Apple’s New CEO Taps Retired Hardware Executive for Management Team
THE SO WHAT
John Ternus pulling a retired hardware lieutenant back into the tent signals continuity and a hardware-first lens on Apple's next chapter. If you depend on Apple's ecosystem, assume the near-term roadmap skews toward deepening devices and silicon, not radical org or services experiments.
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