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When Tim Cook took over apple in 2011, many wondered if he could follow the success of Steve Jobs and keep the momentum going. fifteen years later, he’s stepping down with a very different kind of legacy.
Cook’s departure wasn’t a sudden exit. Apple says the move is part of a long-planned succession, with cook transitioning to executive chairman of apple’s board and John Ternus, a long hardware engineer at the company, stepping up as the new CEO. but the timing does stand out. Apple is moving into a new phase that looks different from the one cook managed.
Under cook’s leadership, Apple became a financial powerhouse. The company grew from about 350 billion dollars in value to more than 4 trillion. He expanded the product lineup, built a global supply chain and turned products like Airpods and the Apple Watch into big revenue drivers. In many ways, he made apple more consistent and less dependent on the success of the i-phone.
That stability did come with tradeoffs though. Critics say apple fell behind in artificial intelligence and had big delays to Siri updates. There was also mixed reviews on Apple’s virtual reality headshet the vision pro. This raised questions about Apple’s innovation or if it was just following existing ideas from competitors like Google.
The big question is what comes next. Smartphone sales, still apple’s core business, have largely cooled around the wolrd. At the same time, the company is under pressure to catch up in artificial intelligences and develop software that tops rivals like Microsoft and google. After a decade built on scale and stability, Apple is once again being judged on its innovation and ability to build superior, more premium products.
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