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Prediction Held up
Siegler: iPhone Pro will retain a better camera system than foldable iPhone
“The pro will continue to have the best camera system. Largely, it seems like simply because of laws of physics, right? And the way that the foldable is gonna be more space constrained you know, by the, by its nature.”
M.G. Siegler Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 29:06 Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
Prediction Held up
Siegler: Apple's next CEO will be John Ternus or Craig Federighi
“It has to be sort of between those two, between Ternus and Federighi. But everyone, you know, all the reporting points to Ternus. And so you have to believe that that's the thing.”
M.G. Siegler Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 47:52 AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
Prediction Held up
Siegler: Tim Cook will become Apple chairman instead of fully retiring
“I don't think Tim Cook is actually going to leave leave. I think he would become, yeah, like chairman.”
M.G. Siegler Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 5:18 Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
Prediction Held up
Siegler: OpenAI and Jony Ive's AI Device Will Likely Slip to 2027
“Like, cause their original reports, right. Where that it was going to be Probably sometime at the end of next year, the end of 26. And so, you know, this to me signals that this is more like a 2027 type thing now.”
M.G. Siegler Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 28:09 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Prediction Held up
Siegler: Nvidia likely to participate in OpenAI's new round instead of $100B deal
“Actually with open AI doing their new fundraise, it's more likely that NVIDIA is just going to be a part of that fundraise.”
M.G. Siegler Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 27:20 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
Prediction Held up
Siegler: Apple will not show glasses, foldables, or AirPods at WWDC
“They're not going to show off the new glasses. They're not going to show off the fold. The AirPods like are maybe the closest, you know, thing that we have to an AI device. It's likely ready, more ready to roll. I just be shocked if they do that.”
M.G. Siegler Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 50:25 Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
Prediction Held up
Siegler: SpaceX Will Go Public Within Days
“That a lot could change in between now and the time that they would go out, but SpaceX is going to go public, you know, this week, the end of this week or early next. And so or maybe the 11th, you know, at the latest or whatnot.”
M.G. Siegler Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 1:08:03 Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Siegler: Meta will announce its superintelligence model 'Avocado' within weeks
“We're probably a few weeks away, maybe less from whatever they're going to, you know, announce in terms of coming out of their new AGS super intelligence efforts, their avocado model.”
M.G. Siegler Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 32:06 AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
Prediction Held up
Siegler: xAI and SpaceX merger sounds likely and may be announced this week
“If they really do merge with SpaceX, which it does sound like now, is gonna happen, and may even be announced this week, which is insane how fast that that came together, if it comes together in that way.”
M.G. Siegler Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 41:57 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
Prediction Held up
Big Tech cannot cut AI CapEx due to catastrophic FOMO risk
“I think that it won't be so easy also for, as I noted, for all these companies to pull back spend because they've already committed to buying X number of H. 200 chips, and then soon enough, we'll get the next iteration, you know, announced down the road, and s…”
M.G. Siegler Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 43:16 How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
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