This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: Apple Glasses, next-gen AirPods rumors, HomePod Touch pricing and models, and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors.
Apple Glasses could one day run visionOS in two different modes
Over the weekend, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg shared a couple fascinating details about what to expect from future Apple Glasses products.
He said that Apple’s smart glasses are “likely to run the Vision Pro’s operating system, visionOS.”
And per his sources, a future glasses product “could operate the full version of [visionOS] when it’s paired with a Mac, and then switch to a lighter, more mobile-friendly interface when it’s linked to an iPhone.”
My takeaways
Ever since it became clear that Apple Glasses were a higher priority inside Apple than Vision Pro, I wondered how the two products lines might converge in the short and long-term.
The idea of having future Apple Glasses run a stripped down visionOS while on the go, and a more full-fledged version when connected to a Mac, makes so much sense to me.
If this is what Apple truly has in mind for the future, I’m more excited than ever for the new line of glasses products to arrive.
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