{"id":381785,"date":"2025-11-15T23:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381785\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T23:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:42:23","slug":"tim-cook-could-step-down-as-apple-ceo-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381785\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0d424625-f4f8-4646-9f6e-927c8cbe0e3e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a>, Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO as early as next year. And the board has started to seriously work out a succession plan. FT says that John Ternus, Apple\u2019s senior vice-president of hardware engineering, is considered the frontrunner for the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Rumors of Cook\u2019s stepping down follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/markgurman\/status\/1989458588809711860\" rel=\"nofollow\">retirement of Apple COO Jeff Williams<\/a>, whose last day at the company was Friday. As part of that departure, there has been some shuffling of responsibilities at the executive level, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-10\/apple-to-move-health-fitness-divisions-to-services-in-reorganization\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expanded roles<\/a> for Services chief Eddy Cue, head of software engineering Craig Federighi, and Ternus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Regardless of who winds up taking over as CEO, it\u2019s unlikely to be someone from outside Apple. Tim Cook has previously said there is a strong preference for an internal candidate and that the company has \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/11\/21\/apple-tim-cook-succession-planning-steve-jobs-legacy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">very detailed succession plans<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Financial Times, Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO as early as next year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[239,122712,64,50,242,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-381785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-apple-rumors","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115556368024670188","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}