Apple Rumors

While Apple may not be making any monumental jumps into AI just yet, the company acquired a startup last month that leverages machine learning technology to compress and decompress videos, as first spotted by TechCrunch.

In yet another sign that Apple’s upcoming headset is nearing launch, the company covertly showed off the device during a “glitzy” presentation at the Steve Jobs Theater, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

The fancier iPhones will apparently switch from a mute switch to a mute button this year, and new renders in a video spotted by leaker ShrimpApplePro reveal that it, well, looks like a button. If this is the real deal, I’m curious if it will be an improvement over the switch, which has been an iPhone staple since the very first one.

Within an article examining the shortfalls of AI voice helpers over the last few years, like Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri, the New York Times has a note about Apple’s internal tech demos:

While Apple has been exploring the idea of adding health-focused features to its AirPods for years, now Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman believes this is finally on the horizon.

Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks so, but the company’s design team? Not so much, according to a report from the Financial Times.

Japanese blog Mac Otakara shares, based on a Weibo post (via MacRumors), a whisper that Apple will launch a new yellow iPhone 14 variant this spring.

That’s according to leaker Ice Universe, who shared renders of what’s supposed to be the iPhone 15 Ultra, which 9to5Mac later corroborated.

The company’s highly-anticipated mixed-reality headset hasn’t even been announced yet, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says it’s readying a second device equipped with a “more powerful” processor.

All that talk about computational photography but at the rate we’re going the iPhone 39 Pro Ultra will have like seven full-frame sensors.

An Apple patent (PDF) awarded on Valentine’s Day hints at future iPhones with touch-sensitive volume sliders and folding screens.

After saying that Apple’s buy now, pay later service is “nearing public release” last week, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now believes it could launch as soon as March or April.

That’s according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who also says the iPhone 15 will support Wi-Fi 6E. (That’s not too surprising, given the newest iPad Pros, Mac Minis, and MacBook Pros support Wi-Fi 6E, too.)

Plugged-in analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is updating the rumors for 2024’s MacBook Pro lineup before we even have a chance to touch the laptops Apple announced today.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple’s gearing up for a new product announcement tomorrow. Could it (finally) be the M2-equipped 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros?

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman believes Apple will bring its planned in-house MicroLED displays to the iPhone a “few years” after it adds them to the high-end Apple Watch Ultra in 2024.

On the Vergecast we discuss the possibility of touchscreen Macs, and what it all really means for pressing confirmation buttons, zooming in on maps, or maybe using an iPad app or two.

With Nilay roaming the wilderness of upstate New York, I talked to Alex and Dan as we imagined the possibility of Macs with OLED screens that you can touch and tried to figure out what MicroLED would do for us.

In addition to ditching a high-powered M2 “Extreme” chip, Apple tracker Mark Gurman reports that the new Mac Pro might not come with user-upgradeable RAM, either.

On the most recent Vergecast episode, we speculated about Apple’s plans for a new Mac Pro and what it might be like when it arrives with one of the company’s M-series chips inside.