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In abstract:
- Macworld reviews that Apple’s John Ternus has been given expanded tasks, now overseeing the corporate’s total design group together with each {hardware} and software program interface teams.
- This important position change positions Ternus because the main candidate to succeed Tim Prepare dinner as CEO, as Prepare dinner prepares for eventual retirement at age 65.
- The transfer comes amid a number of key Apple government retirements and seems to be a part of Prepare dinner’s succession planning technique.
It’s been reported that CEO Tim Prepare dinner’s time at Apple is nearing an finish, and Apple is grooming his substitute. We now have one other clue to who that could be: In a brand new report, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman mentioned that Apple Senior Vice President John Ternus now manages the corporate’s design groups. The task of latest duties was made by Prepare dinner on the finish of final yr.
Hypothesis about Prepare dinner’s tenure as CEO began to warmth up final yr. Prepare dinner turns 65 in November, and several other reviews have said that the gears are in movement to organize for the top of Prepare dinner’s run. Gurman has reported that Ternus is the main candidate to switch Prepare dinner, however a change isn’t “imminent.” Nonetheless, his reporting makes it clear that Ternus is a rising star inside Apple Park.
Ternus’ new tasks appear to present credence to him being the main CEO candidate. Gurman reviews that, in his position as SVP of {hardware} engineering, Ternus had already been working with the corporate’s {hardware} design group. However now Ternus is main the group that develops Apple’s software program interfaces.
To additional develop on the significance of the brand new tasks, Gurman posted on X that solely “the very most outstanding figures in Apple historical past” have overseen the entire design group. Gurman additionally reviews that Prepare dinner is “attempting to reveal Ternus to extra elements of the corporate’s operations.”
Apple’s government ranks had main modifications final yr. Jeff Williams, who was COO and beforehand led the design group, retired. Apple AI chief John Giannandrea can also be retiring, as is VP Lisa Jackson and SVP and normal council Kate Adams. Alan Dye, who leads Apple’s person interface design group, is leaving for Meta.
