A new report claims that despite a series of alleged issues to do with Apple Intelligence and lack of new hardware, CEO Tim Cook can weather any issue because of how dramatically he has grown the company.

With no clear successor and no signs of a grooming process underway, Cook’s grip on Apple seems likely to last well into the next decade. According to the report, the board — stacked with loyalists like Arthur Levinson and Ronald Sugar — sees no reason to change what they still believe works.

The latest tremors came when Apple announced chief operating officer Jeff Williams would retire by yearend after 27 years. Just a day before, the company’s top AI executive, Ruoming Pang, had left to join Meta, and weeks earlier, another high-level AI researcher, Tom Gunter, had also left. The image of a leadership exodus was forming.