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ahmedfromtunisyesterday at 9:04 PM1 replyview on HN

When Cook took over, people expected him to fail.

I don't think even Steve Jobs would've been able to imagine that Apple can get this big.


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elzbardicoyesterday at 9:14 PM

To be honest, a lot of industry analysts were skeptical of Jobs' second coming. And when he did a deal with Microsoft, most of them thought they were right in their initial pessimism.

Over the time I developed the instinct to not take pundit's opinions too seriously.