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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 cyberpunk »

caycep wrote: post #454
vicchenai wrote: post #260

15 years of supply chain excellence and the software running on that hardware quietly got worse every cycle. the m1 transition was so clean it made everyone else look like they were guessing. ternus thinks in tolerances and thermal envelopes - giving the keys to someone who's already pulled off the hardest platform migration in apple's recent history seems right.

To make the M1 transition so clean took a lot of software excellence...one can argue Apple's compiler / virtualization / software languages team is the best in the industry (grumbling from Swift UI developers aside...)

They’ve done a few impressive things also, remember that time they converted the root filesystem on every ios device on the fly with a point release? Kudos to whoever clicked that particular button I’d have bricked it personally ;)

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Post by threepts »

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)

demis has always publicly stated he does not care about the business aspect as much as the scientific endeavor.

i highly doubt he will ever want to take over primarily what is an ad/small time hardware company in favour of taking away focus from his ai company

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Post by troupo »

mabedan wrote: post #221
Austin_Conlon wrote: post #112

Wonder to what extent Craig Federighi was considered and what the decision-making factors were there.

He could have not wanted the job to begin with. CEO is no joke, and for him would mean to say goodbye to software forever.

I wish he would say good bye to software forever. Apple software is getting worse by the minute it seems.

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Post by alsetmusic »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #701
alsetmusic wrote: post #161

For Apple nerds that pay close attention to company, this is no surprise. Third-party dev Marco Arment wrote a blog post speaking to Ternus earlier this month[0]. Marco has enough standing within our world that it's actually a clever idea to appeal to Ternus on these terms. He'll probably be aware that it was written and the appeal is somewhat generic in its call to reverse course on some Cook-era policies. We're all…

Why would anyone pay close attention to a company ? It is not a tongue in cheek remark, I am genuinely curious

I dunno. Cause I spend a lot of money on their products and a lot of my time using their software. The announcements they make affect the way I use computers.

Does anyone here pay close attention to updates in the Linux kernel or is that pretty stupid too? (To be fair, you didn't call me stupid, but it's sorta there.)

What's Framework doing? I'm pretty jazzed about their laptops even though I don't buy them.

What about game companies that get bought by Microsoft and now people worry that the franchise they love might get killed?

I'm a nerd and I care a lot about a thing. I don't feel bad about that.

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Post by calgoo »

layer8 wrote: post #799
keepamovin wrote: post #649

This is one of the more broadly normal HN-reaction threads to large public news event I've seen in a while. A lot of love for Apple, respect for the decision, and respectfully stated nuance. Surprising and good. I still haven't scroll down to the bottom, I don't want to spoil my impression. But it's great to see a positive reaction. Good way to mark the moment. Tim has been CEO for 15 years roughly, since Steve's pas…

> This guy seems much younger than Tim was when he ascended. Ternus just looks a bit younger. He’ll be 51, and half a year older than Cook was when he became CEO in 2011.

All the C-suits in Apple that normally does the presentations look completely LA style artificial. Nothing looks human about them, they always give off the same feel of un-personal, robotic, snake oil sales people; not someone that you actually would like to lead a company, as in someone who actually understands what it means to be human.

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Post by throwaway2037 »

keepamovin wrote: post #649

This is one of the more broadly normal HN-reaction threads to large public news event I've seen in a while. A lot of love for Apple, respect for the decision, and respectfully stated nuance. Surprising and good. I still haven't scroll down to the bottom, I don't want to spoil my impression. But it's great to see a positive reaction. Good way to mark the moment. Tim has been CEO for 15 years roughly, since Steve's pas…

    > This guy seems much younger than Tim was when he ascended.
I just checked. Tim Cook is 65 now, which makes him about 50 when he became CEO. John Ternus is 50 now.

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Post by stasomatic »

alsetmusic wrote: post #161

For Apple nerds that pay close attention to company, this is no surprise. Third-party dev Marco Arment wrote a blog post speaking to Ternus earlier this month[0]. Marco has enough standing within our world that it's actually a clever idea to appeal to Ternus on these terms. He'll probably be aware that it was written and the appeal is somewhat generic in its call to reverse course on some Cook-era policies. We're all…

Marco should concentrate on fixing the UX abomination that Overcast has become instead of writing breathy sophomoric letters. At this point, I’ll vibe code my own podcast player.

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Post by FpUser »

keepamovin wrote: post #649

This is one of the more broadly normal HN-reaction threads to large public news event I've seen in a while. A lot of love for Apple, respect for the decision, and respectfully stated nuance. Surprising and good. I still haven't scroll down to the bottom, I don't want to spoil my impression. But it's great to see a positive reaction. Good way to mark the moment. Tim has been CEO for 15 years roughly, since Steve's pas…

To me Apple is the company that had started the war against personal computing.
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