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Siegler: Apple will not acquire Safe Superintelligence for tens of billions
“I don't think that they're going to do a deal. That's like, you know, the thirty billion dollar, 3040, fifty billion dollars that it would take to buy safe, super intelligence just to do that.”
Siegler: Apple will eventually develop in-house AI rather than rely on Google
“They now have the sort of bandaid stopgap. If you want to call it that a very good bandaid in the Google deal, but eventually Apple's going to want to own this and do this themselves. And so they need the right person. That they now have a years of runway than…”
Cramer: Smart glasses displacing the iPhone is far off
“I'm using the iPhone, but I still think that it's a long way off as,”
Kantrowitz: Meta poaches Apple UI design chief Alan Dye
“Apple's head of user interface design, Alan Dye, along with the deputy and maybe some other team members, went over to Meta. Meta poached them.”
Siegler: Apple would prioritize a second iteration if iPhone Air succeeded
“I view it as this like awkward in between device right now. And you know, whether or not it was actually delayed, I think that there's no question that if it was a major hit that apple would be moving heaven and earth, try to get a second iteration out there, …”
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.”
Kantrowitz: Apple dramatically cut iPhone Air production after it massively flopped
“We also know that the iPhone Air is basically a massive flop there. They cut back production dramatically. It doesn't seem like They're working on a next edition.”
Siegler: Gemini Deal Buys Apple Time to Gradually Swap In In-House AI Models
“I do think that they'll continue to work on their own models internally, and then, you know, they can, but this Gemini potential partnership allows them, buys them a lot of time to basically be able to swap in their models, and they don't have to do it in even…”
Kantrowitz: Close to a dozen Apple AI leaders have left for Meta
“I think this is, what, close to a dozen. Folks from Apple's AI division that have left to Meta, including a large percentage of, it seems like a large percentage of its leadership.”
Siegler: Luxottica retail partnership was Meta's smartest smart glasses move
“I do think the smartest thing that they did was partner with Exeter Luxottica because the biggest strength that Apple obviously has beyond all their in-house expertise is also the retail channels, right? Like they can move product because they have stores arou…”
Siegler: Next Vision Pro update will only bring chip and headband upgrades
“They're obviously about to release a new version with just an upgraded chip. It's apparently going to have a slightly better headband, which is nice because the current one is not any good, but beyond that, it will just be a chip upgrade.”
Lee: Apple may lag early AI before taking market lead
“Apple might Do what they did in, oh, two and seven. They weren't cutting edge and making the first mobile phone, but they, in 2007, after the bubble burst, introduced the iPhone, and so, maybe they'll wait for AI valuations to come down, or the, you know, the …”
Siegler: Apple May Release a Foldable Device Around 2026
“Obviously Apple's going to go down the path. It sounds like maybe next year. And they'll have something like that”
Siegler: Retrofitting Old Voice Assistants With GenAI Is Harder Than Expected
“It's just a lot harder to sort of go back and try to shove this new technology into that old technology, even though on a surface level, they seem like they're similar. It seems like, you know, behind the scenes, they're not similar at all. And in fact, there'…”
Siegler: Apple's On-Device Models Are Far Behind State-of-the-Art
“Are they really going to be as powerful as some of the other state of the art models out there? Obviously not”
Siegler: Apple's Retail Moat Beats Google and Meta in Hardware
“They have a retail presence, which no one else can match and for consumer goods. And so if, and when they can find sort of either that next device or that product for the current devices, they can move units and sell these things in a way that, that Google can…”
Siegler: Apple Skips John Gruber's Talk Show for First Time in Decade
“They apparently are not sending an Apple exec to John Gruber's talk show you know, event this year for the first time in a decade”
Siegler: Apple Spent as Much Time on Phone App as AI
“Apple spent three minutes talking about a phone, the phone app, like who uses the phone app anymore? Like, yeah, there's some nice little cute upgrades, but we didn't need to talk about that for three minutes when we talked about Apple intelligence for roughly…”
Siegler: Apple will not have AI fully solved by 2026
“I would say that I don't think that they'll have everything solved by 2026 by any means, but I do think I. I've heard enough sort of and done enough triangulating where I feel like they're at least now have the appropriate fires lit under their asses to get, y…”
Kantrowitz: Apple Intelligence cross-app contextual features failed to ship in 2025
“I mean, if you think back to last year's event, we were promised effectively a contextually aware assistant, Apple intelligence that could combine signals from your apps and make your life easier by doing things like searching your Gmail and telling you when y…”
Roy: Apple generates an estimated $30B from App Store payment fees
“Thirty billion. Thirty billion. That's the estimated revenue from the, directly from the payment side of it.”
Kantrowitz: Half of iPhones sold in the US were made in India
“Half the iPhone sold in the U S were made in India.”
Kantrowitz: Apple expects a $900 million tariff cost increase in June quarter
“Apple said there was no tariff impact in the March quarter. It cannot precisely estimate for June quarter, which is the current one, but estimates nine hundred million dollars in cost increases in the period. This is with an exception for iPhone.”
Roblox refuses to rely on Apple and Google for user age verification
“We've taken the posture that we can't wait for mobile providers or OS, and we have to be fully capable of doing it on our own, whether it's in age estimation, how we filter all text, how we filter all voice, all of that.”
Kantrowitz: Apple will soon release Siri-powered smart glasses to rival Meta's offering
“And I think it's not going to be too long until we see Apple build a product like this of their own, if not one with an enhanced Siri to hit one of your most favorite things.”
Söderström: Apple held roughly 98% of podcast market without investing
“Apple hadn't invested in it and they had like nine to eight percent
Of the market.”
Link: AI will be an absolute home run for Apple's app business
“Now, long-term services, I do think is going to be a home run. I think AI is going to be an absolute home run for the apps business.”
Ives: 300 million iPhones haven't been upgraded in four years
“There's three hundred million iPhones that haven't upgraded in four years.”
Ives: 100 million iPhones in China are in an upgrade window
“The biggest opportunity is you have a hundred million iPhones in China that are in a window of an upgrade opportunity.”
Kantrowitz: iPhone 16 launched with unfinished Apple Intelligence software
“To me, the big story coming out of this was a hardware event with a software focus, and the software wasn't there yet.”
Roy: Apple historically marketed immediate features rather than future promises
“Apple does not have this history until very recently of promises of where things will be in a few years. They'll tell you what you can do today.”
Swisher: Apple's AI features will be subtle cross-device integrations
“I think you'll, you'll see, it'll be something so subtle. I know you're expecting some like beautiful, gorgeous thing, but yeah, I think your phone will talk to your AirPods better and then it'll all coordinate.”
Swisher: Apple's stock is 10x higher under Tim Cook than Steve Jobs
“Tim Cook has managed to get over that, like, because the stock is so hot, you know, it's, it goes up and down, but it's about 10 X from when Steve Jobs ran it, right?”
Lanzone: All major search engines will route queries between AI and links
“This is clearly whether it's Bing,
Or ChatGPT standalone or perplexity standalone with hitting all the databases they're hitting or now Apple and Google and how they're going to do it. They're all going to be doing that the same way. And so for some queries, i…”
Doshi: Apple Is Well Positioned to Copy Google's Best AI Experiments
“And I think Apple is super well positioned to just like let Google do all those experiments and then just pluck the ones that are the best ones and use its massive install base and distribution power to deliver an amazing experience, not a rushed rushed one.”
Kantrowitz: Apple's Anti-Tracking Changes Cost Meta $10 Billion in Revenue
“I mean, there was a real hit, especially with Apple's anti-tracking moves. We're talking about a ten billion dollar loss coming in or a contraction of revenue coming in.”
Ramaswamy: Safari restricts default search engines to five preselected options
“Outside of the prescribed five, You can't change the search engine on Safari to anything else, even today.”
Sorkin: Apple App Store fee terms have only stayed flat or decreased
“In fact, at Apple, the terms have actually only gotten better, right? They've, first of all, they've either been at 30% or in some cases they've since come down.”
Sorkin: Retail investors cannot drive meme surges in mega-cap stocks
“I mean, it would be very hard For a retail base of investors to move the stock of an Apple or a Walmart or an Amazon in this kind of way.”
Kantrowitz: Apple's smart home hub push signals confidence in its AI
“You know, to me, that's just a sign of confidence that they have in their artificial intelligence that, like, they're willing to push, make this push again. Obviously, AI is going to be central to any device like this, and Apple must feel good about it.”
Siegler: Apple is adding seamless cross-device phone number switching to iOS
“They have a new software feature coming in iOS where you can basically transfer your phone number from one device to the next super easily. So you could just say like, I'm using this device now, and it will take your phone number and put it over.”
Siegler: Marketing a touchscreen Mac will challenge Apple after years of denials
“I think it'll be a marketing challenge after years and years, but Apple's done that historically, of course, said that they weren't doing something until they come out to do it.”
Siegler: Apple will pitch foldable iPhone for both productivity and media
“I wouldn't be shocked if they play that up, obviously they'll want to still talk about the productivity gains you can get from unfolding and having a bigger screen, but I do think a lot of it, you're exactly right, is going to be, yeah, just like watching YouT…”
Siegler: Apple's Klarna subscription program will expand to Europe and worldwide
“It's us only right now, but given that their partner here is Klarna, which is a European company, you would expect that probably this goes at least to Europe, if not worldwide, you know, eventually sooner rather than later.”
Siegler: Apple's CapEx spending is down year-on-year relative to peers
“Apple is still going down relative, like they're down year on year in CapEx spend relative to their peer group.”
Premium iPhone Prices Increased 65% Over the Past Seven Years
“The price of the premium iPhone model in the last seven years is up 65%. So it went from nine 69”
Stern: Cook's legacy is the iPhone ecosystem moat and operational execution
“There's like two main things that I think I'd come up with. One, building around the iPhone. Taking that moat and just building so much around it. AirPods, Apple Watch, Just extending that ecosystem to so many things. And then I think the operations and becomi…”
Anthropic previews Mythos model to around 50 critical infrastructure organizations
“The company is making a preview model of its new AI model called Mythos, available to about 50 companies and organizations that maintain critical infrastructure, including Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, and the Linux Foundation.”