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By Corinne Reichert Apple's incoming CEO, John Ternus, joined the tech giant back in 2001 as part of the product design team, having previously worked as a mechanical engineer at Virtual Research Systems. He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.Ternus has risen through the ranks at Apple over the past 25 years, becoming a VP of hardware engineering in 2013 and then SVP in 2021. During those years, Ternus worked across many flagship devices, including the iPad, AirPods, iPhone, Apple Watch and, most recently, the MacBook Neo."John Ternus has th

Ternus began working at Apple in 2001 as part of the product design team. He became vice president of hardware engineering in 2013 and was bumped up to senior vice president in 2021. Unlike Cook, whose strengths before becoming CEO were in logistics and supply chain management, Ternus has been a down-to-the-screws product guy during his 25 years at Apple. He's worked on products including the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods and the MacBook Neo. Before his tenure at Apple, he was a mechanical engineer at Virtual Research Systems. He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the

Perhaps the biggest current challenge for Apple is navigating its fledgling AI efforts. Despite widespread fatigue with the term, AI remains a powerful buzzword that informs how practically every tech company operates today.  Apple Intelligence on iPhone, iPad and Mac can handle tasks like AI-powered text and photo editing, visual search and notification summaries, along with generating images and emoji. But it pales in comparison to the AI tools from companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft, which can analyze swaths of documents, generate volumes of text and complete tasks through chat int