Who is John Ternus, Apple’s next CEO?
Apple has announced longtime company veteran John Ternus as the next CEO of the company, succeeding current CEO Tim Cook, who is set to transition to executive chair of Apple’s board of directors later this year.Ternus’s term as CEO will begin on 1 September.The hardware engineering executive is a longtime Apple insider, indicating the company will stay the course that has led to record profits under Cook’s leadership.Apple’s yearly profit now tops $100bn, and in January it announced record revenue from its iPhones, boosted by renewed demand in China.“I am profoundly grateful for this opportunity to carry Apple’s mission forward,” Ternus said in a company press release.
“Having spent almost my entire career at Apple, I have been lucky to have worked under Steve Jobs and to have had Tim Cook as my mentor,It has been a privilege to help shape the products and experiences that have changed so much of how we interact with the world and with one another,”Cook will remain as Apple CEO through the summer to aid in the leadership transition,He praised his successor as having “the mind of an engineer, the soul of an innovator, and the heart to lead with integrity and with honor”,Ternus started at Apple in 2001 and assumed the role of vice-president of hardware engineering in 2013, then head of the department in 2021, responsible for the physical components that make up Apple products.
Among his notable achievements was the development and launch of Apple’s proprietary silicon chips for its Mac line of computers, which saw sales soar after swapping out Intel chips in 2020, per the Wall Street Journal.New products that debuted under his leadership of the hardware division include the Apple Watch and the AirPods line of headphones, both of which grew into major lines of business for Apple, and the Vision Pro headset, which did not.The Journal described Ternus as “an affable mechanical engineer” with a management style closer to the calm Cook than to the inspiring but volatile Steve Jobs.His replacement will be Johny Srouji, who previously worked as Apple’s senior vice-president of hardware.Cook, who joined Apple in 1998 and succeeded Jobs as CEO in 2011, had been engaged in planning his succession for the better part of a year, the New York Times reported in January, after Cook told the company’s board and senior leaders that he wanted to work less.
Ternus had been a favorite for replacing Cook, the newspaper reported.Ternus, a California native, received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, joining the varsity swim team in college, winning several races.After graduating in 1997, he briefly worked at Virtual Research Systems, a virtual reality startup.Even as Ternus may lead along a similar route that Cook took to lucrative success, he will face pressure to catch up with Apple’s Silicon Valley peers on artificial intelligence, where it has lagged while even while leading in consumer hardware.He will inherit a promised revamp of the Siri virtual assistant and a perceived lack of name-brand consumer AI offerings.
Starmer says it ‘beggars belief’ he wasn’t told about Mandelson vetting failure as he faces down the Commons – UK politics as it happened
It wasn’t much of a win, but as Keir Starmer heads back to Downing Street he will probably count that as a sort of success. Labour MPs did not turn on him; there was no one on his side calling for his resignation, and those who did speak out were mostly from the Corbynite left (whose views are discounted by No 10 anyway), and who were more keen to aim their fire at Morgan McSweeney and Peter Mandelson.If Kemi Badenoch thought there was more mileage in this, she could have tabled a no confidence motion on this which would have to be debated tomorrow, but she didn’t. She can be brutal in the Commons, but her speech today did not cause the PM any difficulties.Last week she was saying he was clearly lying
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Keir Starmer has laid out a detailed timeline of events leading up to Peter Mandelson being refused security vetting and how the message was not passed to No 10. Here’s what his statement did tell us – and what it was more vague on.double quotation markI will now set out a full timeline of the events in the Peter Mandelson process.”In a statement that leaned heavily on Starmer’s time as a lawyer, and was framed almost as a prosecution opening case against the Foreign Office and its now-ousted head civil servant, Olly Robbins, the PM set out events from 18 December 2024, when the decision to appoint Mandelson was confirmed, to last Tuesday, when he finally learned that security vetting had been initially refused.This included moments when, Starmer argued, he or others should have been told about Mandelson initially being refused security vetting: the initial refusal; when the foreign affairs select committee was assured that normal procedures were followed; and when Starmer began a wider review into vetting this year
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Mandelson vetting saga reveals flaws in Starmer’s judgment, not process | Letters
The emerging account of Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador raises a question not of process, but of judgment (Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision, 16 April). The prime minister was warned repeatedly. Briefings in November and December 2024 flagged reputational risks, including well-documented associations and potential exposure if the appointment went wrong. Keir Starmer’s national security adviser raised concerns directly. Yet the appointment proceeded at pace
Starmer orders inquiry into any security concerns over Mandelson’s tenure in US
Keir Starmer has ordered an investigation into any security concerns relating to Peter Mandelson’s tenure as UK ambassador to the US, as he set out a series of practical measures in the wake of the controversy over Mandelson’s vetting.Setting out to the Commons what he called the “frankly staggering” way that Mandelson was appointed to the job despite initially being turned down for security vetting, Starmer said he had ordered a full review into the vetting system.He went on: “Separately, I have asked the government security group in the Cabinet Office to look at any security concerns raised during Peter Mandelson’s tenure.”The prime minister also set out how rules had been changed to make sure that, as happened with Mandelson, someone could not be publicly named as an ambassadorial appointee before they were vetted, even for a political choice like Mandelson.“I want to make clear to the house that for a direct ministerial appointment it was usual for security vetting to happen after the appointment, but before starting in post
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