Tim Cook at Corning in Harrodsburg, Kentucky 9-12-25
Apple CEO Tim Cook visits Corning in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, as the company is set to move production of its iPhone and Apple Watch cover class to the plant. (Photo pulled from video taken and provided by Corning)
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Corning Chief Operating Officer Hal Nelson said the expansion will increase the plant’s workforce by 50%.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down from the job that he inherited from the late Steve Jobs, ending a 15-year reign that saw the company’s market value soar by more than $3.6 trillion during an iPhone-fueled era of prosperity. The 65-year-old Cook will hand the CEO duties to Apple’s head of hardware products, John Ternus, on Sept. 1 while remaining involved with the Cupertino, California, company as executive chairman. Although he never shook the perception that he lacked Jobs’ vision, Cook leveraged the popularity of the iPhone and other breakthroughs orchestrated by his predecessor to lift Apple to heights that seemed unfathomable when it was on the brink of bankruptcy during the mid-1990s.
