You’re right, and according to Apple’s own site he was the person responsible for worldwide sales:
Before being named CEO in August 2011, Tim was Apple’s chief operating officer and was responsible for all of the company’s worldwide sales and operations, including end-to-end management of Apple’s supply chain, sales activities, and service and support in all markets and countries. He also headed Apple’s Macintosh division and played a key role in the continued development of strategic reseller and supplier relationships, ensuring flexibility in response to an increasingly demanding marketplace.
I’ll correct my post to reflect this 
Haha!
Though I think it’s probably fair to say Linux is arguably the ‘best’ choice for developers as most production servers will be running Linux and it is the most (and largest) open-source-centric platform around.
I totally agree with this. I’m pretty sure that if a new unix based/derived OS came that had offered the same level of design and user experience as macOS does (i.e a real and legitimate alternative) and it was open source and it was privacy first and it allowed you to run your own cloud servers to mimic what iCloud does, a very very large number of people would jump to it.
Like you, I wonder whether we’ll ever see something like it.
