{"id":461,"date":"2013-08-09T15:35:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2013-08-09T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T19:36:58","slug":"apple-board-worried-about-pace-of-innovation-says-fox-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/09\/supply-chain-management\/apple-board-worried-about-pace-of-innovation-says-fox-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple board worried about &lsquo;pace of innovation,&rsquo; says Fox Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes (nay more often than not), you\u2019re treated to such deep and profound stupidity that it can only be located from the collective machinations of the board of directors. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.marketwatch.com\/thetell\/2013\/08\/09\/apple-board-worried-about-pace-of-innovation-says-fox-business\/?mod=MW_latest_news\" target=\"_blank\">Apple board worried about \u2018pace of innovation\u2019<\/a>. No kidding. <\/p>\n<p> Gasparino, citing unnamed sources, said there is pressure on Chief Executive Tim Cook \u201cto innovate, do something fast.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat have they had lately? They had the iPad. They had a few other things,\u201d he said on a Fox Business broadcast on Friday. \u201cBut they don\u2019t have anything innovating from what came from Steve Jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Set aside the fact that Steve Jobs had a knack for feeling the pulse of the intangible, to make visible what was only hinted at by the people at large \u2013 there\u2019s simply no way to reproduce or latch on to what is ineffable. However that will never dissuade a bunch of board bound fools from demanding that it be done.<\/p>\n<p>All around me and you,<\/p>\n<p>Are those in chains.<\/p>\n<p>Trapped from the last revolution<\/p>\n<p>Set them free, sets them free\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So it is with the work of man \u2013 we use chains to break chains. And this is also how one differentiates the Vertical from the Horizontal.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2dc6f19f-837e-44fd-879a-6030b2e5cdd1\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Apple\" rel=\"tag\">Apple<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Tim+Cook\" rel=\"tag\">Tim Cook<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Boards\" rel=\"tag\">Boards<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Apple's+pace+of+innovation\" rel=\"tag\">Apple&#8217;s pace of innovation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes (nay more often than not), you\u2019re treated to such deep and profound stupidity that it can only be located from the collective machinations of the board of directors. Apple board worried about \u2018pace of innovation\u2019. No kidding. Gasparino, citing unnamed sources, said there is pressure on Chief Executive Tim Cook \u201cto innovate, do something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,3],"tags":[198,489,488,491,490,203,199],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-observations","category-strategy","category-supply-chain-management","tag-apple","tag-apples-pace-of-innovation","tag-boards","tag-chief-executive","tag-ipad","tag-steve-jobs","tag-tim-cook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->