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Apple's 'Spring Loaded' Event Officially Announced for Tuesday, April 20
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Or... in order to ’spring’ for these new products, you need to be financially ‘loaded’.
While that could be the case it's not 100% confirmed to be the case. They still can and could publically release AirTags next week or even at a future event.
The whole point of releasing third party Find My network support first could be to get ahead of Tile and their Anti-Competitive complaints against Apple. How can Apple be Anti-Competitive when they offer the same exact network to third party companies to take advantage of? If Tile wanted to follow the requirements they could even have access to it as well.
There are plenty of people (myself included) that would rather pay the premium for an Apple branded item tracker. So there is still a market for them. But there is also a cheaper generic brand option for those that don't care and just want a black blob attached to things.
for the record, we don’t need an iMac from Apple either, because there are plenty of other offerings.
We've seen just how much Apple cares about "anti-competitive complaints". Least of all from someone like Tile.
It could not possibly be more clear that if AirTags were intended for release, let alone next week, they would have been announced at the same time as the Find My network.
Definitely not. They will have their limelight at their own dedicated event, like they did last year when they introduced the 1st-gen AS Macs.
So 14.5 in a week then … exciting.
Following an overnight leak by Siri, Apple today officially announced that it will be holding a special "Spring Loaded" event on Tuesday, April 20 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time at the Steve Jobs Theater on the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
As with all of Apple's 2020 events, the April 2021 event will be a digital-only gathering with no members of the media invited to attend in person due to the ongoing public health crisis.
Apple's April event will see Apple showing off the first new products of 2021, and there's quite a lot on the horizon. Updated iPad Pro models, a new low-cost iPad, a new iPad mini, refreshed iMacs, and the long-awaited AirTags are all products that Apple could potentially introduce.
Given that we're waiting on so many iPad refreshes, iPads could be the focus of the April event. Apple is rumored to be working on a new high-end 12.9-inch iPad Pro that will feature a mini-LED display and a 5G chip, and there's an 11-inch model coming too. These iPads are expected to feature Thunderbolt connectivity, camera improvements, and a new A14X chip that's as fast as the M1 chip in the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini.
A sketchy rumor said Apple will debut an "iPad mini Pro" with an 8.7-inch full-screen display and no Touch ID Home button. There have also been rumors of an iPad mini with a mini-LED display, but it's not clear just what iPad mini upgrades we'll get, as recent dummy model photos have suggested there could be few obvious differences from the current model. We could also see a new low-cost iPad with a 10.2-inch display and a thinner build that's similar to the now-discontinued iPad Air 3.
As for the AirPods 3, Apple is working on a new version that looks similar to the AirPods Pro with silicone ear tips and shorter stems, but without the high-end Active Noise Cancellation functionality. There were rumors that AirPods 3 would be coming at the spring event, but we're no longer expecting them until the fall.
Apple is designing a revamped iMac with a new design that features thinner bezels that are similar to the bezels on the Pro Display XDR, plus it will have an Apple silicon chip and an Apple-designed GPU, making it a highly-anticipated machine. We don't know when new iMacs are coming, but an April event is a possibility.
We're still waiting on AirTags, which are Apple's Tile-like Bluetooth tracking tags that will be able to be attached to any item, allowing that item to be tracked right in the Find My app alongside Apple devices. Apple just last week expanded its Find My network to include third-party devices such as an upcoming item tracker from Chipolo, so next week's event could finally see the AirTags unveiled as Apple's similar product offering.
There's also a sixth-generation Apple TV in the works with an upgraded processor and a new Apple TV remote with Find My integration, but it's not clear if the Apple TV will be coming at the April event.
Apple plans to stream the event live on its website and in the Apple TV app when it kicks off at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time on April 20. For those unable to watch, MacRumors will be providing full event coverage both on MacRumors.com and through the MacRumorsLive Twitter account.
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Can't see the need for an iPad mini pro, new iPad mini yes but a pro version for a small ipad? Can't see the target group for this and if there is one surely its small
Those have WWDC written all over them unfortunately
I see MR is back to claiming that the new AirPods will have silicon tips despite the most recent rumors (plural) suggesting they won't.
The only thing I’m waiting for is a new MBP 16” with non-intel chip. That’ll end up my computer for the next 6 or so years.
Uhhhhhhhh I wouldn’t do that if I were you. New iMac model identifiers were found in the most recent macOS code, and that is almost always an indicator of an imminent release. Add that to the discontinued configs of the 21.5” iMac, discontinuation of the iMac Pro, etc. There are a lot of signs pointing towards an iMac refresh that I guess you’re choosing to ignore. I’m not saying it’s a guarantee, but there’s certainly enough likelihood there that you shouldn’t be offering your life against it.
I think the tech bundled into other people’s products (like the Van Moof Bike), is more interesting than Air Tags themselves.
I think it will be nice for quite a few things, much as those are.
I was more excited about it before they did the even better thing of getting it bundled into third party devices. I presume that the Apple Personal Autonomous Drone will have Find My capability built in to help find where it parked itself.
It’s probably going to feature iPad. The logo looks like a bunch of squiggly lines. Hopefully some ARM Macs, especially the iMacs and the MBP 16’, after all, it’s loaded, right?
I'll wait for the Mac Plus Pro MaxNew Mac Plus and Duo Dock laptop.
They will finally announce, that a fully fledges iOS comes to Mac computers and there won't be any new updates for the "classic desktop" Mac Operating System.
Also (and this is clutching at straws) the invite shows multiple colours. The new iMacs are rumoured to be coming in multiple colours.
With WWDC around the corner, I would even go as far saying the iMac wouldn't be launching on 20/4 at all. Particularly considering the lack of leaks regarding the iMac recently and everything was pointing towards portable devices instead.
But then hey, at least my butt is not on the line like Prosser lol