Founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple is best known for making some of the world’s most ubiquitous consumer devices, software, and services: the iPhone, iPad, iMac and MacBook computers, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iOS, iCloud, iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and many more. Led by CEO Tim Cook since 2011, Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world alongside Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
The Apple TV series just wrapped up its hilariously dark first season.
Prime Day hasn’t started yet, but the latest AirPods Pro have already fallen to a new low price.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman also said more third-party chatbots in Siri and modular Apple Watch faces are coming later this year, despite not making an appearance at WWDC.
Gurman also points out a few hints at WWDC about Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone, which could launch as soon as September, as well as a touchscreen Mac.
Siri is better, but its limitations are much more obvious on a Mac than an iPhone.
What is a photo, iOS 27 edition.
That’s Katie Dippold, creator and showrunner of the horror / comedy hybrid Widow’s Bay, which Apple just confirmed has been renewed. The news comes just ahead of the season 1 finale, which streams on June 17th.
The deposition in Apple’s lawsuit against Prosser is scheduled for June 16th, according to a status report filed on Wednesday.
Read more about the lawsuit in my article from April.
The headline feature is the camera upgrades, but the smart home app is getting more new features, including energy monitoring.
As spotted by Matter Alpha, the first iOS 27 dev beta introduces a dedicated Power tab that displays the total energy consumption of compatible devices. There’s also an improved onboarding flow for new devices and support for Thread 1.4.
Now that we’ve had a couple of days to digest all the Siri AI updates, the new corner radii, and everything else Apple announced at its developer conference, we spend the episode answering all your most burning questions. What non-AI stuff are we excited about? How much catching up did Siri really do this week? And wait: what about the HomePod?
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AI health coach fatigue is creeping in, and it’s doing the concept more harm than good.
The 5,458-acre site in Wittman, Arizona, was once the centerpiece of Apple’s ambition to build its own self-driving car. But after Tim Cook pulled the plug on Project Titan, the tech company put the testing ground up for sale. The deal, recorded June 5th in Maricopa County filings, is for $220 million — nearly twice the $125 million Apple paid for it in 2021. And it comes as Waymo expands its presence in Arizona, including new office space in Tempe.
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The Walkie-Talkie app for Apple Watch that lets users send push-to-talk voice messages to one another over FaceTime has been quietly removed in the first watchOS 27 developer beta, with no option to reinstall it. It was first introduced alongside watchOS 5 in 2018.
Look, I haven’t tried the dev beta of macOS 27 Golden Gate yet, and by all accounts it’s got some good improvements. But with that name, you’re just asking for trouble.
yomitomu:
I’m just waiting for the first controversy with this new OS so we can call it Golden GateGate.
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The European Commission and Apple are at loggerheads over Siri AI after Apple blamed EU law for delays. Brussels says nothing in the law blocks a launch. Apple says compliance would create unacceptable privacy and security risks.
The standoff continues.
It’s basic, but ‘it works’ is a big deal.
Last year’s macOS Tahoe was the last version to officially support Intel Macs, so it’s not a big surprise that Apple now doesn’t require Mac developers to offer versions of their apps that are compatible with Intel machines.
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“This includes the ability to redistribute, amplify, or interact with user-generated content through a social feed or similar discovery method that visibly spreads content to many users,” Apple says.
If an app has these “social media capabilities,” it will affect the app’s age rating and it’s measured in Screen Time’s Time Allowance. Whether or not those capabilities are available to users under 13 will also affect the rating and Time Allowance measurement.
Long before Steve Jobs was the unstoppable force of nature atop Apple, shipping hit product after hit product, he was practically run out of the company after a series of bad product and management decisions. But as Geoffrey Cain argues in his new book, Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary, the 12 years Jobs spent outside of Apple turned him into the leader the world came to know. Cain joins the show to talk about Jobs’ experiences at NeXT and Pixar, how Jobs learned to be a successful leader, and the true power — and danger — of the reality distortion field.
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Apple blames DMA for delaying Siri AI in Europe. The EU says nothing is stopping Apple from launching it.
The company has some new ideas on ‘What is a photo?’
The company is going all in on AI agents, but how will its years-late promises compete in today’s AI market?
Siri AI and Image Playground will get all the hype, but Apple can actually make our lives better in Safari and Shortcuts.
Initial impressions of macOS Golden Gate’s design refinements show promise, but there’s still lots to come.
Apple’s WWDC keynote leaned heavily on a new Siri and updated Apple Intelligence features, the most advanced of which will only run on an elite cadre of Apple devices… not including the “Built for Apple Intelligence” iPhone 16.
morgannels:
So the iPhone 16, which was sold as being built for Apple Intelligence, was not only built for an Apple Intelligence that didn’t exist, but also turns out NOT to have been built for the Apple Intelligence that will exist?
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The first beta build of iOS 27 is dropping hints of Apple’s first foldable, just like the macOS 27 beta did a few hours ago.
Literally — the upcoming visionOS 27 update lets you add a glowing, animated Siri AI ball anywhere on your workspace, and ask questions when you look at it. It’ll even shine light on any nearby surfaces, making it truly feel like part of the environment.
