hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this past week was filled with news about
the upcoming iphone 14 we're also expecting the march apple invites to be very soon
as well as many different releases with ios 15.4 so we'll talk about all of that and this is your
news update for the week of february 27 2022 and the first thing is apple is still leading the
global smartphone sales for 2021 and into 2022. apple made 448 billion according to counterpoint
which actually monitors these sorts of things and who's actually making the most amount of money
around the world so apple is still leading this goes back and forth often between
samsung and apple but it looks like they're still in the lead with that
if you use apple news and you're in canada i mentioned this in my follow-up video the
other day but if you use apple news and you're in canada and you maybe have a news plus subscription
you can get local news starting in two different cities toronto and montreal so that's available
and rene richie originally posted that and it looks like it's available in those cities now
apple will soon be able to replace the face id sensor without replacing your entire display
this is thanks to new modules that actually incorporate everything from face id to the
front cameras and more so all of the different sensors that you need in here apple apparently
can now flip up the display or move it to the side depending on how it's actually connected
and then replace just the module itself that lies be behind the notch so they'll be able
to do that without replacing your display every time which in turn saves the turnaround time and
everything else so they'll replace that gasket make it water resistant again and then you'll
be good to go so it looks like they're actually able to do that now or it will be very very soon
this past thursday marked steve jobs 67th birthday and it's hard to believe he's been gone so long
and i always wonder what he would think of the current version of apple under tim cook
whether he would like the colors that are used for ios the ways things interact i'm always curious to
wonder since he was extremely picky but also very thorough i'm curious what he would think about
the current state of it what do you think about that i'd love to hear from you in the comments
below now for a long time many people have wanted instagram on ipad i know i do since i use my ipad
oftentimes when i'm not recording videos or editing i'll use my ipad with a larger display
instead of my iphone unfortunately there's just no instagram app so it looks very awkward you can run
the ios app and according to the head of instagram they said it's because of lack of interest
i don't know that i take this as fact because many people i know would love to have instagram
on their device so on any device whether that be mac or ipad or any android device or any
android tablet i think they should make it available everywhere but unfortunately
it looks like it's some something that they're putting on the back burner and maybe we'll do
one day also facebook continues to say that app tracking transparency is harmful and making it
more expensive for businesses who are trying to reach customers this is something that was added
a while ago with different versions of ios 15 and it's found under privacy tracking and app
tracking transparency apps can no longer talk to one another easily and thanks to this it's saved a
lot of different information being shared across apps that i wouldn't necessarily want shared so
that's something that they've actually turned on and it's causing a lot of harm in previous
updates i've talked about facebook saying it's going to cost them 10 billion dollars
google is apparently going to implement this very soon as well but maybe in a different way
so it's great to see that apple's app tracking transparency is actually working the way it was
intended this past week apple released ios 15.4 beta 4 along with its ipad os tvos homepod os
counterparts watchos 8.5 beta 4 and mac os 12.3 beta 4. all of those are available to developers
and public beta testers but one thing i didn't mention is homepod os 15.4 beta 4 apparently
includes support for dutch voice recognition or dutch siri voice recognition so when that update's
released to the public and you have a homepod mini or a homepod you'll be able to use that
with your homepod so that's a great addition hopefully they add more languages in the future
and for those of you wondering about ios 15.4 and when to expect its release to the public
well this week i would expect ios 15.4 rc or release candidate that would be the final version
released to the public but released to developers and public beta testers usually about a week early
so the rc means as long as there's no additional issues they'll release it to
the public with the exact same version and i would expect that as soon as tomorrow march 1st
so we typically can expect that and then we expect it maybe a public release around march
8th that's when it said that we're going to have that apple event and if we do have that apple
event it looks like we should have invites as well as soon as tomorrow so those apple invites for
that event it's supposed to be a virtual event should be going out as soon as tomorrow and at
that event for those of you curious about what we might see if you haven't heard this already
we do expect a new iphone se third generation or three that incorporates 5g but looks very similar
to the second generation that i have here we also expect an ipad air 5th generation basically
the same thing as this ipad air fourth generation with maybe some upgraded cameras updated internals
and then hopefully center stage on the facetime camera so that's something that's really helpful
it keeps you in the frame and then of course we do expect updates to macbook as well
i've shown some of this in different videos but we expect the macbook pro to get a slight update
with the macbook pro we don't expect to redesign with it and maybe we'll even keep the touch bar
that seems to be a mixed report so maybe we'll see one maybe we won't but we don't expect a different
form factor just upgraded internals from the m1 to possibly the m2 chipset however we do expect
new macbook airs meaning there'll be a new design with different colors that match the new imac
as well as a mac mini redesign whether that be smaller or just upgraded internals to maybe an
m1 pro or m1 max all of those things are expected hopefully there'll be a few different surprises as
well when it comes to iphone 14 there's some new information as to what the new replacement for the
notch looks like instead we're supposed to have a sort of cutout that looks like a pill and then
maybe a hole punch next to that new schematics first shown on weibo and then later posted by
john prosser show what the actual size of the new pill and hole punch display would look like
so it looks like it could be much larger than we originally anticipated ross young had shown some
of this before but we didn't get a sense of what it looked like and definitely appears much larger
apple is also now transitioning away from samsung to tsmc for its new 5g chips in 2022 on iphone 14
models the chips are smaller and in turn should be more power efficient as well as they're built
on a smaller nanometer process so that's something we could see in 2022 and apple is now working with
multiple manufacturers to make their own version of a 5g chip maybe a little bit later in 2023 with
iphone 15. this again could have power advantages and better integration with devices since apple
would control the tr the chip directly so we went from intel to qualcomm maybe we'll go back to
apple soon which might be intel based but we don't really know i would expect it to be better
apple makes incredible chips and typically they're much more efficient as far as power is concerned
so that could be a big win for 5g on iphones now the apple watch is expected to get some
major updates with the next generation but more specifically with software mark german this past
week said that we do expect apple watch to get an update this year with a series 8 apple watch
a new se and a new ruggedized version but he's also saying don't expect any new sensors just yet
but he does expect faster chips and the largest update to software since the initial launch of the
apple watch so maybe we'll see a full redesign of watch os with the next version of watch os at wwdc
or maybe we'll just see some slight changes but if it's supposed to be the largest update ever
hopefully we'll see something different with new health tracking abilities and more so that seems
to be something they could be focused on and if they're updating watchos that large hopefully
we'll see the same with ios however there hasn't been any information about that just yet
so ios 16 is expected to have some major changes but we don't really know exactly what they are yet
as there's been very little information about it according to a new patent that apple has filed
it looks like apple is considering a computer that's fully built into the keyboard similar
to what we had years ago with say a commodore 64. so we could have just the magic keyboard or a new
version of it that might be a little bit thicker but incorporate an m chipset maybe an m1 or m2
and just have an hdmi port out along with a thunderbolt and then you'd be able to connect
everything through peripherals that way into a monitor or something like that it makes a lot
of sense since the m1 and m2 chipsets probably don't have very intense thermals we're able to
get that sort of thinness in a macbook air so it makes sense you could put it in a keyboard
but maybe we would just have a keyboard to an all new apple display and that's it maybe a couple
different peripherals connected to the keyboard itself that'd be something we haven't seen in a
very long time and whether or not it ever comes to market is hard to say but at least apple's
considering different sorts of form factors we haven't seen for a very long time and speaking of
new form factors apple is apparently working on a foldable macbook meaning the display would fold as
well and the largest size is said to be around 20 inches so it would get rid of a physical keyboard
in favor of a virtual keyboard like we have on an ipad or iphone and also have a virtual trackpad
so we could have something like this of course it's just an idea and apple works on all sorts
of ideas so we may never see it but it looks to be something they're actually working on
instead of maybe a foldable iphone or maybe they're working on a whole set of foldable
devices we just don't know but i'm curious what you would think about a virtual keyboard
i would be okay with it but i think a lot of people would really miss that tactile feel so
i'm not so sure it'd be a great idea but of course i'd have to try it if they actually release it
apple is still working on that ar or vr headset not apple glass that's something different but
they're working on a headset that is now said to feature micro led displays for the eyepieces
this would be the first time we've seen micro led in an apple device or many other devices
and what it is is a replacement for oled so instead of using oled it would use micro leds
to light up individual pixels which would lead to power efficiency and more so it could go
very bright but also be high resolution and more so we'll have to wait and see but it does look
like it's set to start production in august or september meaning we could see it by the end of
this year or maybe early 2023 and then finally apple car is still in the works but apple has
ordered new chips it's designed for its own version of autopilot so tesla cars and many
others now have their own sort of assisted driving systems apple said to be working on that first
and ordered some chipsets to help with that so it looks like it's in the works but if they are
going to make a vehicle of some sort it could be years down the road as that takes a very long time
not to mention the factory and tooling you need to actually ramp up production so maybe we'll see
one by 2030 it's hard to say there's no specific dates but apple's still working on that sort of
thing and so that's everything this past week of course i'm looking forward to ios 15.4 releasing
to the public very soon as soon as next week in that march apple event and more finally getting an
apple event in 2022 let me know what you're most excited for in the comments below and of course
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