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Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by mcmcmc » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 9:54 PM UTC

liuliu wrote: post #164

mcmcmc wrote: post #93

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> Giving a golden statue of Trump has no effect on you and me, and a very large effect on Trump. No effect on you, really. You aren’t affected by gas prices or tariffs? They are bowing down and participating in Trump’s patronage schemes. Every powerful person who does this is complicit with all the horrible things done by the Trump administration. They are endorsing Trump and his ilk with their behavior if not their…

Trump is the president. People voted him into the Office. Tim Cook didn't give him the golden statue before he is in the Office. Everyone in the United States is complicit to the horrible things done by the Trump administration by your logic. I partially agree, but I also think burning Apple to the ground will not be Tim Cook's legacy and he is in no place to go against the executive branch. It is not about Trump, it…

> Everyone in the United States is complicit to the horrible things done by the Trump administration by your logic.

This is a ridiculous strawman. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume ignorance instead of malice.

I wrote that going above and beyond to curry favor with an autocrat in order to protect your profits is collaboration.

And you read, what? Existing under a government means you necessarily support it because there was an election? You do understand an election means some people voted the other way, right?

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by hei-lima » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 9:54 PM UTC

tyleregeto wrote: post #216

hei-lima wrote: post #77

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Apple’s software is the best in the non-free software world compared to Google's or Microsoft's, IMO. But that doesn't mean it can't be better.

Opinions vary, but I've never found Apple software to be particularly good. Their hardware is almost always exceptional. I'd go further and say I am constantly frustrated by how difficult their software can make basic tasks. I often find many of their UX patterns unintuitive, or even feel user hostile at times. Small example, I really want to view passwords as I type them in. I constantly miss type passwords on touch…

It's not great, ofc. But I find myself less disgusted by it.

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by PlunderBunny » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 9:55 PM UTC

didip wrote: post #42

wow… I didn’t expect this. My guess would have been after the current administration. Why so soon?

Yeah, I thought Cook would stay on until the end of the Trump-admin in order to keep ‘swallowing the dead rats’ so that the next CEO would have a clean plate.

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by cubefox » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 9:55 PM UTC

dekhn wrote: post #147

Prediction: Sundar will step aside and Demis will replace him. (actually I doubt this- Demis does not want to run a big company whose main business is Ads)

The problem is that neither Sundar nor Demis are remotely as focused and competitive as Sam and Dario.

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by Whatarethese » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

alsetmusic wrote: post #169

I think it's interesting that the handoff will be complete on Sept 1. That would mean Ternus will helm his first iPhone launch that month. Auspicious timing. Curious the math they calculated when landing on this date. Certainly tees him up for an early win if the products are well-received.

Apples first foldable phone. It will be a huge success.

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by an0malous » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

valleyer wrote: post #47

Fr0styMatt88 wrote: post #38

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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-...

It's less than the other tech CEOs who seem to evade criticism on HN. Elon literally worked for Trump, accomplished nothing, and ended up just leaking everyone's social security data. Thiel and Palantir are profiting from war and building out the surveillance state. Bezos made a $75M documentary about Melania. Larry Ellison took over TikTok US to squelch any criticism of US and Zionist war atrocities.

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by hei-lima » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

apazzolini wrote: post #130

hei-lima wrote: post #77

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Apple’s software is the best in the non-free software world compared to Google's or Microsoft's, IMO. But that doesn't mean it can't be better.

> Apple's software is the best in the [category of shit software]

I kinda agree with this. But that doesn't affect my statemente.

Re: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Post by segmondy » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 9:57 PM UTC

Tim saw the ram shortage and said, "WTF am I suppose to do with this? I'm out of here!" Better leave a hero ...

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Post by projektfu » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC

al_borland wrote: post #267

lotsofpulp wrote: post #171

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I hope they sell a higher priced monthly Apple One bundle which allows people to pay extra to not see ads in Apple Maps. Can even make it multiple tiers for no ads in Apple TV and Apple Maps, or maybe privacy plus tiers so they can earn more money by not selling search history.

Add Apple News to the list. Paying for Apple News and still getting paywalled by various sources was insane. I don’t know who approved that, but it turned me off the whole service. Apple Maps really needs to up their POI game. They have some native data, but I’m still regularly seeing images from 3rd party sites and get prompted to download the app. I understood it in year 1, but we’re 13 years in now. This is the pr…

It's remarkably annoying, as a business, to keep your Apple Maps data up to date. But, thankfully, they seem to have ended their partnership with Yelp.

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Post by hei-lima » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC

toephu2 wrote: post #114

hei-lima wrote: post #77

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Apple’s software is the best in the non-free software world compared to Google's or Microsoft's, IMO. But that doesn't mean it can't be better.

Google is much better at software than Apple...most in the Valley would agree with this.

It's uneven in my experience. OS-wise (Android, ChromeOS), I've had some big and frustrating problems. On the other hand, I really like some of their web apps (Drive, Docs).