[9] Geniuses who made Apple: Eddie Q

He has worked for Apple for 27 years and was the unknown soldier and Steve Jobs' arm in the implementation of the company's largest projects such as electronic stores, iTunes services and the cloud, as well as earning twice the annual return that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, gets. We see it in all Apple conferences, even if Apple revealed a product that works on the Internet that no one else offers. It's Eddie Keough, vice president of Apple.

Eddie Q studied computer science at Duke University and began his real career with Apple in 1989, at the age of 25, and years later, he took charge of the customer service department as well as software development. Then, in 1998, Steve Jobs assigned him the task of launching Apple's electronic stores, which was a new thinking. Two decades ago, it was usual to go by yourself and buy what you want and not buy from a website (the purchase existed, but it is known to a small sector that loves to buy from the site created before A few years ago, “Amazon” or ebay), then he became responsible for launching the iTunes store “buying music, songs, movies, etc.” in 2003. Steve Jobs assigned him the task of supervising the launch of the software store in 2008, and then the cloud services that developed and is now known as iCloud.

Eddy Q is currently one of the most important employees of Apple, because the following services are responsible for it:

• ITunes Store.
• Software store.
• ICloud cloud services.
• Siri services.
• Book store.
• Apple Music.
• Apple Pay payment system.
• Apple Maps.

The conclusion is that Eddy is responsible for any service, application, or "thing" in Apple that connects to the Internet and for the sensitivity of a position that is one of the most Apple employees obtaining material returns, as the total shares he owns in the company amount to $ 111 million (frozen for years or salable). And last year (2015) he got a total of $ 25 million divided ($ 1 million salary - $ 24 million shares), while Apple President Tim Cook got 10.28 million in total in the same year, and in 2014 Eddy got $ 24.4 million compared to 9.2 A million to Tim Cook. According to Apple's numbers, there are only two people who get more in Apple than Eddie, and they are account manager (chief financial officer) for Apple "Lucy Maestre" and store manager "Angela Ardens".

Eddy Q is one of the few leaders in Apple who has overseen the launch of iOS and all current Apple products, and he is still in his position.

 Review previous parts:

• Apple's main founder Steve Wozniak.
• IOS and Mac administrator Craig Fedrigi.
• Apple's third unknown partner Ronald Wayne.
• Marketing Genius Phil Schiller.
• CEO of Apple Tim Cook.
• Former Apple CEO John Scully
• A design genius Johnny Ive
• Who turned Apple into a real company Marc Marciola