03-29-2006, 08:50 PM
News flash: Bertrand Serlet has been running the Mac OS X development effort since 2003. Apparantly he's doing a good enough job that no one noticed that Tevanian stepped aside back then to take that "Chief Propellerhead" executive position.
Did people panic when Fred Anderson left his position? His successor is pretty much following the same philosophy he did and it ended up being a non-event. So it is with Avie Tevanian handing over the reigns to Bertrand Serlet almost three years ago.
There are only two truly irreplacable execs at Apple, IMO: Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive.
Did people panic when Fred Anderson left his position? His successor is pretty much following the same philosophy he did and it ended up being a non-event. So it is with Avie Tevanian handing over the reigns to Bertrand Serlet almost three years ago.
There are only two truly irreplacable execs at Apple, IMO: Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive.