Tim Cook’s farewell memo to Apple employees reportedly leaks online

As of Tuesday morning, Apple has a new CEO — John Ternus, former Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, is the new big boss.

And it only took a matter of hours for the old CEO's internal farewell message to leak onto the wider internet.

Ternus officially took over as CEO on Sept.

1, with Tim Cook vacating the position he took over from Steve Jobs.

Cook, as outgoing executives are wont to do, sent a long-ish farewell memo to Apple employees, and 9to5Mac obtained it for our prying eyes .

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Enter now for a chance to win an Apple Watch ! The five-paragraph memo is fairly standard stuff, filled with positive messages about Cook's time working as Apple CEO.

At one point, Cook discusses the importance of Apple's company culture.

Per 9to5Mac, the outgoing CEO wrote: There is something truly special about Apple.

I am most proud of what an annual report could never capture.

This place is proof that culture triumphs over everything.

We share a belief that what we build matters, and that we have both the opportunity and the responsibility to leave the world better than we found it.

That purpose is part of what makes this place extraordinary.

Apple helps nurture it, but I believe it lived within each of you long before you arrived here.