David Sparks offers his view as someone who has been behind-the-scenes of other corporate transitions — Ternus is unsurprising; change will come slowly; he’s optimistic:

What happens next is the harder question. Apple is too big to change direction quickly. New CEOs at companies this size do not reshape the company in their first year. They learn where the levers are. They keep the trains running. The real signal of Ternus’s hand on the tiller will come later, probably well into 2027 or beyond. What products get greenlit. What gets killed. How the company talks about itself.