Tim Cook returned $1 trillion to shareholders. John Ternus is being given permission to keep it.

For nearly 15 years, Apple’s financial strategy has been defined by a single number: more than $1 trillion returned to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends. Tim Cook inherited a company sitting on a cash mountain that Steve Jobs had accumulated out of institutional memory of near-bankruptcy in the 1990s. Cook reversed Jobs’ stance […] This story continues at The Next Web