Apple Teases 'Innovations That Have Never Been Seen Before' This Year

[MacRumors]

Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that his company will have opportunities to deliver "innovations that have never been seen before" this year.

"As I said at the beginning of my remarks, this was, in so many ways, a remarkable quarter for Apple, and we're excited for all the opportunities we'll have in the year ahead to deliver innovations that have never been seen before and enrich the lives of users every step of the way," said Cook, on an earnings call on Thursday.

Cook hypes up Apple's future on every earnings call, but "innovations that have never been seen before" is particularly bold wording compared to his usual comment about how the company's product pipeline is stronger than ever.

Only time will tell if Apple actually delivers.

Will the foldable iPhone have any breakthrough features, such as a rumored crease-free screen?

Will the more personalized version of Siri go above and beyond the likes of ChatGPT in any ways?

Will the long-rumored Apple smart glasses do anything unique compared to the Meta Ray-Bans?

Will the rumored Apple smart home hub, security camera, and Face ID video doorbell give companies like Google and Ring a run for their money?

These are some of 2026's burning questions, and we look forward to seeing what Apple has in store throughout what should be quite a busy year.

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[RedWeasel]

What about "bugfixing that we've never seen before"?

 

[Mr. Nice]

Thanks, Google! 😎

 

[ridgero]

So Tim is cooked?

 

[StuBeck]

I'm sure they have awesome features coming. But they also said this 18 months ago that we'd get a personalized Siri, and they just had to punt this to another LLM entirely. Lets hold off on the gloating about how great everything is until they deliver on what was promised in 2024.

 

[germanbeer007]

how many times will Tim Cook say "enrich the lives" before he retires? get your poly market bets in

 

[GianL]

The image suggests he is thinking about coloured cheap plastic laptops...

 

[Admiral Fart]

Odd, I've seen a foldable phone and half-baked AI shoehorned into things before. What I haven't seen is Apple walking back a poor design choice quickly. Replacing Liquid Glass in iOS 27 would be something really innovative.

 

[Andres Cantu]

That's quite the hype considering none of the new rumored products for this year are new product lines outside of Apple. Can they be better? Sure, but "have never been seen before" sounds like a stretch.

 

[Palliser]

More subscriptions.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

I wouldn’t read too much into this. Knowing his history, he’s probably referring to new iPhone case colours.

 

[jarman92]

Is it because he’s finally leaving? 🙏🏻

 

[MayaUser]

folded iphone is not enough just to have crease free....but also the user experience...just an iphone with bigger apps will be garbage UI like the first ipad was. Nobody wants to go back in time

 

[oneMadRssn]

The image suggests he is thinking about coloured cheap plastic laptops...

Toiletseat iBooks again!

 

[abowlby]

Those would be welcomed, but they are far from being innovations we've never seen before.

 

[txmike418]

Maybe a fully baked and bug free iOS? I remember the days when it just worked, why have to wait till the x.7 release for the platform to stabilize?

 

[everlast3434]

Hopefully it's all Built for Apple Intelligence!!!

 

[assquatch]

Home seems like an underserved segment. Apple's current implementation is half baked. All the competition are charging subscription fees and vacuuming up your data. Seems right in Apple's wheelhouse.

 

[Dave245]

I'm interested to see the iPhone Fold.

 

[switz]

Wow! Still waiting over 18 months for the misleading advertising that Siri and AI needed the iPhone 16 to take advantage of these "amazing" products POSSIBLY happens. I am now wondering if my iPhone 17 Pro Max 2TB has the ability to run those two products?

Seems like good old bait and switch advertising. Tim will have sucker pouched those two generations of iPhone buyers in the stomach when they announce that only the iPhone 18 can run this stuff.

The smell of the world's largest pile of bovine by products is wafting through the air coming out of Apple.

The heck with new features, just get the basic operating system on all of the Apple products functioning as advertised.

 

[hieranonymous]

I really hope he isn’t just talking about foldables, because that would be boring AF.

 

[tonmischa]

Fix Bugs.

Roll back Liquid Glass.

Bring back the mini.

 

[bassanoclapper]

Polishing Cloth 2, here we come

 

[JosephAW]

He’s only talking about the Apple ecosystem, whatever they come out with it’s been around on androids for the last 10 years.

 

[crsh1976]

All I want is a new AppleTV, the rest is just noise to me.