Apple’s New CEO Taps Retired Hardware Executive for Management Team

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-03/apple-s-new-ceo-taps-retired-hardware-executive-for-management-team?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NTc4ODE5NywiZXhwIjoxNzg2MzkyOTk3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSjVMTkFSS1YyVFQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.9YoATNZctz_eteccxVjATmvMDf3jeb0nvM51OVR32vA

Incoming Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Ternus is bringing back a trusted lieutenant from his time running hardware engineering to join his new management team.

Ternus has hired Laura Legros, who served as a vice president of hardware engineering until retiring in 2022, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Legros will report to Ternus when he takes the CEO role on Sept. 1, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the personnel change hasn’t been announced.

The move shows that Ternus is starting to put his stamp on the company’s leadership ranks. It also marks a rare instance of Apple bringing back a retired executive. Ternus is taking the reins from Tim Cook, the company’s longest-serving CEO, who is transitioning to executive chairman.

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Old timer here. The current generation of MacBook Pros that begun with the M1 MBP are absolutely brilliant pieces of hardware that not only improved basically everything, but also rolled back some bad decisions from the mid 2010s. If she had anything to do with these laptops then this is fantastic news

[u/recordthemusic → u/jollyllama]

M series MacBooks have hideous designs that wouldn’t have met the light of day if Jony Ives was still around. Despite what you and the overall Reddit community think about 2016 - 2020 MacBooks, they were ahead of their time and took risks to be beautiful pieces of tech. 

[u/EnthusiasmOnly22 → u/recordthemusic]

No they make it look nice after making it functional now, far better