“With the resignation of Steve Jobs, Apple’s ailing chief executive, his successor and collaborator of many years, Tim Cook, will be tested like never before,” Miguel Helft writes for Fortune.
“Cook, who was Apple’s chief operating officer, has been running day-to-day operations since January, when Jobs announced that he was taking a medical leave,” Helft reports. “And twice before, Cook had taken the reins from Jobs, as Apple’s founder stepped aside to focus on his health.”
Helft reports, “Like Jobs, Cook is a relentless executive and exacting boss, a perfectionist who obsesses over minute details. But the similarities between the two men end there. While Jobs is a charismatic leader known for outbursts of temper, Cook, who was raised in a small town in Alabama, is soft-spoken, reserved and intensely private. And as Jobs used his creative genius and vision to conceive and design blockbuster products like the iMac, iPhone and iPad, Cook’s considerable operational skills were focused on making sure that Apple could build millions of those products and deliver them to every corner of the world to meet customers’ seemingly insatiable demand.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Ah, insatiable. Is that the only way to describe us?
Does he get along with Jon Ive?
He’s going to do fine.
Tim Cook: Apple’s New CEO and the Most Powerful Gay Man in America
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You’re an ass.
… true, the (rather offensive) comment also seems to be true. I guess the real question is: “does it matter?”. OK, sure, if this becomes a widely known fact, it may slow Apple’s growth, at least among the homophobic crowd. So, homophobes and those who work for them will suffer with Windows longer. Enh!
I give props to gawker for getting all these comments.
So what?
Speaking as a conservative, and as someone who voted for Prop 8, I don’t think this should be an issue in any way whatsoever, unless Tim Cook himself MAKES an issue of it. I just don’t care; he does a great job at what he does, and that’s all anyone really needs to know.
‘Gay’ is irrelevant
I, like millions (probably billions) of others, do not care about his sexuality.
What a disgusting comment.
What is so disgusting about it? All he said was most powerful gay man. Would you puke if someone said hillary clinton was the most powerful woman in america? Or are you stuck with the stupid political correctness and mad he didn’t say “homosexual”? Doesn’t matter what he is, gay, straight, bi, transgender doesn’t matter to me nor does it disgust me. He did great while Steve was out and will continue to do great things with apple.
people need to stop being so damn sensitive.
It is disgusting that Mr. Cook’s sexuality is mentioned at all. I see this kind of behaviour all the time; someone mentions a persons’ sexuality completely out of context and when a someone complains about the completely off topic comment, people like you spring up and try to justify it.
His sexuality is of absolutely no consequence and irrelevant, therefore in my opinion it is a comment designed to inflame. OK?
The person who posted the comment about him being gay could have been gay him/herself.. we may never know. I’m used to seeing everyone make things into something negative all the time. Sure like I said it doesn’t matter what his sexual preference is but I don’t think that makes it disgusting, maybe stupid if anything. Hold about as much merit as when someone posts political rants in here but people still do it. I’m surprised someone hasn’t posted anything political yet… then again.. reading this maybe someone will.. hopefully not.
Uh… Who’s being sensitive?
…and he is an engineer, not a marketing guy! Apple is in good hands
To much has been talked/said about who’s going to fill Steve Jobs’ shoes or whether Mr Cook is as visionary, etc.
However, the real bigger challenge for Apple is… Who is going to fill Mr Cook’s shoes and do all Mr Cook has done as COO.
An excellent question.
Gay
All that matters is TIm Cook is better than Ballmer, Page, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Hastings, etc.
The other key is that Tim is able to keep attracting the best and brightest to Apple. Other companies lose their best talent, especially those who thought they might be the next CEO. Let’s hope Tim can keep Forstall, Mansfield, Ive, Schiller, etc.
… it is a totally unconvincing article. The author was impressed with Cook because he noticed him and took time to answer his question so he no longer felt like a worm.