I believe his name is John Apple now.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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Are Tim Apple and John Apple somehow related?
They are from the Apple clan of Japan, or wherever part of China Apple is from, which has a rich history and leadership of the clan is periodically passed to a successor. This dates back to the fall of the great Steve Apple who was killed by Jewish space lasers that gave him cancer. There is a long voting process involved to select the new leader of the Apple clan and dedicated followers wait patiently for a white air drop that signals the new clan leader has been chosen. As an additional fact John Apple's grandmother was from clan Wutang which has made this choice highly controversial.
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John Appleseed not obvious enough?
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Goodbye Tim Apple, hello John Apple.
Cool, will he fix the Gulf Of Mexico in Maps?
I completely forgot about that shit. So stupid.
oh its not a rumor.
John Apple
Tim Apple?
Edit: Ah, Johnny Appleseed is the new guy.
That's cool that his brother can take over and at least keep it in the family
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article says Tim Cook and shows a picture of Tim Apple.
fucking amateurs.
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That’ll give him more time to suck off Mr child rapist
probably act like bezos controlling the company from behind the scenes.
Oh joy, time for the next fascist ass kisser
Let me guess, the John Ternus guy is an AI bro and Apple products are now gonna be heavily enshitified with AI.
Edit: yep, I was right http://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/04/20/apple-new-ceo-john-ternus-faces-defining-challenge-fixing-ai-strategy.html
Ternus is the Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering and notoriously skeptical of new technology. If they wanted someone who was AI- minded, they would have made Craig Federighi CEO.
apparently he helped lead the team behind M-series chips and Airpods which are Apple’s few good genuine innovations of the last decade so he seems promising!
Where does it say he's an AI bro? It just said that he needs to show the investors that Apple can do more AI
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The link you posted does not support your conclusion at all.
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At least it's a hardware person taking over and not some marketing twat.
I seriously could do a better job than him. I have so many friends and family that used to be diehard apple fans to the point of nausea, that now think of it as a meh kind of company.
Cook's expertise was in the logistics. He's definitely not been a great leader for them putting out exciting products, but he's the reason they're so much less affected by things like global shipping crises or RAM prices exploding than many other companies are.
Then keep him in the c suite running the logistics, not spearhead a giant company and run their reputation in the ground. This is what you get when you don't keep the creatives in the c suite.
I suspect that the thinking when he was appointed was that logistics was going to be key to Apple's future success. And at the time, they also had a number of high profile creative people in other roles, though they have pretty much all moved on since. And if you look at their financial performance in the years since Cook took over—which is the board actually cares about—it's hard to say that this was a bad approach.
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The work done by the hardware dept to build CPUs has been a great achievement though. While this started under Jobs, Apple now arguably makes the best CPUs in the market. Competing with AMD/Intel is no easy feat.
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Lol I'm a former diehard Apple hater that's been using an iPhone for 4 years and loves Apple Silicon Macs.
But I still do think they've done a lot of idiotic things lately. iOS 26 works fine on my phone (some people are reporting performance issues), but the UI is hit and miss.
Apple Vision Pro seemed doomed from the get go, but they really made it worse by not launching a cheaper headset with Air branding half a year or a year in to actually drive market share enough to make it worthwhile for developers. Could've given it an A series CPU since we now know it works in a laptop so why not in XR or whatever they're calling this.
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Since 2011 when he took over Apple, to 2020, Cook doubled the company's revenue and profit, and the company's market value increased from $348 billion to $1.9 trillion.In 2025.
Just saying.
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We can only hope incoming is as careful with our information as outgoing is.
Haha he's gonna feel so dumb now.
Imagine being named Tim Apple and NOT working at apple.
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gobbling trumps nub, dint help you in the slightest.
Cook is going to transition to executive chairman, and he will "assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world."
His new role is literally Trump Gobbler
Embarrassingly, it did seem to have helped Apple when it comes to tariffs.
Finally, the bean counter steps down so that an engineer can take the reins again.
I mean, at least he didn’t fuck things up like so many other bean counters have. But he was only ever a bean counter.
There's never been an engineer CEO at Apple. Should be interesting.
Even Wozniak has said that while Jobs wasn’t a good engineer, he did know enough to be strategically savvy.
Edited in hindsight for clarity.
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I can hear the meeting already “we haven’t gotten onto the ai bandwagon enough yet, clearly we’re gonna miss out on all those profits that are 100% bound to happen (my ai told me so).”
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