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Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I've Only Had Good Years' (businessinsider.com)

Posted by msmash on from the in-hindsight dept.

Business Insider: Under CEO Tim Cook's watch, Apple has sold hundreds of millions of iPhones, booked hundreds of billions of dollars in profit, and launched new products like AirPods and Apple Watch. In fact, Cook says, he's never had a bad year as CEO of Apple. "I've only had good years. No, seriously," he said in an interview with Fast Company. "Even when we were idling from a revenue point of view -- it was like $6 billion every year -- those were some incredibly good years because you could begin to feel the pipeline getting better, and you could see it internally. Externally, people couldn't see that," he continued.

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  1. CEO vision COO obsession by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So you had Jobs who had vision. Then you have Cook who is very good at ops. He can squeeze every last cent out of everything they do.
    Problem with these ops people is that they have no vision. Yea, now that he's in charge they're more profitable than ever. But product quality has suffered and they're not innovating. Not in any meaningful way, anyway.
    This always ends the same way. The ops guy will get the company as efficient as he can, but they wont be doing anything new and it will take a dive.