(FILES) Apple Vice President, Hardware Engineering John Ternus speaks on stage at San Jose McEnery Convention Center during Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose, California on June 5, 2017. Apple's chief executive Tim Cook hands over the company's reins to it's vice president of hardware engineering John Ternus on September 1, 2026. Cook spent nearly three decades at Apple, which he has led as CEO since 2011. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images)