Developers, Design Awards, and WWDC on the AppleInsider Podcast
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4.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
It feels like we're seconds away from WWDC, which rumor says will either be feature-packed or very lightweight. In the meantime, Apple is giving out awards and defending the App Store, on the AppleInsider Podcast.
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Links from the Show:
- Millions of apps were denied by Apple in 2024 amid fraud crackdown
- Apple Design Award winners for 2025 include Balatro, Watch Duty
- Apple teases OS redesign with new 'Sleek peek' splash page tagline
- Five more iOS 26 features leak from a reliable source
- AirPods expected to gain new head gestures, Camera Control revival
- How to watch WWDC 2025 on iPhone, Mac, Apple TV & web
- Lighter than normal WWDC expected without significant Apple Intelligence upgrades
- Siri Chatbot prototype nears ChatGPT quality, but hallucinates more than Apple wants
- macOS 26 rumored to be called 'Tahoe'
- Apple appeals against EU mandate that it freely share its technology
- Apple appeal to pause injunction enforcement allowing external linking fails
- visionOS 26 may eventually offer full support for PlayStation VR2 spatial controllers
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (01:12) - Switch 2
- (08:05) - WWDC
- (12:53) - Apple relations
- (36:33) - Apple Design Awards
- (48:48) - iOS 26
- (52:45) - Apple in China book
- (56:19) - visionOS
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm your host, Wesley Hilliard, and I'm joined once again by William Gallagher. |
| 0:12.7 | Our sponsors this week are Oracle and Nordlayer. |
| 0:15.7 | If you pay for Apple Insider Plus, you don't hear about sponsors. |
| 0:20.5 | You're going to be hearing about our iOS and iPadOS 26 wish list. |
| 0:25.9 | So stay tuned after the show. |
| 0:27.7 | We're going to get into that. |
| 0:29.2 | But today, we're going to be spending some time on WWDC itself, Apple and developers, and developer relations, and talk a little bit more about what's going |
| 0:40.5 | on in the world. Busy Newsweek, but also a little bit light in other ways. William, how are you doing? |
| 0:46.8 | Well, I'm mostly okay, but I'm also incredibly curious. Can I just go straight in with this? |
| 0:52.0 | I remember last week I was saying that you're the guy I always think of for iPad questions |
| 0:56.6 | and Applevision pro questions. |
| 0:58.0 | But right now, I want to plug in the fact that basically you're American. |
| 1:02.0 | So maybe you can answer something that's a mystery to me over here. |
| 1:06.3 | Are you up for a little interrogation now? |
| 1:08.8 | Do you want me to just, you know, tease it on a little bit? |
| 1:11.2 | Keep you waiting. |
| 1:13.2 | Well, maybe we'll get into that in a second. |
| 1:15.4 | But first, I want to point out as we record, |
| 1:18.1 | it is June 5th, which is the release day of the Nintendo Switch 2. |
| 1:22.8 | And lo and behold, I have one. |
| 1:25.5 | I went yesterday. |
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