Apple’s hard-charging COO TIm Cook has denied rumors he’s leaving Apple to be the CEO of HP.
Cook denied the rumors this morning while speaking to analyst Brian Marshall of Gleacher & Co.’, Barrons reports:
Tim Cook will not be going to HP, he loves Apple,” Marshall tells me Cook told him.
Apple’s stock took a pounding this morning on the rumor. Cook is credited with turning Apple into a paragon of operational efficiency and is pegged to be Steve Jobs’s successor.
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac. Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
Leander has written for Wired magazine, Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle, MacWeek and many other publications.
