Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO: How he led the tech giant's rise to $4T

Tim Cook is stepping down after nearly 14 years steering Apple through its transformation into a $4 trillion company, a succession that marks the end of an era for the technology industry's most influential operating executive and raises sharp questions about whether his hand-picked replacement can maintain the delicate balance between hardware innovation and services profitability that defined his tenure. Cook's departure comes at a moment of unusual vulnerability for Apple, facing slowing iPhone sales, intensifying regulatory scrutiny, and mounting competition in artificial intelligence—the very challenges that will define his successor's opening moves. The transition represents a rare inflection point in Silicon Valley, where the engineer who made Apple even more profitable than Steve Jobs leaves behind a company so dominant that its next leader

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