Bloomberg reports that Tim Cook has placed hardware chief John Ternus in charge of Apple’s design teams. This adds to his 2025 expansion into product strategy. By consolidating oversight of hardware, strategy, and design, Cook appears to be grooming Ternus as his direct successor.
The iPhone Air is facing a disastrous launch in China with under 200,000 units sold — a fraction of the 8 million iPhone 17 Pro Max devices moved — but that hasn’t stopped hardware enthusiasts. Chinese engineers have successfully modded a physical SIM slot into the eSIM-only phone, though Ice Universe notes that the vibration motor had to be removed to accommodate the unauthorized modification.
Fed up with glitches, users created a website listing Apple’s oldest unpatched bugs. It details issues like the 2012 Mail search failure, humorously estimating billions in lost productivity. As the creators state: “Calculations are fiction, your frustration is not”.
Apple is developing “Campos,” a project to transform Siri into a full chatbot similar to ChatGPT, built on Google Gemini. The new Siri will reportedly run on Google’s servers. Apple is also developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable with dual cameras and voice control, targeting a 2027 release.
Hackers stole over 1TB of sensitive internal documents, including detailed schematics and 3D models for unreleased devices spanning several years. The group responsible is now leaking the data after Luxshare refused to enter ransom negotiations.
