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go ... I ... ask you to start with this ... will ... sentimental maybe but um ... you were ... delays in getting here because you are on the Port of Apple and ... you were when the speakers at the ... Apple ... corporate global memorial service for Steve you know ... what was then like ... well it was though ... it was a beautiful and moving ... of them it was just four of the ... Apple family ... but it was so ... appropriate and ... beautiful in every way ... and Tim Cook ... Katie cotton organizing with her team and Tim Cook ... provided to ... the leadership to ... to really bring all the employees together ... it's a terrible loss of course for the entire world ... will all this is the ... but his legacy lives on and ... I think that ... among ... his many ... tremendously ... breakthrough ... conventions of the ... the MacKintosh the ... I pod ... the I phone ... I've had ... the ... I phone with SIRI ... top picks are ... you can go right down to the west ... among them all I actually think his ... greatest work was Apple itself ... of the most ... valuable company in the world ... on it ... swapping back and forth with Exxon Mobil ... but more generous neighbor Katrina has to do well ... the ... Dell would go things go on ... but more more important all that he he ... it created an organization ... on and inspired it ... of that ... really creates the ... technology that people literally love ... and the emotional attachment people have to the degree of excellence ... embodied in Apple's products is really quite ... unique and extraordinary and and that's going to continue ... there's so many other ... things in the pipeline and the team that the bill ... is that not all cylinders it's the ... it is in my opinion the best in the world or not ... so you are biased your Gorham for their part ... in an amnesty ... which are Frand ... but I'm ... lots of people ask this question not out of any disrespect that it ... is everywhere ... I think right now understands ... it's tremendous skill set and is integral role in the ... certainly in the operations side of the company but ... you're talking about ... using the leader that is a historical figure that out of person that can just be ... easily replaced evening at what point ... does ... the lack of having him at the helm of the company ... begin to become a parent you mentioned there is a product pipeline and I agree with you there's a prototype went ... I think little longer than even many other companies have because Steve O it's been ten new look he was in the quarter by quarter guy looked ... ahead ... but at some point the pipeline will will will run out and then what happens to you and ... who provides that ... he's well their ration and save cultivated and we knew we had good discussions ... for the that every single board meeting for the last several years ... all about cultivating has been ... our it and it ... looking very clearly that exactly ... how all of ... our Apple would go forward ... and of course is to do ... there's no one ... like ... Steve Jobs is up ... you know he is the kind of that comes along once the return of fifteen years to me he says he was ... totally unique ... op ... I love your column ... after his passing the ... ball to ... him ... and yet ... you know he he also served on the border visiting selling picks are correct ... the Disney was Lord Cheryl were there ... and he is to talk about how all ... initially after of Walt Disney ... died ... the company ever ... got into trouble ... always asking what would waltz ... do in this situation ... and he made very clear I want that at Apple ... you know he had that incredibly moving commencement address at Stanford ... several years ago and in which he ... told the students follow your own ... inner voice don't be distracted ... by the noise around you follow your own inner voice ... and he has said to ... the town including ... members of the executive team ... don't ask what would go up ... Steve ... have done ... follow your own voice and he he took great pride and cultivating ... the expertise and commitment to excellence and ... on creativity ... in be exactly the still expect Greece taking all absolutely and he was changing and staff from the courts ... of course the tothe ... you know you can ... look at the executive team and go ... right ... across the West ... end and ... every single one of those world-class ... every single one of them could be the ... CEO of major Corporation was now one of the Proms that ... preparations are come after some of them are well perhaps but Bob though that that they there's nothing new about that that that ... that that that that none ... of them on the compensation committee there and that we could do with the payroll careful attention ... to that end their loyalty to the company I think is so ... it is quite deep and and to one another this is a great feeling of Apple and ... I think that in spite of ... the ... transition of ... it being ... unique because Steve it was so unique ... nevertheless I feel very confident very good about how it's going forward ... I wanted ask you to ... come in and two sixes ... for says this is how ... you mention the beginning of the Hodkinson the ... world-class in your ticket in ... which a really ... when when when a team of the team though is that ... if you look at their backgrounds prior to joining Alpha ... and I don't ... think they would necessarily jumped out of U ... S these are going to be well it's ... it's just ... isn't a knock against them ... it's a very different ... background ... than a new look at Google's executive team ... and prior to who will typically very prestigious university Rhodes scholars ... the achievements ... so I wonder in a enticing one is better the other ... how does not think about how how does ... know that ... still shows can be ... an amazing head of ... marketing said ... Steve ... ASIC has dropped out of Reed College in use a different set of criteria ... so that's a first or second or is ... it like that Supri to come to the board ... because you've been on a number of folks in the media and Oracle Corcoran's gaps wasn't the shots Alsborg ... especially last eighteen months ... and said things like ... abortion the lease sees medical records the porch and ... just now with the succession plan is in support ... of the war is a laptop that top dog work for Christie ... so can you just coming in with that ... with the dynamics are actually important ... well for the first of all um I think that the the way ... of the ... executive team members of Apple ... on our chosen is not all that different from a lot of other places ... are ... they prove themselves and other positions and ... work their way up to these so ... higher higher levels of Bide ... by proving their their capacities ... they are to riffic ... I will repeat everything I said ... before but ... I have had a chance to work with the recital was very closely and ... while they they're just world-class ... but they've they've proven themselves in a series of books ... jobs ... as they've ever as they've moved on hop ... off now ... as for the ... Apple board I was talk about what goes on ... inside the board ... but God ... of ... I will say this is that ... on ... I have the ... the deepest respect for ... my fellow board members we are all very very close friends ... is a small board ... on and we've we've got to know each other extremely well I'll absolute love of them and we work well together as a group ... on ... and ... I think that um ... the people who specialize in ... convincing about the of these kinds of things I respect them it's it's good for them to ... to analyze this concept ... I would change a single playing the way the Apple board as an adult ... the the balancing of ... public information versus the ... the privacy of a CEO or DT ... member who grew up has a right to privacy ... up ... on ... I thought was handled ... absolutely correct when ... and where the top of succession planning ... is concerned ... op ... I ... you know I have an investment to generate Generation Investment Management and we look at public companies all the talk ... and I think ... obviously ... awful lot information has to be made ... public ... would you really get if you are running at Corporation ... on and you have ... a star studded executive team ... would you really think it was would be a smart thing ... to ... do to lay out in public ... your ... feeling about ... what your current plan is for who's gonna move to what position for them to conserve years ... of course not ... I mean that would be ... a violation of your ... response of your future responsibilities to manage the company directly ... so getting the right balance between what should be available and what needs to be ... protected in order to fulfill that producer responsibility ... is is the part of it ... and Dom ... the the I really respect my colleagues on the sport only gives a fantastic board ... and when I joined the board of the ... the stock that thing was that seven dollars a share it's the split ... on ... since then ... are ... you know I'd I think the board's ... done something right ...