96% of CNET Readers Were Dead Wrong About WWDC
96% of CNET Readers Were Dead Wrong About WWDC
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Publish Date: 2026-06-11 12:05:00
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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote is over and we’re still unpacking every feature and what it means for you and Apple’s ecosystem. And it’s a lot.
As expected, WWDC was all about software and AI developments, from iOS 27 to Siri AI and its ability to automatically group tabs by topic and add new ones for you. Apple also unveiled a wide range of artificial intelligence — or should we say Apple Intelligence? — features coming soon.
We’ve unpacked everything announced at WWDC 2026 to give you the rundown of what’s coming. But let’s first get into the results of CNET’s Big Guessing Game.
The CNET Group is hosting a Big Guessing Game contest across its websites — CNET, Lifehacker, Mashable, PCMag and ZDNET. Throughout three rounds of guessing you can predict what Apple will unveil this year. Each answer you get right earns you one chance in a drawing to win the latest Apple Watch announced in September.
The Big Guessing Game Round 1 was all about Apple’s new software (think iOS, iPadOS, VisionOS, WatchOS and MacOS). And now that WWDC’s keynote is over, here are the results so far — and what we still don’t know.
Watch this: Everything Apple Unveiled at WWDC 2026
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Apple’s new CEO did not speak at WWDC
June’s WWDC keynote was likely the last one for Apple CEO Tim Cook before he resigns in September. And while 96% of CNET readers expected Apple’s incoming CEO, John Ternus, to speak, he didn’t. So congrats to the 4% who called it.
Here’s some food for thought. Cook was Apple’s chief operating officer before being named CEO. He was less involved in product development and announcements and instead built and refined the robust supply chain ecosystem that helped Apple become a trillion-dollar company.
Ternus is currently Apple’s vice president of hardware engineering and has been part of Apple’s keynotes before, but he didn’t speak this time. We’ll have to see if any special announcements come from Ternus in the coming months, but…
