You can thank Tim Cook for the large iPhones Apple is onto the 6.9-inch iPhone 17 Pro Max today. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Apple's outgoing CEO, Tim Cook, expanded the iPhone's size during his tenure, delighting some fans. The standard iPhone grew from 3.5 inches to over 6 inches, and Cook introduced larger-format models. Cofounder Steve Jobs initially dismissed the larger phones, calling them impractical. Apple's outgoing CEO, Tim Cook, proved his predecessor, Steve Jobs, wrong: some people love a large iPhone. Jobs, the cofounder and driving force behind the iPhone, once knocked smartphones larger than 4 inches. "You can't get your hand around it," he said in a 2010 press conference . "No one's going to buy that." When Cook took the reins in 2011, he began expanding the iPhone's size. In 2012, the release of the iPhone 5 increased the phone's screen size from 3.5 inches to 4 inches. Later base models reached up to 5.8 inches before landing at around 6.3 inches in the latest iteration, the iPhone 17.…