After Cook

apple ceo transition Tim Cook stepped down as Apple CEO on 20 April 2026. Cautiously optimistic — Cook was the operations guy, the supply chain wizard, the person who turned Apple into a trillion-dollar company. But the hardware side has been increasingly frustrating: soldered RAM, unified memory pricing, the general trend toward sealed devices. If the new leadership has more hardware sensibility, it could mean better machines for people who actually use them. If it's just more of the same with a different face, nothing changes. The Mac Mini remains the daily driver regardless.