While we’re still waiting for the March April event to bring some new products, Apple at least gave us something to talk about this week. The Worldwide Developers Conference will be held June 7-11 in an all-online format just like last year. We’re expecting some great things for the Mac, a peek at iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS 12, but like always, we’re hoping there are some clues hidden in the teaser images.
We talked about it on our podcast this week, but we left the real detective work to our readers—and they had some wild theories. Here are few of our favorites.
Apple Glasses
It’s pretty clear that Apple wants us to focus on the fact that each of the memoji characters in the images are wearing glasses. On the surface, they’re a mere prop to reflect the icons that are on the MacBook’s display, but there could be something deeper going on.
— Victor Agreda Jr (@superpixels) March 30, 2021
APPLE GLASS! Wait !!!!! Is it really happening?? I’m so damn excited
— pulkit kalra (@pulkitxx) March 31, 2021
The reflection/projection from the mac onto the glasses look weirdly like AR glasses… all the teaser images look like this…
— tweeted: (@innovationsdead) March 30, 2021
MacBook upgrades
Of all the things we expect from the Mac both at WWDC and in 2021, we’re mostly excited about the changes coming to the MacBook line. And readers think we might see some of them at WWDC.
Face ID coming to MacBooks obviously
— Jeremy Walker (@DuffSurly) March 31, 2021
AR true depth camera on MacBookPro, hopefully includes some gesture controls.
— Blender Sushi Guy 🐌 Universal Blendful SandBox (@jimmygunawanapp) March 31, 2021
Going with OLED 120hz screens on laptops and new iDevices
— Nick Perkins • 😷 💉 • Psalm 40:3 • #StopAsianHate (@revdevnick) March 30, 2021
Mini LED displays ?
— Terry L (@macguy1959) March 30, 2021
It’s in the Calendar
It’s hard to miss the Calendar icon reflected front and center in the glasses, so WWDC could bring some new productivity improvements for the Mac.
re-introduction of calendar widget?
— Cleaney🙋🏻♂️ (@cameronleaney) March 31, 2021
Apple is finally going to come out with a business-class all-in-one app that combines Calendar, Mail, and Contacts?
— Robert Coogan (@BobfromCT) March 30, 2021
Oh wait… pic.twitter.com/bikjNQRZfE
And some wild theories
Because why not?
21 new things on the Jun 7th?
— Brendan Murphy (@murphybre96) March 30, 2021
So on July 7 we will all be turned into cartoons by Apple?
— Bry (@irebry) March 30, 2021
Apple ™ Hair Dye.
— Michael Steiner (@vdubya) March 30, 2021
All the original iMac colors.
What it really means
same energy pic.twitter.com/S23BZRS12q
— qaarkk (@qaarkk) March 31, 2021
