Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week was filled with news about apple maybe having
the largest product launch in the recent history for the past few years as well as we'll talk about
that iphone purple screen issue or pink screen issue ios 15.3 and more this is your news update
for the week of january 23rd 2022 and apple is once again the most popular smartphone brand
in the world according to canalysis or canalis and with apple making up to 23 percent of the
smartphones sold worldwide and that's now followed by samsung and then xiaomi so it looks like the
most popular smartphone in the world is again running ios however this can change year to year
but quite a few people like this new squared off design and i imagine that helped with sales with
their cameras and more also if you were wanting to pick up a new macbook pro they look like apple
is still having problems filling any sort of configuration beyond that of the base model
the base model can be had right now but if you bump that up to maybe an m1 max it tells you it's
pushing it out until march so it looks like march is when you can get those the m1 max with 10 core
it looks like the base configuration is available but anything beyond that is still hard to get so
that coming out and then maybe with new products coming out it could be a bit of a challenge to
get the new one so it looks like they're still having problems with that chip shortage now this
past week apple updated their education store requiring verification in the past if you went
to that store you could just purchase things sort of on an honor system that you worked in education
however they added a verification process which just after three days they removed it so it looks
like they may even add this back or maybe they decided that was the wrong way to go but if you're
in education you're a teacher or a student you can get a discount otherwise you should really use the
regular store but apparently it's a problem for some people where they weren't able to get that
education discount so it looks like they removed it maybe they'll add it in the future if you
live in france and you're buying a new iphone apple has been required to include headphones
or rather a hands-free kit to talk on the phone this week apple will no longer have to do this
as france changed the law so the environmental footprint of digital devices would be reduced
and since many just use maybe alternative airpods it looks like that makes a lot of sense now those
that wanted air pods included or headphones included will just have to opt to buy them in
the store if they really need them or don't have a separate pair so that's something that they've
only done in france for the past few years since they removed them everywhere else around the world
but since it was a law they had to do that now they won't have to do it as i mentioned in the
ios 15.3 rc what's new video the us senate has approved a bill to go forward that would be an
anti-trust bill to force apple to allow side loading of apps outside of the app store apple
has long opposed that saying it opposes a security risk and some people say that as far as being a
developer it's difficult sometimes to get your app into the store and they want a third-party way to
get in here so maybe apps like fortnite wouldn't have to go through the store this bill is set to
move forward however it is not a hundred percent law yet and may have some changes by the time it's
released so it looks like if the bill were to pass apple has stated that it's concerned with iphones
having to deal with ransomware malware and scams so that's always a concern but you can sideload or
install your own apps on a mac on an iphone it is a little bit different but i'm curious what
you think about this should apple allow this or have to be allowed to allow side loading of
apps or should they just stick with the app store i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
now if you're using whatsapp and maybe you're using an android phone and you want to switch
to an iphone it's always been a bit of a pain to move all of your text or chats from whatsapp over
to an iphone when you move over unless you have a samsung device it looks like whatsapp is working
on software to allow that using the switch to iphone app that's available on android phones
so in the future it may be much easier if you have a non-samsung device to move all of your texts in
chat so hopefully we see that it makes it much nicer when you're switching from devices since
the majority of the world uses whatsapp in the united states imessage is the main thing
but everywhere else it looks like whatsapp and switching from that and bringing all of
your contacts and everything else was a bit of a pain hopefully it makes it much easier
now iphone is having an issue with software that apple has acknowledged causes a purple display
when the iphone is locked or maybe having an issue i've experienced this myself where it just goes
to a purple display and then resprings so i had it lock up in earlier betas this year where it
would lock up the screen would completely freeze go to a purple or pinkish display
and then reboot people have been having this on and on and apple has acknowledged this as a
software bug so we can expect an update and maybe we'll even have an updated version of ios 15.3
beyond what the rc version is to correct this problem we haven't seen an rc2 yet so maybe
they'll just fix in 15.3 or a future version but at least they've acknowledged it for now
now 925 mac wrote an opinion piece on saying that apple should split up ios to allow apps
to be updated individually now android has done this for a while and it's kind of nice so when
you want to switch maybe to imessage when you're using imessage if apple wants to add a feature
they would just update the app individually this makes a lot of sense in certain aspects but not
everything if it's tied directly to the os so maybe updating music to add more features they
would update it in the app store so nine to five max seems to think they should do this this would
be a nice way to get features more rapidly however i'm not sure everybody would want this and having
to constantly update your apps i'm curious what you think about this as well but it definitely
could add for feature rollouts throughout the year instead of waiting for ios 16 or ios 17.
what do you think let me know in the comments below now another thing i mentioned in the ios
15.3 rc video is that apple has confirmed that if you're on ios 14 versions or older versions
you'll no longer get ios 14 versions as an option when you go to settings and go to software update
for a while when ios 15 came out it looked like apple was going to allow you to stay
on ios 14 and then they would provide regular security updates that has been acknowledged as
being sort of a false thing or something they've rolled back on and instead what they're going to
do is just provide ios 15. whether that has to do with staffing or just stability of ios in general
maybe that's why they're doing it but if you're on an ios 14 device since ios 15 supports all of the
same devices you won't have an option for older versions so it looks like you'll have to update or
not have any updates at all i was kind of hoping they'd let you roll back to different versions at
some point but it doesn't look like that's going to be the way it is now as far as ios 15.3 many
people have been messaging me today asking when it's coming out and based off year over year
i believe it'll come out on tuesday or wednesday last year apple released it on the 26th of january
so if you look at that go back to january 26th it was a tuesday last year so they released it
on a tuesday last year we can expect maybe the 25th this year where it would be tomorrow so we
could see it as soon as tomorrow or as late as wednesday based off what they've done year over
year unless they find additional bugs maybe that pink screen issue or purple screen issue maybe
they'll patch that push out an rc2 to see if it's working and maybe release it a little bit later
but i think we'll see it as soon as tomorrow along with the watch os 8.4 update ipad mac tv os and
homepod updates as well after that you can expect ios 15.4 beta 1 to start rolling out usually a day
or two after the public release they'll push out the first beta of the next version they've
done that for years and then beta testers and developers can try that out and see how it goes
with maybe some new features but i wouldn't expect any major new features until ios 16. and of course
as i hear more about that i'll be sure to report on now as far as upcoming products apple's spring
event is still not specified as far as a date goes but march or april seems most likely based
on year-over-year events and at that event you can expect a few different things iphone se 5g
ipads pro and probably a new imac but that could be later on but speaking of that event new
iphone models and ipads have been spotted in the eurasian database filings according to consomac
this happens every single time there's a new product coming out it comes out in this
eurasian database first and then releases to the public typically before that launch
happens we'll see those in the database and then we'll have the products within a couple months
so it looks like iphones and ipads are going to get updated probably an iphone se maybe a new
color of an iphone 13 like we did last year with a purple iphone 12 and some other things hopefully
as well and according to mark german 2022 is set to be the widest array of new hardware products in
its history so you can expect quite a few things let me just run down what to expect this year four
new iphone models three new apple watch models with the series 8 se and new rugged version a
yearly ipad refresh with a low end release updated ipads pro a 5th generation ipad air a macbook
air refresh a 13 inch or lower end macbook pro refresh new 27 inch or larger imac a new mac pro
and updated airpods pro 2. so all of those things are expected this year by the end of the year
and also maybe we'll see that vr or ar augmented reality headset before the end of the year as well
and hopefully a few surprises along the way that is a ton of products and so should make for a
very busy year for reviewers like myself but very exciting for new products and to see what apple's
going to do in the future so we're looking forward to all of those things as far as the iphone se the
upcoming iphone se third generation or se plus 5g as people are now calling it ross young has
said that based on the production timeline of the manufacturing of the new phone he believes it will
launch in april so we don't have a specific date until we get that spring event but it looks like
april however there's some new mixed information saying the iphone se may have face id and a notch
and i think quite a few people would be disappointed with this the second generation still
keeps touch id on the front it would be nice maybe to move it to the power button like we have on the
ipad air but it looks like maybe we could have a notch version although other people are saying it
will be identical in every way with just a chipset bump and maybe 5g i hope we get something a little
bit different but touch id is something i think a lot of people appreciate about this phone so
i hope they keep it now as far as iphone 14 of course there's not a whole lot of new information
this week about it other than what i've already mentioned maybe i'll mention it in a separate
video and iphone 15 is where we should see the first periscope zoom camera according to jeff pooh
who's an analyst so five times optical zoom is what you can expect from a periscope zoom camera
but don't expect it this year expect it next year there are a ton of patents about it and it makes
a lot of sense so apple is still exploring an all glass iphone according to patents found by
patently apple there are now seven patents related to an all glass iphone and how it would work so it
looks like we could definitely get something like that in the future in fact i've heard for years
that apple's wanted to do that and i've just never seen one so maybe we'll see one in the future
although they'll have to obviously find ways to reduce damage to them if you drop them when it
comes to the mac dylan dkt today on twitter said that the upcoming imac known as the imac pro will
have an even faster m1 max chipset with up to a 12 core option so a 12 core cpu instead of a 10 core
that could be even faster and maybe some bumped up gpu specs than from what we've already heard
so it looks like we could have that and hopefully we see that within a few months with ipad there's
additional news saying that apple is still considering oled displays i've always thought
this was a bit odd since we have mini led and apple keeps pushing that there are advantages
to mini led but there's also disadvantages the main advantage is brightness and color accuracy
and then maybe they'll move to micro led where that would be the panel itself that's the future
technology so for them to move from maybe lcd to mini led then to oled then back to maybe micro led
doesn't make a lot of sense so maybe they're just exploring this but it looks like lg is working to
supply apple with oled displays maybe for some future products we're not aware of either way it
looks like they're working on that and so that's everything in the news this past week as well as
when do expect ios 15.3 i'm looking forward to all of those products mostly to maybe an imac
pro and mac pro but let me know what you're looking most forward to in the comments below
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