Tim Cook is Tech 'Lightweight', Says Former Apple Exec
David Sobotta criticizes Cook's management style.
David Sobotta, a former director of Apple's federal sales group, has criticized current CEO Tim Cook's lack of leadership skills, as well as being "lightweight" in terms of understanding technology.
Sobotta, who published a Kindle book pertaining to his 20-year experience at Apple called "The Pomme Company" (Pomme being French for apple) spoke about Steve Jobs' successor in an interview.
When asked for his thoughts of the recent firing of iOS chief Scott Forstall, which was purportedly due to his lack of apology for Apple's abysmal iOS maps app, and retail chief John Brownell, Sobotta said: "Tim will react to the numbers or his fear of being wrong quickly. Fear of being wrong is a managerial trait that runs strong and deep in Apple because of the way Steve ran the company. Even the appearance of being wrong when in the end you might be right is dreaded at Apple."
"Technology-wise, I think Tim Cook is a lightweight," he added. "I never felt passion for technology from Tim like I did from Steve and some of the great engineers."
Sobotta has previously been critical of Apple in a number of areas on his blog, Applepeels. The titles to some recent posts are "Do Apple Employees Need A Witness Protection Program?", "Has Apple lost its soul?" and "Will Apple Ever Figure Out the Cloud?"

Apple isn't worth the money everyone is paying them
-If an employee was wrong according to Jobs' view, he would directly cuss out such employee and drop the F bomb repeatedly.
-He was not hesitant about shutting down projects that didn't seem to be able to succeed, and occasionally firing the entire team.
-Before the mid 2000's, one of Apple's suppliers was being a jerk and constantly late on the shipment. The supplier threaten a lawsuit if the contract was canceled, and Jobs canceled it anyways to set an example and took the lawsuit hit.
I think that is correct, unfortunately.
Apple isn't worth the money everyone is paying them
I think Cook is the embodiment of what Apple has become; a company interested in killing competition by deploying their vast cash reserves into lawsuits rather than using the cash for tech innovation.
A) Sounds like how I handle my subordinates
2) I like it.
Sorry but in my opinion Apple already has a bad reputation. They are known for using suppliers who employ underage workers in bad work conditions and pay them badly. And known for throwing lawsuits at anyone and everyone for the stupidest reasons just to try to crush competition and filling patents and somehow getting them for the stupidest things (and than using them for above) that shouldn't ever be granted. These are just a few things they do that annoy me business wise, so yeah it's too late they already dragged their own name in the ground.
It has already been a boring highly overpricing and overhyped tech company for a long while already, iPhone, [first]iPod and [reviving tablet] iPad being the only anything actually innovative, they keep saying 'think different' when the real different thing is price and lower/old specs and hardware
I feel bad for the people that work for you. I'm sure as hell glad I don't.
You should work at a company that adopted Enron's human resource policy:
Every year, 15% of the workforce is fired based on their performance report. That's at least a 15% turnover rate considering the fact that some employees leave or fired for other reasons.
C O O K A P P L E
COOK APPLE.
then serve.
Bon Appétit