Hi, everyone. Aaron here for Zollotech and over the past week or so,
there's been a bunch of news about an upcoming MacBook air,
maybe a refresh with that MacBook pro iPhone 13,
the release of iOS 14.6. Since we had beta three yesterday,
AirPods and much more.
This is your news update for the week of May 9th at 2021.
And the first thing has to do with Apple naming a new VP of corporate
communications.
Stella Lowe was previously at Cisco and she is now going to be taking
over a main leadership role for corporate communications in place of Apple
fellow, who was actually heading this up, Phil Schiller.
She's not yet on the Apple leadership website,
but will be fairly soon once it's announced and we'll be taking over that role.
So she'll be the main person handling all of the corporate communications.
So it's nice to see them filling that as a full-time role.
And now that Phil Schiller is a Apple fellow in sort of in an advisory role.
Now, when it comes to Apple maps,
Apple maps is always being worked on and they're continuing to improve it.
So if you go into maps and maybe you're in a city like San Francisco,
you have the option for look around. So you can look around the city,
take a little stroll as you tap through this,
the city and see what everything looks like.
We've seen this in mapping services for some time and Apple continues to work on
it. And apparently they've been spotted around Hong Kong.
So they're working on this in Hong Kong to provide more guidance as well as more
visuals throughout the entire city. So this is San Francisco,
but you'll soon be able to have this in Hong Kong.
It looks like hopefully within a few months as they finish mapping the whole
city. So it's just something they're doing now,
but people have been spotted doing that.
Also when it comes to the new app tracking transparency feature,
apparently only 4% are allowing apps to track. So under your settings,
under privacy and tracking, you have the option to allow apps, to request,
to track. Most people just leave.
This turned off and that blocks all apps from tracking,
but you can turn it on and then select apps individually only 4% apparently are
actually opting to let apps track them. So that's according to flurry,
who's an analytics firm.
So I think that's pretty notable that most people prefer not to be tracked at
all. So I think that's a good sign. We don't want to be tracked around.
We want control of our data,
and I really appreciate Apple adding this and hopefully adding more privacy
features with iOS 15 now within the code of iOS 14.6 beta two and
beta three, there's mentioned of a new Hi-Fi service from Apple music,
and that would give us higher quality audio that could be broadcast over AirPods
pro or AirPods max, for example, or maybe plugged in headphones.
So you would get the higher quality version, similar to services like title,
for example,
or the different higher resolution audio that you get from other services that
are out there as well.
So I would love to see this and according to McGuire Wood on Twitter,
the service will offer lossless audio using the a L a C Kodak or
Apple lossless audio codec, and maybe free to Apple,
one subscribers,
but might cost a little bit more if you just subscribed to music alone,
for example. So that would be great. Again,
it will probably only work with the AirPods pro and AirPods max,
and it could be shown at WWDC or maybe even earlier,
if it's in 14.6,
but it seems to be something you could show in a month at WWDC with iOS
15.
But I would love to have that offer that offered within Apple music since that's
what I use. And it would be great to have higher fidelity audio.
It's something I appreciate whether you're using your iPhone or a separate deck
to encode that audio and amplifier,
it'd be great to have that higher resolution audio.
So I can't wait if they actually do that. Now, when it comes to AirPods,
the same sources saying that AirPods three will not launch until later this
year,
we've seen a lot of different renders or different examples of what they could
look like. So similar to AirPods pro, but a little bit different.
And they may not launch until later on. Many people have said,
they're ready to go with the new AirPods three, but right now,
maybe they won't launch until the end of the year.
And maybe we'll even get some newer,
higher fidelity quality audio devices from Apple as well.
But the AirPods pro are one of those things that I think should get that sort of
feature and make sense. It makes them more pro for example, now,
when it comes to iPhone,
the new iPhone 12 and purple is the first Apple device to use a randomized
serial number. This is long been rumored that Apple was going to do this,
or they've been talking about it.
And the iPhone 12 in purple is the first device to do it.
I found this in settings.
If you go to settings and then you go to general and then about under the serial
number, the serial number is now 10 digits and randomized.
So before it was 12 digits on all the other devices.
Now it's 10 digits and it's a random serial numbers.
So that's something new with the iPhone 12 and purple and specific to this
device.
So that's something they've changed and there'll be doing that moving forward on
all of their devices. Now, when it comes to iPhone 13, well,
the new iPhone 13 is apparently going to be a little bit thicker.
Now this could be a good thing based on maybe room for a larger battery,
but it looks like it's going to get a little bit thicker, not only on the edges,
but also the camera bump in the iPhone 13 Apple is said to be transitioning to
a different frame, to accommodate new sensor shift stabilization,
which we have on the iPhone 12 pro max on some of its sensors,
but also we'll accommodate it for all lenses and a larger camera bump in
general.
So it said to have a little bit better sensor for every single one of these
cameras, as well as a larger bump, as you can see here,
Lou from unbox therapy actually was able to have a prototype hands-on and
it looks a little bit thicker and a little bit different as far as the overall
camera bump. So it's something that we expect now.
I think a lot of people will really, really appreciate maybe a slightly,
slightly thicker phone with a bigger battery.
I know a lot of people would appreciate more battery as well.
Most people don't really care that the phone is super thin as long as they can
get through a couple of days with their battery. So that's something also,
it does seem to appear that we're going to get a smaller notch.
The notch has been something that people have wanted to get rid of for a while.
Personally, I don't really mind it. It's sort of a signature look for an iPhone,
but it looks like it's going to get narrower. For sure.
Apple was able to redo the true depth camera that does face ID and more so
they're able to condense the space,
answer package overall and make it more compact.
Eventually it said to be under the display as well though. Now this year,
Apple also added a 5g modem with millimeter wave to their iPhone lineup.
And Apple is continuing to work on their own modem. They own a bunch of patents.
They bought off Intel when Intel decided not to make the modems anymore,
and Apple is going to be using those to try and make their own 5g modem.
According to Kuo Ming Chi, we could see that as early as 2023,
where they have their own modem,
which would provide for possibly better control and better battery life and more
so that's something I definitely welcome Apple doing as long as they can make it
better than what Qualcomm is offering. Now, as far as iOS 14.6,
well Apple released beta three, just yesterday,
that's a little bit of a surprise.
They keep switching to Mondays for a release now, so they keep changing this up.
But I think we could see a possible release candidate by the end of this week
with a final release next week, just yesterday,
Apple stopped signing iOS 14.5,
which means you can no longer downgrade to iOS 14.5, if you wanted to.
And that usually means within two weeks,
we'll have a public release based on what they've done in the past.
So based on that,
we could see a release candidate as soon as the end of this week or early next
week with a final release before the 21st, the reason I say the 21st,
if you haven't heard me say this before is because Apple is releasing the new
iPad pro with a mini led display,
which needs 14.6 to support it since that's what adds support for it.
As well as Mac iOS, 11.4,
where it adds support for the new iMac Apple's coming out with.
So those things require updated software versions.
Now they could come out with say a 14.5 point 2,
point 3 or whatever they want.
14.5.5, we've seen things like that before,
where it would support that device until we get 14.6.
But I think based on what we're seeing right now expect 14.6 very soon along
with the new podcast subscription and more.
And then of course all those new features at WWDC with iOS 15 on
June 7th. So that's something to look forward to of course,
with supposedly widgets and more and a whole redundant home screen on the iPad.
So I can't wait for that. It comes to the new Mac books,
according to Jon Prosser,
Apple is working on new color designs for upcoming Mac book airs.
So what that means is it would have similar colors to what we have with the iMac
now, but just beyond the Mac book, that makes a lot of sense for a Mac book air,
since Apple is going the route of colors again with the iMac. Also,
it looks like it's only going to have, I have a port on each side.
So there would be a Thunderbolt or USB-C port on one side and the other not,
uh, a bunch of ports.
And it's also had said to have a similar but thinner designed to what we have
with this M one Mac book pro, where it's squared off and no longer tapered.
So super thin thinner than this,
maybe as thin as this headphone Jack and that's about it.
So a super thin design,
a different design and Apple is said to update all of them.
And also it would have touch ID integrated like we do now,
but with a white keyboard and a white bezel as well with no touch bar.
So all of those things are said to be updated with an upcoming Mac book air,
which makes sense. We could see it launch in late 20, 21.
Now also we could see very soon Mac book pro.
We could see them as soon as WWDC,
or maybe later this year and a new 14 and 16 inch size with a mini led
display like that, of the new iPad pro.
So the new iPad pro is going to gain a little bit of thickness,
have a new mini led display,
which allows for much higher brightness levels,
as well as better contrast and more with better blacks in the background,
more color accuracy. So I can't wait for that.
And according to Digi time's production is increasing on those mini led
displays. So we could see those very,
very soon also because the display may be a little bit thicker for mini led.
Maybe we could finally see face ID on a Mac book.
I would welcome that it would be great to have that on a Mac book.
It makes a lot of sense while touch ID is great.
I think face ID would be even better when it comes to a Mac book.
So I'm looking forward to all of those things launching this year,
we will see new M one derived max since Apple is replacing its entire
Intel lineup with, with M one or their own Apple Silicon, whether that be M1X,
M2, or whatever, they decide to call that.
So we will have the new M one iPad pro coming very,
very soon with a new mini led display,
being the first device to have that display.
And it should trickle down to 14 and 16 inch sizes of the Mac book pro as well.
So I can't wait to see what Apple has there and that's everything for the past
week, as far as what's coming soon,
hopefully we'll see new things like Apple glass, maybe later this year,
as well as maybe new AirPods pro or something we didn't expect altogether,
such as a VR headset or things like that.
I can't wait to see what Apple has the rest of this year.
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