Apple will have been planning this succession for a long time.
Rumours were circulating for a while that 65-year-old Tim Cook was thinking about stepping down, and while a few potential replacements popped up, the name which stuck was the firm’s vice president of hardware, 51-year-old John Ternus.
I had an informal meeting with him in the UK recently and I asked him then whether he really was heir apparent to the Apple throne.
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