Tim Cook new COO of Apple

Apple's executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Operations since 2002, Tim Cook, has been named chief operating officer of Apple. CEO Steve Jobs had this to say about Mr. Cook:

"Tim has been doing this job for over two years now, and it's high time we officially recognized it with this promotion. Tim and I have worked together for over seven years now, and I am looking forward to working even more closely with him to help Apple reach some exciting goals during the coming years."

In related news, Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of the iPod Division will be succeeded Tony Fadell once he retires on March 31st. Steve was equally glowing in his words about John and Tony:

"I've worked with Jon for over 15 years, and we're going to miss him. Jon has done an excellent job as a member of Apple's senior management team, as well as building our world-class iPod engineering team and running our hardware engineering team prior to that. Tony has been doing a superb job running a large part of the iPod engineering team,
and we're expecting a very smooth transition." Isn't that nice? Let's all hug.