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?

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zimpenfish 9y ago ↗

I'm thinking this is a prime Betteridge headline.

gjvc 9y ago ↗

For those who don't know... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

informatimago 9y ago ↗

This is not a newspaper article, it's a Ask HN: that is missing the "Ask HN:" bona-fide question.

CyberFonic 9y ago ↗

Apple 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 9y ago ↗

Next 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.