Personally, an updated IPP form factor Air will make it more cost-effective and thus easier to justify buying a new iPad in addition to a silicon MacBook, as opposed to the difficult either/or choice with the current MBA/IPP.
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Bloomberg: Apple Watch Series 6 With SpO2 Tracking and All-Screen iPad Air Coming at 'Time Flies' Event, Apple Silicon Macs by November
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The calendar event is 2 hours but maybe the event will be shorter, over an hour but not 2.
They also have to talk about TV+, either tomorrow or during the iPhone event.
I know many people do, but choosing between an iPad and a Mac is a strange dilemma. They may share some functions, but are entirely different devices. There are many things an iPad can do that a Mac can’t.
I don't understand the need for faster charging on the AW. For 99% of users you get the entire day, and charge it overnight. So what if it trickle charges to 100% at 3am or 4am? Unless the sleep tracking function is optimised to run on ultra low power mode for 6-8hrs, there's no point.
You can charge your watch AND use sleep tracking at night? Tell me your secret.
The Watch is a major product category for Apple and this year it seems to be getting a big update, so it makes sense to have an event focused on it. And we still don’t know how the SpO2 is going to be implemented (the typical Apple magic) and many other things. Last year, I think I didn’t heard anything about the Always On Display before the event.
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It is only a bad upgrade if you have a new model. I still have my Apple Watch 0, so to me it is a major update.
Well, individual use cases aside, 2 years of minor updates for a key product category isn't a good look for a $2 trillion company that can afford world class R&D.
So if this is true, it looks like 30min-1h long event, not 2 hours as usual, so it is quite possible they will continue this event format in next months to release iPhones / AS Macs. Still hope we will see something more, because AW6 seems like a minor update and the Air is a redesign, but still not worth to make a whole event about it.
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After the high production of the WWDC keynote, even if the announcements themselves are lackluster, I will still be just as excited because Apple’s events, prerecorded or not, are just so enjoyable to watch, from a production point of view.
Have you watched any previous events? Apple will spend time on:
- Corporate responsibility (patting themselves on environmental stuff)
- Remote work and celebrating the Apple ecosystem
- Trotting out app developers
- Apple One and other revenue generating services
Completely agree. One question is whether the pulse ox sensor can be utilized in some way for sleep tracking, or to both improve sleep tracking accuracy and information provided by sleep tracking.
I am testing out AW5 right now with WatchOS7 and the sleep tracking features seem minimal compared to a Fitbit Charge 4 that I also testing.
I’ve tried a few times now, this is about my third, but every time I buy an AW I end up returning it within a month or so and going back to my regular analog watch...with AW5’s always on screen, at least I can accept it as an actual watch now, but still, I’m very much on the fence whether to keep/get AW5, AW6, or just keep the cheap crappy Fitbit for exercise stuff (which is all I like the AW for anyways) or neither of the above.
Durability has been my concern with the latest pros. I was surprised to see that the frame was not improved with the latest release.
Though as I just mentioned earlier they did not fix the issue with bright spot from Ipad pro 10.5 with the design of Air 3 either. By the way, have you had the bright spot appear on your Air 3 yet?
Though as I just mentioned earlier they did not fix the issue with bright spot from Ipad pro 10.5 with the design of Air 3 either. By the way, have you had the bright spot appear on your Air 3 yet?
It all seems to have gone very quiet about an iPad Mini refresh this autumn, when it was highly anticipated earlier in the year. I was hoping for an all screen design in that form factor. Ah well...
They can't change it *too* much because apps are designed for the particular form factor. Changing to circular designs, etc. would break the UI and all of your watch bands.
I hated the drone-camera effect.
You know they can record segments where developers highlight their app or how they used the Watch's features/hardware in novel ways without actually being in the same room, right?
I will bet this won’t happen. They announced the event only 1 week ago. If you have 1 week to edit this prerecorded event, adding external people to it, significantly increases the complexity of the editing process.
Since devices typically go on sale by the Friday after an event, and given that Apple Watches usually launch with a new WatchOS, is it a safe bet that the latest WatchOS 7 beta is the last beta? I've been wanting to upgrade to WatchOS 7, but I don't want to install a beta unless it's one of the last (because you can't go back to WatchOS 6, at least without help from Apple).
