John Ternus to lead Apple into the age of AI
John Ternus takes over as Apple’s chief executive on Tuesday, inheriting a company that towers over the smartphone market but trails its rivals in artificial intelligence. One of his biggest challenges will be balancing the company’s dependence on China while parrying acute political pressure from the White House.
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- Fact 1: African NGOs demand probe into six bodies found in Guinea mass grave New York police kill knife-wielding woman in Times Square Toxic haze from Indonesian forest fires chokes Malaysian Borneo US brings back Russia’s finance minister to G20 talks, angering Europe The handover ends Tim Cook’s 15-year run, replacing the operations specialist who built Apple’s supply chain with the engineer who built its hardware.
- Fact 2: Ternus, 51, joined Apple’s design team in 2001 and worked his way up to senior vice president of hardware engineering, reporting to Cook.
- Fact 3: He gets barely a week to settle in, with Apple holding its annual iPhone event on September 9, where it is expected to unveil its first foldable handset.
- Fact 4: The Apple logo is illuminated at a store in Munich, Germany, on April 2, 2026 [Matthias Schrader/AP]Some analysts had argued software chief Craig Federighi was the more logical pick for a company scrambling to catch up on AI.
John Ternus takes over as Apple’s chief executive on Tuesday, inheriting a company that towers over the smartphone market but trails its rivals in artificial intelligence. One of his biggest challenges will be balancing the company’s dependence on China while parrying acute political pressure from the White House.
African NGOs demand probe into six bodies found in Guinea mass grave New York police kill knife-wielding woman in Times Square Toxic haze from Indonesian forest fires chokes Malaysian Borneo US brings back Russia’s finance minister to G20 talks, angering Europe The handover ends Tim Cook’s 15-year run, replacing the operations specialist who built Apple’s supply chain with the engineer who built its hardware. Ternus, 51, joined Apple’s design team in 2001 and worked his way up to senior vice president of hardware engineering, reporting to Cook. He leads the engineering teams behind Apple’s entire product lineup, including the iPhones that generate most of the company’s revenue.
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