Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025, kicking off Monday at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT with a pre-recorded keynote from CEO Tim Cook, is expected to be a subdued event. After last year’s WWDC raised high hopes with ambitious promises but fell well short on delivery, anticipation for this year’s conference is tempered.
Patrick Seitz for Investor’s Business Daily:
At last year’s WWDC, Apple made a big splash with announcements about artificial intelligence, including a revamped Siri personal assistant. But Apple has postponed many of those AI features, branded Apple Intelligence, after running into development snags.
“This year will lack the wow factor we saw the past two years with Vision Pro in 2023 and Apple Intelligence in 2024,” Deepwater Asset Management analysts Gene Munster and Brian Baker said in a blog post.
Apple is years behind Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and others in the AI race, they said. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company was too cautious in its approach to the generative AI trend when it emerged, Munster and Baker wrote.
WWDC 2025 likely will focus on a new look for Apple’s operating systems and the company opening its AI models to software developers, the Deepwater analysts said.
News reports say Apple will avoid talking about its delayed AI-powered Siri. It plans to discuss only those features it can confidently expect to deliver by this fall.
Evercore ISI analyst Amit Daryanani said expectations for WWDC 2025 are “rightfully tempered… We think Apple wants to avoid a repeat of last year where they debuted a bunch of AI features that have subsequently been delayed.”
MacDailyNews Note: The link to watch Apple’s WWDC 25 video stream via YouTube is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DjDdfqtUE
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