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John Ternus Again Profiled as Apple's Likely Next CEO
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56, which means he could only serve as CEO for 7-8 years max.
Cook was named CEO when he was 51.
Federighi has the personality and is a great presenter but software has been rough due to his horrible leadership.
My point was that there was no substance to the quote. I would expect that the New York Times could find someone who actually had a strong opinion, one way or the other. Otherwise, I would expect that the journalistic standards would prevent them from including a quote.
When your local news station interviews the random 'person on the street' and asks them their thoughts about complex, nuanced topics like politics, they are just filling airtime with stupidity.
When you are working for a national news service (one of the few remaining) and ask an 'insider' about the qualifications of a business executive, you don't publish tripe.
Or...in this case...you do.😕
Maybe not, but a strategy, other that "let's see what sticks when we throw it against the wall", is required for focus and fund the engineering and creative processes at Apple. They have been without focus since Jobs left.
Everybody always moans about the Vision Pro, but having one I always wonder what the problem is. Yes, it's expensive, but it's also an amazing product. What exactly makes you hate on the Vision Pro?
Maybe you ought to actually look into the data, because historical data shows that tech companies do way better when their CEO's are engineers than when they are MBA's
The cost makes it difficult for people actually evaluate it as a product. Its actually a great product with a lot of promise.
Craig’s team implemented Liquid Glass. One might argue that people have more of a problem with the bugginess of the implementation than the design itself.
What pedigree does he have with “political and policy issues”?
I wouldn’t judge someone’s capability as CEO on neither what area he is in charge of now, nor how good he looks on camera.
Claiming that Tim Cook is a “throw it against the wall” guy is frankly ridiculous.
Is Tim Cook an engineer? From a financial standpoint Apple has been doing pretty well with Cook as CEO. Not everything is perfect, but I prefer him over anyone I can think of, because anyone else will be worse in some way. It doesn’t make sense to measure him up against a dead guy. “Anyone else” is also not Steve Jobs.
I mean... sure. It's been this way since Steve Jobs was in charge, and his unusually charismatic influence on people was even formally acknowledged and granted a name (RDF). But you say that like you think that followers of the Ways of Windows or adherents to the Acolytes of Android are any less cults...
Trust me; you read enough discussion forums and you'll quickly realize that they're all incredibly cult-like.
Cook has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Auburn and a M.B.A. from Duke. Which is what I would expect from someone who made his name mastering the supply chain.
As for Ternus, what little I've heard about him is that he's not likely to rock the boat of an big-picture stable Apple, palace intrigue notwithstanding. He's six months older than me, which is refreshing as GenX tends to be underrepresented in C-suites and high offices for some reason. Apple needs to execute on AI and its software platforms. They don't need to be rescued. That's going to drive decision-making for the board far more than any personality traits.
Spot on.
From reading many of the posts here, I think most haven't the foggiest idea of what a CEO of a company with $400+ Billion in sales last year, being responsible for having a smoothly running supply/manufacturing chain, understanding the politics and dynamics in many companies around the world that Apple does business in, being responsible for 160,000+ employees, and a couple dozen other very important roles, actually does every day.
Seems many instead put a very high value on optics and personality. And the very hackneyed phrase: needing to be a "product guy."
Someone like Tony Fadell (iPod, Nest) fit better for that role based on the timing. We are at a technological crossroad and Apple needs a more entrepreneurial leader for the next 10 years. Ternus is perfect for his current role.