Cook will directly oversee Apple’s design starting later this year, just as its software interfaces unify under the new Liquid Glass approach.

Apple’s chief operating officer plans to hand the role off this month and retire later this year after roughly a decade as the tech giant’s No. 2 under Chief Executive Tim Cook.

Tim Cook has constantly been criticized, most recently over Apple Intelligence, but always for just not being Steve Jobs — yet the fact that he isn't Jobs is what has made Apple the technological and financial juggernaut it is today.