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Polybius

(22,005 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2026, 08:10 PM Yesterday

Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O.

Source: NY Times

Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, said on Monday that he would step down after nearly 15 years running an operation that rode the wild popularity of the iPhone to become one of the most influential and valuable companies in the world.

Mr. Cook, 65, will move into a new role as Apple’s executive chairman in September and be succeeded in the company’s corner office by John Ternus, the 50-year-old head of Apple’s hardware engineering.

The retirement of Mr. Cook will end one of the most successful management runs in the history of American business. During his tenure, Apple’s annual profit quadrupled to more than $110 billion, while its value ballooned more than tenfold to $4 trillion.

Mr. Cook replaced the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs shortly before Mr. Jobs’s death in 2011, having earned a reputation for perfecting the nuts and bolts of a global consumer electronics business. Apple has since defined how a modern technology company operates, with products assembled in a supply chain that stretches from the giant operations that Mr. Cook helped create in China to India and Brazil and a popular retail business that operates on five continents.

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Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O. (Original Post) Polybius Yesterday OP
All sugar? Tetrachloride Yesterday #1
Tim Apple sop Yesterday #2
First thing I thought of! BidenRocks Yesterday #3
Is he going to become the new Secretary of Labor? Fucking MAGA chud Prairie Gates Yesterday #4
All those profits but no innovation newdeal2 Yesterday #5
I've ordered a new M5 chip macbook air. Can't wait LiberalLovinLug 23 hrs ago #6

newdeal2

(5,505 posts)
5. All those profits but no innovation
Mon Apr 20, 2026, 09:56 PM
Yesterday

Barely anything new or remarkable these days from Apple. Still well built but not as exciting.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,712 posts)
6. I've ordered a new M5 chip macbook air. Can't wait
Mon Apr 20, 2026, 10:47 PM
23 hrs ago

The world's fastest CPU core. Apple has always been the leader in graphic performance. As well as screen resolution.

Apple is not for the gamer. That's where it loses fans. It focuses on making creative work as smooth and pleasurable as possible with design, security, and performance.

As far as Tim Apple goes, I don't like giving Trump gifts and praising him at tech meetings, but meh....he's doing what he has to do to placate the orange toddler to a degree. Or his company would be singled out for retribution. I don't think he's actually gifted him anything like Bezos is doing.

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