John Ternus Again Profiled as Apple's Likely Next CEO

With Tim Cook having precocious turned 65 years aged and a fig of different elder Apple executives having already departed successful caller months oregon heading for the exits, determination has been important absorption connected Apple's plans for who volition win Cook arsenic CEO.


Several caller reports person identified Apple's elder vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus, arsenic apt to beryllium named the adjacent Apple CEO, and The New York Times has present shared a illustration of Ternus with immoderate discourse connected his expertise and however helium is viewed wrong the company.

According to sources who spoke to The New York Times, Apple began accelerating its readying for ‌Tim Cook‌'s succession past year, with Cook having expressed a tendency to trim his workload.

While bundle main Craig Federighi, services main Eddy Cue, selling caput Greg Joswiak, and retail/HR main Deirdre O'Brien person each reportedly been seen arsenic imaginable candidates, Ternus "appears to person changeable to the beforehand of the pack," with Cook apt to stay arsenic president of the company's committee of directors.

Ternus is known for his expertise arsenic an engineer, having worked connected galore of Apple's devices though helium is "known much for maintaining products than processing caller ones." Ternus besides has lone constricted vulnerability to dealing with governmental and argumentation issues that travel with CEO role."He's a bully guy," [former Apple technologist Cameron] Rogers said. "He's idiosyncratic you privation to bent retired with. Everyone loves him due to the fact that he's great. Has helium made immoderate hard decisions? No. Are determination hard problems he's solved successful hardware? No."Ternus and others whitethorn quibble with that assessment, however, arsenic Ternus has been progressive with a fig of innovative products implicit the years, including spearheading the effort to make the iPhone Air and moving connected the upcoming foldable iPhone.

Ternus is seen arsenic a earthy successor to Cook, with an adjacent temperament, beardown attraction to detail, and intimate cognition of Apple's proviso chain. But helium whitethorn not bring the visionary absorption and willingness to instrumentality risks that Steve Jobs had, starring to statement among Apple employees astir precisely what benignant of person is needed.

For much connected Ternus and his enactment rising done the ranks astatine Apple, check retired the afloat illustration astatine The New York Times.
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