Jazz Fest is happening right now in New Orleans, and it is an amazing opportunity to see fantastic artists perform live in front of thousands of people. My wife and I attended last week to see (among other performances) Jon Batiste, and his show was phenomenal. (He is so talented!) But it is also nice to see artists in a more intimate venue where you are close to the musicians. Blue Frog Studios, a music club in a Vancouver suburb, has been recording live performances and releasing them on YouTube for 15 years. This week, Blue Frog released an app for the Vision Pro that gives you a front-row seat at the club. The quality of the immersive video and audio is astounding, and the musicians are very talented. This app is a perfect example of why I love my Apple Vision Pro so much and why I am convinced that spatial computing is the future. In light of that, I was alarmed by Juli Clover’s assertion in MacRumors this week that Apple is giving up on the Vision Pro. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized this didn’t seem right. Indeed, just two weeks ago, I linked to a video in which Apple’s next CEO, John Termus, said that we are “very much in the early innings of spatial computing” and that he was “super excited about it.” Dan Moren of Six Colors also doubted Clover’s assertion for the reasons he explained in this article. Horace Dediu of Asymco pointed out that the Vision Products Group at Apple is currently hiring 14 more people for senior roles, which suggests to me that the product has a future. Similarly, John Gruber of Daring Fireball provides numerous reasons that Clover’s article must be wrong, concluding: “It’s a strange thing for MacRumors to state so categorically something I believe has no truth to it whatsoever.” In just a few weeks at WWDC, Apple will preview the new operating systems coming later this year, and my hope and expectation is that Apple will confirm that great things are coming to visionOS 27. And now, the other news of note from the past week:
- David Sparks of MacSparky says that one reason he is excited about Apple’s new CEO is that, while Tim Cook loved the business, his successor, John Ternus, loves products.
- Virtually all of the recent news about Apple executives has focused on Cook and Ternus. But there is another story worth noting: the promotion of Johny Srouji to Chief Hardware Officer. In an article for Six Colors and Macworld, Jason Snell explains why Srouji is so important to Apple and why it appears that he was promoted.
- David Pogue discusses in his Substack column all of the different things that he does with an Apple Watch. It’s a good list, even though I am surprised he doesn’t use Apple Pay—one of my favorite uses.
- The app Pedometer++ was updated this week. The iPhone app is great, and the Apple Watch app received a significant update this week with a beautiful interface and lots of features, as John Voorhees of MacStories explains in his review.
- Five years ago this week, Apple introduced the first AirTag (my review). Rajat Saini of The Mac Observer notes that five years later, the product “continues to dominate the item tracker market.”
- While I love the AirTag, I also love that third-party products can work with the Find My app. Glenn Fleishman of Six Colors discusses devices that are compatible with Apple’s Find My service.
- Dominic Preston of The Verge discusses two areas in which other smartphones may be better than the iPhone: cameras and batteries.
- On her new website called, appropriately enough, New Things, Joanna Stern explains why she hopes that Apple improves autocorrect on the iPhone.
- Ed Hardy of Cult of Mac reviews the Dwarf Mini, a smart telescope that is small but powerful and works with your iPhone to help you take some pretty great pictures. It is $399 on Amazon.
- Mahmoud Itani of Macworld recommends tips for getting more out of the FaceTime app.
- D. Griffin Jones of Cult of Mac says that the Apple News+ game Emoji Game is “infuriating” and “extremely annoying.” I could not disagree more. It is fun, often clever, and I look forward to playing it every single day.
- Speaking of games, I’ve mentioned in the past how impressed I am with the Retrocade game on the Apple Vision Pro, which allows you to play classic arcade games in a 3D environment with perfectly rendered arcade cabinets. Amber Neely of AppleInsider notes that the game was updated yet again this week, now adding a new environment (an incredible arcade in Japan) and more. The list of games currently available in Retrocade is: Asteroids, Bubble Bobble, Breakout, Centipede, Dig Dug, Frogger, Galaga, Haunted Castle, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Tempest, Tetris, and Track & Field. Note that Retrocade, which is free with an Apple Arcade subscription, works on other platforms including the iPhone and iPad, but it really shines on the Vision Pro because it feels so much more like real arcade games in a real arcade.
- Marko Zivovic of AppleInsider discusses how doctors have used the Apple Vision Pro to perform hundreds of cataract surgeries since the first was performed in October 2025 by Dr. Eric Rosenberg. I like this quote from Dr. Rosenberg: “What we accomplished in that operating room is something that has never been done before anywhere in the world. … This isn’t just about a new device, it’s about reimagining what the operating room of the future looks like.”
- The new Apple TV show Widow’s Bay premiered this week. It is a horror comedy starring Matthew Rhys, and, as Marcus Mendes of 9to5Mac notes, the critical reception has been very positive. I look forward to watching it tonight.
- And finally, I believe in hope, I believe in believe … and I believe I’m ready for another season of one of my all-time favorite shows, Ted Lasso. This week, Apple TV released the trailer for Season 4 and announced that it will start on August 5, 2026. Until then: be curious, not judgmental.