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John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by spockz »

nalekberov wrote: post #10

If Apple really wants to keep their long term users in its ecosystem, it should really drop stupid Liquid glass design, stop making macOS look like its mobile OSs, and bring skeuomorphism back, which was removed by John Ive.

I disagree. They should bring quality back before reintroducing more changes. Okay, maybe that means dropping Liquid Glass. But also readopt the HIG. Increase stability and performance and reduce attack vector.

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by ykl »

I'm really hopeful about John Ternus stepping into the CEO role. Pretty much everything he's done leading Apple's hardware engineering has been an enormous unqualified success, and for a company like Apple, having hardware lead the company seems like the right step.

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by al_borland »

I’m curious Ternus’ views on services and the heavy hand Cook has had with them. I’d like to see Apple chill out a bit. Have them, but stop pestering users with in-OS ads and notifications to sign up. It’s been very off putting and cheapens the platform.

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by thimabi »

I don’t closely follow the news about Apple and now I’m wondering why they decided to go forward with this change at this moment.

As the world undergoes increasing supply chain issues, wouldn’t it be in Apple’s best interest to keep Tim Cook as CEO for a while? Or is he the one who’s looking to transition to a less demanding position?

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by valleyer »

Fr0styMatt88 wrote: post #38
Tyrubias wrote: post #23

Tim Cook’s experience in logistics built Apple into the global hegemon it is today. I hope John Ternus’s experience with hardware can kick off a renaissance in both Apple hardware and software design. Mind you, Apple hardware is already amazing, but hopefully it can be even better with Ternus at the helm. Apple software is terrible, and hopefully Ternus can turn that around. I’m also hoping, without any evidence, tha…

Curious as an outsider what you mean with US politics? Seems like Apple has a pretty strong stance when it comes to things like privacy that pushes back on some things (that could be smoke and mirrors though I guess).

Start here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/07/tim-...

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by baal80spam »

Tyrubias wrote: post #23

Tim Cook’s experience in logistics built Apple into the global hegemon it is today. I hope John Ternus’s experience with hardware can kick off a renaissance in both Apple hardware and software design. Mind you, Apple hardware is already amazing, but hopefully it can be even better with Ternus at the helm. Apple software is terrible, and hopefully Ternus can turn that around. I’m also hoping, without any evidence, tha…

I can name some terrible software, but it wouldn't be Apple's.

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by oldnetguy »

smeeth wrote: post #22

I'm quite curious what Tim Cook's legacy will end up being. There is no question many of Apple's business experienced significant, impressive growth during his tenure. Amazing capital efficiency. There is also no question Apple lost product velocity. Few new products were launched, and those that were had mixed success. Tim was, at the end of the day, an elite financial operator. Apple shareholders were lucky to have…

His legacy is he used Apple to help build China into a technological powerhouse at the expense of American workers.

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/06/17/g-s1-72...

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by baal80spam »

valleyer wrote: post #47
Fr0styMatt88 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious as an outsider what you mean with US politics? Seems like Apple has a pretty strong stance when it comes to things like privacy that pushes back on some things (that could be smoke and mirrors though I guess).

Start here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/07/tim-...

If you think Ternus wouldn't do it, you are in for a bad time.
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