Apple's 2026 Smart Glasses: Five Key Features to Expect

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Smart glasses are a big privacy issue and this is definitely a grey area for Apple to expand into. They used to be all about privacy but that's thrown out the window with smart glasses!

 

[darngooddesign]

Exactly. It's quite sad (as well as infuriating). Our 3 kids LOVED the iPods...I think they got them around age 6. They had a bunch of kids songs on them, they took pix and videos here and there, and that was it. But they loved, loved them. And for ~$200 and tons of fun colors, it was a great device for young kids. Personally I would also love to have one like the Classic as it would save so much battery life...make me a Classic (with a lot of storage) that has a screen the size of the iPhone but only able to play tunes. Take my $600. I will still need (and want) an iPhone, but man would I love to have just a great Apple MP3 player again.

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[Johannes Von Zerstorong]

Right? I miss the days when apple simply released the first personal computers, first digital music players, first smart phone, first tablet, first wireless earphones, first VR headset, etc...

The first ones that were not pathetic.

 

[ChrisMac47]

Exactly. It's quite sad (as well as infuriating). Our 3 kids LOVED the iPods...I think they got them around age 6. They had a bunch of kids songs on them, they took pix and videos here and there, and that was it. But they loved, loved them. And for ~$200 and tons of fun colors, it was a great device for young kids. Personally I would also love to have one like the Classic as it would save so much battery life...make me a Classic (with a lot of storage) that has a screen the size of the iPhone but only able to play tunes. Take my $600. I will still need (and want) an iPhone, but man would I love to have just a great Apple MP3 player again.

It's not just kids that loved iPods ... many many of us did!

To me, the iPod era represented the best of Apple innovation. Nearly every new generation of iPod was different in design, and there was an iPod for every price point low to high.

Compare that to Apple's present lack of innovation in the iPhone, which basically has not changed much since the original one in 2007 ... yes, there are incremental new chips, incremental displays, incremental cameras most years but the same old design. In fact, the usability has gone backwards, as since the iPhone 14 they cannot even be used one-handed. Can't they come up with some new form-factors and hardware user interfaces (as they did for the iPod)? And how about a better range of prices, especially at the lower end outside the US, say starting at $299 or $399?

 

[darngooddesign]

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[ArtOfWarfare]

In your scenario, if I'm Apple, I buy Warby-Parker and push the smart glasses through them. Tons of different styles, all sorts of infrastructure for eyeglasses, etc.

Apple needs you to recognize their product - see the Apple Watch. It's not mistakable for anything else. They can let the part that attaches to your face have a customized style.

I think their existing retail operations can probably handle getting them to customers fine.

 

[darngooddesign]

Apple needs you to recognize their product - see the Apple Watch. It's not mistakable for anything else. They can let the part that attaches to your face have a customized style.

I think their existing retail operations can probably handle getting them to customers fine.

Apple sold a wide variety of bands which are the part of the Apple Watch that attaches to your wrist.