hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this past week was filled with tons of
updates with ios mac os ipad os and more as well as additional details about apple's upcoming ar
vr headset and the actual os that it runs as well as the march event and much more this is your news
update for the week of february 13 2022 and the first thing is if you're an apple employee you
may have already heard this apple is giving many retail store employees raises due to the current
labor market inflation and staff complaints about working conditions amid the pandemic
and so those who are receiving the increases are mostly those who have been there since before 2020
but also in addition to that apple's increasing benefits such as 12 sick days instead of six
so it's great to see them giving additional help to those that might need it that work for them
the next thing is foxconn who's a major assembler or supplier of iphones after they're assembled
has said that the chip shortage is really easy and all of the different supplies to make iphones
is being more readily available so that we can get our iphones on time so apple's working on the
iphone 14 also building the iphone 13 still and so during that you need a ton of chips
ram and more so it looks like the actual supply chain is is easing as far as the shortages go so
that's great news and while apple is always working on new products such as iphone 14
they're still working years out on maybe different innovations and different designs
and in 2021 this resulted in apple being granted 2541 patents for their different designs and ideas
so this makes them actually seventh in the top 50 of the patents this past year with ibm samsung
and canon ranking in the top three so lots of companies pushing out a ton of different patents
apple's pushed out a lot as well that could be anything from new designs to new ideas with the
way things work such as fingerprint sensors and much more and while that chip shortage has started
to improve one bad piece of news actually has to do with western digital where they said they
lost 6.5 exabytes worth of 3d nand flash storage from contamination in its plants in japan that
may cause the overall price of the chipsets or the ssds to jump to 10 by 10 percent due
to demand however the western digital plants are jointly run with not just western digital but also
kiaxia or kyoshi i'm not sure how you say that but which is what apple often uses alongside samsung
so that's a joint plant with western digital and it's unclear if that storage will need to
be recalled from apple products that were produced in january however it may cause a small shortage
for ssds but again samsung is a huge supplier as well with those particular parts and things like
that now mentioning samsung they also announced the s22 ultra this past week with a new cpu but
that cpu is still nowhere near as fast as the iphone 13 series chips when you're running
maybe geekbench scores now of course geekbench doesn't tell the whole story of usability and more
but with geekbench scores the iphone 13 pro max often goes above 1700 for single core and above 4
700 from multi-core according to recent tests the s22 ultra scores somewhere in the realm of 1200 or
1232 as well as 3433 for multi-core so definitely below that however that doesn't speak to the
overall experience and they're both very smooth but in pure horsepower and raw power of processing
iphone still beats it by quite a bit but again that really shouldn't affect the overall usability
the samsung devices seem to be very smooth and as soon as i can get my hands on one of course i'll
have some testing with that now if you've been on a mac and all of a sudden maybe you're on a mac
and you get a pop-up that says you need to sort of accept some new terms and services for icloud this
apparently is a problem a lot of people are having so it's popping up you clear it and then it pops
back up and asks you to sign it in or accept it over and over and over so this affects not only
m1 devices but also intel based macs and it seems to be a known issue so that could be related to
the icloud side or the chipset side inside intel but just be aware that it's something that people
are seeing now if you have an ipad mini many people have complained about jelly scrolling what
that means is when you scroll up and down on a website and this is an ipad air fourth generation
but on the ipad mini as you scroll sometimes it's a little bit wavy until you stop
that's something that apple has acknowledged it's just sort of the way the display is made
and the way they've constructed it but now there's a new class-action lawsuit against
it in northern california where they say apple is aware of it but refusing to fix it now whether or
not this goes anywhere as hard to say as it's the way the construction of the display is made
so i'm not sure they can actually fix that but it is something that's ongoing and i'm curious
if you have an ipad mini does this bother you i have one and my wife has used it and my children
and they haven't mentioned it once i've never mentioned it to them but they've never mentioned
that it looks weird or anything else so for most people i don't think it will bother them but if
you're into displays or want the latest displays you can definitely notice it when you're scrolling
so i'm curious to know what you think about that now this past week apple made an announcement
about air tags and they talked about how you can have more privacy with air tags in the future
so it says an update on air tag and unwanted tracking and they give you examples of what
they're going to do in future os releases so new privacy warnings during air tag setup
addressing alert issues for airpods and updated support documentation and they'll even make it a
little bit louder so if you have an air tag you're using it and you're concerned about air tags being
around you find my will make it even more apparent if there's air tags there that don't belong to you
so this will be coming in the near future probably with an ios 15.4 update or something along those
lines apple recently acquired a music startup called ai music that uses ai to generate dynamic
soundtracks this could be implemented within apple music to maybe improve auto-generated playlists or
maybe be added to your photo memories to improve the soundtracks there either way we should see
this in a future version of ios maybe ios 16 or later on also last year apple acquired a company
called prime phonic that has classical music so they were sort of a classical music only service
and apple has said that they're going to implement that recently in apple music beta for android it
was found in the code that they were mentioning classical music so we could see that pretty soon
implemented into apple music or maybe a separate app altogether but i would imagine they'll put a
separate section within apple music with dedicated playlists and more so on android we've seen that
already in the code it looks like it's going to be pretty soon now just a couple weeks ago we had a
bunch of software releases this past week we had a ton more and so this past week apple released
ios 15.3.1 ipad os 15.3.1 watch os 8.4.2 mac os 12.2.1 and then also beta 2 versions of 15.4 on
iphone and ipad watch os 8.5 beta 2 tv os 15.4 beta 2 and mac os 12.3 beta 2. all of those were
released this past week so it was a very busy week with updates of course i have videos on on most of
those different changes and then also many of you still ask me when are we going to get ios
15.4 beta 3 and when will it release to the public and so i would expect that if we're on a current
weekly cycle typically after a couple betas two to three betas we'll go to a weekly cycle
that means we could have a beta as soon as tomorrow or wednesday now if we don't see a
beta this week we'll still be on a bi-weekly cycle and won't see it until next tuesday or wednesday
we won't know that until tomorrow or wednesday so hopefully we'll see something this week now if we
do see a release this week i would expect beta 4 next week with a release candidate in the first
week of march and a final release sometime in the week of march 6th probably around the apple event
that's expected on march 8th so typically that's the sort of layout we'll see with those updates
that makes a lot of sense where they'll introduce new features and new products around that time
frame and speaking of the march apple event we know a few more things about that so we do expect
it around the 8th if we do have it around the 8th we can expect an announcement in the maybe
next week or usually around that time frame is when we'll get invites to those events and then
we'll see different things at that event such as iphone se3 it's expected to look just like the se2
and maybe have touch id along with 5g of course like i've mentioned before if they're going to
add 5g they'll definitely need to add some battery so maybe we'll see a slight redesign because we
will need antennas for millimeter wave also we'll need larger batteries to compensate for the power
drain that it uses and the battery will need to be much larger as the phone currently using 4g only
gets about 4 hours of screen on time so we would definitely need to see something change there
also we expect ipad air 5th generation so this is a 4th generation ipad air we can expect a
5th generation that looks very similar with improved internals improved cameras and improved
forward-facing camera with center stage so center stage follows you around while you're on a phone
call it's very helpful when you're on a zoom or facetime call and something that's great they
should implement that here but don't expect any major changes with ipad air 5. also very recently
in the eurasian database apple always adds new products there just like they added the iphone
and the ipad recently they don't mention anything other than the model number but they have added
three new macs we expect a new macbook air that looks similar to the imac with different colors as
well as a macbook pro replacement for this 13-inch macbook pro where it said that they're going to
be getting rid of the touch bar and just having improvements internally such as an m2 processor
so we can expect that and maybe a mac mini the three model numbers that were listed are a2615
a2686 and a2681 so those particular models hopefully we'll see those updates very soon
and they've already filed like i said iphone and ipad so it looks like we could get those
five different pieces of hardware at this update hopefully some surprises as well also today there
were some tweets by apple tomorrow and ross young who is a very accurate leaker saying that the mini
led imac pro could launch in june some observers said no mini leds but we hear around 1 000
zones and over 4 000 mini leds so it looks like imac pro would be launching sometime in june
which makes sense that it would be around wwdc 2022 which is a developer conference and would
make a lot of sense to maybe see that device along with maybe a new mac pro at least mentioned there
apple this past week also leaked the name of its upcoming operating system for its new arvr headset
it's often been referred to as ros and now is actually showing reality os so it's found within
apple's code this is apple's code themselves so it's within that we know it's called reality os
or at least that's the code name of it also mark german this week said that he
expects the new apple headset to focus on using memoji and shareplay when you're using facetime
so you could use memoji while looking across the table at someone else maybe in sort of a
virtual world in a conference call you could use that of course you wouldn't have to but it would
give you sort of an emoji look since you wouldn't have a camera directly on you additional details
of the headset leaked as well this week apple is aiming for a weight of 100 to 200 grams which is
actually less than half of that of the oculus quest 2 or metaquest 2. so to have something
that light hopefully with a good battery would be incredible very comfortable and i can't wait to
see what they have there recently antonio darosa released a concept of what apple could be working
on as far as a flip style folding phone obviously apple's always working on new products and trying
different things out and this is kind of what it could look like if they were deciding to do
something along these lines personally i've never been a huge fan of folding phones as i'd rather
just have sort of a slab phone that's thin instead of folding at double thickness but a lot of people
really like the idea and it's compact and sort of protects the display so this is what it could look
like and apple is said to be working on one as far as release dates though we don't really know
and so that's all the news this past week tons of updates tons of releases and of course i'm
looking really forward to apple's upcoming event where we'll finally see some new macbooks and more
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