Developer betas, Apple Intelligence, and a lighter Apple Vision Pro on the AppleInsider Podcast
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ποΈ 11 July 2025
β±οΈ 74 minutes
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Summary
This week, Apple released a third iOS 26 developer beta, and lost an Apple Intelligence executive, all on the anniversary of when Steve Jobs came back to the company, plus there's news of what's next with the Apple Vision Pro.
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- Wes on Bluesky
- Wes Hilliard on email
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Links from the Show:
- Returning Steve Jobs took over Apple 28 years ago, on July 9, 1997
- Tim Cook isn't going to get fired, and Steve Jobs isn't rolling over in his grave
- Meta lured AI exec away from Apple with blockbuster $200M pay package
- Meta poaches Apple Intelligence executive amid larger leadership restructure
- Samsung may have built a new factory just for folding iPhone displays
- Apple's design team leadership in flux once again with Jeff Williams retirement
- Apple COO Jeff Williams retiring later in 2025, replaced by SVP Sabih Khan
- Apple seeds third developer betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26
- What's new in iOS 26 beta 3: Wallpaper color options, stronger blur effects, and more
- Third tvOS 26 developer beta arrives one day late
- Apple A19, C2, M5 chip identifiers all leaked in early iOS 18 code
- Apple: EU App Store micromanagement demands are illegal, fights $570M fine
- TikTok builds new US app version ahead of planned sale
- DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app
- What Apple products will get hit the hardest by Trump's new tariff orders
- FTC 'Click to Cancel' rule that was annoying some services cancelled by the courts
- Faster, more comfortable Apple Vision Pro rumored to arrive in 2025
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:32) - $200 million is less than you think
- (12:21) - Jeff Williams leaves, Apple is doomed
- (19:01) - Steve Jobs versus Tim Cook
- (28:15) - Developer betas
- (34:31) - Identifiers
- (36:26) - Controversy Corner
- (01:01:24) - LIghter Apple Vision Pro
- (01:07:26) - Outro and reviews
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Appensider Podcasts. I'm William Gallagher. Our sponsor this week is Oracle. More about that later. And I'm joined by Wesley Hilliard, who was telling me, right, like second before the recording, that he would like to now be paid $200 million. |
| 0:26.1 | Frankly, only I and somebody poached from Apple by META get paid that much. |
| 0:29.4 | So, Wes, hello, and how are you managing on your what? |
| 0:31.8 | Measley, $190 million? |
| 0:34.4 | Yeah, give or take, it's somewhere in there. |
| 0:38.0 | I think I'll be okay, especially, I might be out of money, though, |
| 0:41.1 | because I might have to buy an iPad Pro and a Vision Pro all in the same two-month period this fall. |
| 0:44.2 | It's getting really busy out there. |
| 0:46.6 | Have to buy them. |
| 0:48.0 | Absolutely have to. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm being forced. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm obliged to do this. |
| 0:52.1 | Okay. |
| 0:54.6 | Since you bring up iPads, let me just say that Apple's Island Plus this week is about, I think, |
| 1:00.3 | a quick way of saying is what we wish we'd known sooner. |
| 1:03.3 | Specifically, these, you know, this kind of little tips, the really tiniest of tips for |
| 1:07.9 | Apple devices like the iPad, the Mac and all this stuff, that maybe because |
| 1:12.5 | they are small, they have a huge impact. Those things that once you know them, you use them all |
| 1:18.2 | the time. Now, I don't know what Wes has got in mind, but I'm guessing iPads will be in there, |
| 1:23.9 | and I'm coming with like this boatload of Mac tips and that's in |
| 1:27.5 | Apple Insider Plus if you're a paid subscriber you hear up inside of plus just by kind of |
| 1:32.0 | sticking around if you're not yet a subscriber though you can fix that in a thrice and a |
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