Episode Details

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