Tech leaders, Trump, and more react to Tim Cook stepping down as Apple CEO

Source: 9to5Mac

Apple leadership transition

Apple announced its major leadership transition yesterday, with John Ternus officially set to take over as CEO from Tim Cook later this year.

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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google

Congrats on an incredible run @tim_cook, always respected your deep commitment to Apple’s mission and best wishes in your new role! Look forward to working with John as well!
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Sam Altman, CEO and Co‑founder of OpenAI

Tim Cook is a legend.
I am very thankful for everything he has done and I am very thankful for Apple.
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Warren Buffett

Apple would not be the Apple of today without Tim Cook. What he has done with Apple could not be done by anybody I’ve known.
Covering the world and getting along with countries with all kinds of histories and doing right by the customer, people who worked for him, certainly the shareholders, which we were lucky enough to be one of… he’s one of a kind.
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Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm

Congratulations to @tim_cook on his nearly 15 years of leadership at @Apple and to John Ternus on becoming CEO.
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Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama

Here in Alabama, we will always be proud of Tim Cook! He is an Alabamian through and through — born in Mobile and a graduate of Auburn University. I wish @tim_cook continued success and am grateful for all he has done and will continue to do for our state.
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Donald J. Trump (verbatim from his website)

I have always been a big fan of Tim Cook, and likewise, Steve Jobs, but if Steve was not taken from the Planet Earth so young, and ran the company instead of Tim, the company would have done well, but nowhere near as well as it has under Tim. …
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