#tim-cook

#tim-cook

If you're a CEO willing to sit in the company of this regime, your 'shareholder value' excuse feels pretty blood-soaked tonight,

Apple CEO Tim Cook is being excoriated online for showing up at the White House Saturday night hours after Border Patrol agents killed a Veterans Affair nurse in Minneapolis to party with Donald and Melania Trump at an intimate, black-tie screening of Melania Trump's controversial documentary. Calls to boycott Apple products also began circulating online as Cook was revealed to be among a group

Apple CEO Tim Cook earned $74.3 million in total compensation for fiscal year 2025. The tech giant hit a market cap of $4 trillion for the first time last year. Cook's pay package included salary, stock awards, bonuses, and other forms of compensation. Apple CEO Tim Cook's salary in 2025 was $3 million, but his total compensation, including stock awards and bonuses, dwarfed that amount.

Many of these same people are now hoping that Apple's next CEO will be Apple's current senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus. They see Ternus as a "product guy" like Jobs. Or, probably more accurately, they see Ternus as a "product guy" unlike Cook. But I think that this does Cook a disservice. And for the good of the company, I hope whoever ends up taking the reins is as much like Cook as they are like Jobs.

The costly and creepy plushies, made popular by Gen Z celebrities and used as bag charms by rich teens, got a much-needed boost from a sexagenarian man. Apple CEO Tim Cook visited a Labubu exhibition in China on Monday, sending the stock of Pop Mart, Labubu's manufacturer, up as much as 6% on Tuesday. Cook's appearance at the Shanghai Pop Mart event, where he was seen meeting with Pop Mart CEO Wang Ning and Labubu designer Kasing Lung, inspired rumors of a potential collaboration.

In a decades-long tradition, superfans lined up to be the first to try the devices. After taking over as CEO in 2011, Cook has made a habit of showing up at Apple Stores on launch days to shake hands and answer questions. His first appearance was at the Palo Alto store in 2013 for the iPhone 5, the first phone to use a Lightning cable.

"We're very open to [mergers and acquisitions]," Cook said at the time. "We basically ask ourselves whether a company can help us accelerate a roadmap. If they do, then we're interested."

National Review criticized President Trump for overstepping authority, likening his ultimatum to Apple to that of a king—demanding production in the U.S. or else.

"Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise," the judge wrote in a sharply worded opinion.

Elon Musk may be gradually losing interest in Tesla's operational details, signaling a potential need for a more process-focused CEO, similar to Tim Cook's role at Apple.