There are Apple memos, and then there are Apple memos that feel like they belong in a time capsule.
Tim Cook’s final note to Apple employees as CEO is one of those.
After all the product launches, keynotes, earnings calls, late-night rumours and those wonderfully predictable September moments of “one more thing…” — Cook has reached the end of his time in the CEO chair.
And rather than making the whole thing about himself, his final message is remarkably Apple in its tone: the company, the people and the work come first.
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