Next Step in the Grand Scheme of Auburn's Cheating Ways

[AUChizad]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/24/us-apple-idUSTRE77N82K20110824

The pancreatic cancer survivor and industry icon, who has been on medical leave for an undisclosed condition since January 17, will be replaced by COO and longtime heir apparent Tim Cook.

An Auburn grad now officially is the most powerful CEO in the world. 

Expect AsThePlainsBurn and WoolyAl to add him to the conspiracy theory cast of characters.

[AUChizad]

3:00

"I have so much Auburn Memorabilia, you might think it was a California Outpost for J&M or Anders"

 

[Townhallsavoy]

MOBILE, Alabama -- Robertsdale native Tim Cook was named to replace iconic Apple CEO Steve Jobs after Jobs' abrupt resignation on Wednesday.

Cook, a 1978 graduate of Robertsdale High School, will get his third stint filling Jobs' sizable shoes.

Cook spent 2 months as CEO of the Cupertino, California, company when cancer surgery forced Jobs to step aside for 2 months. He also filled in another 6 months in 2009 when Jobs' health again became an issue.

Cook has been chief operating officer since 2005.

Donald and Geraldine Cook, Cook's parents, still live in Robertsdale. Donald Cook declined comment when contacted by the Press-Register on Wednesday night.

Cook, never married, also has 2 brothers, Mike and Gerald Cook.

Cook was salutatorian of Robertsdale High School in 1978 and was voted "most studious" in grades 7 through 12, according to the 1978 yearbook, which Cook worked on. He was also a band member and represented Robertsdale at Boys State, an American Legion program.

He went on to Auburn University, graduating with a degree in industrial engineering in 1982. Cook has remained a big Auburn football fan and has supported the school, university officials have said.

Cook worked for 12 years at IBM in North Carolina, going on to computer reseller Intelligent Electronics and manufacturer Compaq before joining Apple.

In a brief 2009 interview, Donald Cook said his son once delivered newspapers for the Press-Register.

Fay Farris, who taught senior English to Cook when he was in Robertsdale High's Class of 1978, said the time she spent teaching him in high school was a long way from the world of computers, mobile phones and iPods.

"We probably didn't have a computer in the whole school," said Farris, later dean of students at Faulkner State Community College.

Farris said Cook was an "excellent student."

"I would have bet my hat, so to speak, that he would have been successful," she said.

Art Levinson, Chairman of Genentech, on behalf of Apple's Board, on Wednesday issued a statement of support for Cook.

“The board has complete confidence that Tim is the right person to be our next CEO,” Levinson said. “Tim’s 13 years of service to Apple have been marked by outstanding performance, and he has demonstrated remarkable talent and sound judgment in everything he does.”

As COO, Cook was previously responsible for all of the company’s worldwide sales and operations, including end-to-end management of Apple’s supply chain, sales activities, and service and support in all markets and countries. He also headed Apple’s Macintosh division and played a key role in the continued development of strategic reseller and supplier relationships, ensuring flexibility in response to an increasingly demanding marketplace.

Cook should be well-compensated in his new role. In 2010, Apple announced that Cook was receiving a $5 million bonus for “outstanding performance” running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave.

Cook, then 49, also received 75,000 restricted stock units scheduled to vest in 2011 and 2012, Apple said in a regulatory filing.

Jobs had been known for limiting his salary to $1 per year, which made Cook the company’s highest-paid executive.
In 2009, Cook received an $800,400 salary; $800,000 in nonstock incentive compensation; and about $40,900 in company matches to his retirement account, life insurance premiums and cash for unused vacation days.

The COO also holds 13,741 shares of Apple stock and 500,000 additional restricted stock options that have not yet vested, according to a January filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Analysts have credited Cook with solving problems that Apple was having with inventory management. That was seen as key to Apple’s ability to amass $25 billion in cash and short-term investments.

Under Cook’s direction in 2009, the company kept cranking out well-received products including updated laptops with lower entry-level prices and a faster iPhone with many longed-for features. Apple sold more than a million of the new iPhone 3GS during its first 3 days on the market.

Related topics: Apple, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook

http://blog.al.com/live/2011/08/tim_cook_takes_over_as_apple_c.html

[Townhallsavoy]

Damnit.  I just posted this in the football forum. 

[Vandy Vol]

Yeah, Chizad...pay attention for fuck's sake.

[The Prowler]

Hells YEAH...State of the Art facilities comin up.

[wesfau2]

Phil Knight is a sniveling bitch in the face of Apple's $80+Billion with no debt.

Fuck Oregon once again.

[Snaggletiger]

Phil Knight is a sniveling bitch in the face of Apple's $80+Billion with no debt.

Fuck Oregon once again.

T-T-T-T-This

[JR4AU]

This thread, it's funny, but bank on this...Bammers will find a way to tie this guy in to Auburn's money funnel, despite the fact they'd probably never heard of him before now.  You know, until this year, I don't think I'd ever heard Milton McGregor mentioned as a prominent Auburn booster.  I think I knew he was one, but never heard him mentioned in the same light at Lowder, Yella Fella, etc.  But out of nowhere, he, and his bingo halls have become ways to funnel money to Auburn players. 

[GH2001]

Phil Knight is a sniveling bitch in the face of Apple's $80+Billion with no debt.

Fuck Oregon once again.

Couldn't have said it better weskie.

Screw Knight and his overrated, overmarketed pieces of garbage he calls shoes.

[AUChizad]

First look at the iPhone 5.

[Kaos]

Pancreatic cancer survivor? 

Not likely.  Didn't know that was Jobs' diagnosis.  He's officially Bear Bryanted. 

[AUChizad]

[AUChizad]

I said this when Finebaum originally compared Alabama to Apple and Auburn to a Ponzi scheme, but it bears repeating do to this.

Tim Cook is the CEO of apple.

Bernie Madoff went to the University of Alabama.

Irony.

[AUChizad]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/24/businessinsider-tim-cook-apple-ceo.DTL&tsp=1

Here's What You Need To Know About Tim Cook, Apple's New CEO (AAPL)

In terribly sad news, Apple has announced that Steve Jobs will be resigning as CEO.

Apple's former COO, Tim Cook, who has led the company during Steve's two medical leaves, will take over as CEO.

Earlier this year, Dan Frommer wrote a quick primer on Tim.

Here's what you need to know:

Cook has already kind-of run Apple for a long time. He's not the visionary- that's Steve Jobs. But Cook has overseen day-to-day operations. That's not going to change.

Cook is a "workaholic," according to a 2008 profile by Fortune. He is an intense operator-type. .

Cook knows what "Apple" means better than pretty much anyone but Steve Jobs. He's been around since 1998 and he really understands what the Apple mission is all about. This was most apparent during a long speech on Apple's earnings call 2 years ago this month, right after had Jobs announced his previous medical leave.  Cook said:

"We believe that we're on the face of the earth to make great products and that's not changing. We're constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple, not the complex. ...  We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us." (Read Cook's entire speech here.)

Cook's profile has grown as he has made more public appearances on Apple's behalf. This winter, he represented Apple as Verizon announced the iPhone. He has been making more appearances during Apple product events, including Apple's Mac event last October. And he has long led the company's earnings calls.

Cook is well compensated for his work. Unlike Steve Jobs' symbolic $1 salary, Tim Cook got $59 million in total compensation last year. (Apple pays out equity every other year, so that's why it was especially high.)

Cook is a HUGE Auburn football fan. We got a chance to talk to him last Tuesday at the Verizon event, after Auburn won the national championship the night before. He sounded like it had been one of the best moments of his life. (Now we see, perhaps, why he had to watch it in a New York hotel room and not at the game itself.)

So, Cook will do just fine in this role, at least on the operational side. As to vision, time will tell.

[Saniflush]

Well with Uncle Miltie in the spotlight and Lowder broke I'm glad to know that we have a man who can pick up the slack.

Bring on the dancing girls.

[JR4AU]

Well with Uncle Miltie in the spotlight and Lowder broke I'm glad to know that we have a man who can pick up the slack.

Bring on the dancing girls.

In a pinch, we always have the Tigerettes to whore around with croots, and they are on Auburn's legit payroll.

[DnATL]

Bring on the dancing girls.

War Damn Apple

[AUChizad]

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/30/a-look-at-apples-handling-of-customer-emails-to-executives/

A Look at Apple's Handling of Customer Emails to Executives as Tim Cook Takes Charge
Tuesday August 30, 2011 6:43 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Steve Jobs has been famous for his willingness to interact with customers via email, issuing terse and sometimes surprisingly candid answers to users' questions and complaints on occasion. With Tim Cook now officially taking the reins at Apple, some have questioned whether he has any interest in similar interactions with customers.

Cook has clearly been flooded with emails over the past few days, many of which have offered him congratulations on his new position. Notably, Cook does seem to be taking the time to respond to those emails, suggesting that he may indeed be interested in personal communication with Apple customers. Most of the responses so far seem to have been of a simple nature thanking the senders, although some have included a bit more detail relevant to the senders' content.

One example given in a comment thread on an article at iDownloadBlog comes from a customer who mentioned that he used Apple products to communicate with his family from Iraq, to which Cook responded thanking him for his military service. Another example comes via an Auburn University fan, who connected with Cook, an Auburn graduate and devoted fan himself, over the school. Cook included in his reply a mention of Auburn's famous "War Eagle" battle cry.



Apple has historically paid close attention to emails sent to Jobs, and will likely continue to do so with Cook. One example of Apple's tracking of executive email contacts has been provided to MacRumors, showing Apple's efforts to respond to early criticisms of its MobileMe service, which experienced a series of missteps at its mid-2008 rollout. According to an internal Apple presentation highlighting the status of MobileMe support issues in early 2009, Apple closely tracked on a day-by-day basis the 242 MobileMe complaint emails sent to Steve Jobs over the first six months of the service's history.



Apple support staff analyzed each of the 242 MobileMe-related emails sent to Jobs over that period, categorizing them by "root cause" in order to better understand where customer complaints were coming from.

Jobs of course remains as Chairman of Apple's board of directors, and his email address presumably will remain active. It is unknown, however, if he will continue to answer customer emails sent his way now that he has stepped down. Jobs does not appear to have answered many emails, if any, in recent months, and thus he may have already stepped away from that communication channel.

And while customers hoping that channels to the chief executive remain open under Cook may be heartened by his recent responses, it remains to be seen whether he will continue to engage with customers via email once the flood of congratulatory messages passes and the emails become more focused on questions and complaints.

[AUChizad]

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/30/a-look-at-apples-handling-of-customer-emails-to-executives/

A Look at Apple's Handling of Customer Emails to Executives as Tim Cook Takes Charge
Tuesday August 30, 2011 6:43 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Steve Jobs has been famous for his willingness to interact with customers via email, issuing terse and sometimes surprisingly candid answers to users' questions and complaints on occasion. With Tim Cook now officially taking the reins at Apple, some have questioned whether he has any interest in similar interactions with customers.

Cook has clearly been flooded with emails over the past few days, many of which have offered him congratulations on his new position. Notably, Cook does seem to be taking the time to respond to those emails, suggesting that he may indeed be interested in personal communication with Apple customers. Most of the responses so far seem to have been of a simple nature thanking the senders, although some have included a bit more detail relevant to the senders' content.

One example given in a comment thread on an article at iDownloadBlog comes from a customer who mentioned that he used Apple products to communicate with his family from Iraq, to which Cook responded thanking him for his military service. Another example comes via an Auburn University fan, who connected with Cook, an Auburn graduate and devoted fan himself, over the school. Cook included in his reply a mention of Auburn's famous "War Eagle" battle cry.



Apple has historically paid close attention to emails sent to Jobs, and will likely continue to do so with Cook. One example of Apple's tracking of executive email contacts has been provided to MacRumors, showing Apple's efforts to respond to early criticisms of its MobileMe service, which experienced a series of missteps at its mid-2008 rollout. According to an internal Apple presentation highlighting the status of MobileMe support issues in early 2009, Apple closely tracked on a day-by-day basis the 242 MobileMe complaint emails sent to Steve Jobs over the first six months of the service's history.



Apple support staff analyzed each of the 242 MobileMe-related emails sent to Jobs over that period, categorizing them by "root cause" in order to better understand where customer complaints were coming from.

Jobs of course remains as Chairman of Apple's board of directors, and his email address presumably will remain active. It is unknown, however, if he will continue to answer customer emails sent his way now that he has stepped down. Jobs does not appear to have answered many emails, if any, in recent months, and thus he may have already stepped away from that communication channel.

And while customers hoping that channels to the chief executive remain open under Cook may be heartened by his recent responses, it remains to be seen whether he will continue to engage with customers via email once the flood of congratulatory messages passes and the emails become more focused on questions and complaints.