Steve Jobs left Apple on Tim Cook

The founder and head of Apple Steve Jobs officially leaves the post of head of the company. Instead, the main executive director of Apple will be Tim Cook, writes Wall Street Journal . On the Council of Directors on Wednesday, Jobs "strongly recommended" Cook's advice as his successor. Jobs was elected chairman of the council.

Jobs’s letter says : “I always said: someday the day will come when I can’t fulfill my duties anymore and match the expectations as the head of Apple, and that I will be the first to learn from whom. Unfortunately, this day has come.”

Although American, and Russian users read this letter almost like an obituary (Steve Jobs Cancer, and everyone knows about it), we note that Job did not leave Apple, but left the position of CEO Apple. The letter says: "I am sure that Apple's most striking and innovative days are still ahead. And in a new role I will make every effort to success."

Recall that Tim Kuku is 50 years old, he replaced Jobs as a general director since 2011, when he had to go on vacation for health reasons, and was considered the main candidate for the role of the successor since 2008. Cook moved to Apple from Compaq in 1998 at the invitation of Jobs. He asked him to engage in a weak line of products. The first time he took a few months in 2004, when Jobs was treated for cancer. In the dossier on Cook, it is noted that he has a powerful intelligence and a mathematical warehouse of the mind.

According to some reports, de facto he managed the company all the time of Jobs’s illness, it was simply officially announced this only now, see CNN's material “ Genius behind Steve” or her Russian translation into habrahabr.

"The working nature of the Cook cannot be called pleasant. He himself is a workaholic and very demanding of his subordinates. He should be subordinated to discipline. He arranges meetings until late at night, and himself often begins work at 4:30 in the morning. At his meetings, the most characteristic element is long pauses, when absolute silence hung in the room. He is able to squeeze a person as a rag and grind him on a shredder. He asks a person questions to which he clearly does not know the answer, but he continues and continues to ask without stopping. "