Newly minted Apple CEO John Ternus has praised the Apple Vision Pro, calling it an amazing device that is finding more users, but also that it's in its very earliest days.
John Ternus has been criticized for laying off workers in the company's Apple Vision Pro division, but in a new interview for French television, he says he's enthused about the device's future. The Canal+ arts show Clique TV asked him directly whether or not he considered the Apple Vision Pro to be a failure.
"You know, Vision Pro, to me, is an amazing device, right, it's an absolutely amazing device, but I think of it as, like, the early days of computers," he said. "It is the early days of a long journey, that's how I feel about Vision Pro."
"What you're seeing with Vision Pro now is, certainly, there's early adopters who love it and they're using it, they're enjoying it," he continued, "but you also [see] surgeons are starting to use it in surgery, because it's just a fundamentally better tool for them than a monitor that's kind of sitting over there."
Ternus claimed that people are finding more uses for the Apple Vision Pro and that this is where he sees a "very bright future" for the device.
He wasn't pressed for any commitment over whether the Apple Vision Pro would continue to be developed. But he was asked what difference it makes to Apple that the company's new CEO is an engineer.
"I don't think anything's really changed," he said. "I think, sure, I'm new in this job, but the focus on innovation, the focus on products, the focus most importantly on our customers, that has never changed, that's been here from the beginning."
"I am super passionate about products, I love building things, that's why I've been here for so long [and] that's why I love what I do," Ternus continued. "I don't think of it as some radical change, I just couldn't be more excited about the future."
This issue of him being an engineer has been repeatedly brought up since his predecessor Tim Cook was famously "not a product person." But Apple today is far from the computer product firm it originally was, and Ternus is presiding over a $5 trillion company with multiple services as well as hardware.
