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Tim Cook's Tim Cook is dialing back his duties.

Apple issued press release Tuesday, saying the company's chief operating officer Jeff Williams

is giving up that title.

According to the press release, Williams will continue reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook

and overseeing Apple's design team and Apple Watch alongside the company's health initiatives.

Apple's design team will then transition to reporting directly to Cook after Williams retires late in the year.

The design team is going to answer to Tim, not a product guy, cook.

Cool.

Apple's announcement says the company's senior VP of Operations,

Saabee Khan, will take over the C-O role as part of a long, planned succession.

Getting to know him, Apple says Conn has been at Apple for 30 years and join the executive team

as senior vice president of operations in 2019. He has been at Apple for 30 years and joined the executive team as senior vice president of operations

in 2019. He has been in charge of Apple's global supply chain for the past six years,

ensuring product quality and overseeing planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics,

and product fulfillment functions, as well as Apple's supplier responsibility programs.

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