Right - because chiseling the incoming CEO is exactly what you want to be doing when the entire world is looking at you for signs of confidence. You've got a market cap that's a third of a trillion dollars, and THIS is how you handle the most sensitive transaction imaginable?

Christ, what total lunacy.

And what if Cook decided this is bullshit, and goes? Then what? That's right, total implosion. And for nothing.

And by the way, since when is 'cheap' a part of anything that Apple does?