Uh, the "article" in question (if we really want to call this that) does not claim that he wants to leave for another company.
The article claims that IF he leaves, then he would not immediately retire and would instead go work somewhere.
The article also claims he would prefer to keep working for Tim Cook, and not another CEO.
He claims insider knowledge, so much so that he's saying he knows the deliberations between Johny and Tim themselves, yet literally makes no mention of why Johny would want to "leave" Apple. This is suspicious to say the least.
This "article" is a complete hysterical shitshow. I noticed after he wrote an article on Alan Dye leaving for Facebook, that no one gave the reaction he had hoped for (people panicking). Watching him have a psychological breakdown on twitter was both entertaining and enlightening, because it illustrated what all of this is really about: gossip to turn a profit for himself.
A lot of executives at Apple are older, not younger, so obviously at some point they will retire. The majority of high profile leaves are retirements, yet the "article" goes on a practically dissertation-length gossip angle about the "end is nigh." He attempts to thread a thesis throughout it, but fails to. He randomly chucks in "AI," but fails to actually have any kind of thesis about why people are "leaving."
He tried to spin Alan Dye leaving for Facebook as some massive issue and design failure at Apple (implying wrongly that Tim Cook does not care about design). People instead reacted both internally and externally out of Apple excitement for Steve Lemay to take over -- whether it s because they "hated" Alan dye, or because they're simply excited for Steve Lemay given who he is, what's he's done, his philosophy of UX.
Even more interestingly, something actually factual that all of us can verify (majority of people excited for Steve Lemay) is only given 2 sentences in the article 1/2 way through. It then returns to hysteria for another (what feels like) 50 paragraphs. Think heavily on that.
I'm sick and tired of hearing about Gurman's constant gossipy bullshit. No one ever holds him accountable for when he's wrong, and people treat everything he says as fact. Every time someone takes a shit he basically pretends it's either 'a new beginning' or 'the end of the world.' Can he please shut the fuck up already?
All of us on this planet, including Apple employees, already have enough issues in this world. His constant hysteria is nauseating and false and unhelpful. It only seeks to make him richer from his articles.
Fuck him.
