Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Friday, May 22nd, 2026.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

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Leading off today last month, Apple announced a series of major leadership changes, including that John Turnus will take over as Apple CEO, effective September 1st.

At the same time, the company also elevated Johnny Serugi into a broader role as the company's

chief hardware officer. Bloomberg now reports that Seruji is making a series of changes that he

hopes will speed up Apple's work on future devices.

Sarugi's goal is to better integrate the teams working on in-house silicon with those teams creating products.

Bloomberg explains that in the biggest shift, Serugi is changing management of product design,

a function that involves engineering the look, feel, and main capabilities of the company's devices.

That responsibility is moving from Kate Bergeron to two of her longtime deputies,

Shelly Goldberg and Dave Pakula.

Bloomberg explains that product design inside Apple focuses on translating the concepts

created by the industrial design team into real products that can be sold to customers.

Seruji is also establishing a new ecosystems platforms and partnerships team, which will be led by Matt Costello and Kevin Lynch.

Lynch runs a special team inside Apple focused on robotics devices, while Costello runs Apple's home and audio products.

Again, the goal of Surugi's restructuring is to streamline the product development process and help Apple get more products to customers at a faster pace.

This is essentially Seruji laying his mark in his new role as Apple's first ever

chief hardware officer. Next up today, Apple's sports app was just updated to version 4.0,

adding new features for the upcoming World Cup and expanding the app's availability worldwide.

The World Cup kicks off in June, and Apple says that Apple Sports

shows you everything you need to follow along. You'll be able to see starting lineups and

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