hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week was filled with news about
an upcoming march apple event and what to expect with that we'll get into that a little bit later
as well as expecting an ios 15.4 beta 2 update new ipads and much more this is your news update
for the week of february 6th 2022 and the first thing is there's another anti-trust
bill that's been introduced and approved to move forward by the u.s senate judiciary committee
this would allow for side loading apps going around the app store and allow you to sideload
apps whether that be through a third-party app store or from the web directly this apparently
has been passed through that committee and is now up for vote so it has not fully passed yet
but would allow for installing apps like you can on a mac however apple has countered this
saying this would open up their device to privacy concerns and spam and spyware and things like that
and they highly recommend against it but we'll have to wait and see what actually happens so
we're seeing more and more of these sort of cases come to the u.s senate and maybe we'll see them
have to do this so we'll know that pretty soon but it is up to be voted upon and in the next coming
months we should know if we'll have side loaded apps or not what do you think about that i'd love
to hear from you in the comments below now apple has updated its iphone 13 page so if you go to the
pro page scroll down you can see that they've updated it with some really nice animations
and more information so it says the fastest chip in a smartphone the best battery life ever on an
iphone shoot macro of course on the pros a dramatically more powerful pro camera system
pro display xdr or the pro motion display i should say rather groundbreaking filmmaking with the
cinematic mode and much more and the nice thing is you can go into these press the little plus and
see more information about it so that's something they've updated and it's really nice hopefully
they update all of their different products this way as well but they updated this this past week
now if you've been enjoying youtube premium and you have picture in picture that's a feature we've
had in experimental mode for a while so you play one of my videos swipe home and now you've got
a picture in picture you can move it around the screen you can shrink it move it off the screen
and maybe use safari email or more while you're watching or listening to the content unfortunately
it looks like that feature is set to end after february 14th according to youtube this was an
experimental feature and they originally planned to remove it after january 31st but extended it
to february 14th however in a statement recently to mack rumors google said they planned to launch
this feature for free to all users even without premium but they didn't say when i would really
like to see them keep this feature and then just extend it there's no reason to sort of shut it off
and maybe it has to do with ads or privacy but we're really not sure at this point now
if you're an apple music user and maybe someone wants to try it out you know that person and you
tell them about a free trial apple has limited the free trial now to 30 days instead of three months
so now it's a 30-day trial i think that's long enough for most people and what most providers
offer although spotify for some time with samsung devices was offering up to six months so maybe
we'll see some different deals in the future but right now they're limiting it to 30 days so if
you were trying to try that out it'll just be less time this time around now also relating to privacy
and things like that facebook is a bit upset at apple with their apple privacy feature which
limits app tracking it's costing them as much as 10 billion dollars in revenue in 2022 according
to facebook so apparently that feature is working as intended that new feature was added a while ago
under your privacy settings under tracking and you have the option to allow apps to request to track
this is something you can leave off and no apps can see what other apps are doing or you can turn
it off and turn it on on an individual basis so it looks like that particular feature is working they
did delay it for some time but now that it's active it's working as intended and making it
very difficult for different apps to track what you're doing and i think that's a great thing
if you want the privacy if not of course you can just turn it back on but that's something that
they've changed and has been updated now this week apple shared a new support document if you have a
macbook pro with with one of the new promotion displays or a liquid retina xdr display on their
website it says if the brightness is limited on your macbook pro with liquid retina xdr display
or apple pro display xdr apparently some of them running at full brightness 1200 nits or higher
or whatever you're running it at in hdr if you're in very hot environments can limit the brightness
and pull it down like we saw with the iphone 12 series devices for a while and even with the 13.
if the phone is very hot it needs to pull the brightness down so it can cool down this makes
sense so if you're in ambient temperatures that are around 70 degrees fahrenheit or 77 and below
as it says here you should be fine and you can run it at full brightness all day however if
you're in a 90 degree fahrenheit environment you may need to bring that brightness down so
that it can sort of cool down and run within its specifications so that's something just to note
apple pushed that out this week mentioning all of that information with the ambient temperature
now apple surprisingly released watch os 8.4.1 this past week this was something that was again
a bit of a surprise but it was to fix bugs and security issues so they've done that that was
released and a lot of people are asking will there be an ios 15.3.1 and if they find anything that
they need to patch similar to the bugs in watch os i would expect that as soon as later today
tomorrow or within this week however if they find it not as critical they could push it out to 15.4
where we have ios 15.4 betas right now we have beta 1. ios 15.4 beta 2 should be expected usually
tomorrow or wednesday based off what we've seen year over year typically we'll get them
on a tuesday or wednesday and then we'll have a couple more betas then a release candidate
and then a final release so maybe we'll be on a bi-weekly schedule to beta 2 maybe we'll get
beta 3 next week if we do then i would expect beta 4 after that with a release candidate in
the first week of march and a final release on march 8th or sometime around that point the reason
i say that is according to mark german the first apple event of the year is expected on march 8th
so based off information he has he typically doesn't say when apple events will be 100
so usually that means he has a pretty good source that apple's going to have that event
so march 8 i would expect that event with upcoming products so as far as what to expect we can expect
15.4 around there along with ipad os mac os 12.3 and more sometime around that time frame as far
as what to expect at the event well there's a few things we can expect the first thing is an update
to the ipad air we've had the fourth generation with this redesign for a little while now but we
haven't seen updated chipsets so we can expect a 5th generation ipad air with an a15 bionic along
with 5g and a better forward-facing camera on this it's said to go to a 12 megapixel camera
with center stage that follows you around so what we have on the ipad pro that i have here
we can expect with the ipad air so a15 bionic 5g maybe even a bump in ram but we're not sure
we can also expect a third generation iphone se with similar specs so an a15 bionic maybe a bump
in ram maybe not but with 5g said to look very similar to the second generation however i think
they're going to have to change it a little bit it is said to have touch id maybe they'll move
it to the side change the body but many people are saying it's going to look exactly the same
however adding 5g you'll need to change the frame a little bit for the antennas just like
we have on the iphone 13 series where we have the millimeter wave antenna on the side you'll need to
do something to incorporate those 5g antennas and with the excess power usage that 5g uses you'll
need a larger battery and a more efficient chip so the a15 will help with that but again we'll need
something with a newer chipset as well as upgraded battery to handle all of that power or you'll only
get about two or three hours of screen on time as it is the current generation iphone sc gets about
four to five if you're lucky so typically around four hours of screen on time if we bring in 5g
may not get through the day one thing we're not hearing much about from mark german is ipads pro
the ipads pro get updated every year typically around this time frame and they'll have new
internals like we had the m1 last year so maybe we'll see a different one and then we did get
this white magic keyboard to go along with it so we could see some small changes maybe an update
maybe an updated chipset or maybe nothing at all we just don't know as far as that goes also many
people are speculating we could see a mac maybe a macbook air a new design one i've shown before
with an all-new design maybe colors to match the imac and also having an m2 chipset inside so we
don't know that 100 but i would expect not just two products at least three at this event however
we just don't know 100 at this point which is good because i always like a little bit of surprise or
maybe one more thing mark german has also stated that he expects four different updates to the mac
lineup with m2 chips in it apple is said to update the m2 every 18 months or the m chipset from m1 to
m2 we have the m1 pro and m1 max so maybe we'll keep those in upcoming pro versions but instead
we'll see that updated macbook air a 13-inch macbook pro without the touch bar or promotion
as well as updates to the imac with just a spec bump internally and maybe a new mac mini with that
spec bump and additional ports so within the current year all of those things are expected
as well as the pro updates to finish out their lineup with the mac pro
and the maybe a mac mini or the new imac so we're really waiting for an imac 27 inch maybe a 30 inch
with a pro display sort of xdr and an additional display to go along with some of those things so
those things should be expected later maybe in the summer or at the end of the year not at this event
maybe we'll see them at wwdc but i don't think so one thing to note mark german mentioned is that
the notch was something that apple added but they did not intend to add face id to the macbook pro
because they don't have the hardware to do it yet they did consider it in the imac though
and just haven't added it so maybe we'll see that in the future but apparently the hardware is just
too thick to fit in the top display so with the way they do face id it will fit in an iphone like
this iphone 13 pro max but not in the top of the display as it's much thinner than that so
maybe we'll see them figure that out in the future but right now we shouldn't expect face id i would
love it in the mac though a recent patent found by patently apple shows how apple can in the future
use glass or ceramic on the outside of the apple watch and macbook with sort of a glass casing and
ceramic to allow for notifications to show through so in the upper right maybe indicating mail and
things like that so apple's always trying out new things new innovations to see what would work best
so they patent this that doesn't mean we'll see it but we could in the future another patent found by
patently apple has to do with interacting with airpods max so currently we have a digital crown
like we do on the watch and we've seen patents for this on the watch where they could eliminate the
digital crown and make this a touch control not only a touch control here but also a touch control
on the outside as you can see in the patent so we could see that i prefer the controls we have
now and i like the digital crown but it would help with maybe waterproofing on the apple watch for a
more ruggedized version or maybe something else they have planned in the future and so that's
everything from this past week tons of information about that upcoming mac event of course i'll let
you know as soon as we know more about that and of course look out for ios 15.4 very soon if
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