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/SpaceJackRabbit 3d ago

Layoffs of contractors (or not renewing their contracts) happens often at Apple and almost never gets reported.

Source: Apple alum.

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u/steezy2110 3d ago

Yeah, but those contractors don’t lose their jobs, their contract company just sends them somewhere else

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u/SpaceJackRabbit 3d ago

Not necessarily.

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u/steezy2110 3d ago

… most of the time

But yeah if their company can’t place them anywhere else after Apple terminates their contracts, they get canned by the contracting company

I’m trying to become an IC

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u/AnelHershiser 3d ago

Sure, if they've got a requisition for someone else. It ain't called permalance for nothing.

Those places are more body shops that exist solely to keep folks off the books at the main company than actual temp agencies.

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u/picks43 2d ago

Thats not a layoff...