{"id":31293,"date":"2025-07-08T22:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T22:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31293"},"modified":"2025-07-08T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:25:22","slug":"jeff-williams-apples-chief-operating-officer-is-retiring-after-27-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31293","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Williams, Apple\u2019s Chief Operating Officer, Is Retiring After 27 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. Williams was long considered a leading candidate to replace Tim Cook as the company\u2019s next chief executive.<\/p>\n

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Jeff Williams, Apple\u2019s chief operating officer and Tim Cook\u2019s longtime lieutenant, is retiring after spending two and a half decades turning the company into an operational machine, capable of making more than 200 million iPhones a year at low prices that allowed the company to rake in tremendous profits.<\/p>\n

The retirement of Mr. Williams, 62, who was long considered Mr. Cook\u2019s most likely successor, means that Apple\u2019s next chief executive is likely to be one of the company\u2019s other leaders. Apple analysts and observers say possible candidates for the job include John Ternus, the company\u2019s head of hardware engineering; Craig Federighi, its head of software; and Eddy Cue, its head of services.<\/p>\n

Sabih Khan, Apple\u2019s senior vice president of operations, will replace Mr. Williams as the company\u2019s chief operating officer later this month. A 30-year employee of Apple, Mr. Khan has been in charge of Apple\u2019s supply chain, procurement and logistics since 2019.<\/p>\n

Mr. Cook will assume oversight for other divisions that Mr. Williams ran, including Apple\u2019s design, watch and health teams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cJeff and I have worked alongside each other for as long as I can remember, and Apple wouldn\u2019t be what it is without him,\u201d Mr. Cook said in a statement. \u201cHe\u2019s helped to create one of the most respected global supply chains in the world, launched Apple Watch and overseen its development, architected Apple\u2019s health strategy and led our world-class team of designers with great wisdom, heart and dedication.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his 27 years at Apple, Mr. Williams played a leading role in building the company\u2019s supply chain. He helped line up some of its most important and enduring suppliers, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which makes Apple\u2019s cutting-edge chips, and Corning, which makes iPhone glass.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Williams was long considered a leading candidate to replace Tim Cook as the company\u2019s next chief executive.Jeff Williams, Apple\u2019s chief operating officer and Tim Cook\u2019s longtime lieutenant, is retiring after spending two and a half decades turning the company into an operational machine, capable of making more than 200 million iPhones a year at low prices that allowed the company to rake in tremendous profits.The retirement of Mr. Williams, 62, who was long considered Mr. Cook\u2019s most likely successor, means that Apple\u2019s next chief executive is likely to be one of the company\u2019s other leaders. Apple analysts and observers say possible candidates for the job include John Ternus, the company\u2019s head of hardware engineering; Craig Federighi, its head of software; and Eddy Cue, its head of services.Sabih Khan, Apple\u2019s senior vice president of operations, will replace Mr. Williams as the company\u2019s chief operating officer later this month. A 30-year employee of Apple, Mr. Khan has been in charge of Apple\u2019s supply chain, procurement and logistics since 2019.Mr. Cook will assume oversight for other divisions that Mr. Williams ran, including Apple\u2019s design, watch and health teams.\u201cJeff and I have worked alongside each other for as long as I can remember, and Apple wouldn\u2019t be what it is without him,\u201d Mr. Cook said in a statement. \u201cHe\u2019s helped to create one of the most respected global supply chains in the world, launched Apple Watch and overseen its development, architected Apple\u2019s health strategy and led our world-class team of designers with great wisdom, heart and dedication.\u201dDuring his 27 years at Apple, Mr. Williams played a leading role in building the company\u2019s supply chain. He helped line up some of its most important and enduring suppliers, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which makes Apple\u2019s cutting-edge chips, and Corning, which makes iPhone glass.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31295,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31296,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31293\/revisions\/31296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}