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This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: With Apple’s large Worldwide Builders Convention hurtling at us like an AI-powered hype prepare, 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 received a particular wild-card query this time round. And you may play alongside, should you’ve received the nerve!
Additionally on The CultCast:
- iPhone 16 Professional may carry some loopy new show tech.
- Marvel Studios’ new Imaginative and prescient Professional app is the type of content material Apple’s headset wants. The “I’m a Mac” man’s newest PC advert is the type of advertising and marketing the world can do with out.
- Invidia’s inventory value overtakes $AAPL as Wall Avenue goes gaga for AI.
- We talk about the most recent 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 means.
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 preserve popping up throughout his head. He swats them away with irritation. Then he sorts in a Google search: “The place can I discover a Snapdragon-powered PC?” Yeah, proper.
- Watch the advert on YouTube
Battle over blood oxygen characteristic cuts into Apple Watch gross sales
- Apple Watch shipments dropped nearly 20% 12 months over 12 months within the first quarter of 2024. Market analysts blame a few of the decline on Apple being quickly compelled to halt gross sales attributable to a patent dispute over the watch’s blood-oxygenation measurement characteristic.
iPhone 16 Professional’s show may sport critically small bezels
- The iPhone 16 Professional may 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 respected publicly traded firm, is now in third place.
Our WWDC24 predictions
You’ll be able to see our daring votes on Griffin’s WWDC24 predictions web page. Plus, you possibly can submit your personal predictions right here.