John Ternus Set to Re-Establish Importance of Apple's Design Team when He Takes over as CEO: Report

Stop saying John Ternus has to fix Apple — the company is fine, his job is simply to carry Cook's legacy forward and yes, to roll out more winning designs

I’m under no illusions that John Ternus’ Apple will be the exactly same as it has been under Tim Cook. Initially though, there will be few, if any, changes. Ternus is not an outsider with wild anti-Apple ideas intended to wake a sleeping giant. He's been here for decades, through all the major releases that made Apple, well, Apple. Claims that he's arriving in September to revive Apple's design excellence are, if not off base, then just wrong-he…

John Ternus is expected to give Apple’s design team more influence as CEO

John Ternus is preparing to take over Apple with more time inside the company’s design operation, according to a 9to5Mac report based on Bloomberg’s Power On newsletter. The report says Ternus has spent a considerable amount of time with Apple’s industrial design group before his Sept. 1, 2026, succession date, when Apple says Tim Cook will become executive chairman and Ternus will become CEO under its official CEO succession plan. Apple announc…

Can John Ternus bring the fun back to Apple design?

The new CEO thinks a "major design shake-up is needed". That makes two of us.

Can Apple ever be 'cool' again? New CEO John Ternus thinks so (but also thinks it will be more expensive)

According to the most well-known Apple-gossip source, Mark Gurman, the company's incoming CEO, John Ternus, will be trying to bring back the company's sense of cool by focusing on the look and feel of products.Cameras are set to be a huge part of that new wave of cool, too, apparently. One of the drivers of that cool will be AirPods with cameras in them (see Gurman's pay-walled story for Bloomberg).Other leakers have nicknamed called these 'AirP…

The John Ternus Era Will Reportedly Revive Apple’s Focus on Bold Design

Apple products used to be huggable toys. Are those days coming back?

Incoming Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO John Ternus Positions AI As A Tool, Not A Target

Apple’s next chief executive has signaled a clear philosophical break from the artificial intelligence race dominating Silicon Valley and its biggest rivals. John Ternus becomes CEO of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) on September 1, 2026, and he has already delivered what amounts to a day-one manifesto on AI strategy. Speaking to Tom’s Guide in April 2026, while still serving as SVP of Hardware Engineering, Ternus drew a direct line between technology and …