Marco Arment

I still think the most likely outcome here is sometime soon Tim Cook replaces Art Levinson as chairman of the board and John Turner becomes CEO.

That seems like still the obvious path.

But as I said a few weeks ago,

Tim Cook and Apple are very patient.

They are happy to wait what seems like an eternity to us to move on something or to resolve an issue, to issue an update to a product, whatever it is.

They do things on their timeline, and they don't like having anyone else influence their timeline.

So whatever Cook's plan is for the succession...

He's going to take his time and he's going to do it the way he wants to do it.

And given the gravity of that situation, I think that's the right move.

You know I will not say good things about Tim Cook when they're not warranted.

But in this particular way, he is a very efficient leader or a very effective leader in terms of like –

When he has a plan on his timeline, he will stick to it.

He has almost certainly planned this very carefully in a very considered way.

And I'm sure it seems like from everything so far with the various executive retirements and different transitions and everything, it seems like he is executing on a plan that has been carefully considered and it's going to be on his timeline.

And it didn't seem like he was going to leave like in January, the way the original rumors said about like because of because of the chairman of the board age requirement they had like that seemed a little fast.

I still think it could happen in this calendar year or could happen next year.

The board is totally under Apple's control.

They can do whatever they want.

They don't need to wait until a one-year anniversary of this extension for Art Levinson or anything like that.

They can do whatever they want.