I wouldn't put cables on him, but he did have a big hand in the 2013 Mac Pro, which was possibly the worst thought-out Apple product of the last decade.
He did push boundaries, but sometimes boundaries pushed back.
While I get the appeal of the Retina Macbook Pros and forward, my love affair with the Mac laptop ended with the discontinuation of the 15" unibody Macbook Pros.
Those unibody laptops represented just about everything I wanted in a laptop.
A powerful laptop with a quad i7 with a bunch of useful ports (including ethernet) and the ability swap out the RAM and storage easily.
He did push boundaries, but sometimes boundaries pushed back.