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This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: With Apple’s huge Worldwide Builders Convention hurtling at us like an AI-powered hype practice, we as soon as once more put our skilled reputations on the road. That’s proper, it’s time to make our WWDC24 predictions.
We’ve acquired a particular wild-card query this time round. And you may play alongside, in the event you’ve acquired the nerve!
Additionally on The CultCast:
- iPhone 16 Professional might deliver some loopy new show tech.
- Marvel Studios’ new Imaginative and prescient Professional app is the form of content material Apple’s headset wants. The “I’m a Mac” man’s newest PC advert is the form of advertising the world can do with out.
- Invidia’s inventory worth overtakes $AAPL as Wall Road goes gaga for AI.
- We talk about the newest iPhone 16 rumors in addition to some last-minute iOS 18 leaks.
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The CultCast dwell stream: WWDC24 predictions & iPhone rumors
This week’s high Apple information
On the present this week: Your host Erfon Elijah (@erfon), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace) and Cult of Mac author D. Griffin Jones (@dgriffinjones).
Listed below are the headlines we’re speaking about on this week’s present:
Marvel’s What If…? reveals off the promise of spatial gaming
- Marvel Studios’ new What If…? An Immersive Story is a free app for Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional headset that mixes interactivity with storytelling in a brand-new approach.
iOS 18 leaks:
‘I’m a Mac’ actor returns with lamest PC advert but
- In a brand new Qualcomm advert, which promotes the corporate’s Snapdragon X Elite chips, former “I’m a Mac” man Justin Lengthy works on his MacBook at a kitchen desk. Notifications hold popping up throughout his head. He swats them away with irritation. Then he varieties in a Google search: “The place can I discover a Snapdragon-powered PC?” Yeah, proper.
- Watch the advert on YouTube
Battle over blood oxygen function cuts into Apple Watch gross sales
- Apple Watch shipments dropped nearly 20% yr over yr within the first quarter of 2024. Market analysts blame a few of the decline on Apple being briefly pressured to halt gross sales resulting from a patent dispute over the watch’s blood-oxygenation measurement function.
iPhone 16 Professional’s show might sport severely small bezels
- The iPhone 16 Professional might sport the world’s slimmest bezels on a smartphone. Its borders apparently will measure a scant 1.2 mm, with the iPhone 16 Professional Max boasting even slimmer bezels at simply 1.15 mm.
Apple’s market cap passes $3 trillion … however so does Nvidia’s
- Apple, which spent years because the world’s most useful publicly traded firm, is now in third place.
Our WWDC24 predictions
You possibly can see our daring votes on Griffin’s WWDC24 predictions web page. Plus, you possibly can submit your personal predictions right here.