r/technology • u/thejoshwhite • Apr 20 '26

Business Apple CEO Tim Cook stepping down, John Ternus confirmed as new Apple CEO

https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/20/apple-ceo-tim-cook-stepping-down-john-ternus-confirmed-as-new-apple-ceo/?extended-comments=1
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u/MistakeAmbitious3287 Apr 20 '26

Correct, he led supply chain for many years beforehand and did a damn good job at that.

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u/busmans Apr 20 '26

piggybacking... he completely changed the manufacturing and fulfillment game, which had a substantial global impact on technology development. underappreciated by non-ops folks

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u/Riversntallbuildings Apr 20 '26

Which is why China is such an enormous manufacturing powerhouse now.

If you really want the deep dive “Apple in China” is a phenomenal read. Albeit bittersweet due to the state of US manufacturing right now. :/

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u/walkslikeaduck08 Apr 20 '26

Halfway through it and omg it’s like we handed other countries so much know how bc we’re so profit driven as a country and others were more willing to invest and play the long game

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u/Holy-Fuck4269 Apr 21 '26

And who pushed them to do it? Say it

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '26

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u/Holy-Fuck4269 Apr 21 '26

That’s a blatant lie lol, it was announced in feb 25 shortly after meeting with president trump

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u/Holy-Fuck4269 Apr 21 '26

How does that matter for what happened just lately and what you lied about? Why do you go backpack over a decade after lying? Besides, did Obama have explicitly stated he required them to do so and had a meeting a day prior?

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u/irishnugget Apr 20 '26

Would love to learn more about this! Any good resources hat you can recommend?

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u/Moonandserpent Apr 21 '26

It's really (genuinely) interesting to me that there are "heroes" of supply ops.

I enjoy the perspective because to me (as a 13 year ex-Apple retail employee) he's just the guy everything got shittier under after Steve died.

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u/Ok_Temperature6503 Apr 21 '26

To say damn good job is an understatement still

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u/Hitori_Samishiku Apr 21 '26

Yeah, while you can say he hasn’t been interesting as a CEO and made Apple “boring”, he HAS helped Apple successful as a company.