Tim Cook retirement ‘leak’ worked perfectly in predicting reactions

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By Ben LovejoyApr 21, 2026, 7:23 am216 pts
A supposed Tim Cook retirement leak late last year indicated that hardware head John Ternus was Apple’s planned successor and that the announcement would be made ahead of WWDC 2026 in June. I wrote at the time that this was very clearly a trial balloon by the company in order to test reaction to the plan, and…

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