John Ternus to become Apple CEO

> Arthur Levinson, who has been Apple’s non-executive chairman for the past 15 years, will become its lead independent director on September 1, 2026.

What are these titles? Why? Who does what? It feels like a linkedin tea party.

Wonder how much of this decision has to do with the current climate and not wanting to deal with the current head. I was quite disappointed to see cook towing the line and bending the knee, let’s see what Ternus will do

I guess he was let go because Teump hates gays

I'm looking forward for all the Temu jokes we're going to see.

Anyone know why?

Tim gifted Donald a trophy 8 months ago doing his legacy no favors. You wouldn't do this if you knew you were on your way out. Makes me wonder if something happened between August 2025 and now.

Oh finally! Ternus is at least fun to look at during keynotes so we have that to look forward to.

I hope they will turn Siri around with these changes.

"(Apple’s Board of Directors): Looks like Tim couldn’t Cook. But maybe John can Ternus around."

https://x.com/tomieinlove/status/2046337143703007672

Will this change their AI strategy (or lack of)

This would not be on The Successor

Do.you.think.he’ll.fix.the.usability.issues?

Tim did cook well!!

I always thought Craig would become CEO.

What if, right after Tim is gone, all the leaks of iPhone designs and colors stopped?

I'm just askin' questions.

It would certainly be neat to hear if Apple can find the guts to do something interesting with new leadership at the wheel. As is, it feels like the entire company has just been a bizarre, indifferent stasis for near two decades.

Apple is currently lightyears ahead in privacy compared to any other major consumer tech company, is this going to still be the case with Mr. Ternus at the helm? That's not a question meant to be answered right away, but my current mindset evaluating the change in leadership as a consumer.

EDIT: Also, can Apple take over the data center already? I am sick of HP and Dell.

Yeah glad to see a hardware person take the helm and not a bean counter. The hardware is masterful now. Let’s keep it that way. Wonder if he kills the Vision Pro.

Why is the photo so blurry?

The NYT was right: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/technology/apple-ceo-tim-...

I for one am happy to see an engineer at the helm.

Suggest changing the title to include both parts, if they fit: "Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman, John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

Wonder if Trump will call him John Apple.

RIP apple

Tim Cook will be one of the legendary CEOs in history.

he knows when to be conservative - and knows when to push hard.

qualities very few CEOs have shown to have in practice.

all his contemporary competitors have ridden on certain waves e.g A.I to increase company valuation - while he did sorely on just pure operations not hype.

So now in charge will be John Apple, got it.

Please, do not make the products any thicker!

Good luck to him. If he was behind the Neo, then he deserves the post. That's the perfect new product in the mac world.

Will it change Apple's extreme bend into lock-in for the better?

can't believe craige is not the ceo

RIP Tim, the best derivative by the book uninspired machine to ever do it.

Sad to see Tim Cook leaving as I was enjoying this downtrend of Apple products that is driving users to more open (and better) solutions like Linux PCs. I cross fingers for John Ternus to still be greedy and not being too competent.

Good riddance to an effective CEO whose entire legacy will be tarnished by a giant, gold-plated asterisk.

I wish Apple would lean into gaming and create a competitive GPU system. Does not have to compete with a 5090, but 5070 level and game developers will come and port games. Huge untapped market. I still have to run a dedicated gaming PC just to play games (especially Flight Simulator).

Tim saw the ram shortage and said, "WTF am I suppose to do with this? I'm out of here!" Better leave a hero ...

My personal hope for John Ternus is that he relaxes some of Apple's anti-competitive bullshit to the point where the company is willing to make iPads actually useful for anything other than 2D drawing apps. As someone who has been daily-driving an M1 iPad Pro for five years, the iPad is the most glaring hole in Apple's lineup in terms of usefulness.

Yes, I get that the iPad is supposed to be a "casual computing device" or whatever. Yes, I know Apple has delivered significant improvements to iPadOS's capabilities in those five years. But using it still feels like wearing a straitjacket a lot of the time.

Maybe MAC mini M5

Surprised that someone from Gen X is getting the opportunity to lead a company of this caliber. We've spent most of our adult lives getting smothered by Boomers and Millennials.

Thanks for making all that money, Tim. Now please retire. Please.

@dang can we fix this to mention John Ternus becoming CEO

If Apple really wants to keep their long term users in its ecosystem, it should really drop stupid Liquid glass design, stop making macOS look like its mobile OSs, and bring skeuomorphism back, which was removed by John Ive.

I have to admit, regardless of whatever opinions you may have on Apple, Tim is/was probably the best bug tech CEO in the sea of evil ones out there, or evil and grifters, he remained focused on what’s the best might be for the users and also the company.

At least John has an engineering background, been with company for couple decades and not some private equity/hedge fund/wannabe Steve Jobs visionary douchebag.

Personally, I have lost all interest in Apple and been slowly switching off their hw/sw/saas for some time.

This is one of the more broadly normal HN-reaction threads to large public news event I've seen in a while. A lot of love for Apple, respect for the decision, and respectfully stated nuance. Surprising and good.

I still haven't scroll down to the bottom, I don't want to spoil my impression. But it's great to see a positive reaction. Good way to mark the moment. Tim has been CEO for 15 years roughly, since Steve's passing. This guy seems much younger than Tim was when he ascended. I hope he really takes it to the next level.

Got a feeling that Apple has some Amazing new hardware category-making products coming out of the 'skunkworks' over the next 3 years.

"Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman"

*John Ternus to become Apple CEO*

Talk about burying the lede, lmao.

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