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By Gael Cooper Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO and moving into a new role at the tech company. But while the executive's last name is indeed Cook, you'll see plenty of social-media posts calling the 65-year-old "Tim Apple." The nickname comes from a viral moment involving President Donald Trump and a White House meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board in 2019."You've really put a big investment in our country," Trump said, as Cook nodded. "We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple."A year earlier, Trump had referred to then-Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson as "Marillyn

By Corinne Reichert Apple's incoming CEO, John Ternus, joined the tech giant back in 2001 as part of the product design team, having previously worked as a mechanical engineer at Virtual Research Systems. He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.Ternus has risen through the ranks at Apple over the past 25 years, becoming a VP of hardware engineering in 2013 and then SVP in 2021. During those years, Ternus worked across many flagship devices, including the iPad, AirPods, iPhone, Apple Watch and, most recently, the MacBook Neo."John Ternus has th