Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week up till today has been filled with
anticipation of an upcoming apple event airpods and much more this is your news update for the
week of march 14 2021 and the first thing is right before making this video apple announced that they
have added vaccination locations to apple maps so you can just search for vaccines or a vaccination
and it will show up in maps as far as what is nearby and where you can get vaccinated so this
is obviously by locale it may show in some areas more than others and you may have a bunch or just
one but you can tap on this here and see the location and it shows you how far it is away so
it gives you all the information you need for that if you're looking for it the next thing is in case
you hadn't heard apple discontinued the imac pro a couple fridays ago at this point and imac pro
is now available while supplies last it was out of stock it comes back in and out of stock but it's
only the base model so you can't configure it or anything else but it has the base model available
until it's gone so apple discontinued that and also this past friday they discontinued the home
pod and this one was a little bit surprising to me the homepod mini is the newer addition to this and
maybe they're coming out with a home pod too or maybe this just was too expensive and didn't sell
well enough this sounds much much better than a homepod mini for example and i hope they have
another one but you can see it says while supplies last you can still buy them and just select the
one you want and you can still buy them for 299 in the united states so it may vary depending on
where you live and depending on the store but this one it says sold out and if we go to the white
one we can still buy that one so it just depends where you live you may or may not have available
home pods if you're looking for one now as far as the march event many people were saying that we
should expect invites today and we have not gotten any of those invites so far so many people were
saying we're going to see an apple event on the 23rd of march so far there's no invites and the
funny thing is is usually by 3 p.m eastern time at the latest we'll see an invite and we haven't seen
that and maybe we'll see one later this week but apple last year announced wwdc the previous friday
friday the 13th last year it would have been the 12th so far we haven't seen that
either so right now we're waiting for wwdc 2021 and maybe a march event now someone has
said that maybe they're going to announce the march event on the 23rd for an event on the 30th
right now it seems nobody knows at this point seeing how we haven't seen an invite
although it still looks like we should get some products announced in march but we're
still waiting for that and one of those products is kind of hit or miss depending on who you ask
we have some credible information from kang saying that we're going to see new airpods this month
and we could see the airpods pro or the new airpods but apple just released a new commercial
about the airpods so that makes me think that airpods pro won't be replaced but maybe we'll
see airpods 3. so according to kang we should see them they could look something like this this is
from 52 audio and i've shown this before but then ming chi quo says that production on them
isn't starting until the third quarter of 2021 and then again today love to dream has also said he
has no air pods in his dreams so maybe we'll see airpods maybe we won't we kang is a very credible
source and has been very accurate but with ming chi kuo and love to dream saying we won't see one
maybe we'll see one maybe we won't it's really hard to say at this point whether or not we're
going to see new airpods airpods pro or anything else maybe apple is pushing all that information
out to see where the leakers are and trying to get this sort of information leaked to stop i do
have to say i miss getting surprised by apple so this time around there's so much information that
maybe some of it's true maybe some of it's not so we could see new air pods pro but it looks like
by the end of the year that's very likely airpods 2 have been out for quite some time so a redesign
of those makes the most sense to me with maybe airpods pro 2 coming in the end of this year or
next year now if you have a new iphone such as the iphone 12 12 mini 12 pro or the iphone 12 pro max
apple is now said to be able to replace the back glass if it's damaged without replacing the entire
phone in the past they just replaced the whole phone give you a new one which i sort of liked
because it was shattered applecare would help you cover that or at least pay for some of that
and they'd give you a new phone and you'd have to transfer your data now it appears that they
have in the store the chassis or the frame and the back where they can just swap out the logic board
and the display in the store so you could keep all of your data on there they could swap those
things around and then give you your phone back so that's better in some ways not so great in others
since they'd have to unseal and reseal the phone so it looks like they're able to do that according
to a memo that mac rumors was able to get their hands on now according to a report from svet
apple they're saying that iphone 12s are seemingly showing some discoloration now i haven't seen this
this is an iphone 12 mini but it has the same sort of matte finish on the outside on the aluminum and
this one being kept in a case really hasn't shown anywhere but some people are seeing what looks
like a weathering or maybe like it's been left out in the sun for a very long time even though it
hasn't so this was kind of an interesting report that i thought was i haven't seen this myself but
that doesn't mean it doesn't happen and it could be maybe moving your hand back and forth on this
this frame sort of wears it out more quickly than other phones i haven't seen this but if
you've seen that let me know in the comments below as this is sort of a new development
i've never seen that on an iphone they even claim that it happened on some older iphones but
i haven't seen that either but if you've had that let me know in the comments below they show a red
iphone as you can see here this green one maybe is less prone to wear maybe it's specific colors but
we'll have to wait and see if there's additional information on that in the future now when it
comes to the next generation iphone whether that be called the iphone 12s or the iphone 13
every year apple usually releases those around september or so before they do that they have to
get their massive supply chain in line and get everything started up as far as manufacturing
goes and barclays has looked into this and they've been fairly accurate on some reports before so for
example they were the first to say apple would not include a charger with the 2020 iphones so
based on their information they've said that the next generation iphone will have a smaller notch
as apple continues to sort of miniaturize all of the face id components they can push it closer to
the edge of the bezel and we may see a smaller notch this year we've heard this over and over
from different people and it seems like that's what they're seeing as well as well as a 120 hertz
display that can vary its display rate ltpo and lidar scanners that will remain mostly in the pro
models so some people have said they'll be in the iphone 12 or 13 equivalent 13 mini 13 pro and pro
max or whatever apple's calling this it seems that they're only going to keep the lidar sensor in the
pro models that makes a lot of sense is that seems to be more of an augmented reality or pro feature
at this point that makes the cameras better so maybe we'll have it in everything a little bit
later but this would stick just to the pro models for now according to them i think the thing i'm
looking most forward to based off what they're saying is an under the display fingerprint sensor
we've seen this on many phones and whether or not they put that in the side bezel here on the button
where they did with the ipad air or under the display i think it would be welcome
with today's current situation wearing masks it would make it much easier or even if you don't
wear a mask i prefer the touch id sensor to the face id sensor some people do some don't and i
just like the idea of putting my thumb down and picking up the phone and it unlocks so that would
be really nice whether it be under the display on the side but either way it seems like this
is more and more of a possibility some others have said this first and now barclays is repeating this
now according to ming chi quo in 2023 he's saying that we're going to have a periscope zoom camera
now we've seen these on samsung phones for a while but apple's apparently still working on one now it
was rumored for as early as this year it seems like it's going to be a few years until we see
a true zoom camera that can go further than say 5x with digital zoom so maybe we'll see that in
a couple years but that's just in early production at this point now as far as ios 14.5 well earlier
this week we had beta 4 and if we do have an apple event as soon as the 23rd well i would expect a
release candidate maybe at the end of this week or maybe early next week with the final releasing
after the event now if the event is pushed out that would push out the release candidate as
well meaning maybe we'll have ios 14.5 release candidate which apple used to call the gm versions
but that's the public version before they release it to the public so they release it to developers
and beta testers first and then the public later but maybe we'll see that on the 23rd and then
a final on the 30th so it really depends these dates have been up in the air nobody is seemingly
getting these accurate right now so it seems like we may just have to wait and see what apple does
generally based on what they do year after year it would seem like we'd have an update before
the end of the year so look out for ios 14.5 where we should have all those new features with emojis
face id unlock using the apple watch if you're wearing a mask and much more so hopefully we'll
see that within a couple weeks released to the public now something else within ios is apple has
agreed to allow government-approved pre-installed apps for iphones in russia and possibly a section
in the app store for those apps as well so within russia you may have that ability to
have a separate section of russian specific apps and then also this seems like it's something apple
had to comply with with their government in order to sell iphone there so it's kind of something
we haven't seen before and hopefully it doesn't compromise any of the security on the iphone maybe
they'll have separate versions for there it's hard to say at this point until we see that roll out
now they've also been able to roll out a new sort of security update section within ios 14.5
beta 4 if you hadn't seen my video on that so if you go to general and go to software update
and turn on automatic updates there's a new section that says install security updates so
you can flip the switch on and possibly have separate security updates so maybe this is
part of that or it's just something apple's doing for future updates so they can push out security
updates more quickly now when it comes to an apple event that many of us are hoping to see very soon
the thing that most people are fairly confident about as far as what to expect is a new ipad
pro with a mini led display ming chi quo has said this kang has said this and said
that the 12.9 inch ipad pro is coming and may have exclusive features that could outsell the 11 inch
whether that be the mini led display or something else we're not sure but hopefully we'll see that
very very soon like we did last year with this ipad pro so the 2020 ipad pro brought the lidar
sensor before it came to an iphone maybe it will bring something new for iphone that we'll see
later this year as well now one thing i'm looking forward to most is upcoming macs we're really
waiting for a new imac since apple discontinued the imac pro we're waiting for new apple silicon
we should see on imac very soon so hopefully it looks something like this with a pro display xdr
front but containing apple mac components with new apple silicon inside i can't wait to see one of
these and use one of these and i really think it'd be incredibly fast especially if they're
using some sort of proprietary gpu as well so i'm looking forward to that as well as an m1 mac later
this year as far as macbooks that have more ports for example than this macbook pro so extra ports
new hdmi for example and it's also said to have an sd card slot again so apple could definitely
add those there's plenty of room in these m1 macs to add that sort of feature so i can't
wait to have an sd card back for a memory card that's something i use all the time i have to use
a dongle for and it would be great to see that in a 14 or 16 inch macbook pro now there's even more
news about the ar or vr headset or mixed reality whether or not this is one or two products it's
really hard to say since there's mixed information about both but according to ming chi quo the new
vr headset will have up to 15 cameras to help with tracking this is pretty common on things like an
oculus rift or a vive for example from htc and we could see that for sure that makes a lot of sense
they're also expecting it to be around a thousand dollars and feature high-end micro oled displays
so that could be kind of interesting although we'll have to see what that technology is like
in the future and finally patently apple recently found a patent for a method for gaze driven
recording of video with a headset for example so you could be looking one direction tell it to
record and it could record maybe it will lock on something or maybe this is something entirely new
we don't really know but it's a new pattern that is talking about augmented reality or vr headsets
or both so we'll have to wait and see what comes of that and so as far as that apple event i'm
really looking forward to that i'm really hoping for maybe invites as soon as tomorrow it could
be next week maybe it's never and they'll just release some products but usually every year apple
releases some sort of product in the late march time frame so we'll have to wait and see what
they do but i'm looking forward to whatever they have whether that be a new homepod an imac ipad
airpods or maybe it could be an iphone se but at this point we don't really know hopefully we'll
see something new and it looks like for sure though new ipads maybe an apple tv i'm looking
forward to that as well let me know what you're looking most forward to in the comments below and
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