Apple: No notes taken at executive meetings

The head of the App Store is claiming that he doesn&#x27;t specifically track whether or not it&#x27;s profitable.<p>I simply don&#x27;t believe that. He&#x27;s either playing word games about the technical definition of &quot;profit&quot;, or he&#x27;s outright lying.<p>Given Apple&#x27;s recent behaviour with respect to the EU ruling on alternative market places, I&#x27;m thinking it&#x27;s more likely a combination of the two.

A success only possible, because the company managed to avoid bankruptcy in 2000&#x27;s, a very import point that everyone celebrating its success keeps forgeting that if it wasn&#x27;t for additional money injection and an inverted takeover from a former founder, Apple wouldn&#x27;t be around any longer.

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This reminds me of a great scene in the wire: &quot;Is you taking notes on a criminal f---ing conspiracy?&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a lot harder to discover something incriminating, intentional or not, if you don&#x27;t have a record.

Honestly, I’m not sure notes add anything of value to most meetings.<p>If something is important enough, someone will be explicitly tasked with it.