“For Tim Cook, the small-town football fanatic turned steward of the world’s largest technology company, it always comes back to the vision question,” Gabriel Madway reports for Reuters
“The search for an answer will frame succession planning discussions in Building 4 of 1 Infinite Loop — the heart of Apple’s California headquarters — when Cook is expected to step in for his boss to lead the annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday,” Madway reports. “But little did Cook know that a gut decision he made in 1998 during his first meeting with Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs would forever change his life — and alter the course of technology history.”
Madway reports, “With Jobs out on his third medical leave of absence and deemed by many unlikely to return, Cook may finally get his shot to be number one at Apple. But what most investors want to know is whether Cook possesses any of Jobs’ instincts for anticipating what consumers want before they know it.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]