Interviewed by New York Times reporter Kara SwisherPodcast interviewsAt the time, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that he has no plans to leave the company yet, but expects to leave Apple within the next 10 years.
When Apple was led by former CEO and founder Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, who was then Apple's Chief Operating Officer, served as acting CEO three times. After Steve Jobs passed away from pancreatic cancer, he officially took over as Apple's CEO on August 2011, 8, and announced the iPhone 24s at Apple's fall conference in October of that year.
In an interview with Kara Swisher, Tim Cook discussed the app tracking transparency policy added to iOS 14, the impact of Parler's removal from the App Store, and even his views on self-driving car apps. In a related statement, Tim Cook, who will be completing his 8th year as Apple CEO in August this year, revealed that he may leave Apple within the next 10 years, but he doesn't expect it to happen too soon.
Tim Cook has stated that he loves Apple so much that it's hard to imagine him leaving, but he's confident his departure will likely be no longer than 10 years. Since Tim Cook is currently 60, and based on the average working-retirement age in the United States, he'll be reaching retirement age within the next 10 years, making this a perfect time for him to leave Apple.
However, who will take over the position of Apple CEO from Tim Cook in the future is obviously a matter of great concern to everyone.
Compared to other Apple executives, although they are not yet facing retirement, most of them already have suitable successors. For example, Greg Joswiak, who recently took over from Phil Schiller as Apple's senior vice president of global marketing, may be succeeded by Kaiann Drance, vice president of iPhone product marketing, in the future. Craig Federighi, who currently leads Apple's software engineering team, may be succeeded by Sebastien Marineau-Mes, Apple's vice president in charge of smart system experience, or Jon Andrews.
Even if Eddy Cue, who is in charge of Apple's App Store business and services, retires or leaves Apple in the future, his successor may be Peter Stern, who is currently in charge of content cooperation.
Tim Cook only mentioned at the 2018 annual shareholders' meeting that he would carefully select his future successor, but he has not yet announced any designated successor. Many in the market speculate that Apple's current Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams will be one of the suitable candidates.
And yes I asked him about Tim Apple. Good answer too. pic.twitter.com/v1mxDWrEER
- Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) April 3, 2021
