Apple CEO John Ternus has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine's "Best Inventions of 2026" edition, available October 26.


Ternus, who joined Apple in 2001 and was formerly its senior vice president of hardware engineering, succeeded Tim Cook as the company's CEO on September 1. This paved the way for Ternus to unveil the iPhone Duo just eight days later.

Ternus believes the iPhone Duo stands apart from other foldable smartphones.

"The other examples in the world felt kind of cheap and crappy," said Ternus, in an interview with TIME's Andrew R. Chow.

Ternus was eight years old when his father purchased an Apple II computer. "I started playing games on it and fell in love with Apple," he said.

Cook remains at Apple as executive chairman, with his primary focus being engaging with policymakers around the world. "He has great relationships and loves Apple," Ternus said of Cook. "So wherever he can help, he is happy to help."

In a separate interview, Cook said he is "not meddling" with Ternus.

Apple's large language models that power Siri AI are "based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology," according to a joint announcement from Apple and Google earlier this year. When asked about this, Ternus said Apple does not always have to make the whole widget, with the company focused on areas it can provide "differentiation."

"There's not really a goal that we have to make every single thing in a product," he said. "We make the things where we can really bring differentiation."

Apple also tries to remain focused.

"You can't do everything," Ternus added. "So we kind of try to constrain ourselves to the stuff that matters most—and then put all of our effort into those things."

The full magazine cover is below.


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CEO John Ternus is making changes to Apple's leadership, reports Bloomberg. Apple veteran Steve Smith will take over mergers and acquisitions and corporate development, which was previously led by Adrian Perica. M&A is an important team at Apple, handling acquisitions and arrangements like the deal Apple had with OpenAI to add ChatGPT to Siri.


Perica will stay at Apple to oversee iCloud, Fitness+, and Apple News, which he has done since 2023, and will now report to App Store and services lead Eddy Cue. While Perica reported to Tim Cook in his M&A role, Smith will report to Apple CFO Kevan Parekh as M&A moves back to the finance division.

Carson Oliver is being promoted to vice president of the ‌App Store‌, and he has been in charge of the ‌App Store‌ since Phil Schiller stepped down from his role as ‌App Store‌ chief in late August. Oliver is reporting to Cue, who is now overseeing the ‌App Store‌ and other services.

According to Bloomberg, Cue is assessing potential successors, and Perica is a lead candidate. Apple Music lead Oliver Schusser is also in the running.
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In his new role as the executive chairman of Apple's board of directors, Tim Cook told The Independent's David Phelan that he is "not meddling" with Apple's new CEO John Ternus.

"First of all, John and I have an incredible level of trust in each other," said Cook. "The relationship must be based on trust, and the communication must be frequent and significant. But other than that, what I'm focused on right now is worldwide policy. And the interface with governments around the world matters because there are lots of things where we're trying to advance or advocate for change. There's a significant amount of work in that, and I'm doing that and helping John in any way he sees fit. I'm not meddling. I'm not a meddler."
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The Independent's David Phelan on Wednesday interviewed Apple's executive chairman Tim Cook at Apple's U.K. headquarters in the Battersea Power Station, and one of the topics they discussed was John Ternus taking over as Apple's CEO.


Ternus, who was previously Apple's hardware engineering chief, succeeded Cook as Apple's CEO on September 1. Cook said the transition "started years ago."

"It's been an interesting transition," said Cook. "We really set out to have the best transition ever, a textbook example that people could look back to and learn from. It actually started years ago. Obviously, these things are not quick things and I feel so great about how things are going. I think everything has gone sort of exactly the way I had envisioned it. And it feels fantastic. Because Apple deserved the best."

Cook said that he stepped down on September 1, just eight days before Ternus unveiled the iPhone Duo, in part to give Ternus some immediate momentum.

"I wanted John to have some wind at his back," said Cook. "And the wind at Apple is very much based on the product cycle. This product cycle feels unbelievably great. The Duo is coming in a few weeks and it's amazing."

Cook had the seemingly impossible task of succeeding the legendary Steve Jobs as CEO. Jobs told Cook not to make a decision simply because it is what Jobs would have done, and Cook said that he provided Ternus with similar advice.

"The advice I've given him is, make it your own job," said Cook. "Put your time in the things that you can add the most value to around the company. And that means don't mimic me. Just like I didn't mimic Steve. We all have different strengths."

Apple and The King's Trust, a charity founded by King Charles III, on Wednesday announced an "immersive new education program to help young people build careers in the creative industries," with more details outlined in our previous coverage.

Cook commented on the program in his interview with Phelan.

"It's a way for us to give back in a way that is uniquely Apple," he said. "There are a lot of ways to do philanthropic activities, but I think you want to do ones where you can give part of yourself... not just your resource, but part of yourself, and we have such great creative people in the company that can be incredible mentors to these folks."

Cook also touched on the new Apple Music Hall inside Apple's Battersea headquarters, describing the performance venue as "uniquely Apple."

"I'm not sure there's a lot of people that could do it, and there's certainly not a lot of people that would. Every detail has been thought through, the construction, the design, the technology behind it, spatial audio capabilities: it's the perfect place to perform, whether you're a top-tier artist now, or an emerging artist, one that's just starting out. And it's a commitment to live performance and the recognition that that is so important."
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Tim Cook legte charmant für Ternus auf, der dann aber auch direkt verwandelte. Er platzierte das iPhone direkt zum Anpfiff im absoluten Mittelpunkt – von Apple selbst, aber auch als „intelligente und persönliche Zentrale“. Die Aussage war klar: Du brauchst keine anderen KI-Computer!

„When you have been to the moon. Where do you go next?“

Das Duo zeigt der Industrie den korrekten Fold-Formfaktor – nicht nur mit seiner Reisepassgröße, sondern auch durch die Gleichberechtigung beider Displays. Apples Foldable stellt erstmals die wirklich schwierige Frage: „Warum zwei Bildschirme?“

Das iPhone Air diente mit seiner Hardware im letzten Jahr als vorgeschaltetes Experiment; die Software ist jedoch das Alleinstellungsmerkmal für die neue Form.

Ohne Vorlauf, mit nur wenigen frühzeitig eingeweihten Entwicklerpartnern sowie einer Preismarke, die jeder rechtfertigen muss, wird es zweifellos ein holpriger Anlauf. Wir wissen nicht einmal, ob Apple alle seine eigenen Apps zum Start im Oktober vorbereitet hat.

Und der Preis ist der Preis. Dieses Telefon wird mit seiner zweiten Generation und einem möglicherweise überstandenen RAMageddon nicht günstiger. Der Preis bleibt der Preis.

Deshalb ist die Software so wichtig; sie entscheidet darüber, ob man damit mehr macht als mit Apples wohl bestem iPhone ever – dem 18 Pro (Max).

Diese Animation … „I can’t.“

Die Kompromisse fallen überraschend überschaubar aus. Wer die Pro-Video- und Fotofunktionen vermisst, ist hier nicht die Zielgruppe. Kein Action Button, kein Face ID und das insgesamt reduzierte Kamerasystem werfen trotzdem die Frage auf: Warum mehr bezahlen für weniger?

Plus, Mini und Air hatten nie eine Chance, sich besser zu verkaufen als Apples Standard- und Pro-Modelle. Zugegeben: Das war auch nie ihre Aufgabe.

Aber welche Aufgabe hat das Duo? Es ist zu anders, um nur ein weiteres Modell in der Aufstellung zu sein. Es ist nicht nur eine andere Verpackung der gleichen Idee.

„Like other iPhones, it packs the power of a computer. But it can take the shape of a computer…“

Das ist derzeit nur Marketing; aber ist das auch ein ausgerufenes Ziel? Bleibt es mehr als zwei Generationen im Line-up, um dafür auch nur annähernd eine Chance zu bekommen? Mit dem Duo lebt etwa das Standby-Feature wieder auf, das nach seiner ersten Vorstellung vor drei Jahren quasi vergessen wurde.

Das Duo ist Apples Chance, eigene Produkte zu kannibalisieren – von kleinen iPads bis zu großen Telefonen. Es bietet die Möglichkeit, sich breiter aufzustellen und die Abhängigkeit vom klassischen iPhone-Geschäft auf mehr Schultern zu verteilen.

Deshalb die Frage: Neues iPhone oder tatsächlich neuer Computer?

Bereits im Juni formulierten John Gruber und Jason Snell ein sehr treffendes Outro für Tim Cook sowie ein Intro für John Ternus, der seinen neuen Job offiziell morgen antritt.

All that being said, Tim is a lifelong computer industry operations man. Whereas, John Ternus has been building hardware at Apple for 25 years, right? And so I don’t want to overstate this, but John Ternus is one of us and Tim Cook isn’t.

And I feel like we need to remember that Tim was spotted by Steve and brought in and brings a level of competence and all of those things to the table. And he professes being a true believer in Apple’s mission and understanding what it is. And I think, to the degree that Tim Cook can be a true believer, he is.

But somebody like John Ternus, who has been working at Apple since basically the turn of the century and building products at a low level, is more — I don’t think it’s outrageous to say — he gets what Apple is about and what Apple customers want and what makes Apple products special at a level that Tim Cook has never and can never.

Which is not to say that Tim Cook sucks. That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that Tim Cook was the right guy for that time.

But one of the things that excites me about Ternus is that he understands Apple at a level that Steve Jobs did and that Tim Cook didn’t. And that’s why I think we have a better vibe with somebody like John Ternus, because John Ternus was in the trenches at Apple, whereas Tim has, like, been optimizing at Apple at a high level.

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