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MacDailyNews: Demanding and unemotional COO Tim Cook Apple’s someday heir apparent?
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Demanding and unemotional COO Tim Cook Apple’s someday heir apparent?
MacDailyNews —
... Khan, a key operations executive, and abruptly asked, without a trace of emotion, 'Why are you still here?'" Lashinsky reports, "Khan, who remains one of Cook's top lieutenants to this day, immediately stood up, drove to San Francisco International Airport, and, without a change of clothes, booked a flight to China with no return date, according to people familiar with the episode. The story is vintage Cook: demanding and unemotional." Much more in the full article - recommended - here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "Dale" and "Teddy" for the heads up.] ...
Apple COO Tim Cook as Possible Steve Jobs Replacement?
MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors —
Mac Rumors Fortune provides a detailed profile of Apple's COO Tim Cook and asks an ongoing question: Could this be Steve Jobs' eventual successor? Speculation about who might replace Steve Jobs has remained a hot topic ever since his scare with pancreatic cancer four years ago. Cook is certainly high on the list as he was chosen by Jobs to take over day to day operations at Apple while Jobs was out for surgery in 2004. Steve Jobs has since made a made a ...
News: Mix: CastCatcher, Ferrari + iPod, Cook as CEO, Ocarina
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
... a special performance version of its F430 Spider called the Scuderia Spider 16M. Notably, the new car—which is limited to 499 vehicles—features a special audio system featuring a removable iPod touch with a central in-dash dock. The Spider 16M is expected to sell for around $300,000 when it becomes available. Fortune has posted a lengthy profile of Apple COO Tim Cook, investigating the possibility of Cook replacing Steve Jobs as Apple CEO when/if Jobs should decide to retire or otherwise leave the company. Through interviews with two dozen people who have dealt directly ...
How Much Longer Will Steve Jobs Be Apple’s CEO?
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... An article over at Fortune lays out the possibility that Apple’s chief operating officer, Tim Cook, could take over the role. However, Cook seems to think Jobs could be in place well into the next ten years. “Come on, replace Steve? No. He’s irreplaceable,” Cook said recently, according to a person who knows him well. (via ...
The Quiet Man Who May Become Apple King [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... who really loved people, who wanted to raise people up." Cook also admires the way Kennedy "was comfortable standing in his brother's shadow and doing what he thought was right." Coming from a man whose most critical career phase has been almost completely overshadowed by a charismatic leader with an uncommon ability to relate to the hopes and dreams of the masses, it's a telling comment. Indeed, it is. Head to Fortune for the rest of Tim Cook's portrait. [Fortune] ...
Meet Tim Cook, Apple's Interim CEO (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... In a lengthy profile, Fortune tells us everything we wanted to know about Apple's No. 2, Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, including: ...
Profile: Who is Tim Cook?
Macworld —
... also has a reputation for being detail-oriented. He's also familiar with stepping in for Jobs. When the Apple CEO was treated for pancreatic cancer in 2004, it was Cook who took over the day-to-day operations then. Cook participates in Apple's quarterly conference calls with analysts, along with chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer. He also sits on the board of directors for Nike—the only executive at Apple other than Steve Jobs to sit on another company’s board, according to Fortune’s extensive profile of Cook from last November. Cook joined Apple in 1998, hired by ...
Jackass of the year
The Macalope —
... don’t even click on it. Really. Steve Jobs = Apple, Jobs dying, Apple dying, no one else at Apple can find their ass with two hands.
Money quote:
So, any chance that [News Corp. number 2] Peter Chernin might have an interest in running a failing computer company?
Failing. Really. He wrote that.
For a unicorn chaser, you can read what the Macalope wrote yesterday about Tim Cook on Macworld, which is supported by this Money piece (tip o’ the antlers to Daring Fireball).
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