{"id":944795,"date":"2025-07-09T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944795"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:00:19","slug":"jeff-williams-apples-chief-operating-officer-to-retire-after-27-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/09\/jeff-williams-apples-chief-operating-officer-to-retire-after-27-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Williams, Apple&#8217;s chief operating officer, to retire after 27 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Williams, Apple&#8217;s chief operating officer and Tim Cook&#8217;s long-time lieutenant, is retiring after spending 2 1\/2 decades turning the company into an operational machine, capable of making more than 200 million iPhones a year at low prices that allowed the company to rake in tremendous profits. <\/p>\n<p>The retirement of Williams, 62, who was long considered Cook&#8217;s most likely successor, means that Apple&#8217;s next CEO is likely to be one of the company&#8217;s other leaders. Apple analysts and observers say possible candidates for the job include John Ternus, the company&#8217;s head of hardware engineering; Craig Federighi, its head of software; and Eddy Cue, its head of services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Williams, Apple&#8217;s chief operating officer and Tim Cook&#8217;s long-time lieutenant, is retiring after spending 2 1\/2 decades turning the company into an operational machine, capable of making more than 200 million iPhones a year at low prices that allowed the company to rake in tremendous profits. The retirement of Williams, 62, who was long considered Cook&#8217;s most likely successor, means that Apple&#8217;s next CEO is likely to be one of the company&#8217;s other leaders. Apple analysts and observers say possible candidates for the job include John Ternus, the company&#8217;s head of hardware engineering; Craig Federighi, its head of software; [&hellip;]<\/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-944795","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\/944795","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=944795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}