Apple’s upcoming hardware roadmap, AirPods marketshare, new Vision Pro strap
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin and Chance react to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman report on what Apple is planning to ship over the course of the next twelve months, as well as the details of a near-term refresh for the Vision Pro including a more comfortable strap. Apple launches a new Emoji puzzle in News+, AirPods marketshare is revealed in a new study, and Apple sweeps the Emmy nominations.
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Chance Miller
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Benjamin Mayo
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Links
- Gallery: Tim Cook and Eddy Cue attend Sun Valley 'summer camp for billionaires'
- Apple Vision Pro 2 with more comfortable strap and upgraded chip is coming later this year
- A cheaper Apple Vision is still a few years away
- Apple planning new Mac external display, MacBooks, iPads, and more for early 2026
- You can bring back Launchpad in macOS 26, but you shouldn't
- Apple News+ launches clever new ‘Emoji Game’ for iOS 18.4 and later
- Emmys 2025: Apple TV+ lands nominations in all major categories
- With 81 total Emmy nominations, how did each Apple TV+ title do?
- Market with Apple TV
- Apple News+ launches clever new ‘Emoji Game’ for iOS 18.4 and later
- CIRP: AirPods regain market share, but overall growth stalls
- Mayo’s Threads post on watchOS 26
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mayo, how was your trip to Idaho last week? |
| 0:04.0 | I take it that you were in attendance at the Sun Valley Conference. |
| 0:08.5 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:09.2 | I was hoping nobody out with all the billionaires, yeah. |
| 0:11.5 | The summer camp for billionaires is what it's colloquially called. |
| 0:16.5 | Usually, there's no reason at all to talk about this because it is so unbelievably secretive that we never learn anything about what happens. |
| 0:26.1 | Cook and Q. |
| 0:26.5 | It's like, go every year and they go in the secret doors and then that's it. |
| 0:30.7 | And they're never seen again. |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.6 | And it's like, who else is there? |
| 0:34.0 | It's like, Jeff. |
| 0:35.1 | I don't think Jeff Bezos was there this year actually because he just he just got married or whatever, but there's like, Sam Altman was there, Sun Darpichai was there, Spotify, Disney, Bob Iger. |
| 0:45.6 | A handful of very rich, very powerful people. |
| 0:49.8 | Get behind closed doors. |
| 0:52.1 | You know what I think of when I think about Sun Valley now is the, did you watch |
| 0:57.2 | Succession? |
| 0:58.7 | You remember that episode they did where they like Perry did it? |
| 1:03.4 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:04.2 | I can't remember what they called it, but it was where they were trying to close the, like |
| 1:10.4 | the merger between Waystar Royco and what was the other company? |
| 1:16.1 | Oh, I can't remember. |
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