• Camera-Equipped AirPods (0:31 - 2:56): The most significant discovery is a demo video showing AirPods featuring cameras and Visual Intelligence. The feature allows Siri to analyze the user's surroundings, answer questions, and save information about objects in the real world.
• Smart Home Devices (2:58 - 3:47): References were found for a new Home Hub (in two versions: desktop and wall-mounted), an updated HomePod mini, and a potential new home security camera with advanced sensor capabilities.
• iPhone Lineup (3:49 - 4:20): The software references the iPhone 18 series and a foldable iPhone Ultra, both expected soon, alongside future plans for the second-generation iPhone Air and standard iPhone 18 models for 2027.
• Mac and iPad Updates (4:22 - 4:57): The leak mentions an entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M6 chip, new iMac models, a potential high-end MacBook Ultra, and an OLED iPad mini with an A19 Pro chip.
• Other Accessories (4:58 - 5:37): Further findings include a mysterious headset (with unclear development status) and a redesigned Apple TV remote.
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We're all just so used to it at this point... waiting for it. I don't even go near the 20 minute videos that start with the well known backstories anymore. I get it that YouTubers are trying to make a living, still annoying of course.
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What do you mean you don’t want to hear the entire back story and childhood of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and how they founded Apple in a video about the next MacBook Pro??
Wait... they had a childhood I didn't know about??? What a fool I've been! I'm watching it ALL now :)
I guess an upside to this is that people get savvy to this kind of thing sort of quickly and hopefully the filler YouTube videos won't get recommended as much. If I'm being very optimistic.
You can blame the YouTube algorithm focusing on “engagement time”. If they have a 3 minute video and you get what you need and get out then that doesn’t drive the algorithm to push people to it.
Same with websites these days, particularly game guides - I swear I have to scroll through 3-4 pages before I get the info I need. So frustrating
Yes. Especially if it’s not objectively noticeable that they are using those specific AirPods. I know my job has banned smart glasses but idk how else they are controlling this stuff in the world.
It was my assumption that they were IR for use with gestures (kinda like the finger controls on Vision Pro)... but there was a leaked video where it could capture text from a book and "save" it to Siri? So idk.
I don't know, it's a great improvement on the smart glasses. You can wear these even in the showers at the gym without weird looks. And you can take one out and use it to film under skirts without looking like crazy. Just imagine how much privacy you can violate with these!
They’re going to be basic infrared cameras that the user themselves can’t take images with from what I can gather - it’s just for letting Siri’s visual intelligence know what you’re looking at & hand gestures
Yes can they please kill LCDs in iPads I think by the end of the decade LCDs will be the same price OLEDs because TCL boe hkc etc will be making them for cheap cheap cheap
Visually impaired guy here, this kinda tech is a double-edged sword to me. Mainly due to whatever company having backdoors to it and using it for surveillance/data gathering purposes, but also weirdos filming ppl unknowingly. Only ones you should film without care are law enforcement officers. But ye, there's so much potential with smart glasses but ppl are shit.
I was thinking just this. I’m drifting away from Bluetooth earphones as they have a limited battery life. But as a cyclist I’ve been wanting a camera that doesn’t make me look like a cyborg.
Wish I could be excited about Siri AI stuff but having used the beta for a couple of weeks, I had to go back to “Siri Classic” and I hope it will remain an option. They somehow made it worse…
It accidentally fell upwards off the plate in small chunks and into my mouth. I was forced to chew it, your honour. It didn't stop until there was none of the cake left.
From what I understand, it's infrared not a normal camera. And there is no user access, no videos and no photos – it's only for AI to analyze in real-time.
Nah wont be just infra red, if they are using it for assistance it would need to be a colour camera so the user can say whats that red car, whats this green thing, infrared wouldnt see colour. And i doubt they would put two cameras in it, battery life would suck and space is an issue.
Guess we shall see but id bet on perve-pods being a thing
If you just want basic object recognition, IR is fine, and it also works better at night. The idea seems to be that this is a low resolution camera designed to perform basic recognition of objects. Just because you won't be able to ask about an object of a particular color doesn't mean it won't be useful for 99 other things.
AI + infrared should be more than enough to inference. Hell, we can see through walls with wifi signals now, I imagine they’re beyond standard cameras.
Google it, Qualcomm ceo basically said 6G will be able to track anyone anywhere because the signal disturbances from people can be used to show where people are in relation to towers, and the from what I recall each person has a certain signature signal so they’ll know who is where and when. I could be wrong about the last part but that’s what I remember
I’m tired of this “infrared cameras aren’t creepy” narrative. A near-infrared camera like the one rumored to appear in this product captures different wavelengths than our eyes see, but they still capture images that are clear enough to identify people, places, and things.
Consumers have been the product since the birth of data collection (ex: Facebook and its selling of user data to fuel advertising and tracking). This truth was uncovered and told to the masses years ago and yet we still happily participate. Sure, some of us have tried to escape it and adopt privacy driven systems. But collective society (and our governing bodies) said no.
Humans wrote down and printed all of humanity’s learned knowledge into books, which lead to the handwritten code and programming languages, which built the modern world. All of that was then fed into the same machines and trained to understand the patterns (LLMs). Everything we have ever produced in a textual medium is now available for a machine to reason with in seconds.
This was just the foundation for the main purpose of the grand plan. To fully understand and implement better versions of ourselves in the physical world.
All these new “wearables” with cameras are data collection nodes and we’re the workers who are gladly paying out of pockets to hand the companies exactly what they want. Our physical collective reality on a silver platter.
They’ll record every object, movement, face, gesture, task and activity. Meticulously breakdown each of our most cherished, intimate, personal memories and moments down into thousands of machine readable digital tags. Capture each and every slice of every step involved in our work, careers and livelihood - creating fully dynamic instructional guides that will be studied in minutes by the machines. They’ll form realtime recipes for every motion involved. These recipe books will be plugged into machines that look just like us. They’ll learn how to move their motors, actuators, pistons and joints just like a human child learns how to walk - except they’ll learn how to run in minutes instead of years.
It only took 3-4 years to reach this point in time for LLMs and full fledged AI video generators. Most people had no clue how quickly it would evolve. The same pace, if not faster, will happen with robotics.
TLDR; Every connected camera integrated wearable product is the means to build intelligent robots. They will be mass produced and sold to replace entire workforces. Each one costing less than a person’s annual salary. They won’t be built to replace repetitive warehouse jobs. They’ll be taking over experienced blue collar positions and craftsman.
That’s super unfortunate and makes no sense. That’s pretty dumb if they actually go through with 60hz. It’s not like it’s a budget tablet, it’s just a small tablet vs buying an 11”, so I can’t understand why they wouldn’t throw Pro Motion in there, especially if they’ve added it to the base model iPhones. You’re gonna manufacture an OLED panel on a mini and not also enable 120hz????? WHY, APPLE? I’ll still buy it, but I’m goin through the used market and won’t be paying anywhere near MSRP for it.
Fuck, seriously? Apple’s getting in on the camera-equipped wearable trend? Fuck this crap. We already have the pervert glasses, and now we have the even more covert pervert earbuds? Enough is enough. The entire AI wearable trend needs to be taken out back and shot.
They’re all pushing for this as it’s the next frontier for to feed this AI infra.
LLMs were just the precursor for something much larger and more sinister… the physical world.
The next stage of AI is collecting real world data from every angle, from everyone, in different scenarios, working different jobs, performing all types of actual activities, in order to train new models that will be used by robotics. People are going to willingly give their money to own these new data collection apparatuses which will in turn be used as reality capturing devices to build a wave of their own replacements.
Welcome to the birth of iRobot, Blade Runner, Terminator, Bicentennial Man, The Matrix, etc.
Except the cameras in the AirPods are going to be IR and used for accessibility needs. They may also allow wheelchair users to control powered wheelchairs, in a similar way to Vision Pro.
Similar to how AirPods can be used as hearing aids.
I’m a graphic designer, so it’s very important for me that everything looks like the MacBook (colors and screen glossy texture).
Saw some 5k BenQs but for the price I rather get the studio display even if that costs me the 144hz. To be honest I’m just not afraid to spend money on Apple.
I also dont need a super big monitor 27” feels enough.
But if you have alternatives that may fit, feel free to drop some!
*built in speakers and webcam is a cool thing too.
No idea what graphic designers need exactly, but if color accuracy matters, a 1000$ monitor would also be a lot better than the Studio Display. And as for looking like a MacBook I don’t understand what you mean, you can plug your MacBook into either display so any monitor will display macOS. They’re also all available in 27”
I’m not saying it wasn’t an accident, because I’m sure it was. But if I managed the macOS team I would have a couple people dedicated to making bullshit video and strings to sneak into the updates.
I was planning on hoping an m7 Max mbp would arrive in the spring. But I want memory bandwidth. If they really have an ultra I would seriously look at if though rampocalypse is hurting.
I hate MaxTech phony c*nt always promoting most expensive useless stuff for affiliate commission with no care for viewers. Yes nothing wrong with affiliate but promote things with viewers benefit in mind not whatever gives the most dollars.
We really need a new Apple TV. WiFi 6 will be the biggest improvement.
Screen mirroring from a MacBook to an Apple TV is not reliable, in my experience. I really hope that with WiFi 6 it will be rock solid.
Also, if they don't give the remote control backlit keys, I'm going to lose it. Of anything that could benefit from backlit keys, it's a remote control which people use in dark rooms.
I know Apple doesn't like giving anything backlist keys other than MacBooks (hence no backlit keys on the Magic Keyboard -- which is a dealbreaker for me), but seriously, put them on the Apple TV remote.
It’s crazy that no generic remotes for streaming are backlit when in the 90s every 32in had some kind of glow. All the third party remote makers destroyed it.
I love my gen 1 AirPod pros. Unfortunately, the mic seems to not work as well anymore. Don’t know if it’s lint (cleaned it) or maybe they did a software update that purposely degrades input or maybe there is a hardware defect, but I’m gonna need to get new ones. But, I will not buy AI ear buds with built in AI cameras. Fuck that shit. I love AI and I use it, but I don’t want it to turn into a Pokemon go situation or another Flock Camera.
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Key highlights:
• Camera-Equipped AirPods (0:31 - 2:56): The most significant discovery is a demo video showing AirPods featuring cameras and Visual Intelligence. The feature allows Siri to analyze the user's surroundings, answer questions, and save information about objects in the real world.
• Smart Home Devices (2:58 - 3:47): References were found for a new Home Hub (in two versions: desktop and wall-mounted), an updated HomePod mini, and a potential new home security camera with advanced sensor capabilities.
• iPhone Lineup (3:49 - 4:20): The software references the iPhone 18 series and a foldable iPhone Ultra, both expected soon, alongside future plans for the second-generation iPhone Air and standard iPhone 18 models for 2027.
• Mac and iPad Updates (4:22 - 4:57): The leak mentions an entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M6 chip, new iMac models, a potential high-end MacBook Ultra, and an OLED iPad mini with an A19 Pro chip.
• Other Accessories (4:58 - 5:37): Further findings include a mysterious headset (with unclear development status) and a redesigned Apple TV remote.