{"id":747836,"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.com\/index\/747836","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook vs. Steve Ballmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 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'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'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's<\/a> Steve Ballmer.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/23\/tim-cook-vs-steve-ballmer-nyt-459167\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/UmBtdJQDcMc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","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":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38xS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}