Apple’s new CEO is a hardware guy, but software is his biggest challenge

John Ternus’s leadership has already given us some of Apple’s best devices ever. But the company could use a reboot when it comes to software.

Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus and soon-to-be executive chairman Tim Cook bond at Apple Park. [Photo: Apple]

When Tim Cook’s tenure as CEO of Apple was still young, tech-industry pundits obsessed over one aspect of his new gig above all others. After returning to the company he cofounded, Jobs presided over an incredible run of epoch-shifting products: the iMac, iPod, iTunes Music Store, iPhone, iPhone App Store, and iPad. If Cook didn’t extend that streak, conventional wisdom went, Apple’s glory days would be over.

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