> They are gambling that Jony has another iPhone in him.
I seriously doubt it.
If anything because Apple let him go exactly when they were looking for a new hit product like the iPhone.
But also because how he handled the Mac the years before he was fired. All his big decisions were just bad. The butterfly keyboard, touchbar, USB-C only ports, etc. Heck even the 2013 Mac Pro (the trashcan) was an engineering failure. They could never upgrade it because, according to Craig Federighi, they got themselves into a thermal corner caused by the design of it[1].
I seriously doubt it.
If anything because Apple let him go exactly when they were looking for a new hit product like the iPhone.
But also because how he handled the Mac the years before he was fired. All his big decisions were just bad. The butterfly keyboard, touchbar, USB-C only ports, etc. Heck even the 2013 Mac Pro (the trashcan) was an engineering failure. They could never upgrade it because, according to Craig Federighi, they got themselves into a thermal corner caused by the design of it[1].
[1] https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives