Tim Cook: Steve Jobs’ CEO-Amtszeit is outdated

Apple boss Tim Cook has now officially exceeded the term of Steve Jobs as CEO of the iPhone manufacturer. That shows one Calculation of macrumors. With the cut -off date 1st August Cook was 5091 days Chief Executive Officer at Apple, while Steve Jobs was only 5090 days.

Jobs was not a CEO for a long time

This also has to do with the fact that jobs between 1976, the founding year of Apple, and in 1985, his first (involuntary) departure from the group, was never boss, instead Chairman of the Board (chairman of the supervisory board). It was only from 1997 that he initially worked as a “Iceo” (interim CEO) before he officially became CEO from January 2000-until his resignation in August 2011. At that time, Cook took over for him before Jobs died on October 5, 2011.

There were also several longer intermediate phases in 2004, 2009 and 2011, in which Cook, who was still officially Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the time, represented jobs due to illness, but this period is not included in the 5091 days. In his time as Apple boss, Cook managed to make the group significantly more profitable and sales. For example, three billion iPhones have now been dropped under (mainly) of his aegis. At the moment it looks a lot that Cook remains CEO for at least five years, at least that’s what the rumor mill says.

Apple management team is getting older

Cook himself is no longer a young man: in November he will be 65 years old. The rest of the Apple management was also at the end of 50 to the beginning of the 60th. Sometimes a generation change began here, but Coo Jeff Williams was replaced against a marginally younger successor. Anyone who will replace Cook as a CEO is still unclear – hardware boss John Ternus is generally considered a hot candidate.

Steve Jobs founded Apple together with Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne in 1976. Bosses were then-in a row-Michael Scott, Michael Markkula and finally John Sculley (ex-Pepsi boss), whom jobs selected himself. With Sculley, however, there was a big conflict (including because of the high costs for the Macintosh), which jobs lost. In 1997 Jobs’ company next was taken over by Apple. Its operating system Nextstep formed the basis of Mac OS X, which in turn is also the basis of iOS. Cook himself came to Apple in 1998. In the beginning he was a senior vice president for worldwide operations and changed Apple’s supply chain to China, among other things – and optimized them strongly and very successfully. Today, however, the group has major problems due to the tariffs of the Trump administration.