Tim Cook: Apple isn't becoming the new Microsoft

Are you getting the sense that Apple is becoming the new Microsoft, the giant corporation that’s simultaneously doing too much and refusing to take risks? Not surprisingly, Tim Cook would like to have a word with you. He tells Fast Company that he doesn’t accept those comparisons because Apple is “willing to lose sight of the shore” and drop existing technology, like optical drives and the 30-pin connector, in the name of progress. To Cook, Microsoft’s problem (until lately, at least) was its refusal to “walk away from legacy stuff” -- it was so determined to support the old way of doing things that it had trouble moving forward.