Gurman: No Hardware at WWDC, Next Apple TV No Longer Coming Soon

[Searing]

It is very possible we don’t see an Apple TV this year at all. Apple is working on its own frame-gen tech, which is, at best, a year and a half away.

Moreover, the Apple TV had more than enough headroom at the moment for what it does.

The next Apple TV could have a bigger emphasis on gaming, particularly with the huge gains some are expecting out of Apple’s GPU specs in the next 2 years.

Games on the iPhone crash because of the 8GB of ram. Apple TV only has 3? 4? GB of ram. Really needs 12GB.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

You must live alone.

Nope. I still watch TV with my wife, primarily series, but other series and movie's she doesn’t watch I watch them on my Vision Pro.

 

[dgdosen]

No Siri (V2?) hardware at WWDC? I would expect we'll see something. MS/OpenAI are clearly killing it at this point, but their only interface to a user is in apps, website or now Windows Copilot PCs.

Apple should focus on the notion that your AI is less dependent on a computer, and more on whatever device is best for you - phone/watch/_pod/laptop with 8GB...

 

[thebart]

Wouldn’t that necessitate a fan or something. The addition of an AV1 hardware decoder and improved thermal management wouldn’t allow Apple to lower the price. They might have to raise it.

The firetv stick has AV1 decode. It's a dongle. I think Apple can add AV1 decode to their puck without adding a fan

 

[Gloor]

Don't like to admit it but this time he was right. Store is still up which is unusual so I guess its safe to assume that really no hardware at WWDC. Shame

edit: store finally down so there is a glimpse of hope. Seeing that they usually go much earlier I feel the above still stands unfortunately.

 

[MayaUser]

Gurman is always right with 1-2 weeks in advance..he has 100% accuracy on this

 

[UltimaKilo]

Games on the iPhone crash because of the 8GB of ram. Apple TV only has 3? 4? GB of ram. Really needs 12GB.

Agreed. Although they could also get away with 10GB like the Xbox Series S.