Tim Cook is no longer Apple CEO and what

the future might look like. The likely

iPhone 18 Pro colors have been revealed,

fresh new details on iOS 27, why this

week's iOS update was actually pretty

important, and much more. All in today's

episode of Apple Weekly. Okay, so let's

start with by far the biggest news of

the week and perhaps of the past several

years when it comes to Apple, and that

is the fact that Tim Cook has stepped

down as CEO effective September 1st. And

now John Turnis is set to take over and

become the new CEO of Apple. And Tim

Cook is going to transition over to the

executive chairman where he'll advise

Apple and handle global policy

engagement. So this was quite a

surprise. More specifically, the timing

of this. We knew Tim Cook was going to

step down, but the timing was

interesting because we had two reliable

sources saying two different things. One

side was saying, you know, that Tim Cook

was not going to step down anytime soon.

And the other side, the Financial Times

said that he is going to be stepping

down in the first half of 2026. And the

Financial Times was correct with that.

And I think the overall online sentiment

of Tim Cook stepping down has been

overwhelmingly positive. I think more

importantly because everybody's excited

for John Turnis to get in there and see

what he can do to innovate with Apple,

you know, next. But of course, don't get

it twisted. Apple did tremendous under

Tim Cook's leadership because they went

from a $350 billion company to over a $4

trillion company. So, they gained $3.66

trillion in market value under Tim Cook.

That is highly impressive. But the

reason everybody's so excited for John

Turnis to get in there and lead the helm

at Apple is because he's been there for

25 years and he played a role in

building pretty much everything from the

iPhone to the M series chips on the Mac.

So he's a hardware guy through and

through. So it's going to be exciting to

see what type of hardware, you know,

evolution we can see with Apple

underest. Now, Tim Cook did also write a

heartfelt personal letter to the Apple

community after announcing his departure

and it was featured on Apple's homepage.

It's really cool. I'll leave a link

below. Uh he basically says that he

starts every morning reading user

emails. He also called leading Apple the

best job in the world and said that

Turnis is the perfect person for the

job. And he signed off the letter as

Tim, a person who grew up in a rural

place in a different time, which is very

different energy from a big corporation.

Like you'd expect it to be very formal.

This just seemed very personal and it

was nice. And the other exciting thing

about this move is that now Johnny Suji

will also be taking over as Apple's

chief hardware officer. And that's also

been a great move because he has been

well known as Apple's chip lead and he's

overseen the development of Apple

silicon chips for the Mac since day one.

So him being in charge of hardware now

is also a huge benefit for Apple. So all

in all, I think it's very hard to

disagree with any of these moves that

Apple has done and it really sets the

stage and really honestly gets me very

excited for the next, you know, 15 years

or whatever it ends up being with

Turnis. Maybe longer. We'll see. maybe

shorter, you know, we could be wrong,

but it just seems very exciting right

now to be, you know, in the world of

Apple and especially for me to be

covering Apple, this is very exciting

because I think we're going to see a lot

of pretty big changes. It's going to

take a little while for us to see them,

but I think, you know, the future could

be quite different in a good way. We

might be seeing more risks. You know,

we've heard that Turnis is a little bit

more riskadverse sometimes, so we'll see

about that, but he is a hardware guy at

the end of the day. So, it's going to be

very exciting to see what comes, you

know, of Apple in the next decade plus.

But let's talk about something coming a

little bit sooner than the next decade

plus. Let's talk about this year and the

iPhone 18 Pros because we saw the full

lineup of colors that are coming this

year. So, this comes from Macworld and

they basically said that, you know, last

year they got the colors right. So,

they're doing it again this year. And

they said that Macworld has received

information from a source familiar with

Apple supply chain regarding the color

options for the iPhone 18 lineup. and

they list out not only the colors, but

also the panone color code. So, like a

very specific color here. So, these are

definitely looking like they're going to

be accurate. And as you can see, dark

cherry is the new signature color to

replace cosmic orange for this year.

There's also going to be a light blue, a

dark gray, and a silver. And you might

have also noticed that we are not

getting a black option once again. So,

last year a lot of people are mad that

there was no black. Looks like it's

going to be the same this year. So, of

course, we are going to be seeing the 18

Pro and Pro Max and the iPhone Ultra

later this year, but the base model

iPhone 18 is not going to come until the

spring of 2027. And we have new updates

on the base iPhone 18. And it's not good

news because it looks like Apple's

trying to, you know, reduce any type of

possibility of increasing the price of

the 18. So, they're going to downgrade

some of the hardware, you know, in the

base model just so they don't have to

raise the price. And we're hearing this,

you know, we've heard this multiple

times from Fixed Focus Digital, and he's

saying the iPhone 18 has certain

manufacturing downgrades that brings it

closer to the iPhone 18e to cut costs.

And he says that the display will be

downgraded, resulting in inferior screen

quality to the iPhone 17. So, he doesn't

say the specifics of what's going to be

downgraded with the display. He just

says it is going to be worse. So, I have

a hard time thinking Apple's going to

remove the promotion display. I don't

really think they would do that after

just one year. So maybe they're going

to, you know, make it have a hit in

brightness. Maybe it's not going to get

as bright as the Pros. We'll have to

wait and see. And he also mentions that

we're going to see a performance

downgrade as well. So I'd imagine that

also is going to be something like the

GPUs, the GPU cores going from five GPU

cores to four GPU cores, even though we

are expected to have the A20 chip inside

with 12 GB of RAM. and he's pretty

confident in these rumors because the

EVT process, which is the engineering

validation testing of the iPhone 18 and

18, are apparently set to take place

simultaneously in June. So, it seems

like all the details are finalized and

Apple is ready to go into mass

production for these products. So,

that's why he's pretty confident in

saying that we are going to see these

hardware downgrades with the base model

this time. Now, we also have some fresh

details on the iPhone Ultra, Apple's

upcoming foldable phone that's also

coming later this year in September,

most likely. Maybe later in the year,

but it is coming this year. So, this

actually comes from Vadem over at

Maxtech. Great channel over there. So,

they got fresh dummy models here of the

18 Pros and the iPhone Ultra. So, they

showed this off and I'll leave a video

link below as well that they did

covering this, but you can see that the

18 Pro and Pro Max cameras and the

camera plateau appear to be a good bit

thicker than the 17 Pros. Even though

the design overall looks about the same,

you will notice a difference in

thickness this time around. And as far

as the iPhone Ultra, it has that 7.8 in

inner screen. Of course, when it's

opened up, it's kind of like an iPad

mini sized display, and it's just

slightly smaller than the 8.3 in iPad

Mini. So, has super thin bezels. That's

going to make the display almost just as

large as the iPad mini, which is crazy.

And apparently, it feels amazing in the

hands for playing games like Call of

Duty, as VM said here on X. And he also

compares it to the iPhone 17 Pro Max

here and shows that it's almost the same

display width, but more than 50% taller

in this angle that he has it at. Now,

when the iPhone Fold is closed up, it's

going to be 11 millimeters thick. So, it

is going to be a pretty thick boy, but,

you know, will be really thin when it's

opened up at 4.5 millimeters. So, that's

set to be Apple's thinnest device ever,

even thinner than the iPhone Air, which

would be pretty cool when you have that

opened up. But not everything is good

news right now because we got a fresh

report from Mark German just recently

that says that the global memory

shortage is impacting Apple and we might

see some delays for some upcoming Macs.

more specifically the upcoming Mac

Studio and the MacBook Ultra or the

MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, whatever

it ends up being called. So, German said

this, "Apple has long been working on

new Mac Studio models. The company had

earmarked the release for around the

middle of the year, but with shortages

already pushing back shipments of

current memory heavy models several

months, I'm told that the new Mac

Studios are likely to be postponed as

well. Right now, there's a belief

internally that the new models won't

ship until around October. So, again, we

were expecting those around WWDC time.

We thought those could be announced in

June at the Worldwide Developers

Conference. That would make the most

sense, but it's looking like we're not

going to see that now until much later

in the year, potentially into October.

And he says the other future Mac getting

a lot of hype right now is a MacBook Pro

with a touchscreen. As I've reported

from the beginning, these have been

slated for release between the end of

2026 and early 2027. With the shortages

along with the move to M6 chips, be

prepared for these to potentially come

on the later end of that timeline. The

products will be ready for fall from a

software standpoint. So, the later

timing would just be tied to supply. So

yeah, looks like the MacBook Pro with a

screen or the MacBook Ultra was 100% set

to come in 2026 at the end of 2026 until

these, you know, memory shortages

started showing up and really getting

severe even for Apple. So that's a bit

unfortunate, but at least we will be

seeing for sure the new Mac Studio

sometime in 2026. So I wish we would

have got the touchscreen MacBook this

year as well, but it looks like, you

know, based on what he's saying, that's

going to be coming in the first half of

next year in 2027. Now, here is

something I thought I would never see.

Google has just confirmed an upcoming

Apple feature at their event. Yes. And

of course, I am talking about the

upcoming Siri that is going to be

powered by Google Gemini. So, Google

just held their Google Cloud Next 2026

conference. And while there, they said

this. We're collaborating with Apple as

their preferred cloud provider to

develop the next generation of Apple

Foundation models based on Gemini

technology. These models will now power

future Apple intelligence features,

including a more personalized Siri

coming later this year. So, yeah, I

never thought I'd see the day where

Google confirms that the next generation

of Siri is coming this year before Apple

even did. Of course, Apple said it's

coming in 2026, but still, just to see

Google confirm it on their site and at

their event is pretty insane. And by the

way, a lot of people have been confused

about the whole Google Gemini and Siri

thing. So, I just want to clear

something up real quick. You know, it's

not going to be like Siri is just going

to be Google Gemini just, you know,

advertised as Siri. That's not the case.

You know, basically Apple is taking the

Google Gemini models and putting them

into Apple's own, you know, in-house

foundation models. They're basically

putting a supercharger on a stock car.

If you're a car guy, you know, you know,

they're basically doing that. So, it's

still Apple's proprietary, like Siri.

They're just using Google's models to

make theirs better. So, yes, Google

Gemini is absolutely going to be a big

reason that Siri is better, but it's not

just going to be another clone of Google

Gemini, if that makes sense. Now,

speaking of that next version of Apple

Intelligence and iOS 27, let's talk

about the device compatibility because

we just saw a rumor this week from

Instant Digital that shows that the

iPhone 12 and newer are going to be

supported with iOS 27. So, that means

that the iPhone 11, the 11 Pro, 11 Pro

Max, and the iPhone SE 2 will all be

dropped and will not be supported with

iOS 27. And we also got fresh details

from Mark German once again about a iOS

27 feature related to Siri. So, he says

that the WWDC invite hints at the Siri

indicator being in the dynamic island

and that it's more apparent in dark

mode, which is why Apple's marketing

materials for the event are all dark

this year. And I've talked about this

before, but basically, you know, this

glow that you see around the screen

right there, that will not be there

anymore with iOS 27. Apparently, it's

going to be all up in the dynamic

island. We might see that glow, that

rainbow glow around the dynamic island

instead of around the entire screen. So,

that'll be fun to see. and I'm really

excited to see all the other iOS 27

features as well. But let's flip on over

here to our phone. So, I have my phone

pulled up here and we have a few things

to talk about here. So, first off, let's

go into maps. So, if you go down to

Miami, Florida right here, you will see

at the Miami International Auto Drrome,

you will see, look how good the track

looks now. So, it's also been updated

for the guides. So, if you go to, you

know, Miami International Auto Drrome

right there and you scroll down, you

will see that the 2026 Formula 1 tracks

around the world. If you tap on this,

this is Apple's guide, like their own

official guide right here. And you can

see this has been updated to include

Miami right there for the upcoming F1

race, which is on May 1st through the

3rd. And look how much you can zoom in

on this. You can literally see like the

seats at the Hard Rock Beach Club right

here. And you know, you can see the

stands right here, the grand stands.

There's just so much detail with Apple

Maps. I love it. Especially here on the

F1 track. You can see the the water in

there, the gates, everything. It's

pretty amazing. You see the Hard Rock

Stadium, super cool. Also, this week we

saw OpenAI launch ChatGpt images 2.0,

which comes with thinking capabilities

and it's just better overall and it's

really gone viral this week. And as you

can see here on Twitter, a lot of people

shared images of just how insanely good

this is and how it's going to put some

designers out of business. It's pretty

insane how good it is. And here's a live

example. Actually, I just said to make a

professional poster art of Oscar Pestri.

And take a look at what it made. This is

just a prompt, a very simple prompt.

Look, take a look at what it made right

there in chat JPT images 2.0. I mean,

that is amazing. The small details down

here, the McLaren in the bottom. I mean,

look at that. Yes, it's copying what

else is out there. Of course, that's

what you know, any type of LLM is doing.

But just take a look at how good that is

just from a prompt. That's amazing. So,

if you haven't already tried it, trust

me, just try it out. It's much better

than I expected it to be with every

prompt I've given it. Now, if you follow

me over on Twitter, you might have seen

that I shared this video right here. And

I said it's the coolest video ever shot

on an iPhone, and it's not even close.

And what that is is Reed Wisman shooting

ju just take a look right here. He shot

this with an iPhone. And he said, you

know, let me just read this real quick.

He said, like watching sunset at the

beach from the most foreign seats in the

cosmos, I couldn't resist a cell phone

video of Earth set. and he said, "I

could barely see the moon through the

docking hatch window, but the iPhone was

the perfect size to catch the view. This

is unccropped, uncut with 8x zoom, which

is quite comparable to the view of the

human eye. Enjoy. And take a look at

this video right here. I'll actually put

this in full screen, but look at this.

Look at that. That is taken from an

iPhone at 8X. That's like what the human

eye would see from them in space." case.

Of course, this is from NASA in space

with the whole Artemis launch. But take

a look at Earth set there, you know,

going into the moon or behind the moon.

That is pretty amazing. And this video

obviously blew up. It got 18 million

views over here. Just really incredible

stuff. It's like what a time to be alive

when we see an iPhone recording

something as extravagant and incredible

as that. Okay, so now we have to come

back to reality, come back to Earth, and

talk about some boring stuff. So, let's

talk about iOS 26.5 beta 3, which did

get released this week. So, as you can

see right here, this is 26.5 beta 3. The

build number ends with an E right there.

And this update, as you guys could tell

because I didn't make a video, I just

made a community post. Once again,

there's really nothing new in the

update. There were minor changes in the

code and that's it. Nothing worthy of

making a full dedicated video for. So,

that's why I did not make a video and

instead I opted to make a community post

for that. But, this was not the

important update of the week because the

important update was actually if you're

not on the betas and that is 26.4.2.

And this update was important because it

does have bug fixes. And most

importantly, this patches the flaw that

let the FBI extract deleted signal

messages. And I did cover that story a

little while back. That was important.

Now, is it going to happen to you? Is

the whole signal hack thing going to

happen to you? No. Literally, zero

people watching this video would ever

have that happen to them. But that's not

the point. You still want to update to

26.4.2 for the other security patches as

well that are included in the update.

And let's talk about what to expect next

because next week is the final week of

April. I cannot believe how fast 2025 is

rolling by. So, next week's going to be

the week of the 27th. So, April 27th,

that is when I would expect to see the

next iOS 26.5 beta. There is a potential

to see the RC next week. So, either

we're going to see a beta 4 or an RC on

the 27th. And of course, if it is the

RC, we'll see the final on that first

week of May. However, it could be beta 4

and then RC on the week of May 4th and

then the final on the week of May 11th

for 26.5. And then after that, of

course, we are going to see iOS 27 beta

1 right there on Monday, June 8th. And

then finally, I wanted to share some

photos and videos that you guys sent me

of the Apple Museum in the Netherlands.

So, over the past couple of weeks, I've

asked you guys that if you are going to

be visiting or if you live in the

Netherlands to please send me photos and

videos of the new Apple Museum that just

opened up over on Instagram. I'm just

Brandon Butch on Instagram. And a lot of

you guys sent photos and videos. So, I

really appreciate that. There's like a

dozen of you guys who went there and

sent me your photos and videos. So, I

really appreciate that. I'm going to go

through some of them because I think

it's actually really cool to see like

what we actually see in person. Instead

of all the images you see online, like

the press images and all the

professional photos, these are what

actual people see. So you can kind of

see what some of this looks like right

here. Looks super awesome. If I'm ever

ever in the Netherlands anytime soon, I

will absolutely be going there. Really

anytime, actually. I will be going there

to check it out. So you can see all the

vintage stuff right there. We have some

other photos right here. And here's my

favorite room. This is the kind of

rainbow Apple Mac room. So take a look

at that. Has all the colors right there

of the Macs in one room. Have this

little interactive think different room

right here. Just look at these photos.

This looks awesome. So of course there's

history right here. There's writing

about all these old Macs and everything.

And I'm not sure what this is supposed

to be, but it just says Apple. It's like

kind of engraved in there that says

Apple computer with a keyboard down at

the bottom. Not too sure what that is,

but that's cool. Look at the Apple 2

right there. All the different Apple

logos through the years. And then here's

some photos from somebody else. They

sent this. So, take a look. That's how

you can get a good look at the kind of

depth of the museum as well with the old

computers at the stations. Take a look

at those chairs as well. I want one of

those chairs for myself. Wow. That's a

cool shot right there. So, it shows like

the inside of the G3 Mac. So, yeah,

super awesome museum. I can't wait to

visit it myself one day. But anyways,

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I'll see you