Apple CEO Tim Cook says the idea of a laptop-tablet hybrid is tantamount to shoving a toaster into a refrigerator. It's a clever, sound-bite-y analogy. It's also wrongheaded.
Let’s play a game! It’s called “spot the CEO traveling abroad, then speculate about what it means.” In this instance, we’re talking Apple CEO Tim Cook, reportedly spied by a blogger who snapped a casual picture of Cook as he strolled through an Apple Store in Xidan, Beijing last Friday.
A strange thing happened during the announcement of Apple’s new iPad on Wednesday: For a moment, CEO Tim Cook stopped talking about his company’s products, and started dissing Google’s Android operating system.
In an e-mail reportedly sent to employees, Apple CEO Tim Cook responds to the recent New York Times piece titled “In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad.”
New Apple CEO Tim Cook is pleased with his company’s recent performance – so pleased, in fact, that he reportedly told employees at a “Town Hall” meeting that they’d soon be eligible for deep discounts on iPads and Macs.
How long will Apple’s Tim Cook sit on Apple’s CEO throne? Probably through the midpoint of 2021, according to the board of directors, who made the move last Friday to lock Cook in with one million shares of restricted company stock. Half of those shares are scheduled to vest between August 24, 2016 and August [...]
It’s hard to imagine Apple without Steve Jobs. But with Apple stronger than it has ever been, this might have been the best time for Tim Cook to step in as its new CEO. The company is in a position where it can probably take the biggest of hits—including losing its star chief executive.
With news of Steve Jobs’ resignation from Apple, interim CEO Tim Cook now finds himself behind the wheel of the most valuable computer company in the world. Cook’s been deeply entrenched within Apple for well over a decade, so the company is seemingly in good hands.
And just like that, Steve Jobs has stepped down from his throne as CEO of Apple and handed the scepter to the current chief operating officer, Tim Cook. You can’t say no one saw it coming. Jobs has been on a medical leave of absence since January 17, 2011 for undisclosed reasons (he had a [...]
Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive officer of Apple. The reason is presumably health-related—Jobs went on indefinite medical leave in January—but neither Jobs nor Apple gave specifics in their statements. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, will replace Jobs as CEO, while Jobs will serve as chairman. Cook was already handling day-to-day operations during Jobs’ leave [...]
Apple’s interim CEO Tim Cook and a couple other company executives reportedly met with Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi recently to talk about where Apple is heading in the not-too-distant future.
