Siri AI, Snap Spectacles, and iPhone rumors, on the AppleInsider Podcast

Siri AI is turning out to be absolutely brilliant, except when it's absolutely atrocious, while your two hosts are having radically different experiences with it on the new betas. Then Snap Spectacles hope to be radically new, and there are rumors about the iPhone 18, iPhone Fold, and the iPhone Air 2 as well, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.

Contact your hosts:

• @williamgallagher_ on Threads
• @WGallagher on Twitter
• William's 58keys on YouTube
• William Gallagher on email
• Wes on Bluesky
• Wes Hilliard on email
• Wes's blog Hillitech

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Links from the Show:

• iPhone Air successor with two cameras rumored for spring 2027
• iPhone's 20th anniversary could be marked with an iPhone Fold 2
• Here we go again: Supply chain thinks iPhone Fold will ship in 2027, not 2026
• Strident leaker insists iPhone Fold is not delayed at all - Fixed Focus Digital
• iPhone 18 will get 12GB to fully benefit from Siri 
• Apple products are going to get more expensive, says Cook
• Apple Vision Pro's biggest problem isn't addressed in visionOS 27, but progress is progress
• macOS Golden Gate beta review: it's nothing without Siri AI
• Snap built standalone AR glasses without a convincing reason to wear them
• Apple's Game Porting Toolkit 4 is great to play modern games
• Apple's AI agents in Xcode 27 make vibe coding easier

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:45) - Betas
• (04:59) - iPhone Air 2 and iPhone Fold
• (27:19) - iPhone 18
• (34:01) - macOS Golden Gate
• (41:08) - iPadOS
• (57:34) - Snap Spectacles
• (01:02:24) - Game Porting Toolkit 4

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