{"id":1004037,"date":"2026-04-21T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004037"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:03:24","slug":"tim-cook-to-step-down-as-apple-ceo-read-his-memo-to-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/21\/tim-cook-to-step-down-as-apple-ceo-read-his-memo-to-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO: Read his memo to employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve watched enough Apple keynotes, you know the line. The pause, the smile, the room settling in, and then Tim Cook\u2019s unmistakable \u201cGood morning.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>At this year\u2019s WWDC in June, that moment will likely land a little differently. It could very well be the last time Cook opens Apple\u2019s flagship event as CEO. <\/p>\n<p>After almost a year of speculation, Apple confirmed that Cook will be stepping down from the post and transition to the role of executive chairman later this year, with John Ternus set to take over as CEO on September 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve watched enough Apple keynotes, you know the line. The pause, the smile, the room settling in, and then Tim Cook\u2019s unmistakable \u201cGood morning.\u201d At this year\u2019s WWDC in June, that moment will likely land a little differently. It could very well be the last time Cook opens Apple\u2019s flagship event as CEO. After almost a year of speculation, Apple confirmed that Cook will be stepping down from the post and transition to the role of executive chairman later this year, with John Ternus set to take over as CEO on September 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}