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Apple’s John Ternus Era, Tim Cook’s Legacy, ChatGPT Images 2.0 is Actually Good

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- **Jason Aten** (Primary Technology)

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He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector, John Ternus. Welcome to Primary Technology, the show about the tech news that matters. Obviously, massive news this week, Tim Cook officially stepping down as CEO and John Ternus taking over on September 1st. We're going to get into all of that, Tim Cook's legacy, what to look for in a John Ternus-led Apple, and other news like ChatGPT 2.0 images came out. Gemini-powered Siri was teased actually at Google Cloud. Threads have a live chat event feature coming out or something.

And people are actually using Jason's app out in the wild, and we're going to get into that as well. This episode is brought to you by Framer, Granola, Claude, and you, the members who support us directly. Thank you for that. I'm one of your hosts, Stephen Robles, joined by developer Jason Aten. How's it going, Jason? Developers doing a lot of work there, but I'm fine. If I say it three times, it's true. Three times in a row. Is that like common law? Yeah, that's right. That's what happens, yeah. All right. No, that's, yeah, Jason's app. Well, I won't reveal. I'll let you reveal the name later. It's exciting.

I'm running it right now on my Mac, and we're going to talk about it. And you have people testing it, like out there in the wild. I do. I do have people testing it, yes. That's super fun. Okay, last week, the quote, the movie quote that I opened the show with was, I sense injuries. The data could be called pain. Do you know what movie that's from? See, you always make this face. It's not even familiar to me. All right. Well, that one was Terminator 2. Terminator 2. I was trying to find a record. It's probably been 30 years since I've seen Terminator 2, just to be honest. I was like, it hasn't come out 30 years. Oh, wow, yeah.

I don't know when it came out, but it's been that long. It definitely wasn't 30 years. And I kind of tweaked today's quote. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. I didn't say the last part of that phrase because it would give it away. I don't know. The last part of the quote is a dark knight. Oh, he's the hero that Gotham needs but doesn't deserve. That Gotham deserves the needs or something, which I'm not saying that's John Ternus, but he is a silent guardian, a watchful protector. If you'd have said that part of the quote, I would have for sure. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. All right.

A couple of five-star reviews before we get into all the Cook Ternus news. Jim Manist at 1,000 from the USA. He asked if the review gets to me faster with my 7 gigabit download speeds. Yes, it does. I actually got the review immediately. And battery percentage on phone dominant pocket front home screen dots. Dominant pocket front. Dominant pocket. Home screen dots. Okay. God, sorry. I was like, yeah, I had a stroke there. Kojin 2...

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