This Week in Apple: We’ll still have Tim Cook to kick around

In non-shocking news, Tim Cook and John Ternus are movin’ on up.

From Tim to Ternus

Well, as you surely already know, Apple announced on Monday that Tim Cook would be transitioning to the role of executive chairman and John Ternus would be taking over the CEO spot come September 1st. (Sorry, Tony Fadell!)

It’s now Friday, so naturally, all the good jokes about this have been taken. While Tim Cook is not at all an unattractive man, experts have estimated that this move increases Apple’s handsomeness quotient by at least 25%, giving it a strategic advantage against the competition that may help offset the company’s late response to AI.

I said all the good jokes were already taken. I already said that.

Seemingly still reeling from Steve Jobs’ early moves to cancel OpenDoc and the Newton thirty years ago, many in the Apple community have been wondering about Ternus’s views on such products as the Apple TV and Vision Pro.…