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In abstract:
- Macworld stories that Apple’s John Ternus has been given expanded duties, now overseeing the corporate’s whole design workforce together with each {hardware} and software program interface teams.
- This vital position change positions Ternus because the main candidate to succeed Tim Cook dinner as CEO, as Cook dinner prepares for eventual retirement at age 65.
- The transfer comes amid a number of key Apple govt retirements and seems to be a part of Cook dinner’s succession planning technique.
It’s been reported that CEO Tim Cook dinner’s time at Apple is nearing an finish, and Apple is grooming his alternative. Now we have one other clue to who that could be: In a brand new report, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman mentioned that Apple Senior Vice President John Ternus now manages the corporate’s design groups. The task of latest duties was made by Cook dinner on the finish of final 12 months.
Hypothesis about Cook dinner’s tenure as CEO began to warmth up final 12 months. Cook dinner turns 65 in November, and a number of other stories have said that the gears are in movement to organize for the top of Cook dinner’s run. Gurman has reported that Ternus is the main candidate to interchange Cook dinner, however a change isn’t “imminent.” Nonetheless, his reporting makes it clear that Ternus is a rising star inside Apple Park.
Ternus’ new duties appear to present credence to him being the main CEO candidate. Gurman stories that, in his position as SVP of {hardware} engineering, Ternus had already been working with the corporate’s {hardware} design workforce. However now Ternus is main the group that develops Apple’s software program interfaces.
To additional broaden on the significance of the brand new duties, Gurman posted on X that solely “the very most outstanding figures in Apple historical past” have overseen the entire design workforce. Gurman additionally stories that Cook dinner is “attempting to show Ternus to extra elements of the corporate’s operations.”
Apple’s govt ranks had main modifications final 12 months. Jeff Williams, who was COO and beforehand led the design workforce, retired. Apple AI chief John Giannandrea can also be retiring, as is VP Lisa Jackson and SVP and normal council Kate Adams. Alan Dye, who leads Apple’s consumer interface design workforce, is leaving for Meta.
