What smart people are saying about Tim Cook's legacy at Apple
THE SO WHAT
Cook’s legacy is operational dominance and supply chain leverage at planetary scale—whoever runs hardware or devices now has to assume Apple will treat manufacturing, privacy, and services as one integrated system. If your roadmap assumes Apple will stay predictable and slow on new categories, this transition is the moment to revisit that bet.
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