John Ternus, Apple's incoming CEO, on the Steve Jobs story that shapes every product decision at Apple:
Ternus recalls the moment in his own words:
"I think you know one of my favorite stories... It was about Steve when he was moving a piece of furniture, a chest of drawers and pulled it away from the wall and looked at the back and was just reflecting on, you know, the carpenter had made it beautiful. It finished the back as beautifully as the rest of it, even though nobody was going to see it."
For Ternus, the story is a working philosophy:
"I think about that all the time because I think that perfectly exemplifies what we do here."
He points to Apple's most affordable Mac as proof that this standard applies across the entire product line, not just the premium tier:
"We've been talking about the MacBook Neo. I mean, here is our most affordable Mac we've ever made, and it's absolutely beautiful. And if you open it up and look inside, it's just as beautiful, right?"
Ternus continues:
"That's true on an iPhone Pro Max or a MacBook Pro or an iPad Pro, but it's also true on a MacBook Neo. That's what we do."
The takeaway is a clear signal about the direction Apple is heading under his leadership:
"It's just been really good to kind of think about that and reflect on that because that is probably the best kind of clue as to where we're going in the future is we're going to keep pushing in that same way."
The lesson?
Excellence isn't about what people see, it's about what you refuse to compromise on, even when no one's looking. That principle shaped Apple under Jobs and Cook, and it's the standard Ternus is committing to carry forward.
Isack ⚔️ Lewis.
Bel échange à la fin de cette première journée de tests entre le pilote français et son idole, ce dernier étant sur des pneus âgés de seize tours là où Hadjar roulait en pneus neufs.
#F1Testing
Apple TV publie une vidéo pour annoncer la sortie du final de saison de Pluribus le 24 décembre !! 🤩🎄
Avez-vous hâte de le découvrir ? 🧐
https://t.co/59Ql88C49U
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said @elonmusk was there for him as a customer when nobody else was.
“When I announced this thing, nobody in the world wanted it. I had no purchase orders—not one. Nobody wanted to buy it. Nobody wanted to be part of it, except for Elon. He was at the event, and we were doing a fireside chat about the future of self-driving cars. And he goes, “You know what? I have a company that could really use this.” And I said, “Wow, my first customer.” I was pretty excited about it. And he goes, “Yeah, we have this company. It’s a non-profit company”, and all the blood drained out of my face. I had just spent a few billion dollars building this thing. It cost $300,000. And the chances of a non-profit being able to pay for this thing were approximately zero, and he goes, “You know, it’s an AI company, and it’s a non-profit. And we could really use one of these supercomputers.”
So I picked it up. I built the first one for ourselves—we’re using it inside the company. I boxed one up, drove it up to San Francisco, and delivered it to Elon in 2016. I walked up to the second floor, where they were all kind of crammed into a room smaller than this place here, and that place turned out to be OpenAI.”
"Cette voiture, c'est comme danser avec quelqu'un qui ne sait pas danser !" 😁
Lewis Hamilton tente de décrire son feeling au volant de la Ferrari ! #F1#CanadianGP
❤️ Juste un mot « MERCI »
🇫🇷 Merci de nous avoir fait vibrer, merci d’avoir fait rêver la France.
💪 Loïs Boisson, ce n’est que le début d’une grande carrière !
https://t.co/mP564XWKOg
🎙| Brundle: “Good strategy call for Lewis Hamilton and for ferrari. It would have been really interesting to see where Lewis would have finished in this race had we not had the safety car, because he was, without doubt the fastest man on the track.” 🔥