Tim Cook Deserves More Credit

Tim Cook can't win.

Apple posted sales of more than $150 billion in the 2012 fiscal year — nearly as much as the two previous years combined — and record sales in two of the first three quarters of 2013, yet even friends of the company say it's on the decline

The Apple CEO has tried to appease Wall Street by tying some of his compensation to Apple's stock performance and paying out the largest initial cash dividend of any U.S. company, but the stock has spent most of the year below the $500 mark, and investors are clamoring for Apple to return even more cash