{"id":51476,"date":"2026-04-03T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51476"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:14:37","slug":"a-letter-to-john-ternus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/03\/a-letter-to-john-ternus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to John Ternus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2026\/04\/01\/letter-to-john-ternus\">Marco Arment<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marcoarment\/116330768332281834\">Mastodon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/marco.org\/2026\/04\/01\/letter-to-john-ternus\">\n<p> I urge you, on behalf of everyone who loves computers as much as we do, to protect and cultivate this spirit of Apple&rsquo;s founders as the company&rsquo;s top priority:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We love computers. We don&rsquo;t hide that &mdash; we celebrate it!<\/li>\n<li>We use computers to enhance our minds, lives, and abilities &mdash; not to be controlled, restricted, tricked, placated, angered, or surveilled.<\/li>\n<li>Our computers work for <em>us<\/em>, with the utmost respect for our time, attention, money, data, and privacy.<\/li>\n<li>We are customers and owners &mdash; not resources to be harvested, annoyed, or badgered into ever more services and upsells.<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Making great computers must remain Apple&rsquo;s top responsibility, because if you don&rsquo;t do it, nobody will.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/03\/small-ways-the-app-store-could-be-improved-for-developers\/\">Small Ways the App Store Could Be Improved for Developers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/apples-50th-anniversary\/\">Apple&rsquo;s 50th Anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/23\/2025-six-colors-apple-report-card\/\">2025 Six Colors Apple Report Card<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/18\/apple-succession-planning\/\">Apple Succession Planning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/17\/nowhere-else-to-go\/\">Nowhere Else to Go<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment (Mastodon): I urge you, on behalf of everyone who loves computers as much as we do, to protect and cultivate this spirit of Apple&rsquo;s founders as the company&rsquo;s top priority: We love computers. We don&rsquo;t hide that &mdash; we celebrate it! We use computers to enhance our minds, lives, and abilities &mdash; not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-04-03T18:14:41Z","apple_news_api_id":"d604bc15-5ab0-46e0-b428-408cd3db260f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-04-03T18:14:41Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A1gS8FVqwRuC0KECM09smDw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,2250,31,2877,30],"class_list":["post-51476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-services","tag-ios","tag-john-ternus","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51477,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51476\/revisions\/51477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}