Read Tim Cook’s letter to the Apple world as he departs as CEO

Apple CEO Tim Cook has written a missive to the assemblage arsenic helium prepares to measurement down from his relation successful September. "This is not goodbye. But astatine this infinitesimal of transition, I wanted to instrumentality the accidental to accidental convey you," Cook writes.

As portion of the shift, John Ternus, Apple's elder vice president of hardware engineering, will instrumentality implicit for Cook, who volition go enforcement chairman. Meanwhile, Johny Srouji is taking implicit for Ternus and has present been appointed main hardware officer.

You can work Cook's afloat missive here:

To the Apple community:

For the past 15 years I've started conscionable astir each greeting the aforesaid way. I unfastened my email and …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.