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Apple CEO Tim Cook will relinquish control to hardware chief John Ternus, capping a 15-year tenure that transformed the company into a $4 trillion enterprise encompassing financial services, video streaming, and watches. Ternus will take over as CEO in September.

 

Investors accepted the announcement for the most part. The shares reduced their losses after falling by almost 2% in late trading. They had dropped less than 0.5 percent to $271.7 by Monday night in New York. According to Apple, Cook will interact with legislators worldwide in his new position as executive chairman.

In addition to managing Apple’s relationship with US President Donald Trump, the 65-year-old CEO frequently visits China to oversee the company’s relations with that nation. Longtime Chairman Art Levinson will be the lead independent director as part of the changeover.

The company announced in a statement on Monday that Cook will become executive chairman. Ternus, 50, spent 25 years concentrating on product development at the iPhone manufacturer before taking over as head of hardware engineering in 2021.

Ternus was Cook’s apparent successor. Longtime deputy Tom Marieb will take over the hardware engineering division. Johny Srouji, the recently appointed Chief Hardware Officer, will be his supervisor. Srouji is taking charge of a recently merged hardware engineering and hardware technologies group in that capacity.

 

Ternus must now forge a new course for one of Silicon Valley’s most illustrious companies. Apple has struggled to catch up in artificial intelligence, a technology that could revolutionize how consumers use devices, despite the company’s continued strong growth. According to Cook’s statement, “John Ternus has the mind of an engineer, the soul of an innovator, and the heart to lead with integrity and with honor.”.

He is unquestionably the best candidate to guide Apple into the future because he is a visionary whose contributions to the company over  25 years are already too numerous to count. Only a few weeks have passed since the company’s 50th anniversary celebration, which featured Paul McCartney’s live performance at the Apple Park campus.