Dan Riccio has served as senior VP of engineering overseeing all of Apple’s hardware since 2012, however now he’s stepping again from that function. A press release revealed he’s specializing in a mysterious “new mission” at Apple and can nonetheless report on to CEO Tim Prepare dinner.
Precisely what that new mission is stays unclear, though latest rumors have pointed to Apple’s plans for augmented and virtual reality or building an electric car. In fact, possibly it’s a in another way shade iPhone or an even-more-expensive pair of noise-cancelling headphones. Within the image above, he’s standing with former design exec Jony Ive as they reveal augmented actuality on an iPad at WWDC 2019. Riccio beforehand lead the iPad workforce earlier than taking up as senior VP, and oversaw tasks all the best way as much as the recently-launched AirPods Max.
Changing Riccio on Apple’s government workforce is John Ternus, who has been the VP of {hardware} engineering since 2013, and is famous as a key determine in Apple’s rollout of its new M1 CPUs. In the meantime, Riccio will nonetheless maintain the title of vice chairman of engineering and “play an instrumental function in shaping the way forward for Apple’s merchandise.”