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Reactions connected the MacRumors forums tally the gamut from affirmative to negative, with immoderate radical praising Cook for everything he's done for Apple, and others celebrating his departure from the role.
From Cook fans:
- nfl46 - Thank you, Tim! He near John successful a reallyyyyyyy bully fiscal position!
- RMMediccc - Thanks for being the close feline astatine the close clip Tim. You volition beryllium missed, but it was clip and you are making the close telephone conscionable arsenic Steve did.
- DocMultimedia - Congrats to Mr. Cook for astonishing maturation for Apple implicit truthful galore years. Hopefully Apple volition proceed to turn nether Mr. Ternus. So overmuch respect for some (unlike galore connected this forum).
- Adelphos33 - A batch of... let's accidental disappointing responses. Cook became COO connected October 14, 2005. One of the champion and astir important executives of each time. He made a batch of radical precise wealthy, and not conscionable Apple employees. A personally pioneering 1 arsenic well.
- KPOM - Tim Cook volition spell down arsenic 1 of the champion CEOs to pb a Fortune 500. I expect he'll enactment connected arsenic enforcement president astatine slightest until January 2029 arsenic helium is Apple's ambassador to the satellite of politics.
- transpo1 - Cook was the close feline for the occupation astatine the close time. He could ne'er bash what Jobs did, and Jobs could ne'er bash what Cook did. Jobs told him "Don't bash what I would do, bash what you would do," and similar it oregon not, helium made wildly profitable decisions that enabled the institution to support moving guardant from a presumption of tremendous success.
From Cook critics:
- Kylo83 - good, hopefully we really spot existent alteration now
- firstcitazen - Ding Dong the ....
- iPedro - But Tim Cook was thing but a visionary and helium wholly missed what Steve Jobs intended for Siri, which debuted successful the iPhone the time earlier his death. New humor is needed and an technologist who's a stickler for item is simply a large spot to start.
- turbineseaplane - Party time!!! 🥳 Fantastic news. It's clip for immoderate caller ideology, I hope.
- Anonymous123 - Good riddance. Glad to spot the penny pincher yet gone. Hope this marks a new, amended absorption for Apple. Less absorption connected services and ads, much absorption connected higher prime bundle and hardware, please.
- gleepskip - Tim Cook is truthful dull, his memoirs would beryllium an autobiography titled "Supply Chain Optimization: A Love Story."
- delsoul - Does this mean we'll yet get immoderate ballsy, caller daring products alternatively of trying to appease the shareholders nonstop with boring stale products
- superarijit - He got fired, axenic and simple, PR free. Why? Imagine the utter billions helium mislaid connected failed Apple Intelligence, Apple Car, Apple Vision Pro and more. Crap software, aforesaid hardware each year. He's fortunate that iphone saved him each and each time.
- tgurske - Thank god. I don't cognize wherefore Jobs picked a Toyota Camry to beryllium CEO but I can't hold for idiosyncratic absorbing to get successful there.
- iMac The Knife - Hip hep hooray! Cook ended up being the worst imaginable prime to win Steve Jobs arsenic Apple's CEO - astatine slightest successful presumption of merchandise design, idiosyncratic experience, and genuine innovation.
- HiVolt - It's yet happening. I truly anticipation Ternus tin marque things better, and astatine slightest helium volition person a much absorbing property than a potted plant.
From Ternus fans:
- Nismo73 - John's the feline for the job. Congrats!
- venom600 - Awesome... gladsome to person a hardware feline successful charge.
- aj8690 - MAKE CEOs HOT AGAIN
- spritle - THE TERNUSATOR!
- jonnyb098 - Best Apple News successful a while. Apple needs a merchandise visionary aft 5 years of stagnation (Vision Pro is not a user deed astatine each nor bash astir cognize it exists). Tim made the institution a behemoth but that comes with risks. John is simply a merchandise feline and that's what Apple needs now.
- fant0mas - I similar that John doesn't deterioration achromatic shoes though... his sensation successful this respect seems amended than Tim's. Hope this means that the OS designs volition amended again arsenic well.
General comments:
- terminator-jq - Tim Cook had precise large shoes to fill, but yet helium did large enactment successful making Apple 1 of the astir invaluable companies worldwide. That being said the alteration and CEO could not person travel astatine a amended time. Smart phones person stagnated and we are rapidly approaching the caller augmented world era. If Apple is going to support this enactment presumption done this transition, having a hardware feline astatine the helm mightiness beryllium their champion bet.
- Brother Cavil - People expecting meaningful alteration from Ternus are successful for a satellite of disappointment. If you popular your caput extracurricular the delusional MacRumors bubble, radical LOVE their Apple products. He has nary inducement to hole what isn't broken. Quite the opposite.
- erikkfi - You can't look astatine Apple's gross and income graph since 2011 and reason that Tim was an unsuccessful CEO connected a metric that, similar it oregon not, is truly important. Since 2011 Apple has mislaid its flair, imagination, and verve, though, portion inactive making precise good, buttoned-down products that merchantability similar crazy. I don't deliberation they marque galore viscerally desirable products anymore. I anticipation a alteration astatine the apical tin assistance with that, but I don't cognize overmuch astir Ternus' sensation and wherever helium falls connected a hypothetical Steve-Tim spectrum.
- jon9091 - Can helium instrumentality Liquid Glass with him?
- turbineseaplane - Feel escaped to instrumentality the Vision Pro with you connected the mode retired the door. That was rather the dud Tim.
- GermanSuplex - Negativity aside, Cook had a bully tally but it's clip for a change. I expect the foldable iPhone volition present a hardware "wow" origin that's been missing, and it's got a large spread to excavation itself retired of, but if they tin overdeliver connected their revamped Siri, that would beryllium a bully mode to kickstart this guy's stint.
- macduke - Finally, and idiosyncratic "younger." Between this and the liquid ass feline leaving and Apple hiring the fantabulous decorator Sebastiaan de With, I'm hopeful for the aboriginal of Apple. They conscionable request to get their AI ducks successful a row. But thing incorrect with paying for a exemplary they tin support in-house and customize.
- AnInanimateCarbonRod - I'm grateful for his clip arsenic CEO. Apple's ecosystem is inactive by acold and distant the lone 1 I privation to beryllium in. iPhones, iPads and the Mac are inactive the champion products successful their class. MacBook Neo has wholly upended the low-end marketplace and enactment everyone other to shame. Apple Silicon is unthinkable engineering and an manufacture wide crippled changer. They haven't wavered from their committedness to privateness - and stay the lone tech institution I really spot with my data. I could spell connected and connected - AirPods, Apple TV, etc. - each fantastic successes successful their ain right.
- mk313 - Man, what are the macrumors commenters going to kick astir now!
- mjschabow - Future Hot Take: "Tim Cook ne'er would person allowed this."
Tim Cook is acceptable to measurement down arsenic CEO connected September 1, 2026, which is erstwhile Ternus volition instrumentality over. Cook volition stay astatine Apple arsenic enforcement chairman, a relation he intends to hold "for a agelong time."
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