Cook understands nothing about Apple and was hired because he’s a whiny, needling little store clerk who did all the nasty jobs that Steve didn’t want to do.
It won’t be long now. They’ve been running on Steve’s stuff and hoping Jonny Ivins will keep them going.
But Cook never got the gig. He has no ideas, no sense of what technology to use to create products, or even what his customer’s want in a product.
Eventually the numbers will start dropping off...the calls will get louder...the Board will have to act.
But it will probably be too late.
The guy who made the joint what it is...is gone. All they got is market momentum, and luckily, the equally clueless competition.
Sorry, Jonny IVE.
Forgettable sort...
There is a nugget of truth in that manure pile of wrong. Cook was good at the things Jobs was bad at and uninterested in -- logistics, supply chains and accounting. It isn't just high prices that keep Apple's margins so healthy. Apple gets the first pick of components and contractors. At one point, Apple was buying between a quarter and a third of all the flash memory chips every manufacturer on this planet could make.
Cook is a master at getting ducks in rows. It's not an accident that Apple manages to maintain the secrecy that builds buzz toward product launches while building millions of devices. Cook is a very talented manager, which isn't the kind of inspirational leader Jobs was, but it's the kind of skill set you notice when you don't have it.
Jony Ive is the man with the vision, Cook keeps the lights on. They're a hell of a team, and were even whien Steve was the one out front.