Apple’s top App Store exec, Phil Schiller, follows wave of exits as CEO Tim Cook steps down

Apple's leadership is in full retreat just as the company faces its most serious antitrust challenges in decades, with longtime executive Phil Schiller departing weeks after Tim Cook announced his own exit—a one-two punch that raises questions about whether the iPhone maker's most powerful figures are abandoning ship before expected legal reckoning. Schiller, who has overseen the App Store's contentious policies for years, leaves behind a throne room of regulatory battles and a $100 billion services business built on rules now under siege globally. The departures suggest Apple's old guard may be heading for the exits before a new regime inherits the legal and political fallout.

TechCrunch·Sep 1