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Coogan: AI providers will eventually pay Apple to route search queries
“Now my real hot take is that I think it's going to flip at some point. And I think Google or someone else is going to pay Apple To route LLM queries to them, because with the universal commerce protocol, agentic commerce protocol with ads and LLM responses, th…”
Frank: Apple will make $40B from ad data exchange in two years
“They will get probably forty billion dollars in the next two years from just ad data exchange. I think that's tracking.”
Gurman: Apple's 2027 smart glasses will not feature visual displays
“The first version won't have displays, like the older metal Ray-Bans or the base level metal Ray-Bans. Those are coming out in twenty-twenty-seven.”
Coogan: Apple approved a multi-billion dollar 2026 cloud AI model budget
“Apple has already improved, approved a multi-billion dollar budget for two, 2026 for running its own models via the cloud, but plans For that beyond remain, for beyond that remain murky.”
Hays: Apple's iPhone Duo will completely avoid a display crease
“In this video, there is no crease. I'm sure the YouTube tech reviewers will be hunting in all different lighting for creases, but it feels like Apple waited long enough to avoid a crease whatsoever, so you will get no crease.”
Hays: Apple will build proprietary smart glasses rather than partner for eyewear
“My expectation, my uninformed
expectation is that Apple will just make Apple glasses, right?
They will probably, I, it's hard to see them taking the route at least early on of partnering and allowing another company to influence the design language”
Hays: Apple will block iMessage data portability to Google's Gemini
“I have zero faith that there will be any portability. And the reason for that is Apple's paying Google to effectively, yeah, white label the model, leverage Gemini in the next version of Apple intelligence. And they're just gonna be focused on integrating it w…”