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Apple’s Heir Apparent Is Much More Like Tim Cook Than Steve Jobs
Like Cook, Williams grew up in the American South, got an MBA from Duke, and spent years at IBM before joining Apple.
30 Jul 2019, 05:19 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- When Apple announced the pending departure of Chief Design Officer Jony Ive last month, it threw the spotlight on an executive few outsiders know: Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, who has now also taken over the company’s legendary design studio. This added fiefdom makes Williams unambiguously the second-most important person at Apple and Tim Cook’s heir apparent as CEO. And he’s very much in the mol...
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