Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week was filled with news about the
upcoming iPhone iOS, 15 upcoming Mac book pros and much more.
This is your news update for the week of July 4th, 2021.
And the first thing is,
according to mark Gurman apple is looking to open additional offices that are
not in Cupertino and that's in order to attract maybe employees that are
difficult to find and live in less expensive areas. Since apple is located,
this is apple park located in Cupertino, California.
The area is generally very expensive for housing and just expensive overall.
And in order to get good talent,
Apple's going to need to look outside these areas.
So hopefully it will be opening offices all over the United States in tech
hotspots, whether that be Austin or Denver.
Or Charlotte near me.
Or other places as well to attract different talent where they could have better
collaboration and some enhanced maybe programming and things like
that in the future. So it looks like they're going to be doing that.
What the timeframe is for that though is hard to say,
but apple is very expensive in Cupertino.
So it looks like that makes a lot of sense for different people around the
country, maybe even around the world. Now, the next thing is,
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the next thing is something that was mentioned today is maybe iOS 15
split screen. I talked about this on Twitter a little bit.
And the reason I say maybe is if we go into the shortcuts app,
we're going to shortcuts.
And in shortcuts you have the option to make split screen sort of a shortcut.
Now this is most likely made just for iPad,
but it seems to work sort of on iPhone.
So you can create the shortcut on an iPhone, but when you go to run it,
it gives you an error.
So it says failed to open the specified apps in split screen mode.
Now a lot of people have wanted this for a long time and the option is here now,
whether or not it's just a mistake that it's an iOS.
It's hard to say or something they're going to add later on,
but it does work on the iPad side. So if we go over to iPadOS 15, you'll see,
I have shortcuts here. We'll go into shortcuts.
And then we have one that says split screen between the apple store and music.
So if I press play,
it opens up music and the apple store in split screen or split view.
So it works there. I'm thinking it's just for iPad iOS,
but I would love to see it come to iOS as well.
But it's in the code there at least.
And it fits with whatever thing you're creating with variables and more so
choose menu. For example, you can create whatever you'd like.
I would love to see it come to iOS. Now,
for those of you that are still using older Macs,
apple still supports many older Macs with Mac OS lion and mountain line.
For example, prior to this, it costs about 1999 to get updates for those.
Now, apple is offering those for free. So you can now check that out.
If you need those older versions and you want to put them on an older Mac that
you have or on the house that maybe you want updated versions,
but weren't willing to pay for it before you can now get those free. Now,
the next thing is, if you have an Xbox, you can use X-Box cloud gaming,
go into it. It's on safari. It's not a separate app, but you have to log in.
And once it logs in, it's a little bit glitchy and it's in beta.
As you can see here, sort of loading, there we go.
And you can jump into different games, play with touch. For example,
if you have X-Box game pass ultimate, you can actually do this.
So you'll see it says cloud gaming beta,
and it will stream right off of their servers. You can play any of these games.
And if you have a controller connected and X-Box series S series X controller,
for example, you can play everything from Forza horizon.
Four and more directly on your iPhone or.
IPad using the same method.
So that's available now since this past week and it works really good.
So if you haven't tried it out, it's surprisingly good.
As long as you have a decent internet connection. Now,
when it comes to iPhone this year, iPhone 12, iPhone 12, mini iPhone,
12 pro and iPhone 12 pro max,
it appears that apple has sold a huge amount of them. 100 million of them.
The last time they sold this amount in a Supercycle was with the iPhone
six redesign.
So when they redesigned it from the five and five S to this more curved design,
a ton of people rushed out to buy the latest phone.
Now that we've switched back to the squared off design,
it seems that people rushed out to buy this phone.
They were waiting for this sort of design,
where it was a major change as opposed to the curved edges of the iPhone,
10 or iPhone 11, for example.
So it looks like they're selling a ton of these. Now.
They'll probably slow down a little bit with the upcoming iPhone 13 design.
And that seems to make sense. And speaking of iPhone 13,
apparently apple has decided that the name is going to be iPhone 13,
despite people being suspicious or superstitious of the word
13, or the number 13 Triscuit acrophobia,
it appears that apple is going to use that name anyway,
according to internal sources. So it seems like iPhone 13,
it is instead of 12 S or 2021 iPhone. Of course,
we won't know that until we have the event later in September,
where they talk about that, but it seems like that's going to be the name.
They can change it at any time, though, if they want to.
And apple has begun production on the upcoming iPhones.
I showed these off as far as the dummy units, or these are sort of the models.
And this gives us an idea of what the iPhone 13 could look like with the
horizontal or diagonal cameras rather. And with these cameras,
it seems like this is what it's going to look like in upcoming version.
So when we see this in September,
the 13 mini and the 13 should have this diagonal camera, if these are correct,
generally, these are correct.
Every year I did a separate video talking about everything to expect,
but it seems like productions begun. We should see these in a few months.
They're making millions of them to get them ready to ship around the world.
That's pretty typical of what we see. And also,
as I've talked about in the past, there will a smaller notch.
They've rearranged the camera.
The earpiece is a little bit different and it should have 120 Hertz promotion
display. And possibly in some models,
this keeps going back and forth with an under the display fingerprint sensor.
This is something I would love to see. In fact,
my own family actually prefers touch ID to face ID.
And I know a lot of other people do as well now,
whether or not they would have it on the power button or under the display is
hard to say some other sources are saying an iPhone se that's updated,
we'll have it under the power button.
So either way I would love to see them bring touch ID back.
And we could see that now also,
according to max weinbach and everything apple pro they've said that there's
going to be a larger charging coil underneath on the iPhone 13 series that could
allow for faster charging and also reverse wireless charging.
We've seen this on some Samsung phones where you could charge your AirPods for
example, and reverse wireless, charge them.
And it's nice to have around in case you don't have something to plug these
into,
or you can only charge your iPhone at once and put the air pods on the back.
It's just convenient to have,
although it's not something to use all the time for many people it's nice to
have, and I would love to see them add this.
So maybe we'll see that with the upcoming version. Also,
we know that the iPhone 13 is going to get millimeter wave in more countries and
they're going to enhance it. So it seems like this year,
instead of being limited to some countries like the United States, for example,
the millimeter wave antenna is said to be releasing to more countries.
So you'll have that option. As millimeter wave is rolling out with 5g.
It makes more sense that they'll bring it to more countries now that it's
becoming more widely available. So that makes a lot of sense. Also,
we'll see portrait video mode and at least the pro models.
We've seen this a little bit with FaceTime and iOS 15,
where you can have portrait video modes,
depending on the phone you have with the correct processor.
So as long as you have an eight, 12 bionic or newer,
you should be able to do that.
If you want to record maybe a vlog of yourself using your iPhone with the
camera, you'll be able to do that with a portrait mode.
So it will blur the background like you would expect in real-time,
it's doing it with the photo. Now,
why not just record video when it's doing it as well?
So that makes a lot of sense.
And then finally expect this to launch or the iPhone 13 series to launch in
September or October.
Some people are saying the event could be later in September,
which would usually give this an October timeframe,
or we could see it at the beginning of September and have it launched later in
September.
So depending on what Apple's doing this year with the supply chain and the
constraints are how, how readily available they'll have the phones this year.
We could see them in either of those months or they could stagger it this year,
like they did previously. So that would make sense as well. Now,
when it comes to iOS 15 iOS,
15 public beta two has been out for a little while and many people want to know
when the next version is coming. iOS 15,
beta three and iOS 15 public beta three.
And this is really hard to predict because apple released public beta
two last week to match beta, to rerelease of iOS 15.
Now, if they continue to do what they've done in the past,
we could see it as soon as tomorrow. However,
we could see it the following week as well,
if they consider that a major release. So once we get to the next release,
we can consistently see them usually every two weeks until we get maybe to beta
four, and then we might start seeing them weekly.
If they continue to do what they've done in the past,
it could change at any time.
And apple has been known to do that lately since 2021,
their release schedule is not what we've been seeing in the past.
So they could take three weeks. They could take four weeks,
or they could just go to weekly or bi-weekly at this point is we really just
don't know at this point also iOS 14.7 beta five or release
candidate, depending on how finished it is.
We could see that again this week as well.
I would expect at least something this week with iOS 14.7,
with beta five or release candidate. Hopefully we see the release candidate.
And if we do that generally means within a week or so,
we would see the final release to the public.
So that could be in the week of maybe the 11th or the 18th at the
latest. However, if we go to another beta, that's going to push that out a week.
So by the end of July, I would expect it, but maybe not. So by the end of July,
we would have an iOS 14.7 and then into August,
we could have it a 14.8 or maybe they'll just go to 14.7 0.1.
If they need to continue to update it and move on to iOS 15,
which I would expect in September. So for those of you waiting,
if you're waiting for the final public release expect to in September,
usually late September now,
as far as the upcoming Mac book pro that's something,
I really can't wait to see the new Mac book pro was said to be launching at
WWDC. We never saw it and I'm looking forward to it.
And one reason I'm really excited for the upcoming Mac book pro is because it's
said to have the new mini led display that we have on the iPad pro 12.9 from
this year, the display is incredible, especially for HDR.
And I know some people complain about the blooming on it.
That's really only in the darkest conditions. Generally,
if you're watching high definition content, this looks incredible.
And I can't wait to have a similar display on a Mac book pro, but beyond that,
they're said to have the new apple Silicon on the new Mac book pro as well,
we've seen the regular apple Silicon. The M1 not only in this iPad,
but also in the Mac mini the iMac,
the MacBook pro that I'm holding here and the 13 inch and the Mac book air.
So we've seen what that can do,
but a pro version of that we really haven't seen yet,
whether that be an iMac pro or a Mac pro for example,
or the higher end Mac book pro. So I can't wait to see what we have there.
And apparently according to Digi times,
the company that's making the mini led display for the upcoming Mac book pro 14
and 16 inch is said to be really ramping up production,
apples apparently poured in $200 million to improve the production line,
get things really moving to have it announced in September and then release
shortly after that. So I can't wait to see what we have.
It's said that it will have not only the ports that we have now with
Thunderbolt, but also an SD card slot, as well as HTMI now,
whether or not that's true. It's hard to say,
but at least in SD card slot would be welcome with additional ports as well.
So I can't wait to see what they have as far as that goes now with upcoming
iPad.
This is something that is a little bit difficult to know if it's true or not,
because many people are saying that there will be an OLED next year. Now,
whether or not that will be on the pro version or not. It's hard to say.
And the reason I say that is apple doesn't generally put all of their time and
effort into a display such as this one with the pro display on the
12.9 inch iPad pro that's mini led, and then just abandon it a year later.
That's not typically what they do.
They'll typically use this and not all led maybe for color accuracy.
For example, since this can actually go brighter,
maybe they're going to keep this around for quite some time.
And then OLED maybe in the iPad air, for example.
So I'm not sure we'll see them abandon mini led.
Maybe they'll use it in different lineups and then use old led for the less pro
bottles. However,
it looks like they are working on some sort of OLED iPad or have at least
considered it also TSMC the people that make their chips for the iPad and their
different products is said to be working on a three nanometer nanometer chip
that would first abuse in the 2022 iPad pro lineup with whatever that can do
now, that generally means being smaller. It will have better power efficiency.
And this is the one thing this iPad is lacking is better battery life in the Mac
book pro we can get 20 hours of battery life,
but we still get 10 in the iPad pro that's just the limitation of the battery
and the overall size.
So I would love to see them increase that maybe to 15 hours of battery life in
an iPad. That would be incredible. Now the upcoming apple watch,
I've talked about a little bit where they're going to redesign it and make it a
little bit more squared off,
but it's also said to be focusing this year on battery and pretty much nothing
else or redesigned with a focus on battery life,
and then there'll be continually working on additional sensors later on.
So hopefully we'll see some more sensors because I would love to see that blood
glucose monitoring that they're apparently working on as well as maybe a few
other features we haven't thought of now, unfortunately,
a company called Massimo, which is a medical device company,
is trying to get the pulse oximetry feature in the series.
Six apple watch removed, as they say, it violates some of their patents.
Now this sensor is really nice to know what your O two level is in your blood,
but they want it removed saying that apple violated the patent. Usually apple,
if they did, will come to an agreement and then have some sort of payout,
however, that will still need to go to court.
And it would take some time to remove that.
So they'll have to be found in violation first,
but it's something that's really nice on the series six and was one of the major
features this year. So I would hate to see that go.
Usually they'll figure out a way around that. And then finally with AirPods,
it said that the upcoming AirPods pro won't be coming until 2022. However,
according to the economic daily news AirPods three,
we'll be launching later this year, along with that new Mac book pro.
So we could see new AirPods three that looks similar to the AirPods pro,
but without noise cancellation, and then have updated AirPods pro next year,
maybe with better battery life and maybe even better spatial audio.
So we've been waiting for those AirPods three for quite some time. So far,
we haven't seen them,
but it makes sense that we'll see them fairly soon and they could be ready.
So hopefully we'll see that very, very soon.
And so that's it for all the news this past week,
quite a few things about the upcoming iPhone.
I think iPhone 13 probably will be the name,
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