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Roy: Consumers will not let AI book travel tickets for a long time
“No one is gonna book a ticket, let AI book the ticket for them for a long time.”
Siegler: Apple's folding iPhone will be a big hit
“I think so. I mean, again, this is a little bit going against the grain because it does feel like that people are maybe not skeptical of it, but I know you and I've talked about it, right?”
Kantrowitz: 2026 Will Be Apple's Best Year Ever
“Without a doubt, I think, twenty-twenty-six will be Apple's best year ever.”
Cramer: Apple outsmarted everyone by moving slowly on AI
“You know, I think that they outsmarted everyone.”
Siegler: Apple AI chief John Giannandrea will likely step down soon
“Like he will probably not be there for very much longer unless he were to fully step into just a full on research thing, which is what LeCun did right for a long time before he stepped back.”
Siegler: Apple didn't need an AI narrative to spur an iPhone supercycle
“Apple was so focused on that. They need the AI narrative to like, Spur a new super cycle or something of iPhone sales, and it turns out they didn't need that after all, it looks like.”
Siegler: Apple will not release a screenless AI hardware device
“I don't think you'll see Apple do like, yeah, like a screen lists AI device.”
Siegler: Apple went all-in on Vision Pro and timed the market completely wrong
“The device itself is just way too bulky, way too heavy. Everything about it is just inconvenient to use. And it's just the time, the market completely wrong. And obviously they couldn't have known AI was coming as in as hot as it did, but like, you know, they …”
Siegler: A $1,000 Apple Vision headset still would not be a hit
“Even if they did a quote unquote vision or vision air and say, it was like even a thousand dollars, do you think it's going to be a massive scale, you know, hit device? I don't think that it would be.”
Apple's iOS ecosystem positions it to beat Meta in smart glasses
“Apple is in a much better position to win here. I mean, they can connect it to iMessage. They can connect it to all the apps on your phone. So I'm not sure what claim Meta really has besides being first to market here.”
Mark Zuckerberg is deeply frustrated by Meta's dependency on Apple and Android
“The thing that I saw him the most frustrated about in our conversations was the fact that he has to go through Apple and Android in order to deliver his services. He hates just being an app on the phone”
Roy: Meta's Flawed Live Demo Builds More Developer Credibility Than Apple
“I actually think it's going to give a lot more credibility among developers that this is real and it's wonky and it didn't work on stage right now, but they're at least showing what is real rather than Apple.”
Levie: Apple and Amazon Can Still Catch Up in AI
“The companies just mentioned, like, I don't think the, those spaces have been so utterly disrupted that, that that they can't catch up once they land on a final architecture.”
Roy: Pixel's system-level Gemini integration is vastly superior to Siri
“Having Gemini integrated into the like system layer of the phone is so different Than trying to use Siri.”
Kantrowitz: Apple will release a folding iPhone next year and curved glass after
“This is the first of three consecutive years of new model releases. It's going to start with the iPhone. Air this year, next year, they're going to move to the fold in the year after the curved glass”
Ranjan Roy refuses to believe Apple's AI translation works until proven
“Apple I will admit, they, I have lost faith. Like, the demos they did with Siri two, a year and a half ago now, or two, a year ago, like, I don't, until I actually see the live translation in action working well, I just don't believe that it's real.”
Google Barred From Paying for Safari Search Exclusivity
“I mean, now one of the interesting things in the ruling was that Google can no longer pay for the exclusive position Within things like Safari. So it can, can't be paid Apple to be the only thing, but it's allowed to pay for distribution.”
Apple Leans Toward Google Gemini for Siri Summarizer and Planner
“Apple has been leaning towards using a custom built Google Gemini model for the summarizer. And it's also considering using a Google model for the planner function as well.”
Apple and Google Agree to Test Gemini Model for Siri
“The company's reached a formal agreement this week for Apple to evaluate and test a Google developed AI model to help power the voice assistant.”
Levie: Big Tech will avoid tens-of-billions-dollar AI mega-acquisitions
“So I would more bet not on one of these very large multi-tens of billions of dollar deals, simply because there's other paths to get there that are not as complicated.”
Kantrowitz: Apple risks losing phone sales without deep AI integration
“And if you wait for let's say a Samsung or some other Android to deeply integrate with a competitor and provide this experience while you're just standing still and you don't have this integrated into your operating system, I think you could really end up losi…”
Kantrowitz: Anthropic's safety branding fits Apple better than OpenAI's 'chaos'
“I think they probably, if they've met with both leadership teams, I think they probably are a company that would absolutely go for Dario's safety branding. Like it's the safety company with the privacy company versus open AI, which is kind of like the chaos pr…”
Kantrowitz: Perplexity CBO Confirms No M&A Discussions with Apple
“He told me that Apple and perplexity haven't had no MNA discussions.”
Kantrowitz: Siri's 15-year record shows Apple's AI is far behind competitors
“I think that's actually a fine strategy, but only if your AI works really well. And well, the state of Siri the actual ship stuff over the past 15 or so years suggests that it doesn't. They have to get their AI house in order and catch up”
Siegler: Apple should outsource Siri to ChatGPT while rebuilding it
“OpenAI already did it, and so either Apple just, you know, fully, more fully bakes it in, which I still think, by the way, they should probably do with Siri while they rebuild Siri, right? Just totally outsource it to ChatGPT.”
Kantrowitz: Acquiring Perplexity would be Apple's largest acquisition by far
“This is why I've been jumping up and down on the table for them to acquire perplexity would be the biggest acquisition in their history by far.”
Siegler: Android Currently Lacks an AI Killer App Over iOS
“I don't think that that's necessarily the case right now for exactly the reasons that we're talking about, because I don't think that there's exactly the killer app that, that makes Android that much better than iOS right now.”
Siegler: Apple must rethink Siri and AI almost from scratch
“They're just sort of not talking about it because they literally can't right now because they had to rejigger the whole team. They have to sort of, if not completely start over from scratch, at least sort of look at everything from, you know, starting over fro…”
Siegler: Apple's WWDC Only Merited Two of Five Stars
“When I say two out of five stars, I'm giving Apple, you know, a little bit of benefit of the doubt here, just because, like, it easily, I really think, could have been a zero out of five stars, given how little they had to talk about AI.”
Roy: Apple's on-device AI doesn't matter because latency isn't the issue
“I don't think it matters at all, because latency is not the problem. Privacy, maybe some could argue, and we're going to get into OpenAI and chat retention in a little bit, but like, that's not the issue Apple's having right now. Just making a barely functiona…”
Kantrowitz: Google-Apple Search Deal Threat Is Big Tech's Most Underrated Liability
“I think it's one of the most underrated liabilities for big tech companies. It's a company, it's one of the most underrated liabilities for a big tech company today, if not the biggest.”
Roy: Vision Pro Is Incredible Technology, Unlike Apple Intelligence
“Vision Pro, maybe DUD, but Amazing piece of technology. I actually think that was very different than Apple Intelligence. That was almost like too forward looking a piece of technology or too niche, but still an incredible piece of technology. Apple Intelligen…”
Roy: Apple acquiring Anthropic is the most logical move
“More than ever, Apple needs to buy Anthropic. It's the most logical thing imaginable. They're having trouble on the consumer side. They have to fix the underlying.”
Kantrowitz: App Store dark pattern revelations won't hurt Apple with consumers
“Apple has been able to weather so many storms like this and nothing seems to stick. And I think it's just because people love iPhones so much that like, this is not going to resonate with the individual user. So I think that that is not going to be a big deal.”
Roy: Apple remains the most vulnerable Big Tech firm to tariffs
“Apple still is the most vulnerable, but the most promising part of that was the 50% in India.”
Parker: Apple is more impaired by tariffs than Nvidia
“I think Apple is more impaired than some of the other business models are. I certainly think it's more impaired than Nvidia.”
Roy: Apple's Blunder Was Promising Everything at Once With AI
“So I think Apple, the biggest letdown, and again, going back to the gap between promise and reality, is they essentially promised everything all at once to everyone. Rather, rather than being like, okay, let's solve the, go to your inbox and answer all of your…”
Albergotti: Apple is considering using Amazon's custom Trainium AI chips
“And they've got some other, you know, some other customers as well, like Databricks, Apple is considering it you know, poolside, which is like a kind of hot AI company.”
Kantrowitz: Apple Intelligence failure costs Apple more public credibility than Maps
“What they said was taken as gospel. They rarely fair, rarely failed in public. When they did, it was non-consequential, like Apple Maps. I mean, Apple Maps is nothing compared to Apple Intelligence. Now they're failing in public, and they're losing credibility…”
Albergotti: Apple scaled back innovation for years and fell behind in AI
“This has been a gradual thing that's been going on for many years as the company has sort of scaled back on innovation, really leaned on the fact that it's walled garden. Some might call it a monopoly. And it really, I think used that marketing power, that goo…”
Albergotti: Apple is fundamentally just an iPhone company unlike its diversified peers
“All the other big tech companies are kind of like doing everything now, right? They're like, you know, Meta is, is doing their own AI chip and spending billions of dollars to roll out these data centers. Sure. Apple, Apple is going to do that too, but I think …”
Panos Panay: No competitor comes close to Alexa's home understanding
“I don't think there's anyone close to be able to understand your home as Amazon, as Alexa.”
Enjeti: Apple Intelligence is a complete bust and its summaries are garbage
“But Apple intelligence has been a complete bust. I'm an idiot for buying this phone. It's really, it's not different at all. AI, Apple AI summaries for my text messages are garbage. Literally less than useful.”
Kantrowitz: Apple Intelligence is tech's biggest presentation-to-reality failure
“Look, I've been doing this for a very long time, and I can tell you I've never seen an instance where you have such a high stakes presentation from such a prominent company that undelivers to this, under delivers to this magnitude. It is astonishing how bad it…”
Enjeti: Apple has largely abandoned software development for the Vision Pro
“They haven't updated this thing at all guys. Like, for anybody out there, I can't even tell you how much they've just abandoned this thing completely, so if you don't like any of the day one stuff on it, do not get it, because they haven't, they've barely done…”
Apple has failed to successfully implement its Apple Intelligence features
“Apple intelligence is almost the perfect example of the problem that I'm pointing toward, which is that we have this technology that's so promising, and yet even Apple cannot implement it successfully. And that might, I mean, obviously it says something about …”
Newton: Acquiring Snap could advance Apple's AR hardware project by years
“Apple could sort of immediately put their sort of AR tech into practice, and maybe advance their you know, AR hardware project by a few years.”
Newton: Apple Intelligence is built for users two years behind cutting-edge AI
“If you're, like, a tech nerd, like we are, and you want to live in the future, and you want to, like, use tools to improve your life, you would not be using any of the Apple intelligence stuff, because it, like, it truly is aimed at somebody who is two years b…”