By skyforbes 
By Trueman | Thinking Outloud #02
Originally sparked by the Jony Ive x Sam Altman wearable rumors (June 2025), updated with the Apple + OpenAI revelations (Fall 2025)
From Pendant to Platform
It started with a whisper — Jony Ive, the man who gave form to the iPhone, was teaming up with Sam Altman to design something… different. Not a phone. Not a laptop. A device that lived with you. Hung from your neck like a pendant. Whispered back when you spoke to it.
Not a screen you tap. Not a button you push.
A presence.
Back in June, that rumor was bold. Strange. Visionary. It asked us to imagine what life would be like if we didn’t carry AI in our pockets — but instead moved through space with it, like a silent partner who never sleeps.
But here’s what’s wild: while we were looking ahead to futuristic hardware, the real transformation was already creeping in through our existing devices.
The pendant? Maybe it’s still coming. But the platform? That’s already here.
Siri, Copilot, and the Ghost in the Shell
Apple didn’t just redesign Siri. They redefined the rules.
This summer, they announced Apple Intelligence, a new kind of system-wide AI. It lives on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It helps you…