Just a note Disney+ is on course to achieve its 2024 target by end of 2020. That is 4 years ahead of its ( relatively conservative ) estimate.<p>Steve&#x27;s Apple era worked with relatively tiny R&amp;D. He just didn&#x27;t have the luxury of insane amount of money and cash flow. Apple in 2011 had a market cap of $300B, and he was already investing to Apple SoC, larger iPhone ( iPhone 6 ), iPad and iCloud. Apple today has a lot more people on payroll, but the pace of innovation, or improvement to be precise, is rather slow.<p>Would Apple Store&#x27;s opening be accelerated instead of being slowed down? The number of Apple Store growth between Apple having 400M iPhone user and now possibly 1B user ( They haven&#x27;t announced it yet ) has been minimal. All while Apple is having a much larger product line. Ever since Johnson left, Apple didn&#x27;t have proper person in charge of Retail. The guy from Dixon was a fad ( As anyone from UK would have known ) and Angela clearly dont understand Apple or tech. The fist thing Deidre O’Brien did when she is in charge.. surprise surprise revert some of the changes made during Angela era. Again in the nearly 10 years, it seems no one apart from Steve Jobs or Johnson actually understands Apple Retail.<p>Apple wouldn&#x27;t have played so long with Intel on their modem. Would Steve have settled out their Qualcomm modem legal battle way earlier? Instead of waiting 4 years all while getting apparently the same results as Qualcomm have always had. And Steve is a guy who understand and valued the importance of patents.<p>In a way I think once Steve passed away, Apple started to fall apart, lots of old folks finally ( or suddenly ) got tired and left. Once the RDF generator was gone, things were a little messy. Tim Cook did a brilliant job holding everything intact. And constantly reminding everyone why Steve created Apple and what Apple stood for. But it was never the same Apple again, and possibly never will be.<p>I miss him.