Not 2026, but the year after that is expected to be an important one for Apple, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has reported that the company is planning a “mostly glass, curved iPhone” with no display cutouts for that year. Of course, 2027 marks the 20th anniversary of the iPhone.

The report follows a similar one from The Information, which said that “at least one 2027 iPhone model that will place the front-facing camera underneath the screen to enable a truly edge-to-edge display”.

Every year, Apple collects a number of patents, and one from 2019 describes a phone encased in glass that “forms a continuous loop” around the device.

The Bloomberg report mentions that the first foldable iPhone could also become available by 2027 and so will the company’s first smart glasses competitor to Meta Ray-Ban. There’s more: Camera-equipped AirPods and Apple Watches.

Gurman doesn’t stop there. He reports that Apple’s home robot, which is a tabletop robot that features “an AI assistant with its own personality”, will appear in 2027. And by 2027, Apple may ship an LLM-powered Siri and may have created new chips for its server-side AI processing. A December report from The Information said that the team handling Apple’s new AI chips is the same silicon design group that was “instrumental in designing” the Apple silicon chips that allowed the company to stop using Intel chips for its Macs in 2020.

Recently, Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, during court testimony at Google’s antitrust trial, said: “The most successful companies that were there either don’t exist today or are significantly smaller and much less impactful.... That goes from HP to Sun Microsystems to Silicon Graphics to Tandem Computers.” He said tech changes create opportunities for new businesses and current players need to evolve constantly.