On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss WWDC 2023 and whether Apple's long-awaited mixed-reality headset will emerge at the event.
Earlier this week, Apple announced that 2023's WWDC will take place between June 5 and June 9. Apple is believed to have recently shown off the headset to its top 100 executives in a "polished, glitzy, and exciting" event at the Steve Jobs Theater ahead of the device's expected announcement at WWDC.
However, reports claim that Apple employees have serious concerns about many aspects of the headset, such as its price, weight, and usefulness – questioning if the device is "a solution in search of a problem." Most recently, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo corroborated many of these worries and reported that Apple has pushed back mass production of the headset yet again and cut shipment expectations for this year, casting doubt over whether it will appear at WWDC at all.
We also discuss Apple Music Classical, iOS 17, Apple Watch blood glucose monitoring, the rumored MacBook Air with an OLED display, and Apple TV+.
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Top Rated Comments
But even without the ability to stream hi-rez to a headphone device on the iPhone, why Apple doesn't just incorporate this into their current Apple Music app escapes me...
Tim Cook et al testing the AR Headsets (Blueberry, Lime and Strawberry)
11:49 ('https://youtu.be/j-51nt83Ik4?t=709') Just weird.
Anyway, hopefully the app will help educate people what it is all about…
But it is still very strange and perplexing that there is no Classical app for MacOs or iPad.
The video is probably good but I wouldn’t click on that.