Will John Ternus Really Be Apple's Next CEO?

[Digital Dude]

Well, if it turns out to be Craig Federighi, I’m out. 🙄

 

[lysingur]

He's been away from technology too long to have a deep idea of what all the critical issues might be.

You mean, like a certain someone who founded Apple, then left to make animated movies?

 

[Gunnilingus]

Here me out... Scott Forstall.

 

[rizzo41999]

Two words: Scott Forstall

The last thing Apple needs is another "risk-averse" guy.

I'm team Scott.

 

[rappr]

If he weren’t already semi-retired, I’d say Phil Schiller

 

[thejadedmonkey]

I don’t get this. If he was head of hardware engineering shouldn’t he be responsible for the failure of this keyboard?

He was probably given an impossible task, like "Design a keyboard that's 0.001mm thin". And he did just that. And it worked, sort of. And maybe he should take the blame, but he could also have tried to deflect by saying it was a task doomed to failure.

Probably what happened was he had a keyboard design that was working, except when it got dirt in it, and he thought his team could make it work, so Apple started tooling up the cases, and then "oops!" they couldn't actually make the keyboard dust-proof, but by then it was too late. So it was his fault, even if Ives publicly took the fall for trying to design something that was just too thin.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Johnny Ives is the obvious guy. Should be an artist as CEO, same as Jobs.

Ive sucks without Jobs to control his nonsense.

 

[Jdizzle188]

Plot twist....

Turns out the next CEO is Alan Dye 😂

 

[NMBob]

Looks like he can't even figure out how to run an electric razor. Or how to button a shirt.

 

[chmania]

Ternus is considered to be the most likely candidate to succeed Cook as CEO. The report notes that he is more likely to become CEO than software head chief Craig Federighi, Chief Operating Officer Sabih Khan, or marketing head Greg Joswiak.

If and when Sabih Khan becomes the Apple CEO, it would mark a significant point in the US tech industry, with Satya Nadella as Microsoft Chairman and CEO, Sundar Pichai as CEO of Alphabet and Google, Shantanu Narayen as CEO of Adobe, Arvind Krishna as Chairman and CEO of IBM, Sanjay Mehrotra as CEO of Micron Technology, and Nikesh Arora as CEO of Palo Alto Networks, among others. Having an Indian-born CEO would be beneficial for Apple.
(I am not an Indian.)

 

[canukstorm]

If and when Sabih Khan becomes the Apple CEO, it would mark a significant point in the US tech industry, with Satya Nadella as Microsoft Chairman and CEO, Sundar Pichai as CEO of Alphabet and Google, Shantanu Narayen as CEO of Adobe, Arvind Krishna as Chairman and CEO of IBM, Sanjay Mehrotra as CEO of Micron Technology, and Nikesh Arora as CEO of Palo Alto Networks, among others. Having an Indian-born CEO would be beneficial for Apple.
(I am not an Indian.)

He's 59 years old. If he's not getting the CEO spot after Tim Cook steps down, his chances are near zero.