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>Researching and developing M processors allowing laptops unparalleled power relative to power usage, R&D for AirPods which apparently had sufficient utility to become quite popular, and R&D for Apple Watch which also became quite popular.

What has any of that got to do with Tim Cook, when Tim Cook is not the one who leads of any of these? Apart from Apple Watch, the other two has much of the foundation built during Steve Jobs era.

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If Cook is held accountable for “getting high on App Store revenue”, I don’t see why he isn’t accountable (“under his leadership”) for the rest of the things under his long tenure.

Jobs died in 2011, AirPods launched in 2016. M1 launched in 2020. Surely that is sufficient time to credit Cook’s leadership with some of the progress on those products.

You are mixing Strategic decision with Product Launches.

In deed, I wouldn't say Tim is a crack head. He is just NOT Steve. And Steve had an influence on the culture of the company that Tim can replicate. e.g: what Steve expressed at the Stanford commencement speech, was one of things that had many talented people got inspired about Apple. Now days it is just another MS/IBM/Oracle type corp with better design and brand with everything driven by market share, TV/Ads streams, etc.

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