Apple

Pick up almost any phone released this year. A slab of glass. Barely-there bezels. No physical keyboard. One camera bump on the back, a notch or a hole-punch up front, and a home screen made of a grid of icons. That shape didn’t happen by accident, and it didn’t happen everywhere at once. It happened in 2007, on one product, and the rest of the industry has spent nearly two decades converging on it. Samsung converged on it. Huawei converged on it. Every budget Android brand selling a $90 phone in a market with no Apple Store in sight converged on it too, whether their engineers ever admired Apple or not. ...

A deep analysis of Apple’s leadership succession landscape — why John Ternus has emerged as the leading candidate to succeed Tim Cook, what the next era of Apple looks like, and the lessons every founder can take from how great companies design for inevitable change.