Apple’s Vision Pro leader, Dan Riccio, is retiring

Dan Riccio, a long-time Apple enforcement formerly successful complaint of hardware, is retiring from the institution this month, Bloomberg reports.

Riccio has been with Apple for 26 years, and oversaw immoderate of the company’s astir palmy caller hardware, including the AirPods, the iPad Pro, and ample iPhones, arsenic Bloomberg notes. He besides headed up projects specified arsenic the Apple Car, which never came to be, and the Vision Pro, which has struggled to summation overmuch of a foothold.

He was replaced arsenic SVP of hardware engineering — a relation he’d had since 2012 — by John Ternus successful 2021. At the time, helium was said to beryllium taking implicit an unspecified “new project” that yet turned retired to beryllium the company’s VR headset. Now, the Vision Products Group, volition beryllium nether the purview of Ternus, who has been rumored arsenic a candidate to regenerate CEO Tim Cook successful the future.