Apple Hardware Head John Ternus Top Pick To Succeed Tim Cook As CEO (indiatimes.com)
(Monday October 06, 2025 @11:30PM (BeauHD)
from the what-to-expect dept.)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/06/2145241/apple-hardware-head-john-ternus-top-pick-to-succeed-tim-cook-as-ceo
- Source link: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-hardware-head-john-ternus-top-pick-to-succeed-tim-cook-as-ceo/articleshow/124334687.cms?from=mdr
Bloomberg [1]reports (paywalled) that Apple's hardware chief John Ternus is the [2]frontrunner to replace Tim Cook as CEO , as Cook nears retirement and prepares to transition into a board chairman role. The Economic Times reports:
> Cook is turning 65 next month. Chief operating officer John Williams -- once heir apparent -- has handed over the reins of day-to-day operations to Sabih Khan and is on his way out. Even as Cook steps down as CEO, he will stay involved in some capacity, likely as board chairman. [...]
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> While Khan and Apple's retail chief Deirdre O'Brien can run daily operations, Ternus remains the leading contender for the corner office after Cook, Gurman said. Firstly, he is 50 years old -- the same as Cook when he became CEO -- giving him over a decade to hold the office, he noted. Secondly, Apple needs a technologist instead of a sales person at the helm, considering the company's ambitions, Gurman wrote in the newsletter. While the Cupertino tech giant has managed to expand its homegrown line of chipsets, and the [3]recently launched iPhone 17 lineup is drawing in customers, the company has struggled to find success in categories such as mixed reality, generative artificial intelligence (AI), smart homes and autonomous driving.
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> Ternus was in the spotlight during Apple's annual hardware event in September, which saw the launch of the iPhone 17 Air, the first major design overhaul for the smartphone family in a long time. Over the years, he has gained more responsibilities under Cook, taking calls on product roadmaps, features and strategies, overseeing matters beyond the traditional scope of a hardware engineering chief, Gurman said.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-05/who-will-be-apple-s-next-ceo-after-tim-cook-apple-shelves-vision-air-m5-ipad
[2] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-hardware-head-john-ternus-top-pick-to-succeed-tim-cook-as-ceo/articleshow/124334687.cms?from=mdr
[3] https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/1844201/apple-launches-iphone-17-lineup-featuring-ultra-thin-56mm-iphone-air
> Cook is turning 65 next month. Chief operating officer John Williams -- once heir apparent -- has handed over the reins of day-to-day operations to Sabih Khan and is on his way out. Even as Cook steps down as CEO, he will stay involved in some capacity, likely as board chairman. [...]
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> While Khan and Apple's retail chief Deirdre O'Brien can run daily operations, Ternus remains the leading contender for the corner office after Cook, Gurman said. Firstly, he is 50 years old -- the same as Cook when he became CEO -- giving him over a decade to hold the office, he noted. Secondly, Apple needs a technologist instead of a sales person at the helm, considering the company's ambitions, Gurman wrote in the newsletter. While the Cupertino tech giant has managed to expand its homegrown line of chipsets, and the [3]recently launched iPhone 17 lineup is drawing in customers, the company has struggled to find success in categories such as mixed reality, generative artificial intelligence (AI), smart homes and autonomous driving.
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> Ternus was in the spotlight during Apple's annual hardware event in September, which saw the launch of the iPhone 17 Air, the first major design overhaul for the smartphone family in a long time. Over the years, he has gained more responsibilities under Cook, taking calls on product roadmaps, features and strategies, overseeing matters beyond the traditional scope of a hardware engineering chief, Gurman said.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-05/who-will-be-apple-s-next-ceo-after-tim-cook-apple-shelves-vision-air-m5-ipad
[2] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-hardware-head-john-ternus-top-pick-to-succeed-tim-cook-as-ceo/articleshow/124334687.cms?from=mdr
[3] https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/1844201/apple-launches-iphone-17-lineup-featuring-ultra-thin-56mm-iphone-air
I had expected Craig Federighi (Score:2)
by Camembert ( 2891457 )
I had expected Craig Federighi, being in most keynotes since a long time. But Ternus seems super capable as well.
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Holy wall of irrelevant text, Batman!!!!
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is why DIY psychotropic substances are a bad idea.
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> at s***ing Trump's dick
One has to wonder. It was absolutely pathetic seeing Cook stand there, giving trump that gold 'trophy' - there's no way Steve Jobs would've stooped that low.
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> I love this guy. He never disappoints. Both in the same post, no less:
>> Did you know him[Steve Jobs]? Personally? How do you know wtf he'd do?
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>> Steve Jobs never have a shit about you or anyone else like you.
Indeed - he (Jobs) never, ever had my shit.
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> That's why he tried to use mumbo jumbo, mysticism, magic rocks, and fairy woo woo plants to cure his very curable cancer until he got to stage 4 when it was too late for real medicine to help.
Indeed, as smart and innovative as he was, he was a total moron in how he treated his disease, totally against his doctors' recommendations.
Even smart people do "insanely" stupid things.
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Oh, it's because people with success, people that are demonstrably skilled at something—they start to think that their knowledge in one field means that they're smart at EVERYTHING. You see it with physicists all the time. Doctors, too.
They start believing their own hype and think they know better than actual experts. Then they end up dead, like Jobs. It's sad, but it feels like maybe it was inevitable.
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"he tried to use mumbo jumbo, mysticism, magic rocks, and fairy woo woo plants"
Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla and Brian Josephson all believed in magic or the paranormal