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Now that John Turnus has been named Apple's next CEO, there have been a lot of questions about what

Ternus has done inside Apple, before Apple, and overall in his life.

So here is everything we know about John Ternus, who's widely described as just being a super nice guy.

Ternus attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1993 to 1997, where he received a bachelor's degree

in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics, plus a minor in psychology.

During his time at Penn, Ternus was an award-winning member of the school's swim team

and was a very good guy, according to a former teammate, quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

Turnus went back to his pin stomping grounds in 2024 to deliver the commencement address to the

pin engineering class of 2024.

During that address, Ternus revealed how he got his college nickname of Crash, his senior year

of college.

He said, quote, I really appreciate you inviting me back

to campus after I nearly destroyed Penn's first and at the time only CNC milling machine my senior

year. I won't get into the whole story here, but let's just say it was dramatic. They called me Crash for

the rest of the year, end quote.

Ternis's senior project as PIN was a device that allowed quadrilegics to control a mechanical feeding arm using head movements.

After graduating from PIN in 97, Tarnas's first job was as an employee at Virtual Research Systems, a startup developing early virtual reality headsets.

The timing on Ternus's tenure at the startup means he likely worked on the V8 headset, which was one of the first commercially available, though very, very expensive, VR systems.

Ternus joined Apple in 2001 as a member of its product design team.

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