Tim Cook

Chief Executive Officer, Apple - Leading Apple since August 2011

Apple announced a March 4, 2026 product launch spanning New York, Shanghai, and London—its first major hardware event of the year. The company is expected to unveil MacBooks powered by M5 processors, updated iPads, and the iPhone 17e featuring Apple's in-house cellular modem. The simultaneous three-city format, unusual for Apple, signals the company's intent to make a global splash.

Updated Feb 16

Chief Executive Officer, Apple Inc. - CEO amid active succession planning and executive churn

After more than a decade of remarkable executive stability under CEO Tim Cook, Apple experienced its largest leadership shake-up since the post–Steve Jobs reorganization, spanning from March 2025 into early 2026. The company repeatedly delayed its flagship Apple Intelligence upgrade to Siri, signaling strategic and engineering problems in artificial intelligence (AI). By early December 2025, Apple’s longtime AI chief John Giannandrea announced he was stepping down, human interface design chief Alan Dye joined Meta, and Apple revealed that general counsel Kate Adams and environment/policy head Lisa Jackson would retire in 2026, with Meta’s legal chief Jennifer Newstead coming in to run a newly combined Legal and Government Affairs organization.

Updated Feb 6

Chief Executive Officer, Apple - Leading Apple's silicon and services strategy; announced record Q1 2026 results

Apple launched its Creator Studio subscription service on January 28, 2026, bundling Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for $12.99 monthly—about one-sixth Adobe Creative Cloud's price. The software debuted without the expected M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models, but recent leaks show the chips in iOS beta and reseller stock dwindling, pointing to an imminent launch with macOS 26.3 in February or March. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman continues to expect high-end models 'in the first half of 2026,' with code names J714 and J716.

Updated Feb 5

CEO, Apple - Leading Apple as it defends App Store control while reworking U.S. rules under court pressure

This case keeps producing the same kind of drama: a judge orders Apple to loosen its grip, Apple complies in a way that still protects the money, and Epic comes back yelling “that’s not compliance.” On December 11, 2025, the Ninth Circuit mostly backed the trial judge’s contempt finding that Apple played games with the anti-steering injunction—but clipped parts of the punishment.

Updated Dec 12, 2025