{"id":58378,"date":"2026-05-05T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/58378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:03:35","slug":"chart-apple-thrived-in-15-years-under-tim-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/58378\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart: Apple Thrived in 15 Years Under Tim Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of speculation, it\u2019s now official: Tim Cook will step down as CEO of Apple<\/a> on September 1 and move to the company\u2019s board. He will be succeeded by John Ternus, Apple\u2019s Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering and a long-time frontrunner for the role.<\/p>\n

Cook first took over the prestigious position as Apple\u2019s CEO in 2011, following on from Steve Jobs, the company\u2019s visionary co-founder and driving force behind its resurgence in the late 1990s. Seen as a calm and operationally focused leader, Cook was identified as an ideal successor.<\/p>\n

Widely credited as the architect of Apple\u2019s highly efficient global supply chain during his time as COO, Cook oversaw a period of extraordinary growth. Under his leadership, Apple became the first company to reach a $1 trillion market valuation in 2018 and has since grown to around $4 trillion. Revenue and profits surged, with the company surpassing $100 billion in annual profit for the first time in its most recent fiscal year.<\/p>\n

Despite these achievements, Cook has faced criticism for a perceived lack of groundbreaking innovation. While Apple launched major successes such as the Apple Watch and AirPods, it has yet to deliver a product with the transformative impact of the iPhone<\/a>. The closest attempt, the Vision Pro headset launched in 2023, fell short of expectations due to its high price and limited demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve as Apple\u2019s CEO,\u201d Cook said in a statement<\/a>, praising his successor: \u201cJohn Ternus has the mind of an engineer, the soul of an innovator and the values to lead with integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

This infographic and article was originally created in German by Felix Richter, see it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of speculation, it\u2019s now official: Tim Cook will step down as CEO of Apple on September…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[155],"tags":[628],"class_list":["post-58378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tim-cook","tag-tim-cook"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116523761962540687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}