- Apple’s Greg Joswiak hinted at potential smart glasses
- He was joined by Apple’s John Ternus in a new Tom’s Guide interview
- The two also claimed that Apple was not looking to merge Mac and iPad.
Two of Apple’s most influential executives have hinted that the tech giant could be working on smart glasses, as rumors predicted earlier this week.
Greg ‘Joz’ Joswiak (Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Marketing) was joined by John Ternus (SVP of Hardware Engineering) in a wide-ranging interview with Tom’s Guide, which covered everything from the MacBook Neo to Apple’s recent 50th anniversary.
But it was their comments on a potential rival to the Meta Ray-Bans, which Bloomberg says could appear later in 2026 before a 2027 launch, that were most illuminating. Asked whether smart glasses would be the next wave of computing, Greg Joswiak said that “it is inevitable to combine the digital and physical worlds.”
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Of course, Apple has already done this to some extent with the Apple Vision Pro, but it’s telling that Joswiak’s “inevitable” remark came in response to a question about the future of spatial computing.
Naturally, he was unwilling to elaborate further. “I can’t give you a timeline of when space will become, you know, something else,” he said. “But the meeting between the digital and physical worlds is inevitable.”
The timing of these comments is appropriate as Bloomberg’s report earlier this week gave us more details on its smart glasses rumors. He claimed that Apple was developing its own rival Meta Ray-Bans, internally named N50, and that they were being tested in four different styles, including a large rectangular frame (like the Ray-Ban Wayfarers) as well as oval or circular options.
Apple talks Mac versus iPad
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The interview also covered the age-old Mac vs. iPad debate and the MacBook Neo’s place in that division – and Apple again emphasized that it’s not looking to merge the two platforms.
When asked about iPadOS becoming more Mac-like recently, Apple’s John Ternus (who has been touted as a future CEO) claimed that Apple still views them as distinct experiences.
“There was never this idea of mixing these two things together,” Ternus said. “There is this narrative on the outside, but that has never been the case,” he added. Anyone who’s tried iPadOS 26.4 might disagree, but for now, Apple continues to make the case that many people want both, which is obviously good news for Apple.
Naturally, none of the executives would be attracted to the prospect of a touchscreen MacBook Pro, which has also been heavily rumored to launch by the end of 2026. But one thing is certain: These questions will be asked of Apple much later this year, especially if rumors of smart glasses and an OLED MacBook Pro finally become official.
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