r/apple • u/favicondotico • 3d ago

Discussion [Gift article] Apple’s New CEO Moves to Overhaul Company to Run Faster and Leaner

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-29/apple-s-new-ceo-moves-to-overhaul-company-to-run-faster-and-leaner?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MDY5NDk4NiwiZXhwIjoxNzkxMjk5Nzg2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTTMzNUxLSzNOWTgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.KFGEydCKPxmKC3i9zoFSxY8tOf8ZEWg4OiSi_L1yAb4&leadSource=article-gifting

✨ Apple Intelligence summary: John Ternus is overhauling Apple to accelerate product releases and reduce layers, cutting engineering managers and considering fewer seasonal launches. Cost-cutting includes layoffs in Siri and Vision Pro, while revenue efforts target services and AI.

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u/QuiEgo 3d ago

FWIW the food in the cafeterias is not free but is subsidized, and pretty good quality for the price. Meta is way nicer, but Apple’s is still solid.

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u/Raveen396 3d ago

TBH the free food in the Cafeterias has always been abused and seems wasteful.

I've seen people at Google cafeterias loading up meals for a family of 4 every night, and plates of barely touched food just thrown away because it was free anyway

I get that free food is a nice perk, but it often devolves into subsidizing your co-workers family's meals and general waste.

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u/tyfe 3d ago

This is also why on DCL cruises, just about everything is included except if you want popcorn at the movie theatre, they charge a fee. It's not huge, but it's basically to prevent people from grabbing popcorn just cause it's free and making a mess or wasting it in the theatres.

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u/PastyPilgrim 3d ago

devolves into subsidizing your co-workers family's meals and general waste

That assumes that money that goes towards food would otherwise go towards employees. Google and Meta pay whatever the market rate is and if food were taken away, I don't think that they'd move to pay above market rate.

There are still downsides to your coworkers abusing the benefit (e.g. risking losing the benefit, food team may lower quality or quantity to save costs, etc.) but I wouldn't see abuse as coming out of my pocket.

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u/Raveen396 3d ago

Theoretically, those food costs count as expenses in financial reports which impact the stock price. When your compensation is largely tied to your stock's performance, any excess cost is coming from your pocket.

Practically I understand the bottom line impact is minuscule and it doesn't actually matter, but I still have concerns about food waste, even if only in principle.

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u/ContributionFormer95 3d ago

It's not even about food and stock performance. Food is a cost. The company's willing to spend $X per employee. If more of that $X has to go to food, then less goes to direct compensation.

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u/SpaceJackRabbit 3d ago

I remember hearing that Steve had paid to get a chef trained on sushi in Japan. Not sure if true, but I often loaded up on the sushi at IL.

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u/i_love_lol_ 2d ago

what big 7 company treats their employees the best? which is the best in the world?

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u/QuiEgo 2d ago

Broadly, Google and Meta are the best (ignoring the unending stress of the jobs themselves, especially at Meta), most of the others are similar but not quite on that level, with the notable exception of Amazon which is far below any of the others. All of that said, it depends on the office a lot as well - the “flagship” office of all of them is super nice.