Apple’s chief-executive-to-be, John Ternus , is a hardware guy. Though we can’t say for sure what his tenure will bring, there seems to be consensus: putting the focus back on the devices. On Monday, the company said Ternus will take over the top spot from Tim Cook in September. Ternus joined as a mechanical engineer in 2001, before ascending to the leadership team in 2013. Yet even in the subsequent years, as software ate the world, Apple built its preeminence in consumer electronics on hardware. You might use services from Google, Meta , Amazon .com, Netflix and Microsoft , but there’s a…

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