Apple will officially host the WWDC2026 Global Developers Conference at 1 a.m. on June 9. This is Apple’s most watched blockbuster event this year.Mark Gurman, a well-known Apple industry chain whistleblower, said that WWDC2026 will most likely be the last public conference that Apple CEO Cook will attend as CEO. The core releases of this conference include the iOS 27 system and the new version of Siri that has been polished for two years.

He also mentioned that the newly launched large model function of Siri was a major core project that Cook was deeply involved in and promoted throughout the entire process. It was also a landmark product that led the entire company to shift to the AI ​​​​track during his later period at the helm of Apple.


In April this year, Apple officially announced that current CEO Cook will transition to executive chairman of the board of directors, and senior vice president of hardware engineering John Ternus will officially take over as Apple's CEO from September 1, completing a smooth management transition.

This also means that Cook, who has been in charge of Apple for 15 years, will officially step down as CEO this year and write a major chapter in his career as a professional manager.

In 2011, Cook took over the management of Apple from the late founder Steve Jobs. At that time, Apple's market value was approximately US$348 billion, its revenue in a single quarter was less than US$30 billion, and the entire company was far smaller than it is now.


During Cook's 15 years at the helm, Apple's market value once exceeded US$4 trillion, with single-quarter revenue stably exceeding US$100 billion. Annual revenue has grown from US$108 billion in fiscal year 2011 to more than US$416 billion in fiscal year 2025.

At present, the number of active global installations of Apple's entire ecosystem has exceeded 2.5 billion, and the overall scale of its high-margin service business has already exceeded 100 billion U.S. dollars, delivering a growth report card worthy of being recorded in business history.

This WWDC2026 is the last core product launch conference led by Cook before leaving office. The new version of Siri launched is also regarded by the outside world as an important AI asset he left to Apple's management. The subsequent development direction of the entire Apple will also be based on the release content of this conference as the core benchmark.