[jusben1369]

Hey Udo. Thanks for that. Quoting Gruber at the end though seemed like the final nail in the coffin to me. Jim appears to be in the same category as the original comment above. He's just too overly sensitive. I found the empty shirt comment up front particularly strange. It seems more than fair to state that Jobs is to Apple what only a handful of other iconic business leaders were to their company. That's just contextualizing the challenge Cook has vs saying he's an empty shirt. You could even argue that's the author trying to give Tim some breathing room by pointing out what he's following. But then that would be personal interpretation to the positive which makes me the same as the other folks (who are heading to the negative)

[Udo_Schmitz]

I know that Gruber is pro Apple. But what I like about his comments is that he has got his facts straight. Like in real hard numbers and statistics. Whereas the NYTs writing about Apple in the last years smells like hit pieces and/or click bait.

For another totally unbalanced and very hard to dismiss comment (because he's got his facts straight) I'll quote Mr. Dilgers latest piece:

“Unsurprisingly, the article's authors Matt Richtel and Brian X. Chen have to admit early on that Cook "declined to be interviewed for this article." It's not hard to understand why.

Richtel may be best known for his bizarre hit piece castigating Apple for working to sell iPads to schools in 2011.

Chen even more famously skewered Apple for even attempting to sell its iPhone in Japan, where he assured his Wired readers that the nation hated it. He even crafted quotes from people in Japan saying how "lame" the iPhone was, even if those quotes were actually completely fabricated.

Then of course, there's the New York Times itself, the publication Richtel and Chen are currently writing for, which printed its "iEconomy" series exclusively blaming Apple for everything wrong in the industry.”

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/06/15/new-york-times-see...