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Apple: “People Are Still Just Trying To Catch Up With The First iPhone”

8:35AM Matt Buchanan | Surprisingly the one real moment of shittake in the Apple earnings call was prodded by an analyst who asked Apple COO Tim Cook what he thought about iPhone wannabes “like Android.” Tim Cook flings some poo at everybody else: More »
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Apple Hints At Palm Pre Legal Battle

9:00AM Matt Buchanan | Here’s what Apple no. 2 Tim Cook just said about iPhone competition: “We like competition as long as they don’t rip off our IP. And we’re going to go after anybody that does.” More »
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When Tim Cook Met Steve Jobs

10:28AM Wilson Rothman | WSJ’s Nick Wingfield interviewed the headhunter who brought Tim Cook to Apple. Back in 1998, it was Jobs who had to convince Cook—a cyclist with a “cool, unflappable demeanor”—to leave Compaq. Good play, dude. [WSJ] More »
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A Profile on Apple’s Temporary Leader, Tim Cook

10:18AM Jason Chen | Fortune’s profile on Apple’s Tim Cook is all the more interesting now that he’s (at the very least) going to take over for Steve Jobs until June. We took the most interesting facts out here.
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The Quiet Man Who May Become Apple King

11:30PM Jesus Diaz | Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky has written a fascinating article on Tim Cook, the quiet Apple’s Chief Operating Office unknown by most of the public, but a key member of the Dream Team that helped Steve Jobs to turn the company around during its dark ages. Why now? I can’t help to think that this is related to Steve Jobs’ potential farewell and Apple’s future transition of power. But while that’s probably my tinfoil hat in action, Lashinsky asks himself the same question I did: Can Cook become Apple’s CEO? Reading the events and third-party comments portrayed in his article, it feels like this may very well be the case. More »