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People often forget all of Jobs’ failures and blame Cook for all of Apple’s woes. Jobs let many products stagnate, just the same as Cook.

Yeah but it was the Apple TV not the Mac.

To put it in Sabremetrics terms, Jobs was a TTO (three true outcomes) guy. Strikeouts (Lisa), home runs (iPod and iPhone), and walks (not sure where this fits into the analogy but whatever).

Looking at the big picture, the strikeouts aren’t as bad as they look and the dingers more than up make up for it.

Apple wouldn’t have been anywhere without Tim Cook when Jobs was CEO. He got Apple’s manufacturing and supply chain in order. Apple wouldn’t have been equipped to sell 50 million iPods during the typical Christmas quarter in its heyday.

Jobs never had the skillset to manufacturer for the mass market.

Also, Microsoft did pretty well by most measures under Ballmer.

Not really, Balmer slashed R&D and only focused on short term profit, which isn't sustainable long term.

Missed major market opportunities: Mobile computing The Internet (servers, clients) Cloud computing