Apple’s Next CEO Ternus Inherits a Bold Gamble on Hardware

In announcing on Monday that John Ternus would be succeeding Tim Cook as chief executive officer of Apple Inc. this year, the company’s board made it clear: We’re a hardware company and we’re going with the hardware guy. It’s a mission statement that bears repeating in 2026, the year of Apple’s 50th anniversary and now one that the company and its legions of fans hope will feature a smooth leadership transition. Ternus, who joined Apple in 2001 and rose through the ranks to become senior vice president of hardware engineering in 2021, will take over a company in fine strength but facing looming questions about how it shifts to the new computing paradigm of AI. Read it all: Apple’s Next CEO Ternus Inherits a Bold Gamble on Hardware