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Bloomberg: Apple Postponed Its Camera Pendant, and Is Prototyping a Screenless Fitness Band
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Wearables, Rumors,
An always-on camera hanging from your neck is a lot to ask of a person. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple has landed in roughly the same place, at least for now. Gurman says the company has postponed its AI pendant, the small camera-and-microphone wearable that was meant to feed Siri a live look at whatever is in front of you.
Gurman has described it as something you could hang around your neck, clip to your clothes, or wear on your body, with the camera doing the job your phone camera does now when you point it at a menu and ask what to order. Prototype descriptions in the reporting put it near the size of an AirTag, a thin disc of aluminum and glass with a button on the side. Apple has never announced it, never named it, and has said nothing about any of this.
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The OLED iPad mini Is Reportedly Close. Not Every Rumor About It Is Solid.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Handhelds, Rumors,
The iPad mini has the smallest and most stubborn fan base Apple has. It is the tablet people read on in bed, wedge into a jacket pocket, and keep for five or six years because nothing else is quite that size. It also goes the longest between updates, which means every mini rumor gets picked over harder than it deserves.
This round is the biggest in years. Reporting from Bloomberg, plus a scatter of supply chain leaks, points to a new iPad mini as early as October with an OLED screen, a much faster chip, and a sealed body that survives a splash. Apple has announced nothing, and these claims are nowhere near equally solid, so here they are sorted by how much weight the sourcing carries.
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Twitch’s CEO Put GTA 6 Multiplayer in 2027. Nobody at Rockstar Has.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Rumors, Video Games,
The most specific thing anyone has said about Grand Theft Auto 6's multiplayer mode this year came from a man who doesn't work at Rockstar Games.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy sat down with Bloomberg to talk about what GTA 6 will do to his platform's numbers, and somewhere in the middle of it he put a date on an online mode nobody has announced. "You are going to see this big bump with GTA 6, but then an even bigger one next year when they launch multiplayer." Next year is 2027. Rockstar has never said that, and neither has Take-Two.
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Apple Reportedly Wants to Sell M8 Ultra AI Servers, and Nvidia May Be Wiring Them Together
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Rumors, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple has not sold a server since the Xserve was discontinued in 2011. According to a report from The Information, it is thinking about going back, with a machine built for AI developers, businesses and governments. Apple has confirmed none of it, and the earliest anyone expects the thing to exist is 2029.
The report describes two configurations: a smaller one with two M8 Ultra chips clustered together, and a larger one with four. They would be built for inference, the running of trained models rather than the training of them. Apple has reportedly been at it for about a year, with backing from John Ternus while he was still running hardware engineering. He is CEO now. The report also says the project could be scrapped before it ships.
Gurman Says Apple’s Foldable Is Called iPhone Duo, Supports Apple Pencil, and Starts at $2,000
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Rumors,
The foldable iPhone has a name, and it is not iPhone Ultra. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman posted last night that Apple settled on iPhone Duo, with a $2,000 starting price for 256GB, storage running up to 2TB at roughly $3,000, Apple Pencil support, and two colors: dark blue and white. It ships in October.
Apple has confirmed none of that. The keynote starts at 10:00am PT today, which means every line of this gets confirmed or corrected within a few hours. Gurman's track record on Apple's roadmap is about as good as it gets from outside the building, so it is worth taking seriously. It is still not official until Apple says it on stage.
Apple’s Camera AirPods Were Supposed to Debut Today. Now They’re a 2027 Product.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Portable Audio / Video, Rumors,
Somewhere in a version of today's Apple event that no longer exists, there are earbuds with cameras in them. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple planned to show off high-end AirPods with built-in cameras at the 10am Pacific keynote, and then took them off the schedule. They are now aimed at 2027.
This is Gurman's reporting, not an Apple announcement. Apple does not comment on products it has not shipped, and it has not commented on these. Gurman has been tracking the earbuds all year, though, and the story has held its shape even as the date kept sliding.
Gurman Says Apple Has 14 Products Coming by Early 2027, Starting Next Week
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Rumors,
Fourteen products between now and early 2027. That is the roadmap Bloomberg's Mark Gurman sketched out this week in Power On, rounded up Friday by MacRumors, and it would make the next five months one of the heaviest release runs Apple has ever attempted. None of it is confirmed. Gurman has a good record on Apple's plans, but a roadmap is a report, not a product page.
What Apple has actually said is small. There is an event on Wednesday, September 9, at 10am Pacific and 1pm Eastern at Apple Park, and marketing chief Greg Joswiak posted the tagline, "Surprise and shine." That is the whole official story. Everything below comes from reporting, and where the reports disagree, we say so.
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Apple Reportedly Built an Apple Pencil for the Foldable iPhone, Then Backed Away
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Rumors,
Apple built an Apple Pencil for its folding iPhone, and then appears to have talked itself out of it. That comes from Mark Gurman's Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, published Sunday. He describes a stubbier Pencil, sized for a phone rather than an iPad, that snaps magnetically onto the side of the device to sit and charge there. Apple tested it. Gurman says it probably will not be announced next month, and probably is not going on sale at all.
Apple has confirmed none of this, and none of it is a product. It is one reporter's account of an internal prototype, and killing prototypes is a normal part of how hardware gets made. The reasons he gives describe why a stylus on a folding phone is hard before anyone gets near the software.
Chip Tariffs Could Reach Laptops and Game Consoles
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: PC / Laptop, Rumors, Video Games,
Taxing a chip and taxing the laptop that chip lives inside are two very different policies. One duty falls on a component. The other falls on the whole machine, and the customs value of a machine is a lot bigger than the customs value of the silicon in it.
On August 27, Politico reported that the Trump administration is weighing the second version. Citing eight people familiar with the discussions, Politico said officials have been working on a round of semiconductor tariffs that would reach finished products built with chips: laptops, gaming consoles, and data center servers. CNBC and Reuters both picked the story up the same day, and Reuters noted it could not independently verify it. Nothing has been signed. No rate has been reported, and there is no effective date, because there is nothing yet to make effective.
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The Ceramic Apple Watch Might Be Coming Back
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Wearables, Rumors,
Every year around this time, the Apple rumor mill produces one story that fans want to be true so badly that it spreads faster than its sourcing deserves. This year it is the ceramic Apple Watch.
The claim: Apple will bring back a ceramic case with the Apple Watch Series 12, expected at next month's September event. It would be the first ceramic Watch since the Series 5 Edition in 2019. It is a genuinely appealing idea. It is also, at the moment, one post on X.
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