John Browett, the Dixons exec tapped to oversee Apple's retail operations last January, was
Tim Cook's first big hire after taking up the CEO reins at the company. Nine months later, he would be
among Cook's first big fires, ousted from Apple
after a series of missteps that drew some rare negative publicity to the company's wildly successful retail empire.
Now Apple is once again on the hunt for an executive to oversee its retail stores, a keystone of the company's success. And it can ill afford to make another
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