Who is John Ternus, Apple's Newly Named CEO - DTNS 5252
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, April 21st, 2026. |
| 0:13.1 | We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context and help each other understand. |
| 0:17.7 | Yeah, this is one of those days that is one of those stories that you talk about |
| 0:22.8 | when you're planning tech news. Like, you know, and then there'll be a day when there's a big story |
| 0:26.8 | like Apple getting a new CEO. Yeah, Apple getting a new boss in September. So we're going to talk |
| 0:33.3 | about what you can expect from Mr. John Turnus. Yes, indeed. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm Jason Howell. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:42.5 | We're going to start with what you need to know with the really big story. |
| 0:47.7 | I think it qualifies really big. |
| 0:48.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.0 | Just big, but like really big. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, Apple did announce. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm sure you, you know, unless you were living under a rock in the tech news world, you know that Apple announced midday Monday that Tim Cook is going to step down as CEO of the company on September 1st. |
| 1:13.1 | Senior vice president of hardware engineering John Turnus is going to take over as CEO and join Apple's board in the process. Cook is going to become executive chairman and current non-executive chairman, |
| 1:19.1 | Arthur Levinson, will become Apple's lead independent director. Then you've got senior vice president |
| 1:25.1 | of hardware technologies, Johnny Seruji, who will become |
| 1:29.0 | chief hardware officer. |
| 1:31.3 | He's going to be overseeing a newly organized department that combines hardware divisions |
| 1:35.5 | back into one unit, similar to how it was under Bob Mansfield before he resigned in 2012. |
| 1:42.2 | The units are going to be hardware engineering, silicon, advanced technologies, platform |
| 1:48.3 | architecture, and project management divisions. |
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