Ciara O'Brien

I think anybody who's really been watching Apple for a while, you know, it's not really that much of a surprise that Tim Cook has decided to step aside because there's been rumours about this for a good while.

I mean, you've got to remember as well, Tim Cook is 65 years of age.

And while he has said he would be happy to continue on at Apple for...

the foreseeable future.

You know, I mean, there's always a shelf life to these things.

And he has been, he's been kind of at the head of Apple since he took over from Steve Jobs in 2011.

And if you remember back that far, like 15 years ago, it was a much quicker transition because although Tim Cook had been kind of like the heir apparent for a while, it was ill health that forced Steve Jobs to step down.

And it was only, I think, 42 days between

him resigning as chief executive and recommending that Tim Cook be named as his replacement to the board of Apple.

It was only 42 days between that happening and him dying of cancer.

So, you know, it was a much quicker kind of transition, I suppose, for most people.

This, you know, it's September 1st is kind of the deadline.

So Tim Cook will do WWDC.

And then I suppose when we're coming into the usual round of,

Apple launches and iPhone launches in September, we'll see a new chief executive take over.

As I said, if you've been watching Apple for a while, this won't be a massive surprise.

John Ternus, who is Apple's new chief executive, he has been kind of at the forefront of a lot of the hardware launches for some time, and he's been playing kind of an increasingly...

large role in apple's kind of product roadmap um and he's been with apple for 25 years already so you know he is kind of you know he's a he's he's part of of this was the apple machine um and he's been heading up kind of their engineering the hardware engineering department for some time as well so you know it's a surprise i suppose that it's happened now but not really that much of a surprise

I can remember, actually, like yourself, when he took over, I remember people saying, you know, steady, reliable, safe pair of hands.

But, yeah, no Steve Jobs.