Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week was filled with news about the
upcoming iPhone 13, as well as upcoming Mac books and different Macs.
Also, I wanted to talk about when to expect iOS 15 beta two iOS 14.7,
beta three and more.
This is your news update for the week of June 20th, 2021.
And the first thing is if you use final cut pro motion compressor, or I movie,
those got an update this past week with stability and a couple of small changes,
but mostly it's a stability update and I've been using it and it's much better.
So I'm glad they pushed that out. If you haven't installed that yet,
I would highly recommend you update those. Also,
if you have a Mac book pro or a MacBook Air apple has reduced the price of
the apple care plus service.
So that's an extra warranty that extends it out to about three years and
provides things like protection against accidental damage and more so maybe you
damage the screen on the laptop.
It will only cost you about a hundred dollars to fix instead of hundreds to fix.
So that's good news. They've reduced the price to 1 99 and 2 49,
basically reducing it by about $50 each. So that's a great thing as well.
Also apples back to school promotion has now started.
So if you buy a Mac or an iPad, you can now get AirPods for free,
not AirPods pro at seams, but you can get educational pricing.
If you're a student and get ready to go back to school or go to college,
for example, and you can get AirPods for free with one of those purchases.
So they've started that back up.
They do this every year around school time and it's back available now.
Also my favorite accessories from apple in space, gray are no longer for sale.
Apple stopped selling space gray accessories that went along with the iMac pro
for example. So if you had a space gray mouse track pad or keyboard,
unfortunately you cannot buy those directly from apple.
You may be able to find them elsewhere,
but right now they've stopped selling them.
They announced that they were sort of going out of stock and now they're out of
stock. So unfortunately you can't get those anymore.
Now when it comes to iPhone,
the iPhone 12 mini apparently has had production cut short.
They're not selling as well. And according to trend force,
low sales is really made it so we don't need them to produce anymore. Now,
it is said that they're going to produce an iPhone 13 mini or iPhone 12 S mini
for example, but we haven't seen that yet. Of course,
we won't know that until September when apple shows off the next iPhone,
but it seems like the sales on the mini are just poor at this point.
So we won't be seeing maybe that after iPhone 13, like many have said,
so it looks like it's not selling for as well as many had thought it's a great
phone, but the battery life is compromised due to its overall size.
But if you like small phones, at least you'll get,
it looks like one more version of that.
Also trend force has also said that the upcoming iPhone 12 S or 13,
depending on what they decided to call,
it will not be available in one terabyte models. Like many people said before,
instead it would be five,
12 gigabytes like we have now and maybe one terabyte for the next year.
So they haven't said specifically why that be,
but it seems like a lot of people store their images online with iCloud,
for example, or Google photos or somewhere else.
So you don't need all of that storage necessarily.
So it seems like five 12 will be the top of the line again this year.
And they're also said they have the same price this year,
according to trend force.
So there shouldn't be a price increase while they're not cheap.
At least we're not getting a bump in price this year. It seems like either.
Now the reason I said earlier that it could be the iPhone 12 S or iPhone 13 is
trend force saying that it won't be called iPhone 13.
Now this has been suspected for some time,
whether or not it would be 12 S or maybe they'll just call it the twenty,
twenty one iPhone like they do with their iPads this time.
Maybe they'll change it to something like that.
Now this could be due to suspicion or triskaidekaphobia, for example,
the fear of the number 13,
but basically it could be called the iPhone 13.
We did have the A13 CPU,
however they could just call it the twenty, twenty one iPhone.
Let me know which name you think is best in the comments below. Again,
many are reiterating that the next iPhone will have a smaller notch.
It will be narrower instead of sort of smaller shrunk to the top of the
phone. So it will be narrower from left to right.
And it seems like we'll have that along with our 120 Hertz display,
probably something most people are very excited about is what seems to be a
bigger battery and battery improvements in general,
along with improved cameras across the entire lineup,
getting the sensor shift stabilization on the main.
Camera for all of the phones. So all of those things will be coming soon and.
Also TSMC who supplies the chips, not only for the iPhone, but the iPad,
the M one chips, for example, they manufacture those it's Taiwan semiconductor.
It looks like they're readying their four nanometer process for later this year.
And then a three nanometer process making the,
the chip set even smaller for 2022. This would be incredible,
meaning that you would get even better power consumption out of it.
As you reduce the component size, you can gain a lot of efficiency.
So this is way beyond,
we've seen anything we've seen with other manufacturers as well.
So if this is true, that's quite a big step forward. Now, as far as iOS 15 beta,
too many people are asking me when to expect that.
And I would expect that as soon as tomorrow,
generally apple waits about 15 days before shipping it to the next version.
Based off the previous years, iOS 14, iOS 13, for example.
So 15 days would be the 22nd.
So apple released beta one on the 7th of June.
We could see it on the 22nd. They could push it to the 23rd,
but based on what we've had in the past, I expect it to be here tomorrow,
along with iOS 14.7 beta four,
or it could even be the release candidate at this point.
I'm surprised it's not out already.
Generally it's two weeks or it's one week later from the last beta beta three,
I would expect it today,
but we haven't seen it at least at the time of the recording of this video.
So it seems like Apple is still working on it,
but maybe we'll see a release candidate later this week,
tomorrow or Wednesday or a beta four with a final release probably in the
first week of July. And then we'll move on to iOS 14.8 betas.
Generally we'll have another version unless they change something all the way to
the release of iOS 15, which is generally later in September.
So that's normally how apple does things.
Of course they can change this at any time if they'd like to,
but it seems like we'll have iOS 15 beta two tomorrow.
Now apple did say that if you're looking for the iOS 15 public beta,
that it would be available in July. If that's the case,
you may have to wait until beta three for the public beta.
Although in the past they have pushed it out a little bit earlier than they said
with beta two, if they feel it's stable enough.
So we could see the public beta tomorrow, along with a developer beta two,
or they could change up the entire release schedule altogether.
Apple never guarantees when things are coming out.
They just said July for the public beta. So we don't know any of that for sure.
Hopefully we'll find out tomorrow though. Now,
as far as the upcoming MacBook with the M1X chip set in it that we thought would
launch with WWDC, it seems like that will be coming later this year,
according to a user on Twitter, Dylan D KT,
the upcoming M1X MacBook Pro will be released in the fourth quarter of 2021.
And last week, digitimes had stated that it would be in the third quarter,
which starts in July.
And that was due to a shortage of the displays being mini led like we have on
the iPad pro, and that we would see that in the third quarter. However,
this leaker on Twitter is actually pretty accurate when it comes to the release
of Mac books. So we could see them later in this year. I think at this point,
we can just count on them being released this year later on,
at some point he also said we could see a Mac mini with a new updated chip set,
as well as an iMac pro coming later on.
So an iMac pro they may continue that wording have an iMac pro with a larger
display. And I would really look forward to that,
or I really welcome that and look forward to that because that's something I
can't wait for is the high-end version of apples own Silicon.
It's great on the MacBook Pro 13 inch,
it's super fast on the iMac and the Mac mini and the Mac book air.
I can't wait to see what their pro-level chip sets have as well. Now,
every so often apple releases a safari technology preview.
They've released a new one,
and I don't generally cover these on general iOS updates,
but as you can see here, it says, get the latest layout technologies,
visual effects, developer tools, and.
More so you can provide input on how they are.
Implemented and deliver a best in class user experience on all apple devices.
Now, again, this is a preview, so it could have some bugs,
you'll provide feedback just like you would a beta.
So I don't recommend this unless you're a developer,
but you can try this out and it will let you try new technologies such as
updates with HTML, JavaScript, CSS,
and may have new features like live text, improved extensions, quick notes,
web GL two and more. So this allows you to provide feedback.
Maybe you have a website you want to make sure works in the latest version of
safari. You can try this out, but again, it's meant as a preview.
It's not a final release, but it is available now.
And it's available for Mac iOS Monterey right now.
And since there's a beta version, it's an updated version of that.
It will be coming later to Mac OS Big Sur.
So you can check that out if you'd like to.
And so this week's news has been a little bit sparse.
We're still waiting for apple glass, of course,
and apple VR coming later on and new max and more,
but at this point it looks like we're waiting mostly for iOS updates, iPad, iOS,
of course,
and all of the other updates and September will be the next huge product launch
or announcement, but there could be one before then as well,
according to some people. So it looks like we could have a summer event.
We've seen those in the past with different launches in August,
but right now we'll have to wait and see, but we are waiting for iOS 15,
beta two and iOS 14.7 beta four.
And to see what apple has a little bit later with iPad mini and things like
that. But there's no additional news about that at this time.
Let me know what you're looking most forward to in the comments below,
and also which version of iOS you're running.
I'd love to hear from you there as well.
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