Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, introduced this year hits products - the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, tablets iPad Air 2, Apple Pay payment system and watch Apple Watch - named by the newspaper Financial Times "Man of 2014".
Assigning Apple CEO title of "Man of the Year" FT substantiated successful launch of new products. According to the journalists, in which Tim Cook is completely out of the shadows of its predecessor - the legendary Steve Jobs, which many attributed the success Apple.
"Tim Cook took over as head of Apple shortly before the death of founder Steve Jobs in 2011. Despite predictions skeptical experts, the most expensive IT-empire has proven its ability to maintain its position. Apple regularly releases new devices that are in millions of copies. When Cook Corporation released the iPhone 6 and tablets iPad Air, has launched a payment service Apple Pay and achieved a record capitalization" - writes FT.
In 2010, the Financial Times has awarded the title of "Man of the Year" by Steve Jobs. Then the title of the assignment Jobs newspaper linked primarily with the announcement of a fundamentally new product for the market - the Tablet PC iPad. Jobs speech at the launch of iPad in January 2010, the newspaper called "the most important return in the history of modern business".
Current CEO Tim Cook Apple recently included in the top three ranking of the most influential figures of the world media published the London newspaper The Guardian. It draws assessed cultural, economic and political influence of famous people. Cook Time magazine included in the short list of candidates for the title of "Man of the Year." However, the title went to the fighters against Ebola, and not someone personally, and the image of fighters with a dangerous disease.