Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week was filled with news about the upcoming
apple event which seems to have been moved to april we'll talk more about that in a moment
as well as upcoming ipads pro homepod mini and much more this is your news update for the week
of march 21 2021 and the first thing is apple is being fined and sued again and this time they're
being fined two million dollars in brazil for not selling their phones with chargers they include an
adapter in the box to charge with but no actual plug for the wall saying that everyone has that
the brazilian agency informed apple that selling an iphone in the country without a charger in the
box is a violation of their consumer defense code so they get sued two million dollars there's also
a new lawsuit against apple for the butterfly keyboard so if you have one of the macbooks
with a butterfly keyboard just like this one where you might have a 2016 macbook where you have the
butterfly keyboard the spacebar isn't working the lawsuit says that apple knew about this and didn't
do enough to fix it or remedy the problem now they did try different versions of this so they tried
to fix it and then basically gave a long warranty for years for anyone that's experiencing the
problem maybe they'll cover it longer than that but the suit covers anyone who purchased a macbook
with a butterfly keyboard so 2016 up to about 2020 in California, New York, Florida, Illinois,
and New Jersey, Washington, and Michigan and so if you're in one of those states you may be able to
get some money for this however apple has extended the warranty and if you have the issue they'll
just fix it for you however mine hasn't failed and it's a 2016 so there's definitely some out
there still working so i know some people have had an issue but there's quite a few people who have
no issues as well this past week apple announced their 4.7 billion green bond spend is helping to
create 1.2 gigawatts of clean power around the world so as you go through their press release
you'll see that they've created projects or helped create projects in places like reno nevada
also a wind farm outside of chicago a solar project in fredericksburg virginia as well as the
largest onshore wind turbines in denmark so they announced that they continue to invest in green
power around the world now as far as products this week apple discontinued the imac pro and the home
pod along with limiting the availability of the 512 gigabyte and one terabyte models of the 21.5
inch imac that's no longer available however the homepod mini apparently is their focus now
according to mark german there's a new sensor or a sensor that's been there all along that's not
activated within the homepod mini according to mark german that senses temperature and
humidity that apple could use in the future they said the company has internally discussed using
the sensor to determine a room's temperature and humidity so internet-connected thermostats
can adjust different parts of a home based on current conditions this is according to people
familiar with the situation so you could use it for automated actions and things around your home
apple is also said to be working on the homepod variants with displays and cameras so to compete
better probably with things like amazon echo for example they're working on new projects like that
this is a 99 device this homepod mini which makes it much more reasonable around the house
and if you have different variants that seems to make sense in the future since apple focuses
a lot on privacy so things like switches like the google homes have would be much welcomed to turn
off the microphone for example but it's nice to see them continually working on homepod although
i am hoping for a larger home pod too for example since that sounds much better than this now over
the past few months quite a few people have been saying we'd see an apple event as soon as march
16th and then later march 23 and then we never saw any invites for that so at this point it
looks like we're not going to have a march apple event and the same people are saying we'll have
an april event so right now it seems like nobody really knows for sure but there are some products
coming very soon every year apple releases new products around march usually ipads and more
so we're expecting ipads pro maybe some new air pods i've talked about those at length
before where we'll have redesigned airpods 3 or airpods pro and then also maybe some new imacs
as well with the discontinuation of those imacs i already mentioned so i'm looking forward to those
but it seems like there may be an april apple event but so far no one seems to know exactly
when that would be so we'll have to wait and see with that now with the ipad many people are saying
that the 12.9 inch ipad pro will get a refresh this year and have mini led displays instead of
its current led backlit display so the mini leds would allow it to have different zones to have
brighter brights and darker darks as well as maybe some better battery saving capability
we'll have to wait and see with that and then also recent information from mark german is
saying it could have thunderbolt seeing that the new chip a14x or whatever they decide to call it
has a chipset that's sort of based on apple's m1 chipset it could support thunderbolt which would
give us faster transfers and maybe better monitor support and maybe future features that allow for
better data transfer across the device and maybe some additional features as well so we could see
all of that instead of just usbc for example and then also ming chi quo is saying the 2022 ipad air
is said to adopt oled instead of mini led where that will be an ipad pro exclusive so that makes
sense with a pro feature if it's a better display for example to keep it in the pro that's usually
what apple does but we'll have promotion and things like that just like we always have
now according to web bush analyst dave ives iphone 13 is still on track for production there's been
some chipset shortages around the world and iphone 13 seems to so far not be affected by that so
hopefully we'll see the event in late september where they'll announce the iphones and have them
launch sometime around that as well so the iphone supply chain is still saying that as well as to
expect touch id under the display at least for one model so a lot of people are saying there won't
be touch id some people are saying there will and face id works fine and i've talked about a smaller
notch in the past but it seems like apple is still working on an under the display fingerprint sensor
or possibly on the button on the side like they do with the ipad air however a recent patent found
by patently apple shows that apple has filed for a patent for a more accurate under the display touch
id sensor that uses off-axis light and would not require as much space as current under the display
fingerprint technology so you could just touch your phone maybe it would light up in a specific
area touch your phone it would unlock accurately and securely and of course that would be
very welcome these days with what we have to do with masks and things like that so that would help
and a lot of people just prefer touch id anyway so i would love to see that as an op now as far
as ios is concerned the personal radio stations in ios have been sort of changed as far as the
album artwork goes so here's a station for you it's just sort of a generic album artwork this
is changed on everyone's iphone whether you're on the beta or not but it seems like they've
just changed the artwork to something generic instead of an artist that it's going to play
for you next so if you have sort of personalized playlist that apple created under stations for you
it no longer shows the actual artwork so that's been seen by quite a few people at this time
now as far as ios 14.4.1 well apple stopped signing 14.4 which means we should see ios 14.5
or something in between very soon now i've talked about this at length when to expect 14.5 if there
was an apple event as soon as tomorrow which it seems like there's not going to be we would see
maybe a release then however we're still on beta 4. so ios 14.5 release candidate i would expect
as soon as tomorrow with maybe a release to the public later next week or next month so at this
point i would expect we could see beta 5 but most people are saying to expect the release candidate
or rc which is the final version released to the public as long as there's no problems
they normally release it to developers and public beta testers first and then if there's no problems
with that that same version gets released to the public we should see something like that as soon
as tomorrow however apple has been changing this up and we've only been having updates every other
week at this point if this is not the release candidate we could see beta 5 we could even see
the release candidate on the 30th so at this point i'm not really going to say we're going to have
anything this week because we don't know for sure but it seems likely based on what apple's done in
the past so i would expect something like that now also wwdc 2021 has not been announced yet normally
by this time in the year we have the actual date for wwdc or the worldwide developer conference
which is usually within the second week of june for example where they'll show off the
next versions of ios so we would see ios 15 watch os 8 for example ipad os 15 tv os 15
home pod os 15 and mac os 12 maybe they'll call it this year but we should see all the next versions
which normally release in september so we're looking forward to that and maybe we'll see an
announcement for wwdc this week it's kind of late based on what they've done in the past so i would
look forward to that very soon letting us know when to expect that announcement for developers
so i'm looking forward to that of course just like many of you are now i've talked about the new max
at length and what to expect and someone has found a crash log from xcode that seems to reference a
new imac now we've talked about the imac where it might have different colors it will look
more like a pro display xdr and according to the crash log it looks like there is indeed an imac
running an m1 or m1x based processor for example so it looks like we could see this very soon and
obviously it's in testing so we're just waiting for them to release it also ming qi qo is still
saying that apple is planning mini led macbooks which could start showing up with the macbook air
in early 2022. so this is the m1 macbook pro we could see a new macbook air with a different
display technology which ultimately could lead to better brights darker blacks as well as
better battery life than we already have so i'm looking forward to that i just want more ports
which is actually rumored for the next macbook pro the larger ones more ports with an sd card
slot would be ideal and i think most people would really appreciate that then with the apple glass
or apple's mixed reality display that's coming up it seems according to ming chi quo that apple's
headset will feature eye tracking and possible iris recognition iris recognition would just let
you know where it's looking or where you're looking and we've seen patents relating to
this as well but the eye tracking feature would let it know where you're looking at what you're
looking at to give you more information based on that also it's said to have iris detection
and maybe that has to do with security sort of like a touch id but for your eye so maybe we'll
see something like that and then also the headset will include sony's micro oled displays it said
which can give you a see-through ar experience as well as a vr experience so you could see through
the display when you wanted to lay something over your natural environment or you could use it as
a vr headset where you couldn't see through it and sort of be in a mixed reality sort of setup
that makes a lot of sense and i would love to see something like that in the future and so that's
it for this week i'm looking forward to all of the ios updates of course and ios 15 probably
the most with maybe some new features maybe some redesign as well we'll have to see what apple does
with that but i'm really looking forward to a new imac let me know what you're looking most forward
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