Tim Cook, John Ternus, the FBI, and Star Wars, on the AppleInsider Podcast
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
You didn't see that coming, at least not now, but Tim Cook's successor is John Ternus and there's so much news about both men. Plus what Apple had to update because of the FBI, how "Star Wars" benefits from the Apple Vision Pro, and more, on the AppleInsider Podcast.
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Links from the Show:
- John Ternus in as Apple CEO, Cook becoming Apple Executive Chairman
- Apple leadership shakeup places Johny Srouji as new hardware chief
- Tim Cook thanks users & Apple employees after 15 years of being CEO
- How Tim Cook started at Apple in 1998, and how 15 years of being the CEO ends
- Don't expect changes from Apple anytime soon, even with new leadership
- New Apple hardware chief wastes little time in introducing five underlings
- Ternus will be more decisive than Tim Cook, claims one insider
- A long-planned Apple CEO transition meets an analyst-driven AI hype cycle
- 'Healthy' Cook plans for a long stay at Apple as chairman
- Report: New Apple CEO's biggest challenge will be retiring leadership & regular churn
- When he was hired, Ternus wasn't sure he even belonged at Apple
- Let John Ternus be John Ternus, and not Cook or Jobs
- Notification bug that let FBI access messages patched with iOS 26.4.2
- High-resolution 200MP camera now expected in 2028 iPhone
- Latest 'Star Wars' movie cut unnecessary costs by using Apple Vision Pro
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (01:24) - Tim Cook and John Ternus
- (53:24) - FBI and iOS
- (59:13) - 200MP canera
- (01:02:47) - Star Wars
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Apple Inside podcast. I'm William Gallagher. I'm |
| 0:11.7 | sponsors this week a Masterclass and Claude by Anthropic. More about them later. |
| 0:16.7 | Although if you're a subscriber to Apple Insider Plus, well, that's the last you'll hear that. Plus, you will get plus. How many times can you say the word plus in one sentence? You'll also get Apple Insider Plus, which this week, as actually, let's give some credit here. This is almost practically always or always. This is the idea of my co-host, Wesley Hilliard. Oh, Wes. Hello. And what's the idea this time? |
| 0:39.7 | Anything happening? Anything on your mind at all? |
| 0:41.8 | Well, since it's such a dead week, we figured we'd talk about Tim Cook for no reason. |
| 0:46.9 | His legacy, what is it? |
| 0:49.9 | The reason why I'm bringing this up, and I wrote a little on the blog about it, is I've seen a lot of really, honestly, just terrible hot takes about Tim Cook. |
| 0:58.9 | A lot of discussions about Apple Car for some reason. |
| 1:02.8 | We'll probably touch some on it in the main show, but the post show is definitely 100%. |
| 1:08.2 | Tim Cook, what did he do for Apple? |
| 1:10.7 | What is his history going to be about? |
| 1:15.1 | We talk about Steve Jobs and his huge bombastic product releases and changing the world with |
| 1:20.6 | iPod, iPhone, Mac. What are we going to talk about with Tim Cook? |
| 1:25.8 | Nothing. Apple Vision Pro? Let's not go there. That's for later. |
| 1:29.5 | We've all heard of Tim Cook, and we can examine him in detail. |
| 1:34.2 | John Turnus, the new CEO. |
| 1:37.6 | You said you've seen some things about Cook. |
| 1:39.9 | I've been seeing preposterous things about John Turner's, people exclusively revealing what he's going to be like. |
| 1:46.2 | Well, I doubt he knows what he's going to be like. |
| 1:49.0 | He is definitely, definitely, definitely, no question going to be a clone of Steve Jobs. |
| 1:53.9 | And very definitely totally, no, he isn't. |
| 1:55.9 | He's going to be, it'll be as if Tim Cook has never left. |
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