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Review: Is Apple’s best-ever chief executive not named Steve?

Jobs casts a long shadow but Tim Cook’s might be longer still

Review: Is Apple’s best-ever chief executive not named Steve?
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The final chapter of former Wired news editor Leander Kahney’s excellent new biography mercifully poses the question you feel the whole thing has been building up to: is Tim Cook Apple’s best chief executive?

It is a question that seems almost, to quote Kahney, “heretical” — and yet it is hard not to answer in favour of Cook after reading the book.

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