John Ternus, Apple’s senior vp of {hardware} engineering, has been named the brand new CEO of Apple, the corporate introduced.
In a letter posted on the company’s website, present CEO Tim Cook dinner wrote that he’ll go away his function in September and turn into government chairman. He described Ternus as “a superb engineer and thinker who has spent the previous 25 years constructing the Apple merchandise our customers love a lot, obsessive about each element, centered on each attainable means we are able to make one thing higher, bolder, extra lovely, and extra significant. He’s the proper individual for the job.”
Ternus has been at Apple for twenty-four years, and led the {hardware} engineering division since 2013. He was instrumental in the switch to Apple chips and overseen {hardware} engineering on the corporate’s hottest merchandise, together with the iPhone, iPad, Macs, and AirPods, which has additionally made him an more and more massive presence at Apple’s keynotes. He’s additionally the youngest high government on the firm. As Quick Firm noted in November:
Over the previous 5 years, he has turn into a extra seen presence at Apple occasions, unveiling the iPhone Air in early 2025 and displaying off Apple’s first silicon chip, the M1, in 2000. His engineering background may assuage critics who’ve complained Apple has turn into a much less revolutionary firm underneath Cook dinner’s management (regardless of the lots of of merchandise launched throughout his tenure).
Ternus began his profession in tech at Digital Analysis Techniques, engaged on VR headsets for 4 years earlier than becoming a member of Apple in 2001, which let him work on a number of merchandise that may show to be iconic for the corporate. By 2013, he was overseeing Mac and iPad improvement and added the iPhone {hardware} to his record of supervised merchandise in 2020.
As discussions over the corporate’s succession planning have swirled in current months, Ternus identify has been close to the highest of most lists of potential CEOs. In September, Fast Company wrote that Cook, who took over as CEO after Steve Jobs retirement in 2011, has confronted criticism as a “bean counter” who has stifled a number of the artistic freedom that constructed the corporate. Ternus is seen as a possible return to the Jobs-era, the place the corporate was run by a “product man.” However Cook dinner’s tenure is without doubt one of the most profitable of a enterprise chief in trendy historical past. Beneath his management Apple’s grew in worth from round $300 billion to the $4 trillion firm it’s immediately.
In his letter, Cook dinner writes of the way forward for Apple: “This firm will attain such unimaginable heights underneath his management, and you’ll really feel his affect in each bit of enjoyment and discovery that grows out of the services to return. I can’t wait so that you can get to know him like I do.”
