> I look at it from a perspective of interchangeability - if you swapped Steve Ballmer in for Cook, nothing much would have changed. This is quite ridiculous.

> I look at it from a perspective of interchangeability - if you swapped Steve Ballmer in for Cook, nothing much would have changed. This is quite ridiculous. "Developers x3" Ballmer would have face-planted at Apple. He only coasted so far at Microsoft because Gates had already won the platform war.