Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday sidestepped questions about his retirement and reaffirmed that he will continue to lead the company. This comes amid rumors that Cook is planning on stepping down in 2026. Here’s what prediction market is saying.
Prediction markets are betting on which CEO will exit before 2027, including Cook.
Polymarket, a Polygon based prediction platform that allows users to wager on an outcome using the USDC stablecoin is currently betting on a contract “Which CEOs will be out before 2027?”
Over $440,000 have been bet on the contract so far… Bettors have placed a 32% probability on the Apple chief exiting before 2027, down by 45%.
Other CEOs that the contract is betting on include Amazon.com Inc.’s Andy Jassy, Alphabet Inc.’s Sundar Pichai, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, among others.
MacDailyNews Take: We wouldn’t bet Cook exiting his Apple CEO position before 2027.
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Take the woke, pride altar cluttering up your courtyard with you when you exit Apple.
And to the Apple Board, DO NOT EVERY AGAIN HIRE A GAY TO RUN THIS COMPANY … EVER.
The sooner, the better.
I Like Tim as a person.
I do NOT like Tim as a CEO anymore, as his time has run out.
For the past 10 years, I have watched numerous failures that has directly affected the stock, companies ability to grow, and ultimately affect the consumers/customers.
• Innovation has come to crawl, with lack of new ecosystems/products,
• Software keeps getting worse and worse
• Ecosystem with developers is terrible, ask anyone in the audio world.
• MacPro is constantly abandoned, and without that ecosystem, content creation slows
• Almost every holiday quarter, Apple is sold out of many sku’s, at a time when sales are the highest volume.. yet, can’t buy your relative a new xxxxxx product, because it’s sold out???? How does that even happen? It’s not like they don’t have sales metrics from the past 100 years, and can have better trajectories on sales.
• New product releases are in one quarter. Released in the next quarter. Shown financials in the 3rd quarter. Diluting the effect, and impact, to the product cycle. Steve Jobs accomplished all 3 of that in one quarter; and by doing so, had free press/media promoting the new products, with zero cost to do so.
• Taking away content people BUY on the Apple store, without informing them, and not refunding them.
• Lack of advertising, or at least creative marketing
• Terrible pre-recorded keynotes, verses live ones
• Terrible acquisitions (see beats). Better ones would be Adobe, Avid – BUT, only IF Apple actually had a priority to listen to customers and serve them effectively
• Can’t seem to keep talented workers, who seem to constantly be leaving Apple… WHY????
• OS keeps getting more bloated with nonsense, over effective functionality
• Lack of SMALL form phones – mini, SE – leaving an entire metric with no options to buy (including me)
• Shutting off customers, who can feed you excellent information for improvement. Since Steve passed, if I ever wrote to Apple with a OS bug, or anything that I found was wrong with Apple. My post gets removed. They only want to see people praise them, not inform them of bugs.
It’s a huge shame that the entire Apple ecosystem has struggled with Tim as the CEO.
The stock should be between $350 – $400 right now, at the very minimum. The lack of A.I. instilled into Apple’s ecosystem is a failure. They are constantly waiting for a perfect result to release; when in reality, an evolving A.I. should have been released a long time ago, and the improvements can happen along the product cycles and software updates.
I should run Apple, as the company NEEDS a leader that is more aggressive with decisions, strategies and innovations; and also understands marketing to market. And then understand financials, to maximize Apple’s potentials with growth.
you keep deleting my posts
Tim won’t go unless pushed, he has no interest in innovation. It has never been priority nor does he believe in a directors responsibility and duty to resign when big mistakes are made ( the car.Siri, Vision Pro (premature release) and where the technological advances are beyond his intellectual capacity and comprehension results in stifling innovation so employees who are innovative or uncontrollable leave. He himself admits the crazies are the best. They’re crazy to him as he does not understand them or their vision.
He should have resigned after the car fiasco which cost billions while he ignored finishing the Vision Pro before release , ensuring adequate software since its release, failed to sort out AI and Siri. The board seems in s state of paralysis and is sitting by watching a CEO trying to change one of the most innovative consumer Tech companies in to a Fil and TV production company. So this chap Tim will not leave unless pushed.
Then I think it’s time for us users to ‘push’ Tim into retirement, so Apple can get back on track.