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Apple Car canceled, iOS 18 design changes, AirPods with cameras

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin and Chance react to the shock news of the cancellation of the long-gestating Apple Car project, and Mark Gurman details some of the future wearables Apple is pondering including smart glasses, rings, and AirPods earbuds with integrated cameras. We are also anticipating some design changes in iOS 18, but recognize Apple has likely learned the painful lessons of the iOS 6 -> iOS 7 transition.

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Chance Miller

Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

Mayo, would you wear airpods that had cameras coming out of the stem of some sort?

0:05.0

I don't see. I don't have an aversion to it. I think, really. Okay.

0:11.0

Well, I think the future clearly is some way of having a outward facing camera for your life, right?

0:20.0

Not necessarily to take photos with, but to, you know you know AI the outside world as it

0:25.1

whereas you're looking at something you can say tell me more about this you know

0:29.2

you're looking at recipe cards and it can like read it tune in the if it's in another

0:32.1

language you can read it back to you.

0:34.0

And putting cameras in headphones

0:38.0

is maybe more, maybe more amenable to customers than wearing headsets and glasses, possibly, if you see what I mean?

0:48.0

Possibly. Yeah.

0:50.0

This comes from Mark Germin in his power on newsletter.

0:52.6

He basically said there are three different wearable categories

0:56.6

that Apple is kind of exploring.

0:59.0

In addition to the Apple watch,

1:00.1

so he says Apple is exploring AirPods with cameras, smart glasses, and some sort of smart ring.

1:06.4

Based on his reporting, it sounds like the AirPods with cameras are further along in development, just maybe ever so slightly further along.

1:15.6

The glasses in ring are in early discussion stages.

1:19.6

The idea of Apple branded glasses kind of like the medare bands actually think that's pretty cool

1:24.8

the medare bands seem to be like well-reviewed and popular yeah and they don't do very much

1:29.7

right they're like a good balance though they take they can take photos and videos at a pretty good quality and a point of view of having them on your eyes is obviously really good.

1:39.0

But that seems to be the primary use case that I've seen people wear them for.

1:44.0

And that you can like talk to an assistant while you're walking around without having to get

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