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This week, $NVDA has overtaken $AAPL, iPhone 16 Pro could have some crazy new display tech, last minute iOS 18 rumors, and we lay out our WWDC predictions!

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This week’s stories:

Marvel’s What If…? shows off the promise of spatial gaming

• Marvel Studios’ new What If…? An Immersive Story is a free app for Apple’s Vision Pro headset that combines interactivity with storytelling in a brand-new way.

iOS 18 leaks:

• Expect Settings revamp, Control Center tweaks in iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS 15
• iMessage could let you animate words in texts in iOS 18

‘I’m a Mac’ actor returns with lamest PC ad yet

• In the new Qualcomm ad, which promotes the company’s new Snapdragon X Elite chips, Long works on his MacBook at a kitchen table. Notifications keep popping up all around his head. He swats them away with irritation. Then he types in a Google search: “Where can I find a Snapdragon-powered PC?”
• Watch the ad on YouTube

Fight over blood oxygen feature cuts into Apple Watch sales

• Apple Watch shipments dropped almost 20% year over year in the first quarter of 2024. Market analysts blame some of the decline on Apple being temporarily forced to halt sales.

iPhone 16 Pro’s display could sport seriously small bezels

• The iPhone 16 Pro could sport the world’s slimmest bezels on a smartphone. Its borders will apparently measure just 1.2mm, with the iPhone 16 Pro Max having even slimmer bezels at 1.15mm.

Apple’s market cap passes $3 trillion … but so does Nvidia’s

• Apple, which spent years as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, is now in third place.

The CultCast WWDC24 Predictions

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