Julie Clover
Longtime Apple employee Dan Riccio is set to leave the company at the end of this month, Bloomberg reports. Riccio spent 26 years at Apple, most recently overseeing the development of the Vision Pro as vice president of engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Riccio joined Apple in June 1998 as director of product design and was promoted to senior vice president of hardware engineering in August 2012, a position he held for more than eight years before moving on to an unspecified project in 2021. The unspecified project turned out to be the Vision Pro headset.
John Ternus has replaced Riccio as Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, and Ternus will now also take over the development of the Vision Pro and several thousand engineers in the Vision Products Group. Mike Rockwell, who worked under Riccio, will continue to oversee the day-to-day work on the Vision Pro and similar headsets.
In addition to his work on the Vision Pro, Riccio was also a key proponent of Apple's work on a self-driving car, a project that the company ultimately canceled earlier this year. During his time at Apple, he also oversaw the development of AirPods, the iPad Pro, and the first large-screen iPhones.
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