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B1 – Intermediate Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, will step down in September. He said Apple Maps was a big mistake because it gave wrong directions when it launched in 2012. He even told users to try other map apps. Cook became CEO in 2011 after Steve Jobs. He grew Apple’s value from $350 billion to […]