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Mark Gurman leapfrogs iOS19, call for jump to iOS26, and suffers a spatial anomaly

2025 is looking like "Last Chance At the Colloseum" from Ancient Rome to get it right. Creaking infrasructure with bolted on bits of old and new Siri and "artifical" and "intelligence" walking off in different direction at the same time.

Tommo_UK

30 May 2025 — 1 min read

"I can see clearly now I've taken off my Apple Vision Pros, what's with iOS 26?" - anon

NEW: Apple will announce its biggest ever software rebrand at WWDC, tied to operating system redesigns. Apple is moving from version numbers to years (like Windows in the 90s). The new OSs: iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, visionOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26. https://t.co/bS4CksGkqW
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) May 28, 2025

Except this wasn't new, Mark, and Gurman is opeating in His Own Private Idaho again regurgitating this as news, when it's been underway since November 2024 after the Vision Department collapsed under the weight of Dan Riccio, the AVP was scrapped, the Vision OS team re-deployed to help give Siri some much needed trauma therapy and the AI team found their OS "bolt ons" kept on falling off like bad bits of velcro. Somewhat like most of Gurman's predictions.

Personally I really couldn't care less what they call it; I just hope it works, now that the software engineering team, earlier in the year, did a huge mea culpa and admitted they'd taken their eye so off the ball with the internicine back stabbling intra-department that 2025 is looking like "Last Chance At the Colloseum" from Ancient Rome to get it right. Creaking infrasructure with bolted on bits of old and new Siri and "artifical" and "intelligence" becoming rather more akin to siamese twins seperated at birth and both wanting to walk off in different direction at the same time.

Since speculating about this from November 2024 when AI was obvioulsy about to suffer a coronary and Siri was quickly going down with dememntia, I can't wait >dry 🙄< to see what on earth "Over the Horizon" means for WWDC 2025.

AAPL and the VIX: Siamese Twins in a Market That Forgot Risk Exists. Hedge, Don’t Edge Yourself

NVDA’s print has traders chasing a Santa rally while the VIX quietly sits in the low 20s, pretending risk is optional. AAPL’s climb-and-collapse should be a warning: blow-offs don’t end in celebration. If protection was a gift at 14, it’s still mispriced now.

AAPL S/R @ ~$272 Today, Where Hope Goes To Die Again, While China Props Up the CNBC Narrative.

AAPL’s five-day chart is a stumble down a staircase with no handrail. $272 has become the market’s favourite rejection zone where every bounce goes to die. Meanwhile CNBC cheers China’s ‘33% surge,’ quietly omitting that Beijing’s subsidies are doing most of the lifting.

Apple’s Next Big Risk Isn’t AVP – It’s Making John Ternus CEO. Nice Guy, Wrong Job.

Apple seems ready to replace Tim Cook with John Ternus. But with misses in mixed reality, AI, smart home, autonomy and the iPhone Air, he’s the wrong leader for a company that’s arguably lost an edge. Apple needs fresh vision, not a hardware continuity candidate doubling down on 5 years of misfires.

AAPL: A Pullback to $225 On The Cards? And A Reason Maybe, Why Not

An exercise in making the case for a pullback to $225, unless, of course, Apple manages something genuinely new for a change. Let’s give hopium the elbow and stick to observable reality for now, though.

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AAPL and the VIX: Siamese Twins in a Market That Forgot Risk Exists. Hedge, Don’t Edge Yourself

AAPL S/R @ ~$272 Today, Where Hope Goes To Die Again, While China Props Up the CNBC Narrative.

Apple’s Next Big Risk Isn’t AVP – It’s Making John Ternus CEO. Nice Guy, Wrong Job.

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