Comment by JKCalhoun

I could be putting too fine a point on it, but my impression was that he was kind of jealous of "academia". Not only did he not graduate from but even seemed to eschew higher learning. And to be sure he would have had a harder time bullshitting an expert in a given domain. They had a kind of power of knowledge that he lacked.

At the same time he was clearly enamored with Avadis, very much the academic — appeared to be grooming him for role of Apple CEO. He must have been very disappointed when Avadis left the fold.