The long and short of IT - the week in digibytes

The big tech exec story of the week was, of course, the announcement from Tim Cook that he will be standing down as Apple CEO, becoming executive chairman, while John Ternus takes over the command seat from 1 September.

That will bring an end to a 15 year reign for ‘the guy who took over from Steve Jobs’, a job description that Ternus will at least be spared. Ternus is an Apple guy to his core, 25 years with the firm, so pitching him as a continuity candidate is not unfair.

Where he differs from Cook is that his background is very heavily in product, hardware in particular, so we perhaps expect something of a pivot back to the central devices Apple is best known for, as well as, hopefully, some course corrections for some others - hi, Vision Pro, we see you!

So why now for the handover? Well, Cook ...