"Time For Tim Cook To Step Down" - Apple Faces MASSIVE Wake-Up Call Amid AI Innovation FAILURE
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
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Reports say Tim Cook may step down as Apple CEO next year as the company readies a successor. The panel debates Cook’s legacy, Apple’s slowdown in innovation, and whether hardware chief John Ternus can revive Apple’s product vision in a post Jobs era.
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| 0:00.0 | Tim Cook may step down as Apple CEO as early as next year says reports. |
| 0:06.0 | This is from Entrepreneur Magazine. |
| 0:07.6 | Rob, is this him speaking or is this him... |
| 0:09.3 | This is our Reuters report on the succession plan. |
| 0:11.6 | Okay, go for it. Go for it. |
| 0:13.2 | Apple is stepping up its succession plans as it prepares for CEO Tim Cook to step down as soon as next year. |
| 0:23.3 | That's according to a report in the Financial Times, which cited several people familiar with discussions. The report said that John |
| 0:28.9 | Turnus, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, is widely seen as Cook's most |
| 0:34.9 | likely successor. Apple insiders were quoted as saying the company's |
| 0:39.6 | board and senior executives had recently intensified plans for Cook to hand over the reins |
| 0:45.1 | after more than 14 years at the helm. The report also said that Apple is unlikely to name a new |
| 0:52.2 | CEO before its next earnings report in late January, |
| 0:56.0 | which covers the critical holiday period. Cook became CEO in 2011 after Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs |
| 1:04.5 | resigned, ending his reign at the tech giant he co-founded in 1976 in his parents' garage. |
| 1:11.5 | Brandon, thoughts. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah, so I guess you could take the approach with us of Apple wouldn't be what it is today without Tim Cook, |
| 1:20.1 | but also you could take the approach of saying that Tim Cook was just like this conservative guy |
| 1:24.3 | who inherited the creations that Steve Jobs very created and played it safe and maybe, |
| 1:29.9 | you know, was the right fit at the right time where he just did the conservative things instead, |
| 1:33.7 | the overly aggressive things. And they blossomed into like the four trillion dollar company |
| 1:37.9 | because of the conservative nature of him. But also people are criticizing Apple for not being |
| 1:41.9 | innovative enough and not doing anything with AI and not creating a lot of new products over the last couple of years. So I think it's kind of like a debate between those two things. Like I wonder what would have happened if Steve Jobs had not died and wasn't CEO from like, like until today instead of Tim Cook. Maybe Apple wouldn't be the same. Maybe it'd be much bigger. But I don't know. I think that's something interesting to consider. I don't think it'll be, like, I think it's probably time for him |
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