Without a leader, what’s next for Apple retail?

GigaOm writes, Going into the most critical sales period of the year, Apple’s retail ship has no captain. Again. On Monday CEO Tim Cook let two of his top executives go. While the departure of iOS software honcho Scott Forstall is getting most of the attention, the retail operations department lost its leader too: John Browett, who just joined Apple in January, was also shown the door Monday. It’s also nearly a year to the day that Apple’s valuable retail empire lost Ron Johnson, who had built Apple’s formidable retail operation from scratch, to JC Penney. But this time, Apple has to start a...

Continue reading Without a leader, what’s next for Apple retail? at GigaOm