Gurman: Major Apple Leadership Shakeup Impending With John Ternus as Next CEO

[Wingdinger]

Cautiously optimistic about getting a hardware guy back at the helm instead of finance bros. Apple badly needs a course correction. Cook built a behemoth, but the cracks are starting to show.
I highly doubt John is a visionary like Steve was, but I hope to be wrong. They’ve certainly got the cash to swing for the fences for a while.

 

[Robert.Walter]

I has always consider Federigi to be the hair apparent.

 

[ErikGrim]

You know what, I can see that. As much as we love Hair Force One, Ternus is better suited to the CEO role.

 

[Shirasaki]

The sooner Tim Spindler leaves, the better. Hire Elon Musk as CEO; otherwise a visionless and innovation-less Apple will drag on.

Ohh Elon Musk will surely destroy Apple in just a few days, and rename it to X2. He is not the visionary you all folks ought to believe but I digress.

 

[Shirasaki]

John Turnus is 50 years old?

Rich people surely does a lot of work hiding their age.

 

[Shirasaki]

This all doesn’t sound like it will fix the software side of things.

Let it crumble. Sometimes you just need to let consequences flow before meaningful change can happen. Too bad apples software had a very solid foundation that it was genuinely difficult to **** it up short of total destruction. What a shame.

 

[Shirasaki]

Give us a pro phone in the Air's form factor and I'll give my blessing.

You can try to beat the physics. We will wait.

 

[rgarita]

strengthen its AI leadership Is that a joke? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

[grammatica]

With Tim on the board, he will still be Mr. Ternus's boss. BOO!

 

[Killbynumbers]

No more Tim Apple? Noooooooooo

 

[Macniatic]

Tim has been far more great than anyone expected, isn’t he? Impressive numbers and reach. Wasn’t easy be the next after Steve. Kudos to him. But, now it’s time for a product guy. My candidate: Tony Fadell.

 

[rp2011]

Well said. Gurman is not a rumor reporter bringing us new product scoops. He is a bad actor doing everything he can to sabotage Apple in order to position himself and Bloomberg as market movers. His mission is to muck rake and spread FUD about Apple. He routinely and knowingly distorts their motives and spreads malicious gossip. He is a cancer on this site and the Apple community.

It really does seem he is more interested in spiking the punch than "reporting". I mean it feels more purposeful.

 

[erihp]

sure would be nice to see them NOY focus on more AI nonsense.

and if you were hellbent on it, why hire ex meta leadership?? what has being bullish on AI gotten them?

 

[emulator]

No more Tim Apple? Noooooooooo

Yeah, just imagine a live WWDC presentation again, where the guy on stage actually understands what he's talking about.

 

[klasma]

Let it crumble. Sometimes you just need to let consequences flow before meaningful change can happen. Too bad apples software had a very solid foundation that it was genuinely difficult to **** it up short of total destruction. What a shame.

I'm afraid it will continue to meander along in increasing incoherence, but never get bad enough as to be disrupted by something else. Google and Samsung could up their game, but half of the time they are just chasing the latest Apple gimmicks like Liquid Glass.

 

[citysnaps]

Yeah, just imagine a live WWDC presentation again, where the guy on stage actually understands what he's talking about.

Cook certainly understands what he's talking about when he's presenting. In addition to hs MBA from Duke University, he's also a degreed engineer from Auburn University.

I guess the Cook hate will never end here. That's really sad.

 

[dampfnudel]

Ternus seems the logical choice given his background playing a pivotal role in hardware development over the last 24 years during Apple’s transformation from a company that was on life support during the nineties to a company other companies can only dream of becoming. Once again it’s time for a hardware man to take over.

 

[dampfnudel]

Unless you need to take solid pictures or actually use the thing all day. 😆

The Air isn’t bad as long as you compare it to older iPhones from a few years ago. The problem is a lot of people are comparing it to what’s available now.

 

[AdonisSMU]

If it is Ternus, it will cement Apple's future as a hardware company, which it is and has been, but AI may end up leaving Hardware companies like Apple in the dust. I believe, more than ever before, Apple needs to figure out software development at a whole new level and its recent turnover (losing most of its AI team) either means it doesn't have the vision, or the care, to even stay caught up on software.

I dont buy that. I think AI is just a glorified search engine thats occasionally correct on what people are looking for or looking for it to create. There is not much else to it. No one knows or understands how AI makes its decisions or why it can give different answers for the same prompt. All this to say there is AI has trust issues.

 

[AdonisSMU]

Unless you need to take solid pictures or actually use the thing all day. 😆

It has iphone 15 battery life which for me was more than sufficient for all day use.

 

[germinator]

The sooner Tim Spindler leaves, the better. Hire Elon Musk as CEO; otherwise a visionless and innovation-less Apple will drag on.

Elon? You must be high.

 

[germinator]

Slightly surprised to not see Craig mentioned.

WTH? He's a clown. macOS went clearly downhill after Serlet left.

 

[svish]

Probably. But not expecting Tim to leave in the near future, maybe at least for another 3 to 5 years. Expecting Tim to be the one unveiling the 20th anniversary iPhone.

 

[zenmacx]

I've been using iPhone Air exactly the same as I used my iPhone 15 Pro Max, and the battery on Air actually lasts longer.

This is good news for those casual iPhone users wanting a thin basic phone. If one can live with its shortcomings, then the future is bright.

 

[ginkobiloba]

And part of the definition of a good organizational leader is producing a viable replacement for yourself; not taking all the credit from a group's work.

Nobody can produce a perfectly viable replacement or clone of themselves. That is something that can work in theoretical management books but is never true in reality.
Even when CEO’s and Founders are replaced and the company remain successful, the orientation is often very different, and the success is usually due to inertia until it’s not.