Original HomePods, new iPads, and rumors of future iPhones on the AppleInsider Podcast

Apple now regards the original HomePods as vintage, but that won't stop them working

Host Wesley Hilliard reveals how now that Apple is referring to the original HomePod as "vintage," people keep asking him if they are supposed to replace theirs. Wait until you hear how many he has — and why he has no plans, and no need of any plans, to get rid of them.

Plus as thoughts go back to the original HomePod, they also now go forward to the forthcoming iPhone 16 — and beyond, to the iPhone 17, the iPhone 20, and more. This is sparked by how it was news this week that Apple has already begun working on the next generation of its software and devices, and how of course they have.

We're in the fallow period between announcements and launches, so any news is being picked up and amplified beyond its worth. Yet there is so much else to say about what we're seeing in the betas, plus what's happening in Artificial Intelligence.

BONUS: Subscribe via Patreon or Apple Podcasts to hear AppleInsider+, the extended edition which this time looks at the continual insistence that Apple is doooooomed. (It's usually spelled like that.) Whether Apple does something good or bad, clever or stupid, then there is a storm over how this is the end for the company.

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Links from the AppleInsider Podcast

• Apple Intelligence may be coming to Vision Pro — but not soon
• Apple is already working on iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16, and more
• Apple is expecting big iPhone 16 sales, based on chip orders
• All iPhone 16 models said to be powered by A18 chips
• Apple's entire iPad lineup for the next year may have just been leaked
• Vulnerabilities found in Swift repository left millions of iPhone apps exposed
• ChatGPT for Mac app logged queries in an unencrypted file before getting caught
• Apple adds HomePod, AirPods to the 'vintage products' list

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