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Did Jobs leave Tim Cook in charge because he wanted Apple to fail without him?
It's pretty clear Steve understood what happens when you leave the wrong people at the helm of a technology company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rXqD6M614
For a while I've been wondering why he left Tim Cook in charge and Apple's continued stagnation hasn't helped... I'm starting to think Steve wanted to be sure history remembered him as the only one who could make Apple successful.
Thoughts?
- zimpenfish 10y agoI'm thinking this is a prime Betteridge headline.
- gjvc 10y agoFor those who don't know... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- informatimago 10y agoThis is not a newspaper article, it's a Ask HN: that is missing the "Ask HN:" bona-fide question.
- CyberFonic 10y agoApple has a board of directors. I would think that they would make changes in the C-suite if they were confident that those changes would improve things. Apple has become a Big company and with that comes a sort of petrification of thinking.
- Lordarminius 10y agoNext to Steve Jobs, Tim Cook was the single most important executive at Apple before Steve's death; counting among his successes the ipod. If SJ wanted to install someone who would fail TC was a bad choice.