Apple’s COO Retirement Offers Clues About Cook Succession

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The post–Tim Cook era at Apple got a bit less fuzzy today. The company announced that Jeff Williams, its chief operating officer, will retire at the end of the year and pass the COO baton to Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of operations. Apple portrayed the change as an orderly changing of the guard, describing it as “part of a long-planned succession.”