John Ternus Has Rehired Former Hardware VP Laura Legros

Juli Clover, MacRumors:

Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus is rehiring Laura Legros, a former vice president of hardware engineering who retired from Apple in 2022, reports Bloomberg. Legros previously managed product delivery, development schedules, and coordination across engineering teams. Under Ternus, she will work across different parts of the company, and report directly to him.

According to Bloomberg, Legros was one of Ternus’ most trusted deputies before she retired. She has presented at past Apple events, introducing the 2018 MacBook Air and the 2020 iPad Air.

The 2018 introduction of the first retina MacBook Air was an interesting event. I noted at the time that it was conspicuous how seldom Apple mentioned “Intel”, despite the fact that all that products introduced ran on Intel chips. Then you look at the specs of that MacBook Air compared to the then-current iPad Pros and you can see why Apple, privately, was seething.

★ Monday, 3 August 2026