Start the music. Players walk clockwise in a circle. When the music stops, everyone sits in a chair. Big Tech is laying plans for the next gen of lead designers, engineers, AI chiefs, and even CEOs.

In Citerino, Apple execs with familiar faces are retiring or reducing responsibilities. Who’s in and who’s out? Of course, Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams retired in November, and it is thought that CEO Tim Cook may follow in the near term. Lisa Jackson, leading the way Apple’s sustainability efforts Since 2013, retirement is also scheduled for January.

There’s also a squad of Apple employees who hit the job Openespecially the former chief chief designer of Apple Jony Ive after his independent stint in love from. In 2024, Molly Anderson named The industry design leader, leading a team of mostly fresh faces. Others have gone Meta, like Apple’s VP of Human Resources, Alan Mye, who this week POINTS To lead a new reality design scheme at LABA. At Apple, he was replaced by longtime veteran Stephen Lemay. Phew.

In this swirl of shifting talent, John Ternus, who has worked for Apple since 2001, and served as SVP of Hardware Engineering for the past four years, reporting directly to Tim Cook, is emerged As the frontrunner to succeed in cooking as Apple CEO, it is reported that next year. Wired asked Apple for comment but did not hear back prior to publication.

With a constant drop of “drops” in the succession planning and position of Ternus at the front of the pack, since 2023, Ternus has been given product launch events. He announced the AIR ON IPHONE Onstage this past September, and appeared with other senior apple leaders at press intervenin and in-store apple events.

“I think they’re trying to see how it feels. Apple likes to control the narrative. “Apple is losing a lot of people. I think it’s going to be a net positive because it’s going to create a new crop of people who have a lot of power now.”

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It’s always tricky to get a person’s contributions to Apple, which are more than amazing detail, as John Ternus himself is reported to be behind the touchbar of the Macbook. Bertrand Nepveu works at APPLE TIME TIME Team from 2017 to 2021, after Apple Obtained his VR headset startup Vrvana, and now running strong based in Montreal TriptyQ Capital. During his three-and-a-half years, most worked on the capabilities of pass-the PRO PRA’S PRA’S PRA’S PRO’S PRO’S PRO’S PRO’S PRA’S PROUND from 300 to 1,200. “John Ternus, although I did not work with him, the feedback I got is that he is a good person,” that is what is needed for the next phase of apple, especially in AI and the XR. “

With this future in mind, Nepveu sees the combination of Ternus-As-CEO working well with other staff members operating at Apple, including the news in March that Rockwell was quitting Improve Siri from the head of Ai, John Ganhanandrea. In another major futures reshuffle, Giandandare took over this week Amar Subramanyawho spent 16 years at Google, including work at Gemini and Defermind, before a six-month stint at Microsoft.

“Mike Rockwell, I work with him in the Vision pro Group, I think that he is the right person for that because they (xr and AI) work in Tandem,” said Nepveu. “Joke Siri used to be crap. I like her because she doesn’t drink the kool-aid. I’m happy to fix someone who’s procody.