Apple 或迎來高層離職潮，但 Tim Cook 仍帥位穩固
隨著 COO Jeff Williams 上月宣布退休，圍繞 Apple 高層人事變動的傳聞開始越來越多浮出水面。今日彭博的 Mark Gurman 在其電子報中提到，他被「非常明確地」告知將有更多人離開 Apple 的最高管理層。「我預計明年至少還會有一位重要的高管離職。」Gurman 在文中如此寫道，「甚至說時間可能還要更早。」
考慮到 Gurman 過往可靠的爆料履歷，Apple 高層即將換血的可能性估計相當之高了。打開他們的領導頁面，的確會發現一些名字已經相當甚至說過於熟悉。其中掛著「Apple Fellow」頭銜的 Phil Shiller 接下來或許會真正退休，另外 Eddy Cue、「Joz」Greg Joswiak 等人的年齡也已不小。當然，因為業績出局的情況也不是沒有可能發生。如果 Apple 接下來在 AI 上仍無起色，那對應的高級副總裁 John Giannandrea 大概也難辭其咎了。
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但無論如何，這些潛在變化應該都不會影響到處於權力中心的 Tim Cook。他的 CEO 帥位短期內仍非常穩固，根據之前的報導，65 歲的他背後仍有董事會的全力支持，估計至少還會執掌 Apple 五年的時間。至於 Cook 的繼任者，在原本仍存一絲機會的 Jeff Williams 確定離開後，呼聲最高的是主管硬體工程的高級副總裁 John Ternus。他現年 50 歲，更符合董事會追求的長期任職需要，而且 Ternus 據稱也「深受 Tim Cook、Eddy Cue 等領導層的賞識」。
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