26 Jan 2021 Dan Riccio, Apple's longtime head of hardware, is out — but not really. He's going on to run a new and, so far, secret project. Meanwhile, John Ternus, the rising star of the engineering division, is all in — at the executive team level. It's yet another huge shakeup at the very top of Apple's leadership chain, something that once seemed eternal but really has been changing and growing almost every year for over a decade now. But what about this? What does this specific change really mean for the future of Apple hardware like the iPhone, iPad, and upcoming M-series Macs? Well…