You didn't see that coming, at least not now, but Tim Cook's successor is John Ternus and there's so much news about both men. Plus what Apple had to update because of the FBI, how "Star Wars" benefits from the Apple Vision Pro, and more, on the AppleInsider Podcast.
This week, Apple pulled off something special. It managed to totally surprise everyone, and yet at the same moment, surprise no one at all.
It really was startling when it was announced that Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO, but it wasn't remotely unexpected that his successor would be John Ternus.
Apple may have dropped the news on us at the most unexpected of times, but it has been paving the way for at least months, if not years. This could be an exceptionally smooth handover.
But that isn't how it will be portrayed. Already there are reports ranging from the hopeful to the ludicrous about what will happen to Apple next, and whether Ternus is really a Steve Jobs clone or a Tim Cook one.
There's a lot to unpack in what we definitely do know. Plus there's more on just what Apple updated when it fixed iOS to block future FBI searches.
And the new "Star Wars" movie may have a budget in the millions, and every cent is needed. Consequently, when its director found a way to save a lot of money by using an Apple Vision Pro for visualization, that's exactly what he did.
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Links from the show:
- John Ternus in as Apple CEO, Cook becoming Apple Executive Chairman
- Apple leadership shakeup places Johny Srouji as new hardware chief
- Tim Cook thanks users & Apple employees after 15 years of being CEO
- How Tim Cook started at Apple in 1998, and how 15 years of being the CEO ends
- Don't expect changes from Apple anytime soon, even with new leadership
- New Apple hardware chief wastes little time in introducing five underlings
- Ternus will be more decisive than Tim Cook, claims one insider
- A long-planned Apple CEO transition meets an analyst-driven AI hype cycle
- 'Healthy' Cook plans for a long stay at Apple as chairman
- Report: New Apple CEO's biggest challenge will be retiring leadership & regular churn
- When he was hired, Ternus wasn't sure he even belonged at Apple
- Let John Ternus be John Ternus, and not Cook or Jobs
- Notification bug that let FBI access messages patched with iOS 26.4.2
- High-resolution 200MP camera now expected in 2028 iPhone
- Latest 'Star Wars' movie cut unnecessary costs by using Apple Vision Pro
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