Hardware* engineer. Background in robot arms. Molded as an apple exec overseeing airpods, mac, ipad, and watches.

I wouldn't assume that a chosen successor would take a radical new direction.

He's a hardware guy at Apple. The company that once removed everything from their physical interface but one button. The company that created a proprietary screw shape and licensed the companion driver to prevent users or small time repair shops from fixing their phones. The company that removed the independent headphone jack and replaced it with a lightning to aux adapter (that you had to buy separately) that hogged the only charging port instead. The company that put a glass plate on the back of the phone so that you had two surfaces to shatter and leave sharp edges to cut your hand on. Yeah... I don't expect great things from him.

Being good at engineering and being good at running a company are different skills

They will finally realize John’s decade old vision to bring the butterfly keyboard to the foldable iPhone

“Getting rid” of Dye won’t hurt either…

That is, indeed, the joke!

A cross section of the building is a rough rectangle, with four corners, kind of. My theory is that his office runs the entire upper floor on the inside, so that he can view the inner courtyard from every angle. His desk sits on a motorized track like an Omnimover amusement park ride, constantly circling.

If he's dual CEO of a different company called Seed, he could be Johnny Apple-Seed

Can you expand on that with some sources?