Laura Legros walked onto an Apple stage inside the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on 30 October 2018 and introduced a laptop. Justin Lane of EPA-EFE filed his picture that afternoon with a caption identifying her as Apple Vice President, Hardware Engineering. Apple's own recap of the day was blunter still: "Laura Legros unveils the all-new MacBook Air, featuring Retina display, Touch ID and all-day battery life."Eight years later she has become the first personnel decision of the John Ternus era. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported on 3 August 2026 that Ternus, who takes over as Apple's chief executive on 1 September, has brought Legros out of retirement as a vice president reporting to him.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
As a technology journalist with over sixteen years of experience, I have travelled the world and the seven seas, covered every major tech conference worth its lanyard, chronicled the defining breakthroughs of the last decade and a half, and played a pivotal role in launching some of India’s most important technology publishing platforms across web, print and TV.
