How Will Apple Change Under Its New CEO?
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2026: Foldable display
2027: Bezel-less iPhone 20 (celebrating the iPhone's 20th anniversary)
CNET's web sites (which include ZDNET, PCMag, Mashable and Lifehacker) are even [3]hosting a contest "to see which of our readers can make the best Apple predictions for 2026. Answer five questions in any of our three rounds of the contest to be entered to win [$applePrize] in September."
But the blog 9to5Mac already has [4]a list of new upcoming Apple products , courtesy of Bloomberg's Mark Gurman (who appeared [5]on the TBPN podcast this week "to talk about Apple's CEO transition, what to expect from John Ternus, and more."
> As part of the conversation, Gurman said: "There are six major Apple products in development right now, six major new product categories." Here's the full list he shared:
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> 1. AI AirPods
> 2. Smart glasses
> 3. Pendant
> 4. Smart display
> 5. Tabletop robot
> 6. Security camera
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> [...] Gurman has [6]reported on the Pendant before as a new AI wearable that's an alternative to AI AirPods and Glasses. All three products are expected to rely heavily on a paired iPhone for Siri and other AI features. The smart display ('HomePad'), tabletop robot, and security camera are all brand new Apple Home products.
The AI features arrive " [7]thanks to the revamped Apple Foundation Models trained by Google Gemini ," reports the AppleInsider blog (citing Gurman's Power On newsletter at Bloomberg). The smart doorbell camera will include "an Apple Intelligence-upgraded version of the facial recognition already included with HomeKit Secure Video. Today, HSV can utilize the Apple Home admin's tagged faces in their Photos app to label people that are viewed on the camera. When a known person rings the doorbell, Siri will announce them by name over the HomePod chime."
[1] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/04/20/221244/apple-ceo-tim-cook-is-stepping-down
[2] https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/iphone-evolution-2026/
[3] https://www.cnet.com/tech/what-will-apple-do-next-guessing-game-2026/
[4] https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/23/apple-has-six-major-new-product-categories-coming-says-mark-gurman/
[5] https://www.youtube.com/live/CD9iwAqesrY
[6] https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/17/apple-accelerating-work-on-three-new-ai-wearables-per-report/
[7] https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/04/26/apples-ai-push-alone-will-generate-three-new-hardware-categories
It’s a bit charitable to say (Score:2)
“Siri and other AI features”.
Siri is ddduuummmbbbbbbb.
I’m pretty pro-Apple. Their ecosystem is awesome. Most of my devices are Apple. But Siri is clearly just a placeholder for some future development that makes voice assistants more useful.
Please, John, (Score:2)
Ternus around! We need a new direction here at Apple.
Security camera like we need an system with apples (Score:2)
Security camera like we need an system with apples storage markup unless it's for homes and linked to an online service.
But I don't see apple makeing an multi cam system that will be priced good as that does not really need high speed flash at priced at $400/TB
Maybe Apple would be more enterprise friendly? (Score:2)
I'd like to see the new CEO make Apple more enterprise and business friendly. Start selling a complete ecosystem again, which may not make as much money as the devices directly, but it is profit coming in, and people would buy them. For example, if Apple started making an updated Time Capsule with S3 capability for backups (including object locking), a streaming server where devices can use that server for GPU rendering, revamping ABM/ASM to have more business-friendly features, and offering an enterprise
Re: (Score:2)
I'd like to see Apple get back into the networking/router business. The only reason I gave up my old Airport Extreme was problems with buffer bloat on a slower ISP connection. Tim Cook would talk about "owning the critical parts of the infrastructure", and it seems to me that WiFi counts.
I replaced that Airport with an Ubiquiti Dream Machine about 5 years ago. The unboxing of that Dream Machine was a direct rip-off of the Apple Airport Extreme. The initial configuration of that was painful (even with a
Apple robot? (Score:1)
No thanks. Robots have heaps of moving parts. Apple has already shown how difficult it is to repair its 4-button iDevices, imagine trying to keep one of their robots functioning.
Nothing really compelling here. (Score:2)
A lot of these things are to access AI. And while I'd love smart glasses that let me tag people so I can always put a name to a face, such an application is a privacy nightmare. Same for AI assistants. Now I understand why companies are scrambling to bring AI into their ecosystem, so far I've not seen many compelling use cases for AI, not in the form of devices like these.
As for facial recognition in security cameras, I already have a solution for that, and it kinda works. Completely off-line and off
He's smooth (Score:2)
My impression of John Ternus is that he is very media-trained to the point of being a condescending bullshitter.
Tim Cook had sometimes looked slightly embarrassed. Not with this guy. Therefore, my very personal gut reaction is that I'd expect him to take more risks than Tim Cook had done, for better and for worse.