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CTOnews.com August 25 news, August 24, 2011 to replace Steve Jobs as Apple CEO Cook, to local time Thursday (Beijing time today) as Apple CEO has been 12 years, and this year is Apple's 30th anniversary in China, Cook issued a document to celebrate, and announced that Apple Store China first store held offline activities.

▲ On August 24, 2011, Apple's board of directors announced the resignation of co-founder Steve Jobs as CEO and appointed Cook, then chief operating officer, as CEO. The appointment was "effective immediately." When Jobs resigned as CEO, Apple's board of directors also announced that Jobs had been elected chairman and Cook also joined the board of directors, but unfortunately Jobs was seriously ill at that time. He died six weeks later, on October 5.

As Jobs 'chosen successor, Cook is often compared with Jobs. Cook, who is good at supply chain management, is widely believed to be far from Jobs in terms of product innovation ability. Apple under his leadership is also "significantly different" from Jobs in terms of product innovation.

During Cook's tenure as CEO, Apple has also made great progress in its main performance, with its market value hitting new highs several times, exceeding US $1 trillion, US $2 trillion and US $3 trillion (currently about RMB 21.84 trillion), ranking first among technology companies for a long time.

According to a study by economists at Analysis Group, the App Store ecosystem will total nearly 4 trillion yuan in revenue and sales in China in 2022 alone (currently about $570 billion). China's App Store ecosystem doubled in size between 2019 and 2022, with revenue from small developers in particular growing 59 percent between 2020 and 2022.

In terms of new product lines, Apple launched the Apple Watch in September 2014 and the Vision Pro in June this year, but Apple officially cut the iPod product line the year before and replaced it with Apple Music.

CTOnews.com learned after inquiry that Cook, who has served as Apple CEO for 12 years, will probably serve another three years until 2025, when he will surpass Jobs as Apple's longest-serving CEO, according to stock options granted by Apple in September 2020.

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