Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week was filled with all sorts of news about the
upcoming apple mixed reality headset iphone 13 ios 14.5 release as well as an interview with tim cook
where he talks about that and much more and so this is your news update for the week of april 4th
2021 and if you'd like to be notified about any of these news updates as well as my ios 14 videos
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notified when those release now the first thing is a judges said that apple knowingly sold macbook
pro models in 2016 and 2017 with defective display cables now if you have a 2016 or 2017 macbook pro
the issue is that there's a flex cable that goes from the display to the logic board underneath
and as you open and close the display on a macbook over time this could wear out and cause problems
with the display it's known as display gate quite a few people have experienced this i haven't seen
this on the 2016 or 2017 models but for those that have it's quite an issue and a judge has
ruled that they knowingly didn't fix this issue and then later fixed it in future designs in 2018
and so they've allowed a potential class action lawsuit to go forward to to address that issue
we'll have to wait and see the results of that or any penalties but that's what a judge ruled
so we'll have to wait and see what comes of that now in a recent podcast called sway kara swisher
interviewed tim cook and in that podcast tim cook had said that he probably won't be running apple
in 10 years although there is no date in sight when he would sort of resign or maybe retire at
this point now this makes a lot of sense tim cook is about 60 years old and in 10 years being 70 he
probably wants to take a break and retire although he can't imagine himself not being with apple so
we'll have to wait and see if there's some sort of date maybe someone that he has in mind to
move into that ceo position but at this point i think he'll be here for at least five years but
in the next 10 it's hard to say there's been news of apple complying with russia when you're setting
up an iphone to recommend russian-made apps and this is now live so if you're in russia and you're
setting up an iphone you'll now get the prompt for different apps that are made by russian developers
and you'll have the option to install them it's just something new that they're doing it doesn't
compromise privacy or security it's just part of the setup based on the location you're at so it's
just something new in the recent setup now when it comes to iphone 13 a recent 3d printed model or a
mock-up at least that's what this looks like shows what a smaller notch would look like and maybe a
repositioned earpiece and front camera so it gives you an idea of what the notch would look like as
compared to a recent iphone with a larger notch so some people will like this some won't but it just
kind of gives a general idea of what that would look like so it does look like we will definitely
get a smaller notch based off some leaks earlier last week or so where they showed the front glass
of the displays for the upcoming iphone 13 lineup so that seems to make a lot of sense it just shows
you what it might look like now according to ross young who's an analyst he said that the third
generation iphone sc will launch in the first half of 2022 with a similar sized 4.7 inch display
now whether or not that has the same sort of form factor or looks more like an iphone 12 mini for
example is yet to be seen as that's a ways off but he did say that the 2023 models would have a
hole punch display so a hole punch display if you haven't seen one looks like this on the pixel 5
for example you have a hole punch where the front camera is in the upper left it could be centered
wherever you'd like but that's a hole punch display as opposed to having a big bezel on top
and bottom or also maybe face id might be present there and instead we'll have that hole punch
display this goes along with ming chi quo who said that in 2022 high-end iphone models may also
feature that same hole punch display so instead of having face id maybe we'll have an under the
display fingerprint sensor this rumor keeps going back and forth whether or not we'll have touch id
under the display on the side button with face id with both it seems so up in the air and apple has
really locked down the leaks so maybe that's why we're not seeing consistency with that but at this
point it looks like we will get a third generation iphone se at some point now the next thing about
the iphones this year coming out as far as the iphone 13 is that the wide-angle camera is said
to get an update however according to ming chi quo they'll have a very similar wide-angle lens to the
iphone 12s so some people are saying it will be radically different much better higher megapixels
others are saying that it will not be so at this point it seems like we're definitely going to have
a similar camera array but whether or not we have much improvements with the wide-angle lens has yet
to be seen the specs should be pretty much nailed down and ready to be produced but at this point we
won't know until apple of course announces it but 12 megapixels on all three maybe with a wide angle
lens higher quality maybe different lenses we'll have to wait and see now dwan rai or if i'm saying
that properly on twitter has leaked the spring iphone cases which should be launching very soon
in fact they've been leaked so it seems like it could be as soon as this week potentially so
we could see those spring iphone cases with four more colors that look a little bit different now
future iphones it looks like apple is working on what looks to be maybe a mac pro style cheese
grater edge for the phone to help with cooling this is something patently apple found and it
looks like they could work on that for cooling around the outside edges although the outside edge
could look nice it probably would not make a whole lot of sense since it would capture a lot of dust
or debris and also be fairly uncomfortable to hold i would imagine but apple's always working on new
designs whether that be internal for the cheese grater style or that sort of milled look where
it gives a lot of strength but also has a lot of ventilation or it's just sort of a concept idea
for some future product is yet to be seen but that looks pretty interesting for a phone but at this
point we'll have to wait and see if it actually comes out they're always trying new things but
the patent shows this could be a potential in the future now as far as when to expect ios
14.5 release candidate and its final release i believe we'll see the release candidate as
soon as tomorrow or wednesday based on their week over week release of betas it's possible we could
see beta 7 but based on the podcast i mentioned earlier tim cook had said that the app tracking
transparency update would be out in a few weeks and a few weeks from when he actually recorded
that podcast on the 27th of march could be as soon as the week of the 11th so next week now based on
that i would expect a release candidate this week with a final release next week however that could
also mean the following couple of weeks so we don't know a specific date until they tell us but
based off that i would expect a release candidate if we don't get a release candidate and we get
beta 7 then we would have a release candidate after that and then a final release the following
week so that's generally how apple does things but they have not given us a specific date for example
we're still waiting for an april event or some sort of product release as well where we expect
maybe new ipads with a mini led display that adds for better hdr maybe better battery life
as well as potential air pods as well air pods 3 maybe although some people are saying we
won't see any air pods until the end of the year we're also expecting other things such as wwdc
in june we know that that is on the 7th and we'll see ios 15 watch os 8 mac os 12 tv os 15 and maybe
some other things as well so between now and june i would expect some sort of product release since
apple does that every year and with that product release maybe an event although at this point it
seems like there's nothing so it's kind of quiet right now maybe that's due to the chip shortage
around the world apple's just waiting for the global chip shortage to maybe pick up production
foxconn who produces the iphone for example has said that they expect it to be cut by 10 percent
around the world as far as their overall shipments and they don't just make products for apple but
they make things for google and microsoft and many others so that chip shortage is affecting about 10
percent of global chip or global shipping through their company so it definitely could be affecting
this release so maybe that's why we didn't have an event in march or maybe not but i'm looking
forward to some new products and other than the ipad and airpods i'm looking forward to an imac
and love to dream recently just tweeted that the imac could be a larger display as well
they could have a larger option maybe 32 inches or 30 inches similar to that of the pro display
xdr so i'd look really forward to that mark german has said to expect smaller bezels and no chin
and so i'm looking very forward to that and hopefully we'll see something with that very soon
now that leads me to the apple mixed reality headset according to mark german of bloomberg
apple is planning to announce its mixed reality headset within the next few months at an in-person
event now this was a little bit surprising since wwdc in june is not in person so maybe it'll be
later in the year maybe around september with the iphones if everything is sort of
back to as much normal as possible then we could possibly see an in-person event with that release
now it's rumored to have an 8k display on each eye as well as 15 cameras or so around the outside to
track movement and gestures and in the interview that i mentioned before apple also said that they
want to use ar to make conversations better by showing graphs or maybe different things
that you're talking about in real time so that could be very interesting to see in person i
would love to have that sort of event take place again where we have in-person events but we'll
have to wait and see i'm fairly excited about this since i do use an oculus from time to time
i would love to see an apple mixed reality headset and see what they could bring with all of the sort
of things that they're good at so let me know what you think in the comments below what you're
most excited for and if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it
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