Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week has been filled with news about
airpower maybe making a return apple's digital id upcoming changes with iphones apple glass and
much more this is your news update for the week of november 28 2021 and the first thing has to do
with apple introducing a new mac upgrade program so if you have a business and you apply for this
upgrade program you may be able to pay monthly for about three percent of the overall cost
and you can see the different prices here on cit's website so anything from a 13-inch macbook air to
the latest 16-inch macbook pro ranging from 30 per month to 75 dollars per month depending on
the actual device and so you'll see it says pay just three percent of the mac notebook
cost each month apply today to get started this can be very helpful for different people that have
macs at their business and maybe need to change them every few years so it's a sort of similar
change to what apple did with iphones for the public but this is for businesses only now apple's
air power is something we've been seeing for many many years in fact apple introduced it with the
iphone 8 and iphone 10 but then sort of canceled it or seemingly cancelled it a little bit later
according to mark german apple is still working on air power also short and long distance wireless
power and reverse wireless charging for the future where maybe apple is trying to make
everything charged together according to mark german where maybe imagine an ipad charging
an iphone then an iphone charging air pods or maybe even an apple watch on the back iphone has
magsafe around the back and you'll see it sort of allows the airpods case or the airpods 3 case here
to snap to the back of it imagine where you could reverse wireless charge this now we've seen this
on some other products we've seen this with their battery pack that goes on the back being able to
reverse wireless charge it's easy to do they just need to implement it in software however
wireless charging like they had on air power is something that hasn't really been done yet other
than by nomad so nomad that makes this watch band here they've done something similar to that and
i would love to see apple do that in their own way even wireless charging from a short distance
maybe from the end of your imac or something else just charging your iphone as you sit next to it
however there there are inherent inefficiencies to actually doing that but we've seen this over
and over usually at ces every year where they show that off but either way i would love to see some
sort of charging change in the future not just magsafe on the back of it now recently apple and
google were fined 11 million dollars in italy for implementing what italy calls aggressive methods
in commercial use of data without consent however this seems to be against everything apple stands
for and apple actually made a counter argument to that saying we believe the authority's view is
wrong and will be appealing the decision apple has a long-standing commitment to privacy of our users
and we work incredibly hard to design products and features that protect customers data we provide
industry-leading transparency and control to users so that they can choose what information to share
or not and how it is used apple has implemented this in many different ways with privacy
with app tracking transparency and different options to turn off requests to track from
different applications and so to be fined for something like this doesn't seem to make a whole
lot of sense at least based off what we have here we even have the app privacy report and
the ability to turn off apple advertising if you want you can have targeted ads but you can
just turn them off and we choose this so they're being fairly transparent with this and we just
have the option so you can see view ad targeting information and just turn it off you won't receive
any of that on an iphone so it's odd to see them sort of be fined for something they are so
sort of particular about protecting now this past week in turkey apple actually halted sales due to
the currency actually falling in value and so this is something that was halted not only in
stores but also online however later that day or the following day apple resumed sales but with a
25 price increase according to different sources so it looks like apple had to change the pricing
unfortunately in that country due to the value of the currency compared to the united states and
elsewhere so this is a bit unfortunate i would love if everything was the same everywhere
but many people have asked me in different places around the world why apple charges differently and
it's typically due to taxes or different currency values in those different countries compared to
maybe the united states or china or elsewhere so it really depends there but unfortunately they had
to bump the price hopefully that situation will change but it was just something to note that
seemed to be all over the news this past week now the upcoming digital id has been delayed to 2022.
last week we heard a little bit about this where you'd be able to use your license and maybe use
this in the airport through tsa that seems to be one of the first places it will be implemented in
the united states but it has to be secure however apple has delayed it and officially changed it on
their ios 15 preview website where it says coming early 2022. so whether that's with ios 15.2 or ios
15.3 or some other version is hard to say however the code started appearing in ios 15.2 so maybe
we'll see that release later on or maybe earlier than that we'll talk more about that in just a
moment now today is cyber monday and many of you asked in my last video that i continue to cover
maybe different discounts and sales that there are on apple products and so being cyber monday
in the united states we typically have a bunch of deals and discounts now last week apple had some
discounts on amazon.com where they had airpods 3 airpods 2 airpods pro and airpods max up to 120
off for the airpods max these sales are still going on and i'll link those in the description
however there are all sorts of different phone deals from the iphone 13 pro coming with free air
pods if you sign up for a new phone on t-mobile to some carriers such as verizon offering free
iphone 13 minis with an unlimited plan so there's a bunch of different deals from different carriers
and also apple has their own where they'll give you a gift card for certain purchases so you'll
see get a 50 apple gift card with an eligible model of iphone purchase or different trade-ins
and more so you can check those out on apple.com i'll leave some links to some other deals as well
and there's deals on everything from m1max to ipads and more so quite a few deals today again
i'll link a few of those in the description or if you just go to amazon there's those airpods
deals and there's other deals elsewhere so quite a few things going on today most of them seem to be
about a hundred dollars off of max or 200 off of max if you're trying to pick up an m1 macbook pro
or something like that now last week i talked a little bit about apple making their own modems
and it seems like there's even more news about this where apple is working with tsmc or taiwan
semiconductor they make the chips for apple such as m1 and more and they're ramping up
production for apple's new 5g modems to replace the qualcomm modems apple owns a lot of different
patents for intel modems that they used before and ultimately they would want to probably not
pay royalties to qualcomm for 5g and have better control over the chipset itself this could lead to
increased battery life and reliability since apple has more control over the chipset itself now the
unfortunate thing is it looks like it won't be an iphone 14 but rather maybe iphone 15 and beyond
with what would be 2023 sometime around that time frame where they would have enough time to ramp up
production get them in the new iphones make sure everything's set with the software and ready to go
so it looks like apple is working on that but it will be some time before we see that now as far
as ios 15.2 quite a few people have messaged me today asking if we would see a beta update today
and based on today again being a holiday or the start of hanukkah quite a few people were asking
if we would see it but typically we'll see it on tuesday or wednesday so i would expect ios 15.2
release candidate or maybe beta 4 tomorrow and the reason i say release candidate and i covered this
in my follow-up video but the release candidate is typically one release away from a final release
so we could see the release candidate as soon as tomorrow with a final release the following
week or beta 4 then a release candidate than the final release sometime on the week of the 13th or
the 12th where we'll have a final version before apple goes on vacation for the holidays or around
christmas typically that's what we'll see i would expect maybe one more beta and then a release
candidate or maybe we'll just jump straight to the release candidate and have a final release
but we'll have to wait and see what apple does again i would expect some sort of update
probably tomorrow maybe wednesday at the latest something along those lines now in a recent video
i had i talked about maybe apple having a separate app for airpods to allow you to see the different
things that it can do as well as have an easy way to update it nine to five mac has made a concept
about it showing what it could look like if you had a separate airpods app and that's something
that i think makes a lot of sense we could have something to control noise cancellation or
maybe different options such as find my or the software update that makes a lot of sense to
me i hope apple does something like this in the future since we have an app already to control
apple watch update it and more with airpods being increasingly used as well as many different
versions it makes a lot of sense to have an easier way to connect them and then maybe set different
options for spatial audio and more so they've come up with some ideas i think it makes a lot of sense
hopefully we see this in the future and as far as future products apple sort of hinted at augmented
reality or virtual reality devices in a recent interview with tim cook if you've watched this
interview you'll see that 9-5 mac again says tim cook talks diy repair announcement and apple's
next big thing in the new interview he hints that they're sort of seeing the future with augmented
reality and virtual reality and that they're sort of making a big play toward that apple has
not released a product other than the iphone that does augmented reality where you can do that with
the cameras on the iphone or ipad but maybe having glasses or a headset seems to make a lot of sense
and in a recent note from ming chi quo he says that it's coming in late 2022 where it will have
similar power to an m1 mac such as this m1 mac 13 inch and have something like that along with 4k
micro oled displays from sony and it will not be required to tether to an iphone or mac to use it
that makes a lot of sense if apple can put that chip right in it you wouldn't need a tethered
device other than maybe for data but apple has an aim of replacing iphone within 10 years according
to quo i'm not so sure about that as i don't know that everyone would want to wear glasses
or a vr or augmented reality headset but i think iphone will be around for quite some time but
if they have a better way of implementing the user interface maybe having touch controls or
virtual touch controls that work seamlessly it would be maybe in response to facebook's
meta or the metaverse with their virtual reality and oculus so i can't wait to see what apple has
we may only be about a year away from seeing what that is or less than a year away and i can't wait
to see that apple's been talking or at least been rumored to have this for quite some time
and it looks like apple is talking more and more about virtual reality and augmented reality so
i can't wait to see that now when it comes to the future of mac with m1 we've had everything
from the m1 macbook air to the m1 macbook pro to the new 16-inch but we've yet to see an imac pro
or a new mac pro and it looks like the future versions of that according to dillon dkt
may have multiple m1 chipsets so maybe two m1 max chips maybe 128 gigabytes of ram and much more so
with a chassis that's much larger than an iphone or macbook we could see some incredible power from
them since you can cool them more efficiently it's said to look like an imac with the combination of
an imac and pro display xdr that makes a lot of sense and then a mac pro that could look like a
mac mini or maybe the old g4 cube those things seem to be coming in the future maybe between
march and june of next year that would make two years since apple announced m1 and it makes a lot
of sense that we would see something by then since they said they would sort of transition everything
within that two-year time frame so i can't wait to see those of course it would have apple's new
mini led display be super bright and be able to sort of make the way toward hdr for everyone so
that's everything from this past week quite a bit of news of course it's a holiday or was in the
united states so not as much news as before but some exciting things coming for hopefully iphone
ios and more let me know what you're looking most forward to in the comments below and of course
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