Apple Hardware Head John Ternus Top Pick To Succeed Tim Cook As CEO (indiatimes.com) 28
Bloomberg reports (paywalled) that Apple's hardware chief John Ternus is the frontrunner to replace Tim Cook as CEO, as Cook nears retirement and prepares to transition into a board chairman role. The Economic Times reports: Cook is turning 65 next month. Chief operating officer John Williams -- once heir apparent -- has handed over the reins of day-to-day operations to Sabih Khan and is on his way out. Even as Cook steps down as CEO, he will stay involved in some capacity, likely as board chairman. [...]
While Khan and Apple's retail chief Deirdre O'Brien can run daily operations, Ternus remains the leading contender for the corner office after Cook, Gurman said. Firstly, he is 50 years old -- the same as Cook when he became CEO -- giving him over a decade to hold the office, he noted. Secondly, Apple needs a technologist instead of a sales person at the helm, considering the company's ambitions, Gurman wrote in the newsletter. While the Cupertino tech giant has managed to expand its homegrown line of chipsets, and the recently launched iPhone 17 lineup is drawing in customers, the company has struggled to find success in categories such as mixed reality, generative artificial intelligence (AI), smart homes and autonomous driving.
Ternus was in the spotlight during Apple's annual hardware event in September, which saw the launch of the iPhone 17 Air, the first major design overhaul for the smartphone family in a long time. Over the years, he has gained more responsibilities under Cook, taking calls on product roadmaps, features and strategies, overseeing matters beyond the traditional scope of a hardware engineering chief, Gurman said.
While Khan and Apple's retail chief Deirdre O'Brien can run daily operations, Ternus remains the leading contender for the corner office after Cook, Gurman said. Firstly, he is 50 years old -- the same as Cook when he became CEO -- giving him over a decade to hold the office, he noted. Secondly, Apple needs a technologist instead of a sales person at the helm, considering the company's ambitions, Gurman wrote in the newsletter. While the Cupertino tech giant has managed to expand its homegrown line of chipsets, and the recently launched iPhone 17 lineup is drawing in customers, the company has struggled to find success in categories such as mixed reality, generative artificial intelligence (AI), smart homes and autonomous driving.
Ternus was in the spotlight during Apple's annual hardware event in September, which saw the launch of the iPhone 17 Air, the first major design overhaul for the smartphone family in a long time. Over the years, he has gained more responsibilities under Cook, taking calls on product roadmaps, features and strategies, overseeing matters beyond the traditional scope of a hardware engineering chief, Gurman said.
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the state slams down with all its regulatory gravity the irony is cosmic we can diagnose a faulty gpu using open sourc
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Holy wall of irrelevant text, Batman!!!!
the internet connects many "different" people (Score:1)
The consequences and cost to society are differ when spreading inaccurate or malicious information on rewriting a computer versus for a human.
If you want to hack biology and think you have something worthwhile to contribute, then get a degree and a research position at a university or company. Where we can keep an eye on your shenanigans.
Christ, I can't believe I bothered to argue with some libertarian mad scientist on the Internet that only has 26 keys on keyboard (plus a random space/enter?)
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at s***ing Trump's dick
One has to wonder. It was absolutely pathetic seeing Cook stand there, giving trump that gold 'trophy' - there's no way Steve Jobs would've stooped that low.
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I love this guy. He never disappoints. Both in the same post, no less:
Did you know him[Steve Jobs]? Personally? How do you know wtf he'd do?
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Steve Jobs never have a shit about you or anyone else like you.
Indeed - he (Jobs) never, ever had my shit.
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That's why he tried to use mumbo jumbo, mysticism, magic rocks, and fairy woo woo plants to cure his very curable cancer until he got to stage 4 when it was too late for real medicine to help.
Indeed, as smart and innovative as he was, he was a total moron in how he treated his disease, totally against his doctors' recommendations.
Even smart people do "insanely" stupid things.
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Oh, it's because people with success, people that are demonstrably skilled at something—they start to think that their knowledge in one field means that they're smart at EVERYTHING. You see it with physicists all the time. Doctors, too.
They start believing their own hype and think they know better than actual experts. Then they end up dead, like Jobs. It's sad, but it feels like maybe it was inevitable.
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I had that exact same thought.
I have to be very careful of this myself. When it happens, it can rear its ugly head in two different ways, at least off the top of my head: Either I'm doing exactly what was described of Jobs and dismiss other people's input or I can be a very harsh critic of my own achievements.
Neither makes for a good day to be had :D.
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"he tried to use mumbo jumbo, mysticism, magic rocks, and fairy woo woo plants"
Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla and Brian Josephson all believed in magic or the paranormal
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"he tried to use mumbo jumbo, mysticism, magic rocks, and fairy woo woo plants" Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla and Brian Josephson all believed in magic or the paranormal
I don't find that odd, they all work din fields where they were discovering phenomenon and had a natural curiosity about what drives our world, so an interest or belief in unknown forces waiting to be discovered would be sensible; that's far different from ignoring known science when your life is at stake. It's not like his cancer was such that he had nothing to lose trying what he did, he just had to do his thing. As a result, we lost him way too early.
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Newton spent his last years looking for something that doesn't exist and doesn't make sense
Nikola Tesla fell in love with a pigeon
Josephson seems like the least batshit of these so far, but he's had to retract claims he made about new kinds of energy made with the mind repeatedly.
Smart and capable people can fall for stupid bullshit and become obsessed with it.
I had expected Craig Federighi (Score:2)
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With someone else at the helm we might finally get a macOS tablet.
I hope not.
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The only touchscreen laptop Apple ever produced was the eMate 300.
Jobs apparently wasn't a fan.
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Regardless, Mac software (not the OS so much but I'm not impressed with Tahoe) will get the shaft yet again. Putting new skins on software is not innovation. See MS for case-in-point.
Corner Office?!! (Score:2)
I thought the Apple building was round?