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Apps can how the esteemed founder would react share files, display widgets in Notifica- in any given situation. The only directive tion Center, and even run small portions from Jobs’s tenure that mattered after of themselves inside other apps. On the his death was the one that freed Cook Mac side, OS X Yosemite will benefit from and everyone else at Apple from playing iCloud Drive, which gives users free “What Would Steve Do?” access to the iCloud file structure. Criticism of post-Jobs Apple tends to Consider, too, the connectivity features, run in one of two directions: Either Apple including Handoff, which allows Macs is doomed because it’s slavishly follow- and iOS devices to pass information ing the old playbook of its former CEO, back and forth much more easily. That or it’s doomed because it isn’t following seems like a major course change. (For the playbook of its genius former CEO. more, see “What You Need to Know: As a close observer of Apple before, Tim Cook and his OS X Yosemite and iOS 8” on page 46.) during, and after Jobs’s tenure, I can tell lieutenants are you that the Apple of today is not playing COOK IN CHARGE by the Steve Jobs playbook—except for immersed in Apple Those developments are just the latest the bit that demanded that everyone stop culture, but they’re indicators that this is not Steve’s Apple, asking what Steve would do. Tim Cook applying it to an but rather the post-Steve Apple. I might and his lieutenants are immersed in the ever-changing world. even argue that Apple executives have Apple culture that Steve Jobs created, of been able to unmake some decisions course, but they’re applying the culture that Jobs—perhaps unwisely—insisted to an ever-changing world. on. For starters, the “thermonuclear” Phil Schiller, and the rest of Apple’s brain patent war that Jobs started with Google WE GOT THE BEATS trust to make such calls. Beats Music, may be abating, since the results of the Take Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of though new and small, is an excellent trials have consisted of embarrassing Beats. Apple bought plenty of compa- service with smart curation features. It disclosures, huge legal fees, and mild nies during Jobs’s run, but most of them gets Apple in the game. slaps on the wrist for the infringers. were below-the-waterline businesses Then there’s Beats Electronics. We can I believe that if Apple stuck by the old that Apple broke up for their component debate the quality of its headphones, but “What Would Steve Do?” playbook, the parts, integrating their employees into they are successful and cool. By buying company truly would be doomed, the Apple workforce. Beats, in contrast, Beats, not only does Apple get to influ- looking backward and second-guessing is an existing name that will presumably ence the future of a popular product key decisions based on strategies that continue—forcing Apple to steward (and ensure that it works best with Apple’s are increasingly out-of-date. Instead, another customer-facing brand for the latest stuff), but the company also keeps Apple executives are making interesting first time in recent memory. its competitors’ grubby mitts off of it. and risky decisions. Whether the Beats Jobs was famously disdainful of the And then there’s this year’s Worldwide acquisition ultimately succeeds or concept of music subscription services. Developers Conference, in which all sorts fails, and whatever the impact of the Were he alive today, even he might of rules changed. Apple dropped the changes unveiled at WWDC, the fact change his mind on that point, but since cloak of secrecy, with developers free to that these things happened at all is a he’s not here, it’s up to Cook, Eddy Cue, speak about what they learned and with good sign for Apple’s future. ■ PHOTOGRAPHY BY PETER BELANGER SEPTEMBER 2014 • MACWORLD 5 SENIOR VP/EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Jason Snell EDITOR Dan Miller DESIGN DIRECTOR Rob Schultz Editorial SENIOR EDITORS Christopher Breen, Dan Frakes, Roman Loyola, Dan Moren ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR Sally Zahner ASSOCIATE EDITOR Serenity Caldwell ASSISTANT EDITOR Leah Yamshon VIDEO PRODUCER Jamie Lai SENIOR COPY EDITORS Steven Gray, Tracy Yee-Vaught COPY EDITORS Sushmita Mitra, Gail Nelson-Bonebrake SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS Adam C. 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