Yes all products that raised the bar and made Apple what it's become were under Job's rule.
Tim Cook is a money guy only and as a long time apple fan and Siri user I'm bored and disappointed! Google Now is amazing and I'm longing for something more exciting then my recently bought iPhone 7.
The Pixel looks very interesting but it's only on Verizon.
If you want to buy a Pixel in-store, then yes, it's only on Verizon.
If you buy one from the Google Store, it's unlocked, and it should work on most major US carriers. (See "Channels" under "Specs & More": https://store.google.com/product/pixel_phone)
Disclaimer: I work at YouTube, which is a part of Google.
Steve Jobs deserves a great deal of respect but I do think you're forgetting the less great parts. They had lackluster updates, products which went years too long without a meaningful update (e.g. all laptops for the half decade prior to the Intel switch), the iTunes UI started getting worse in every release around the early 2000s, until a few years ago their attitude about security was borderline negligence, they shamelessly ignored long-standing customers who kept them alive through the dark years[1], and every cloud service they offered until the last year or two was a user-hostile disaster.
The key, of course, is that a few big wins make up for a lot of that but the other side of that lesson is that most people will do better with consistent solid execution rather than spreading themselves too thin trying for a huge win. Apple could easily have been Palm or SGI if one of those long-shots hadn't paid off.
1. Our Apple higher-ed rep used to respond to critical bug reports by asking how many Macs we couldn't purchase due to that bug.
Tim Cook is a money guy only and as a long time apple fan and Siri user I'm bored and disappointed! Google Now is amazing and I'm longing for something more exciting then my recently bought iPhone 7.
The Pixel looks very interesting but it's only on Verizon.