Ternus is the leading candidate; VP of Hardware Engineering. He was very likely more directly responsible than Cook for all the things you liked about Cook's Apple.

My fear for Apple right now is how most decisions they make appear to incentivize them toward becoming a perpetual middle-man in all aspects of your interactions with their products. They don't manufacture much of anything anymore; its on-contract. They design the M-Series chips, but don't make them. Their software sucks; they'd rather just take 30% of your interaction with actually-good software. Their AI and search sucks; they just pay Google $30B a year for theirs. Etc and etc.

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alberth 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ternus team didn’t create M-series.

Johny Srouji team did instead.

https://www.apple.com/leadership/johny-srouji/

https://www.apple.com/leadership/john-ternus/

	▲	wslh 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johny_Srouji

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ianburrell 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very few tech companies make the whole stack. Making chips requires specialization and is required for high end chips. Samsung is probably the only company that makes chips for their own phones.

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nadermx 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What incentive do they have otherwise?

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rhubarbtree 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wait, Apple Pay Google for search?

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827a 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No, but Apple is likely to be paying Google for access to Gemini in the upcoming Siri revamp, and relies on Google's technology for the default safari search experience, which is what I was referencing.

	▲	knollimar 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I thought they're buying a custom model they can run (likely for privacy reasons)

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gsharma 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No, it’s the other way around. Comment above is confused about the relationship.

	▲	bobbylarrybobby 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Reports say that Apple will be paying Google a billion a year for a Gemini‘d Siri
	▲	SauntSolaire 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		He's referring to the AI part of his sentence.

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Mistletoe 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Their Siri sucks so they just borrowed Google Gemini.