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jellybelly said:

The follow on to the iMac’s ‘just-in-time’ success was the iPod scale up. It greatly expanded the Apple brand beyond computers into a Apple becoming a cultural icon. 

Without scaling up so fast to meet the accelerating adoption demand via supply chain genius of Tim Cook, the iPod would not have met the demand and subsequently would not have funded the miniaturization engineering advancements needed in the iPhone, nor funded the R&D for development of the iPhone.

At the time of iPod success and meeting the leaps in production/supply needs, the bond was set between Tim Cook and Steve Jobs. They were learning from each other at that point.

The next two critical individuals beyond Steve Jobs and Tim Cook were Avie Tevanian (OSX platform) and Jony Ives (design).

Who else were so highly critical after these four?

I'd say Johny Srouji (https://www.apple.com/leadership/johny-srouji/).
Apple designing their own silicon and doing it better than anyone else is a major differentiator for Apple.

Oh my God how people are not understanding this feature.
To all of you worried about on device image scanning, how do you think you can search for images of people on your phone? This has been done for years.
To those that think this breaks e2e encryption, this is actually Apples way of preserving this. By scanning images on device instead of in the cloud.
Basically all other companies offering cloud storage are already doing this as part of the service, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. It would be much easier for nefarious governments to force them to scan for more things. If they agree to this you would not even know.
For Apple to expand this functionality, it would have to be on device, which would be much harder to do in the dark.
There is one new thing here. Apple will receive information about on device scanning when you upload your pictures. The a positive CSAM scan result will be uploaded with a key that allows for the decryption of that image by apple.
So there IS a privacy concern but it is not at all what people are howling about.
I think that Apple had gone to great lengths to preserve privacy while also attempting to offer less implicit support for child abuse.
There is definitely no Pandora's box here. The novelty here is not about surveillance but how to avoid it as much as possible while also preventing abuse of their services.