Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

Look who are putting this out, do they have a vested interest? Look at all the latest fiasco with Apple iPhone's, Last years newest Mac book pro and problems with some of their watches. When Steve was alive do you think this would have been allowed. Now I have nothing against Apple, I own an Apple 27" iMac with Retina 5K Display 4.2 GHz Intel Core i7 Quad-Core 32GB of DDR4 RAM 3TB Fusion Drive and AMD Radeon Pro 575 Graphics Card (4GB) also 3 external 4TB drives (1 for time machine, 1 for photos and one for photo backup) also a second 27" Dell screen. The computer I use for social such as the one I am on now is an HP Pavilion.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I'm a huge fan of Steve Jobs, but I do recall there were many ups and downs when he was there. Apple's sales are in the stratosphere now, compared with what they were in 2011. That means the swings are wider.

Tim Cook may be a lame presenter, and less of a visionary by comparison, but his business skills are top notch. He surrounds himself with great people.

Remember: The Apple III? ... Lisa? NeXT? ...the Mac G4 Cube? ...the iPhone 4 that, if held like a phone, would drop calls? ...any version of OS X before 10.3? ...the abortion that was Mac OS 8.5? Those all happened on Jobs' watch. He and those around him learned from them and moved on.

One of the smartest things we can do as consumers is not buy the first product off the assembly line. The "bleeding edge" is called that for a reason. I had a 1984 Apple IIe Enhanced edition. I had two 1986 Mac SEs. I had a Mac IIci. I had a 2000 iMac DV. I had an iPhone 3Gs, an iPhone 4s, an iPhone 6s Plus, and currently use an iPhone 7 Plus. I had a PowerBook 540, a PowerBook G3, a PowerBook G4 17 from 2005, A PowerMac G5, two PowerMac G4s, and a 2008 MacBook Pro. NONE of those was the first model in its series, and I waited a few weeks or months after the release before getting each of them. All of them were reliable. But there were predecessors of each that were disappointments in the marketplace. My favorite machine was the 2008 MacBook Pro, because I could run Windows on it and eliminate the need to lug two computers for my training missions.

Yes, Apple can be infuriating to deal with on occasion. But they still drive a lot of the innovation in the marketplace. Typically, they aren't the first to adopt some new, cool technology, but they are usually the ones to make it wildly popular.