Axios C-Suite: Get to know John Ternus, Apple's CEO-in-waiting

Apple let John Ternus, its hardware chief — not Tim Cook — unveil the MacBook Neo. And a sweeping Bloomberg Businessweek profile made a pretty strong case that John Ternus is up next in Cupertino.

• His philosophy: On noticing 35-groove screws in Apple's Cinema Display instead of the specified 25: "I distinctly remember stepping back for a minute and thinking to myself, 'What the hell am I doing? Is this normal?' ... I realized it might not be normal, but it's right." (UPenn commencement address)
• His idea of fun: "A cycling and car-racing enthusiast, Ternus is known to take his colleagues to upstate Washington for off-road rally car racing." (Bloomberg)
• His "favorite child" at Apple: AirPods. "That was enabled by technology that we built in-house, and I think — I don't think, I know — it fundamentally changed how people use earphones." (CNBC)
• His big fumble: He "was a driving force behind the Touch Bar, which replaced the top row of physical keys on MacBook Pro keyboards with a touchscreen. 'He shoehorned it in ... ,' says someone familiar with the work." (Bloomberg)

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