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John Ternus — engineering degree in 1997, first job doing VR headsets at a failed…
Brief
John Ternus, an engineer (1997 degree) who joined Apple in 2001 after a VR-startup first job and led projects including a monitor, iPad, AirPods, iPhone 12 and Apple Silicon, has been named Apple CEO on 2026-04-21. The post contrasts Tim Cook’s rise from $350B to $4T and asks what Ternus will do running the company.
Why it matters
John Ternus — engineering degree in 1997, first job doing VR headsets at a failed startup, joined Apple in 2001 with an initial project building a monitor — has been credited with leading work on the iPad, AirPods, iPhone 12 and Apple Silicon over ~25 years and reportedly refused the corner office twice.
Key details
- On 2026-04-21 Apple named Ternus CEO; Tim Cook previously grew Apple from $350 billion to $4 trillion, and the post asks what direction an engineer who “actually builds things” will take the world’s most valuable company.