New Apple CEO John Ternus makes product design a ‘major priority’

Since becoming Apple CEO last month, John Ternus has made product design a “major priority,” according to BloombergIt’s Mark Gurman.

“Ternus was already involved in the design studio as Apple’s head of hardware engineering, given the close coordination required between the two functions,” he said in the statement. To light up newsletter today. “Since becoming CEO, he has immersed himself in the industrial design and human interface teams.”

Ternus goes “on the ground” to Apple’s design studio “several times a week, sometimes multiple times in the same day,” while former Apple CEO Tim Cook typically visited the studio “about an hour a month at most,” according to Gurman.

Unlike Cook, better known as a supply chain expert, Ternus comes from an engineering background. As such, Gurman said Ternus was largely handing over Apple’s finances to CFO Kevan Parekh and its supply chain to operations chief Sabih Khan, giving him more time to focus on engineering and design.

Overall, Apple now has a product manager running the show.