> I've seen many guys like Tim Cook, most worse off ones. [...] He squeezes suppliers, and know what he is doing. [...] Others squeeze suppliers, and don't know what they are doing. [...] 9 out of 10 companies in the supply chain will just shoot themselves in the foot if they go on doing it like that.

Apple is probably the most cargo-culted company out there, after Google maybe. The number of "Steve Jobs wanabes" that I met who didn't have the billions nor the string of successful products behind them was staggering. I have no doubt Tim Cook is cargo-culted as much as Jobs was.

For anyone attempting this, keep in mind he built a team of world class experts around him.