Hello, I'm Tom Standage, Deputy Editor at The Economist, and this is Inside Tech.
And with me, as usual, is my co-host Alex Hearn, our AI writer.
Alex, we're wearing our hacker hoodies today because later we're going to be discussing cyber security.
But before we get started, we've had some breaking news overnight,
which is the appointment of John Ternus as the new CEO of Apple.
He'll be taking over in September.
So I quickly wanted to get your take on that.
First take, right, is this is the succession of the boring men.
John Ternus is seemingly a phenomenally talented executive.
He's led Apple's unquestionably successful transition to custom silicon.
And the wins of Apple over the last five years or so have all been in the hardware engineering division
that John runs.
At the same time, general consensus is...
Christ, there's nothing to say about the man.
Just like Tim Cook before him, he is very, very good at being a company man,
at doing what needs to be done, at succeeding in the boring parts of the job.
Perhaps come September when he takes over, we'll see some fire,
something of the Jobsian spirit rather than the Cooksian Apple.
But for now, it looks like it is the safest, steadiest pair of hands Apple.
I saw that the share price basically didn't budge when the announcement came out.