- Apple’s Greg Joswiak has hinted at some potential smart glasses
- He was joined by Apple’s John Ternus in a new Tom’s Guide interview
- Both also claimed that Apple does not want to merge Mac and iPad
Two of Apple’s most influential executives have hinted that the tech giant could be working on some 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, covering everything from the MacBook Neo to Apple’s recent 50th anniversary.
But it was their comments about a potential Meta Ray-Bans rival, which Bloomberg suggested could appear later in 2026 ahead of a 2027 launch, that were the most telling. When asked about smart glasses being the next wave of computing, Greg Joswiak said that “there is a certain inevitability of combining the digital and physical worlds.”
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Of course, Apple has already done that to an extent with the Apple Vision Pro, but it was telling that Joswiak’s “inevitability” remark came in response to a question about the future of spatial computing.
Naturally, he wasn’t willing to elaborate much more. “I can’t give you a timeline for when spatial will become, you know, something else,” he said. “But it is inevitable that the digital and physical worlds will meet.”
The timing of the comments is fitting because Bloomberg’s report earlier this week gave us some more details about their rumored smart glasses. It claimed that Apple is developing its own Meta Ray-Ban rival, internally codenamed the N50, and that they are being tested in four different styles, including a large rectangular frame (like the Ray-Ban Wayfarers) plus some oval or circular options.
Apple talks Mac vs iPad
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The interview also covered the age-old Mac vs iPad debate and where the MacBook Neo sits in this divide – with Apple again stressing that it is not looking to merge the two platforms.
When asked about iPadOS recently becoming more Mac-like, Apple’s John Ternus (who has been touted as a future CEO) claimed that Apple still thinks of them as separate experiences.
“There was never this idea of meshing these two things together,” Ternus said. “There’s this narrative out there that there is, but that’s never been the case,” he added. Anyone who has tried iPadOS 26.4 might disagree, but so far Apple continues to push the narrative that many people want both, which is obviously good news for Apple.
Of course, none of the executives would be drawn to the prospect of a touchscreen MacBook Pro, which has also been heavily rumored to be launched by the end of 2026. But one thing is certain – Apple will be asked these questions much later this year, especially if the rumored smart glasses and OLED MacBook Pro are indeed finally made official.
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