Apple CEO Tim Cook Will Step Down, John Ternus Named New Leader of Tech Giant

Johnny Appleseed

John Tetris. Place your bets!

The Dread Pirate Apple

Tim Apple stepping down. John Apple stepping up.

My first thought LOL

But John Temus is right there.

No we still have Tim Apple! It’s that Tim Cook guy stepping down. He is probably stepping down and starting a new restaurant. I don’t know I barely knew the guy. I heard he was a great cook, I didn’t see it though so we may never know.

Tim apple is off to his bunker. Bet he calls it the core .

Goodbye fried chicken, hello fried rice!

Seen this joke 83x on listnook since yesterday

“In the business of show, you have to have the heart of an angel and the hide…of an elephánt.” -Tobias Fünke

"...and they're all in a jar in the trunk of his car."

He will engineer layoffs, he will innovate automatization and his integrity and honor goes with his wallet. Hope I'm wrong 100%!

I literally said “Okay, we’ve heard this one before.”

Hope he's not your usual tech bro and a fan of cinema like tim apple

Integrity and honor are huge disadvantages to be honest. Might as well call him a loser 

Hopefully John isn’t in the pocket of Thiel

its better than time cook, dude built hella sweat shops bro was honestly racist as f*** too

Stepping down at 65 after 15 years of being CEO and having more than tripled the company's revenue in that time, i wouldn't call that "Cooked".

He’s going to ad even harder.

Ads in maps?

lol you use Apple Maps?

Johnny Appleseed is now the CEO

Johnny Apple. I was always calling him Johnny Apple. One day Johnny Apple came up to me, tears in his eyes, "Mr President, we've never seen such a great economy. This is the best economy in history. Thank you Mr President". It is the best economy in history. We've set records, lots of records, they won't tell you that. Stock market is great, gas is great, eggs are c****. When I came in I told them, make eggs cheaper, and they did.  No w you can but a dozen. No problem. They won't tell you that though. 

Big tech CEOs will do this for whoever is in control of the White House. It’s how they ensure legislation is passed that is to their benefit.

He is one of the few who had a very close relationship with Trump during the 1st term. Which why other CEOs followed his lead this time around.

He was scared of the tariffs and rightfully so but yes, he was just like every other big tech CEO.

It's not really a loyalty thing. It's a pragmatism thing. CEOs will cozy up to any and all presidents no matter which political alignment they are, simply because it's good business to do so.

The person replacing him will gladly do the same because it’s good for business.

Yup. I always thought highly of Tim until Trump came along. In the end, these CEOs are legally required to do whatever makes the shareholders the most money. Our entire incorporation and stock-holding system and law needs a complete reform, but it won’t happen anytime soon. Probably not in any of our lifetimes. Probably never.

Tim did the least of any of the tech CEOs. He gave Trump a gold prize and watched the dumb Melania movie.

They're usually just a guy who represents the will of the shareholders. In the corporate world, everyone is always bending the knee to someone.

Literally every tech CEO is going to do that, it's more or less their primary job, for better or worse.

I doubt he is a trump worshipper, he is just bending the knee to whoever is in charge and will switch to whoever replaces trump.

it's his job. He has to curry favour from a mercurial president like Trump lest he make shit hard for Apple.

He seemed to lack the strength of personality required! The Apple CEO needs to have energy and gravitas! Tim has neither….

What makes you think he was even remotely a better person before you noticed he isn't?

That’s his job literally. Sometimes people forget that CEO is employee hired to drive company profits growth. He is not major shareholder, he implements boards decisions

"You do not have a small p****"

Big surprise. Like people who all of the sudden want a Polestar instead of a Tesla. The Clintons married their daughter to a hedge fund manager. Obama bought a house in the Hamptons. Biden's son got seats on the boards of multiple companies. Keep telling yourself Democrats are special unlike those evil Republicans.

I think that Apple Silicon has taken Apple far beyond what was possible in the Steve Jobs days and positioned Mac as a far better value proposition than it has ever been.

He also developed the watch, apple tags, etc

To be fair, Apple used to design cool things, ten years ago they discovered brushed aluminium and said aight thats it, no more innovation!

At the end? I mean the product has sucked for years now. iPhone’s have lacked any real innovation during his tenure. Liquid Glass, more like liquid ass, amirite?

Cook will be executive chairman btw. Sucking up to politicians is still going to be a major function of his job.

I'm sure the next guy will be even worse

And apparently he's going to continue to be: *"Cook isn’t leaving, of course, Apple says that in his new role he “will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world.” Art Levinson, currently Apple’s non-executive chairman, will become its lead independent director in connection with the change, and Ternus will also join the board."*

You realize that CEO's sucking up to a president isn't a political thing, it's a pragmatic good business choice to do so? They suck up to EVERY president.

I fully get this, but that’s kind of his job, to suck up to politicians so the government acts in favor of Apple

> The change may have a real impact on Hollywood as the tech giant has become a major player through its Apple TV platform. Right below the headline in the article

The iOS keyboard issue is driving me insane. Like it’s been months and should’ve been an easy fix

The keyboard and AirPods disconnecting for a bunch of people

They're all literally better than they were in 2011 lol.

It’ll matter if they ditch globalstar and switch to Starlink… if they decide to give in to Palantir to share iPhone data along with iCloud data

That the job of a CEO at one of the world’s largest companies…

lets clone jobs!

We talkin’ buttons?

What buttons do you want?

Who's got the button?

He wants to retire

Is there something wrong with the existing Apple TV that it needs to be replaced?

John is the man we need.

It’s mature tech now. What do people actually want and expect every year?

[They're releasing a foldable iPhone later this year.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2026/04/18/apple-iphone-fold-battery-vs-samsung-huawei/)