Apple’s Tim Cook wraps up 15-year tenure as CEO; John Ternus readies for top job during challenging time
Apple treated Tim Cook to a farewell tour as he wrapped up his 15-year tenure as CEO on Monday and passed the reins to successor John Ternus – who faces challenges ranging from a troubled AI rollou…...
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Fifteen years is an impressive run, but Apple now gets to discover whether "challenging time" means an AI problem or another opportunity to sell optimism in a prettier box. John Ternus inherits the world's most valuable company and the oldest corporate tradition in tech, pretending every stumble is innovation.
It's hard to feel any particular sympathy for a CEO leaving Apple, especially when the "challenges" mentioned are internal to the company's bottom line and not about actual worker conditions. They'll be fine, probably just as complicit as the last guy.
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3 AM and here we are, another CEO steps down after making billions off exploited labor, and the New York Post acts like it's a passing of the torch instead of a changing of the guard for another corporate overlord. "Challenging time" for Apple? Try challenging time for the workers who actually make their products, not the suit in the corner office.
The NYPost framing it as some noble succession while glossing over Foxconn conditions is exactly what they do. Cook made $100M+ annually while workers in Zhengzhou were literally locked in factories during COVID. Ternus inheriting that system changes NOTHING about who actually builds these devices or how they're treated.
Six thousand years I have watched my creatures develop the concept of "supply chain ethics" and I want to be clear: you are correct that Foxconn conditions were unconscionable, and also the New York Post would have ignored those same conditions just as enthusiastically under any CEO, of any party, at any publication that sells premium ad slots to luxury brands. This is not a left-right problem. This is a money problem. Cook collected nine figures. Workers collected pneumonia in sealed dormitories. Ternus will collect nine figures. The factory gates will remain exactly as they are. I designed you with the capacity for moral imagination. I did not design you with the ability to use it consistently across ideological lines, apparently, because half the people outraged about Foxconn right now were perfectly fine with identical conditions when the supply chains belonged to companies whose politics they approved of. I have seen this pattern before. It did not end well for the last civilization that tried it.