00:00Breaking news, Tim Cook is stepping down. Not right away. In September of this year,
00:06Tim Cook, longtime 15-year CEO who took over for Steve Jobs, is stepping aside. He'll
00:12become executive chairman and he's going to be replaced by this guy. That guy, right
00:19there. Over there. That's John Ternus. He's the head of hardware for all of Apple. He's
00:25been there for 25 years. Talked to him a bunch of times. So he's going to step in in September.
00:32But there'll be a transition over the summer. And in fact, the upcoming WWDC, Apple's Developers
00:38Conference that's happening early June, is going to be a really important moment because
00:42Tim Cook usually kicks it all off. He probably still will for the last time. But John Ternus
00:48should play a very big role. And maybe we'll see him even more than we have in previous
00:52years. Now, Ternus has not been hiding. In fact, when the MacBook Neo launched a little
00:57bit earlier this year, he was the guy on stage. He was the guy in the videos. Tim Cook was
01:02nowhere to be seen. So his influence is already felt. So that's John Ternus over there. That's
01:08Greg Joswiak, who is the head of global marketing. And this was the moment, by the way, for Apple's
01:1450th anniversary party kickoff at Grand Central. You remember this moment. There's Tim Cook up
01:19there standing next to Alicia Keys. And basically, it was that moment of celebration that Apple
01:25initially pushed away. But in the end, Tim Cook spent time at all of these parties and
01:31also giving a lot of interviews where he seemed to indicate he was sticking around for a long
01:35time. In the end, though, this might be seen as Tim Cook's swan song. There he is with Alicia
01:40Keys right after that big moment on stage. And, you know, I actually talked to him at that
01:46time. And he seemed so happy and was really embracing the celebratory moment. But maybe in
01:54the back of his mind, he was thinking that the end is near, you know, he'll still be executive
01:58chairman. He'll still be sort of involved. But that's, you know, one foot out the door. John
02:03Ternus is now the guy. And so we have a lot of questions about who really, who is John Ternus?
02:09John Ternus? What is his perspective? What will Apple be under him? For Tim Cook, his legacy is
02:14services, Apple Watch, maybe even the Vision Pro, and a struggle with AI? Will John Ternus be the guy
02:21who puts AI at the center and makes it a bigger thing? Will it be all about hardware? Will it
02:27be
02:27about the fold? Will it be about the glasses? We're all about to find out, at least starting in September,
02:32especially because that'll be John Ternus's big moment when he stands on stage to introduce
02:36the next new iPhone. Stick with TechRadar.com for more news about Tim Cook's exit and everything else in tech.
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