Eddy Cue quietly became the most powerful executive at Apple
Eddy Cue quietly became the most powerful executive at Apple

Phil Schiller leaving the App Store made Monday’s headlines. The quieter fact underneath it is that Eddy Cue now runs more of Apple than anyone except the new chief executive. Mark Gurman broke the reshuffle for Bloomberg on Monday, hours before John T…

Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs
Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs

John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. He is the eighth person to hold the job in the company’s 50 years, and the first engineer in the seat since Steve Jobs. Tim Cook spent his last day writing to staff. Chance Miller obtained the mem…

Tim Cook’s legacy isn’t just phones, it’s politics
Tim Cook’s legacy isn’t just phones, it’s politics

As much as any Apple product released during his time as CEO, Tim Cook’s tenure will be remembered for its ruthlessly efficient tight-rope walk between an autocrat in China and a would-be autocrat in the US. During his 15 years as CEO, Cook steered Apple through relations with both Chinese President Xi Jinping and US […]

Get ready for a really busy month of smartphones
Get ready for a really busy month of smartphones

We’re not even half a day into September, and two new smartphones have already launched: the Poco F9 Pro and F9 Ultra. We’re expecting more this week, as the IFA trade show kicks off in Berlin, before we get new iPhones a week after that. And that’s only the beginning of what promises to be […]

A day-one briefing for Apple’s new CEO
A day-one briefing for Apple’s new CEO

Executive Summary, Day One 📁 Inbox 5:05AMTo: Ternus, John <jternus@apple.com>Reply-to: CEO-transition-team@apple.com Welcome to your first day as CEO! Hopefully you’re finding your new office spacious and comfortable. If you have trouble with any of the doors just ping us – being a Jony Ive design, you won’t find anything as unsightly as a door handle […]

Tim Cook’s Apple: his 10 biggest wins and misses
Tim Cook’s Apple: his 10 biggest wins and misses

Expectations for Tim Cook were almost impossibly high when he stepped in to replace Apple’s visionary cofounder in 2011. He inherited a company on a blockbuster run, after Steve Jobs returned and revitalized the Mac, launched the iPod, and oversaw the launch of the iPhone. Now, after 15 years in the CEO role, Tim Cook […]

John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple
John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple

For the first time since 2011, one of the world’s most valuable companies has a new leader, as today marks John Ternus’ first day as Apple’s CEO. He’s replacing Tim Cook, who will continue on as the executive chairman on Apple’s board and departed with a letter to employees that remarked, “This place is proof […]

OpenAI tells the court Apple’s trade-secret case is “a mess of Apple’s own making”
OpenAI tells the court Apple’s trade-secret case is “a mess of Apple’s own making”

OpenAI has told a federal court that Apple created the conditions it is now describing as theft. “This dispute is a mess of Apple’s own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else,” the company said in a filing lodged late Monday in the US District…

Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI

Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.

I went to the loneliest baseball game on Apple Vision Pro
I went to the loneliest baseball game on Apple Vision Pro

This weekend, I strapped on an Apple Vision Pro to watch a baseball game in immersive virtual reality for the first time. It was technically impressive, visually pretty remarkable, and also didn’t make that much sense. Apple and Major League Baseball chose a classic match-up of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees […]