Tim Has Finished Cooking
Last Night the long rumored changing of the guard was announced. Tim Cook will be stepping down from the aluminum throne and will be moving to the Executive Chairman Role. In his place will be John Ternus, previously the SVP of hardware and a long term apple fellow with 25 years of tenure.
Honestly this news couldn't have come soon enough to me Tim Cook is not a product guy, he is a supply chain guy and arguably he is what apple needed to scale the company from what Steve Jobs left behind to what Tim is leaving behind but more than ever, in my opinion, they need a product guy at the helm. Hopefully he can now shake things up and get things aligned and while obviously not in OS 27 or probably OS 28 we can get a retcon on liquid glass.
I am hopefully to see a focus back onto the products and their attention to detail and maybe we can even get another snow leopard year to just fix up all the increasing mount of bugs that are present across their OSes.
Tim Cook over the last few months has also been wiping the floor with the executive team with last year Jeff Williams the COO Retiring, Luca Maestri the CFO Stepping down, John Giannandrea the VP of AI Stepping down following AI/Siri roadmap delays, Kate Adams Apples General Counsel retiring, Lisa Jackson the VP for Environment Policy retiring and Alan Dye Head of Design left to join Meta.
This makes things a lot easier for Ternus as the most difficult thing in any leadership role is transitioning from the previous leaders way of thinking to yours but this way the people who replaced these executives will still be fresh faced in their roll and ready for whatever John wants to do.
So what will Tim be doing now? Well probably a lot of golf with a certain person who owns a lot of golf courses as well as a lot of trips to Shanghai. the rumors of the this transition where leaking out as early as this time last year with alleged original plans involving him stepping down at the end of 2025 but that seemed to change after Donald Trump won his second Term as President of the US. Chances are if that wouldn't have happened Tim would simply be retiring however now the plan again seems to be different.
Now it seems like the approach will be too fold, Let John focus on running the company day to day and make great products that people want to buy, hopefully taking a few more risks too. Tim will be there to answer to the politicians both in Washington, the EU and China.
He certainly does not have his work cut out for him at all right now with Trumps constantly shifting and evolving tariff situation, the EU looking to de couple its technology from America, and of course Apples reliance on China and needing to keep them happy too.
Of course WWDC is only 48 days away at the time of writing and obviously this will not be an a major overhaul that soon and likely it will be a good year or two before we get to see Johns influence on the company really start to show but it will be interesting to see how or if they address this further at WWDC.
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