Hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and this past week there's been a lot of news about the
upcoming apple event some iphone 13 last minute details as well as mac releases and more this
is your news update for the week of september 5th 2021 and the first thing has to do with
germany urging the european union to require seven years of updates and repairs for ios devices
and apparently this is also for android devices as well but apple is pretty much already doing this
with the iphone 6s and 6s plus these still receive updates and even older devices receive updates on
previous versions of ios so they're securing those with different security updates but i think the
concern here is parts availability maybe different batteries and things and the repair of the phone
altogether so apple doesn't necessarily repair all of the phones in the stores sometimes they'll
send them out sometimes they'll just give you a new one and other times they'll urge you to get
a new phone if the phone is repairable hopefully this will make it available for us to have parts
to finally repair the phones if it passes in the european union maybe that will trickle over to
the united states where we have the rights to repair act so hopefully we'll see more of this
in the future where we'll have actual parts that we can pick up such as the camera and much more
hopefully we'll see something like that in the years to come but it's hard to say but this could
be the first step in that direction now apple next year is going to allow app developers to finally
be able to manage customers and have people sign up outside of the app on the app store
you can see in this recent news post japan fair trade commission closes app store investigation
apple will let developers of reader apps around the world linked to an external website to set
up or manage an account beginning early next year so this is a win for some types of apps i think
apple wants to keep it safe but also this helps those that might want to manage their customer
base a little bit differently and not share profit with apple with signups and things maybe be able
to do that as well apple's come under a lot of scrutiny for its app store policies lately and
this is a move i think in the right direction that should help out app developers quite a bit
but also keep it secure and safe now there's been a lot of scrutiny of iphone csam photo
scanning and the electronic frontier foundation has asked apple to basically get rid of this
altogether they want to urge apple to get rid of this as over 90 organizations around the world
have also urged apple to rethink this or abandon it altogether so it looks like apple delaying
this was the first step and maybe in the future they'll actually just get rid of it altogether
and there's an article about it if you want to check it out i'll link it in the description but
they're saying it's just too risky with the future repercussions that could come from this that they
want apple to sort of get rid of it all together i think a lot of people would be very happy if
apple did that now we're expecting apple invites to their iphone 13 event as soon as tomorrow
the invites are expected to go out and then you'll be able to watch the event live and
you can see it in the tv app or on youtube or on their website as well and that event is said to
take place the following week so typically apple will send out an invite as soon as the 7th and
then the event is said to be on the 14th it could be the 13th with iphone 13 but most likely it
will be the 14th so we'll see that apple event and then we'll see the announcement of the iphone 13.
apple watch series 7 is summer saying we'll talk about that in a moment and maybe some other things
as well hopefully we'll have a few surprises there and at that event the main feature is said
to be the iphone 13 and recently leaked photos of iphone 13 cases iphone 13 pro max on twitter from
majin buu he posted a video of the cases ready to ship and they are indeed saying iphone 13 on them
so it appears to be the name they didn't skip ios 13 and it looks like they're not going to skip
iphone 13 as well so no iphone 12s even though it's kind of a minor update as far as the design
or anything with that as far as changes but there will be some updates to it as well and so we've
seen that and one of the major updates is said to be apple prores raw video so we have prores photos
or apple raw photos now we'll have pro res video maybe along with portrait video and much more
but these are said to be coming to iphone 13. so i can't wait to see what they have as far as
that goes and also the iphone 13 is said to gain the a15 cpu like they do every year they bring it
up a notch and according to frontron on twitter he said that benchmarks of the a15 cpu shown on
a chinese website show that it's about 10 to 15 percent faster with its gpu performance so it's
outperforming the iphone 12 as we would expect but also it seems to sort of throttle a little bit
after the initial test as the cpu gets hot that's pretty normal but it's still faster even when it's
throttled then the iphone 12 is all together so it looks like this is going to be a really
nice processor what else it can do is hard to say we'll have to wait and see what apple says but i
can't wait to see what they have now last week i reported that the iphone 13 could have satellite
communication and this is said to be used for emergency communication for maybe text messaging
or phone calls when you don't have access to cellular radios so without millimeter wave or
5g or 4g coverage or any coverage whatsoever you would be able to send emergency messages and make
emergency phone calls if you were maybe in an area you couldn't get signal now this is said to not
be coming to iphone 13 according to some such as mark german he believes it's still being worked on
but won't necessarily ship with the iphone 13 may be coming later in future versions maybe iphone
14 so we'll have to wait and see that would be a great feature and i would love to see it in this
year's versions but he he believes the rumors of the satellite communication refer more to
the widening of the 5g bands that can be accepted by the iphone 13. so again we'll have to wait and
see what apple actually announces but i really like that we're not exactly sure so this event
may have a few surprises in it now also the iphone 13 is said to come in matte black so we'll have a
matte black option i talked about this before apple has done this with the iphone 5 and then
they did a jet black option and a matte black option with the iphone 7 so we could see that
with iphone 13. i really liked the matte black iphone 7 plus that i used full time for a year
and hopefully we see something like this on the iphone 13. it's also said to be coming in bronze
replacing the pacific blue color last year we had the green color then we went to blue with the
iphone 12 and so maybe we'll be going to bronze instead of blue so every year lately apple's been
changing it up and it looks like that's going to be happening this year also we could see a
slight price increase due to the chipset cost tsmc who makes the processors inside the iphone
is fairly expensive as it does take a lot to make those processors but the price has been going up
apple may pass that on to the customer this year we don't know that for sure until they announce it
but it could be slightly more or they could keep it the same we never really know until apple
announces it as sometimes they make decisions last minute hopefully they keep it the same but there
could be some sort of price increase now also recent news is saying that next year's iphone the
iphone 14 will use a periscope zoom camera we've heard this for quite some time they're sourcing
parts and apparently trying to avoid samsung as samsung does have a periscope zoom camera in their
s21 ultra supposedly they're going around that and trying to source other components and maybe
do it a little bit differently as apple tends to do so we'll have to wait and see until next year
but we could have a periscope zoom periscope zoom in those future cameras now as far as upcoming ios
betas or ios 15 a lot of people have been asking me when will we see beta 9 and at this point i'm
not convinced we will have a beta 9. we should know that as soon as tomorrow or wednesday but
every year or at least last year with ios 14 apple released ios 14 beta 7 and then they waited a week
during the week they announced the iphone event they waited and then the week that they had
the event right after the event they had the release candidate so we may skip a week here
apple has done that in the past where they skip a week and then wait for the release candidate
it's possible we could have a beta 9 but it's unlikely based off previous years so we could have
this week with nothing with a release candidate next tuesday and a final release maybe as soon
as wednesday thursday or friday we did that last year we had a release pretty quickly after the
release candidate and we could see the same thing there with an ipad os 15 release watch
os 8 release and maybe mac coming a little bit later but that's what i would look for
as far as ios 14.8 some people have said that this will be coming and sort of bring something
a little bit different where apple would just allow you to install security updates and not
update to ios 15 altogether so far we have not seen ios 14.8 at all 14.8 existed in xcode only
and apple did hint that they would allow security updates only in the future but that could be with
ios 15. we don't know that for sure and apple has in the past sort of abandoned different versions
hopefully we'll see a 14.8 as soon as this week if they do plan to sort of release that version
but right now they haven't released it last year they released the last version of ios 13
in mid to late august and then they never had an update after that so we might see this this week
or not at all or ever with 14.8 but again there's been no news whatsoever on that now as far as the
upcoming apple watch apple watch series 7 we know quite a bit about at this point where it's going
to have a more squared off edge it's going to get a redesign and possibly even use bands that don't
fit this current design so maybe they'll have different bands than we have here hopefully we
won't because a lot of us have bands at this point if we've been using an apple watch all along but
some of the apple watch bands have gone out of stock but maybe that's just because
they're getting new models ready however the upcoming series 7 apple watch is said to have
a better system on a chip in it as we would expect improved battery life a larger display
but not really any different sensors so this year a lot of people were saying that there would be
different sensors such as a blood pressure monitor and mark german is saying there will
definitely not be a blood pressure monitor in this update maybe we'll see something else some
people have said temperature monitors glucose monitors but it looks like this year is going
to be more about a redesign with next year maybe having some additional sensors hopefully we'll
have more functionality this year but there's been no additional news about that so with its larger
display though we do expect some new watch faces so we'll have watch faces that we've had already
and then some new ones to take advantage of a slightly larger display on the new device and
that's really all we're expecting from a series 7 apple watch a slight redesign some new watch faces
with watchos 8 that take advantage of that display and that's about it hopefully apple has some
surprises though now there's been some additional news about apple ar or vr glasses so apple is
said to eventually release glasses and also a virtual reality headset and recent news from a
publication called the information says that the system on a chip is already done for that headset
as well as the physical design and they're just finishing up the displays that will
go in front of your eyes but they are also sort of reiterating what we've heard before that it will
need to tether to an iphone maybe for additional processing or maybe to a mac or an ipad where it
could process some additional functionality using that m1 chipset or apple's a15 processor something
along those lines so it looks like it's ready to go but we may not see the first one until 2023
although some do believe it could be a little bit earlier we're just waiting to see that altogether
but we just don't know at this point now when it comes to future max it looks like apple is looking
for a new processor performance programmer so you can see here's the job posting here
it was available on the second it was found by tom's hardware and it looks like they're looking
for a new performance programmer now this could be just to get different functionality explore
new possibilities but currently apple silicon is based on arm programming or arm processors
and the arm processors come with a license fee and so maybe they're looking at this to get around
that licensing fee or maybe they're just looking for some alternative or better performance or a
different way of making chips altogether to sort of outperform what they have already it's hard
to say what they're going to do with this but it's great to see that they're continually sort
of trying to find different ways to make things better now when it comes to that upcoming mac or
macbooks the 14 and 16 inch m1x macbook pros are believed to be launching in october or november
this is according to digi times and lines up with what mark german and others such as john
prosser have said that it will be coming later in the year we thought earlier on it would be
announced at wwdc but due to a lack of mini led displays and maybe some other production
delays apparently was pushed back later although maybe they always intended it to be this late
either way we should see a 14 and 16 inch macbook pro in a couple months i'm really looking forward
to a new mac with additional ports other than thunderbolt where we could have an sd card slot
and more so i can't wait for that and to see what they can perform like because this m1 macbook pro
13-inch is incredible at editing 4k videos it doesn't really slow down so to see what they could
do with additional power that's something i'm looking forward to most now some are saying that
we could see an ipad mini at the upcoming apple event i'm not so sure about that but we do think
that there's going to be a new ipad mini that has this sort of design of the ipad pro and ipad air
but will retain touch id instead so just sort of matching all of the squared off aesthetic that
apple has had lately with the iphone and more so that seems to make a lot of sense that we'll see
that very soon whether or not it will be at this event there has been information saying there will
be multiple events maybe they'll keep that for a later event but either way we should see some sort
of update to that and then finally when it comes to the apple car it looks like apple is still
working on one they've recently hired two former mercedes engineers to join a special project
so we could see an apple car hopefully in a few years but they take a long time to develop
the supply chain and everything else or they could just be working on software for self-driving cars
for someone else but they have been said to source been sourcing parts from different manufacturers
around the world so hiring more engineers from a former automotive company it makes sense that
they're looking at something automotive but what specifically we'll have to wait and see
and so that's everything for this past week of course i can't wait for that new apple
event and to see what iphone 13 is all about and maybe some surprises they have and more
let me know what you're most excited for in the comments below and if you'd like to get
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