The Apple Apple Wars begin. Here are the possible replacements for tim’s cooking
Tim Cook may be preparing to hang up his hat as Apple’s CEO.
That’s according to Financial Times, which reported on Saturday that the tech giant was ramping up its succession planning in anticipation of Tim Cook stepping down as soon as next year.
Cook, who will be turning 66 next year, took the apple from founder Steve Jobs, and led the company through billions of dollars worth of Revers Market Valuations spikes and a fair share of controversies over 14 years.
Many are looking forward to whoever is the third head to lead this company after cooking the leaves. For years, many names have been passed around, from Apple’s senior president of Apple Engineering Craig FedWiak (famous for the head of Jeff Willide, the perfect hair cop before leaving the bottom of that list a year ago.
Now the financial times are reporting that the front runner is John Ternus, Apple’s Senior President of Hardware Engineering.
TernUs, 50, is currently Apple’s top executive, and has been with the tech giant for 24 years.
His name began to be brought to the site of quotations after Bloomberg reported from 2024 that they said that the chef Ternus could “give a good sermon.” That report noted that Ternus “has very few habits, has never included anything in a controversial email, and is the source of decision-making,” according to an anonymous Bloomberg source close to the management team.
He has also played a more prominent role in Apple’s events, appearing in the first Apple iPhone, M1, in 2020, to announce the much-anticipated iPhone spirit at the beginning of the year.
Compared to cooking activities – a heavy background, Ternus is more engineering focused. Equipped with both a bachelor’s in Engineering and an MBA, Tim Cook rose through the ranks at Apple as a Chief Operating Officer, focusing on sales management and supply chain management.
Ternus, on the other hand, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He worked at virtual reality companies as an engineer in virtual research systems before joining the Apple Product team in 2001.
He worked at the head of a group of companies that were in the leader’s place in 2013 and promoted to lead all engineering races in 2022. Airpods, MACS, iPads, Phernus, you name it in their product.
TernUS has the potential to be a breath of fresh air for some Apple enthusiasts who have blamed the edge to slow the decline in innovation. Under the leadership of the chef, Apple has released tons of new products, but the development of said products has been considered incremental rather than revolutionary, and it has been boring at times.
The company has been criticized for the failed launch of Apple Vision Pro and the failure to cope with competitors in the AI race, and it has also been hampered by the delayed development of SI-EN-Ench advanced AI. Bringing to the developers – The executive who has held almost all the most important products of the Apple product for the past 24 years, perhaps, comes to take a closer look at some of these lives.
