The date is firm and the compatibility floor has not moved, so the September work is retiring Apple Watches and Intel Macs rather than testing iPhones, while Siri AI ships in beta behind a waiting list with no launch date.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 23%
- Operator
- Operator 63%
- Investor
- Investor 14%
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence60
Apple's new Siri needs a waitlist slot, an iPhone 15 Pro or newer and a country outside the EU, so a team supporting iOS 27 next week is supporting four populations on the same build number.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives30
- Confidence60
Twelve new CSS features land in the preview, including a detector for at-rules and comma lists in @container. It is still a preview build, so no polyfill comes out on the strength of it.
Reality
- Evidence86
- Adoption16
- Hype gap+6
- Incentives62
- Confidence72
Reports point to a touchscreen OLED "MacBook Ultra" using the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, with the M6 Pro and M6 Max skipped outright. That changes the refresh math on high-end Macs.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives62
- Confidence34
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple scrapped the M6 Pro and M6 Max to accelerate M7. The redesigned laptop expected this fall would ship with M5 Pro and M5 Max instead.
Reality
- Evidence20
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives65
- Confidence38