Hi, everyone. Aaron here for Zollotech.
And this is your news update for December 21st, 2020.
And since I'm doing these every week,
I thought I'd just put the date in there to kind of keep it consistent
throughout. Now, the first thing comes from counterpoint research,
which said that the iPhone 12 and 12 pro models are the world's best-selling
5g smartphones, which doesn't really surprise me.
iPhones will sell a lot from the time they release up until whenever the next
one comes out.
So the iPhone 12 and 12 pro are the sort of the perfect
size, I think for most people.
And it doesn't surprise me that they seem to be the best seller. Now,
Apple does not release these numbers, but according to counterpoint research,
the 12th, 11,
12 pro are the world's best-selling 5g smartphones followed by the note
20 ultra. So that's the next one in line,
which is kind of interesting because it looks like Samsung may not release a
note 20 this coming year, but either way,
it's nice to see that Apple is doing well with the phones.
And I'm sure we'll see more about that later.
Hopefully Apple will update them as well or update us on them as well.
The mini apparently is the least selling.
And then the 12 pro max is somewhere in between. Now,
as far as the iPhone 13, well, I've shown you this before.
This is not an iPhone at all. It's actually a clone,
but if the iPhone 13 looks anything like this, at least it'll be squared off.
But according to analyst Ross young,
the iPhone 13 has said to feature an LTPO 120 Hertz, Oh,
led display. Now he was correct about them,
not including the 120 Hertz display this year and has said that they'll
include it next year. And I would expect them to do that,
given that everyone else has kind of done that.
They've done promotion on the iPad pro for a few years now since 2017.
And I think it's time to bring it to the iPhones as long as the supply chain is
there to do so. And with an LTPO display, they could do that.
So I think they'll have that in this upcoming option with a promotion display,
at least on the pro and Pro Max phones, I would think.
And then maybe the other phones later on now also Apple is apparently working
on its own modem to replace the Qualcomm modems. Now in the past,
we had Qualcomm than we had Intel from about the iPhone 10 to the iPhone
11 series.
And then we're back to Qualcomm after Apple settled the dispute between Qualcomm
and themselves with some different patents and things.
So apparently they're licensing technology that will allow them to create their
own chips.
And I'm pretty anxious to see what they've got because they could create very
low power chips. They've done this with their a series processors.
The a 14 bionic for example,
is super power efficient and super fast compared to the competition.
And if they can do the same thing for their wifi or cellular modems,
I would love to see them do that. So that sort of thing,
whether or not they're doing wifi, I don't know,
but it appears to be that they're going to work on cellular modems for 5g,
which could really help with power and signal over time.
So I'd love to see that I'd love to see what Apple has and hopefully we'll that
maybe as soon as next year, but there is no timeframe given for that. Now,
according to an Apple patent found by patently Apple,
apparently the next Apple watch could have touch ID on it.
Now there's some interesting drawings from that patent,
that show basically the button here on the side could be used as a fingerprint
sensor.
It looks very similar to what we have on the iPad air with a fingerprint sensor.
If they included that into the Apple watch,
I think it makes sense for verifying transactions instead of just
double-clicking better biometric security and things like that.
Then also Apple insider found a separate patent that hints to Apple working on
under display cameras for the Apple watch.
So maybe we could take FaceTime calls. You wouldn't see the camera,
we've seen some other smartphones with this and you wouldn't see the camera
until you needed it. And then you'd be able to see the camera.
I would hope they'd bring that to the iPhone as well, get rid of the notch.
Maybe they can hide everything using that same technology and then only see
maybe a face ID when you need to. And then it goes away.
Something like that would be really interesting.
I know a lot of people would welcome it and what would be amazing to make
FaceTime calls from your Apple watch and have people see you and you see them.
So that's sort of a dream.
Many people have had since kids with comic books and things like that.
So that's pretty interesting.
I would love to see that now a lot of people want to know when to expect iOS
14.4 developer beta two and public beta two.
And when we can expect iOS 14.4 releasing to the public.
And so I wanted to talk about what we can gain from last year and what Apple
did, although this year has been very different and everything could change,
but based on what Apple did last year around the holiday time,
Apple released iOS 13.3 to the public,
and then didn't release anything publicly until much later with
iOS 13.3 0.1 on January 28th,
we didn't really see any public releases until that point. At the same time,
they had iOS 13.4 betas and beta two did not come out until
February 19th.
And so we may have a very long time until we see a release of 14.4.
They actually released it in March where they had a final release date of March
24th when they released 13.4. So we may not see 14.4 for a few months.
There were four betas and then in a release in between.
So we definitely could see 14.3 0.1 or something along those
lines, maybe even a 14.3 0.2,
but Apple has so changed this from year to year. That it's hard to say,
however,
right now they are on sort of vacation schedule based off what they've done
every year anyway.
And I really wouldn't expect anything until minimum the week of January 4th or
January 3rd. So while they definitely could release something else,
it's unlikely until that point I've been wrong in the past,
but based off what they've done in the past few years, that seems likely now,
other than that release, Apple also had quite a bit of information going out,
back and forth with Facebook. As far as privacy,
Apple introduced some serious privacy with iOS 14,
and they were really going to lock this down and make it difficult for
advertisers to track what's going on on your phone Facebook.
And some others fought back and Apple postpone that until January. Now,
it's about to kick in and well, as you can imagine,
Facebook and others are not happy either way.
Apple is going to turn that feature on making our phones more and more secure.
And I'm personally looking forward to that.
So I know a lot of people value their privacy, of course.
And so to see that lock down our phone even more,
I value that and can't wait for them to do that.
But there is a lot of noise about that. Now,
Apple quietly updated maps in the background.
So those of you that use Apple maps and use look around,
which is sort of like street view on Google maps,
they've updated it for additional cities. So for example, Denver,
Colorado is one of them. There's also Detroit, Michigan, Miami,
and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. So if we go into Denver example,
maybe go to this street,
go down here and let's continue to zoom in.
Maybe we'll go here and we'll hit the little look around button and you can look
around. So you have that ability now to just sort of look around the street view
and see what's going on and then drive smoothly down the street.
And that's something you get a little bit better on Apple maps than you do on
Google maps. It's nice and smooth.
And of course it has very high resolution images.
So that's been added for the cities. I mentioned now,
Apple TV has been a long time coming and it spent something that's been rumored
to come out this past year and it never did. However,
it seems very likely that we're going to see a new version very soon.
The 4k version has been out for a long time and while it still works,
it could use for a processor upgrade as well as spatial audio,
Apple released the AirPods max and spatial audio is fairly incredible.
If you haven't experienced it, you can use it with AirPods pro as well.
And it sort of makes it seem like when you're using them,
that the sound is coming from your device and it sort of has a surround sound
feel to it. And it's something that I think is great.
And I've been using my iPad to watch movies with using them,
but you can't use it on Apple TV.
And so I would definitely think Apple is planning to release an Apple TV that
allows you to use that feature that would have maybe some different location,
maybe the U one chip in it to let it know where it is as opposed to where the
AirPods are to give you that spatial audio experience. I look forward to that.
I really hope we see something like that soon and to have all of the benefits of
a new Apple TV with maybe a new eight, 12 or newer processor,
and it would be great.
It's kind of slow at this point and I would love to see it upgraded to be much
faster. So look for those fairly soon.
Also apparently AirPods pro-life are still coming in 2021.
So we had the AirPods max like we have here,
but AirPods pro or AirPods light with basically the same sort of AirPods pro
look, removable tips that you can change based on the size of your ear canal,
as well as a smaller,
and then also maybe all of the features of AirPods pro,
but with better battery life and no noise cancellation or transparency.
So those things apparently will be coming soon along with,
I would think a whole line of other Apple audio products.
It seems like they're really ramping these up. We have the AirPods max,
where we get AirPods pro max. That's just a guess on my part,
but it makes sense that they keep pushing out audio products.
So it would be interesting to see what they have,
hopefully not too much more expensive though,
since this is fairly expensive for headphones are very expensive for most
headphones.
Now a couple other small things is if you're using an M one Mac and one of the
Mac minis Mac book pro, or the Mac Mac book air,
and you use zoom today at gained native support for M one max,
and then also Microsoft office the other day gained native M1 Mac support.
So things are really catching up as far as the software and it should be super
fast if you're using that now over the last few years,
many people have said that Apple is working on an Apple car. Now,
many people suspect that this just may be related to technology such as software
like iOS, that they would provide to automakers for their cars.
But a recent rumor says that they're actually sourcing parts from Taiwan to
build their own car to release, or at least debut in late 2021.
Now whether or not this is true is really hard to say.
And I've long suspected that they probably won't make a physical car,
but rather maybe software for those cars or provide maybe better software for
different manufacturers,
such as for GM or others to compete with other manufacturers
while we don't really have any more details than that.
It seems fairly unlikely that we'll see a car this year, but it's possible.
And at this point I think anything's possible. So we'll have to wait and see,
but let me know if you think Apple is actually going to release a car in the
comments below. And so that's it for this week's news. If there's anything new,
of course, I'll keep you updated on that.
And let me know what you would like to see most in 2021.
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