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Thanks to AI, we’re likely going to see a raft of innovative new products that might upend our current gadgets entirely.

That’s the hope of startups like Jony Ive’s io (now owned by OpenAI) as well as established giants like Meta. Both are working on a new generation of AI-powered devices that might make current iPhones and HomePods look as antiquated as gramophones.

That will create a dilemma for John Ternus, who just officially took over as Apple’s new CEO.

Replacing Tim Cook after his 15 years at the top, Ternus might be in the unenviable position of having to cannibalize the very products he helped develop during his 25-year career at Apple.

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Tim Cook has a reputation as a finance and operations whiz, not a product guy. But as one of his first public interviews after taking over as CEO shows — the top X post below — he had a very Steve Jobsian view that if you make great products, the money will follow. Let’s hope John Ternus has the same philosophy.
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