{"id":653946,"date":"2013-04-23T10:05:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=459167"},"modified":"2013-04-23T10:05:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:05:50","slug":"tim-cook-vs-steve-ballmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653946","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook vs. Steve Ballmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/23\/tim-cook-vs-steve-ballmer-nyt-459167\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/apple-ceo-tim-cook110825142319110921111100.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tim Cook vs. Steve Ballmer\" title=\"Apple CEO Tim Cook\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>As <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> prepares to file its March-quarter earnings report on Tuesday afternoon after the bell, the company finds itself in a position it hasn&#8217;t been in for quite some time. Apple shares have <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/17\/apple-stock-price-400-445750\/\">lost more than 40% of their value<\/a> since hitting a record high in late September and a growing mob of Apple bears is beginning to question whether or not the company should seek a replacement for CEO Tim Cook. Bulls immediately dismiss the idea as lunacy \u2014 it does seem pretty crazy, considering Apple&#8217;s revenue and profit are still growing despite soured investor sentiment \u2014 but <em>The New York Times<\/em> took a step back on Tuesday to draw some interesting parallels between Tim Cook and another CEO who is no stranger to angry mobs brandishing pitch forks: <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a> Steve Ballmer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/23\/tim-cook-vs-steve-ballmer-nyt-459167\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/UmBtdJQDcMc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Apple prepares to file its March-quarter earnings report on Tuesday afternoon after the bell, the company finds itself in a position it hasn&#8217;t been in for quite some time. Apple shares have lost more than 40% of their value since hitting a record high in late September and a growing mob of Apple bears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}