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Guy?  What If Cook Really Isn't a Product Guy?  It's hard to say
Tim Cook has been anything but a great chief executive for
Apple. Just look at the company's quarterly earnings. But there
was a small, brief comment made by Steve Jobs in his official
biography that may have planted a tiny seed of doubt about
Cook's product vision in the minds of Apple fans. That seed may
be what's sprouted into the recent talk about Scott Forstall.
At first, I was surprised to see the flurry of blog and comment
traffic recently over Scott Forstall, the Apple "CEO-in-
waiting," as portrayed by a new book about Apple coming out next
week.  I thought, What's wrong with current CEO Tim Cook? Is he
going somewhere? Didn't he just get a bunch of new compensation
packages worth hundreds of millions of dollars? And weren't some
of these packages designed to keep top Apple management working
at Apple?  I thought, Where is this coming from? Why is this
getting attention?  And