“Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple Inc., could run it for another decade, assuming the retirement age at the company is not 65. He is currently 54,” Douglas A. McIntyre writes for 24/7 Wall St. “And, at Apple, there is no reason to believe the board will not prolong Cook’s job at the top if he is doing it well.”
“Cook could see the release of the iPhone 16, the iPad 12, as well as the Apple Watch 9, an iTunes store with apps that operate well beyond anything consumers and businesses can fathom, and versions of the Mac that current PC users would not recognize today,” McIntyre writes. “Cook’s largest challenge, however, is almost certainly the creation of products that are not on Apple-controlled production lines now, or even on its design and drawing boards.”
“All of this goes to say that, as has been true in the past, for Apple to be as successful in 10 years as it is now will require wild but targeted imagination,” McIntyre writes. “It has had this since Steve Jobs resurrected the company a decade ago, which means it has been done at least once before, and it holds the promise of being done again.”
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