If the plan is to migrate to ARM it would make sense to release at least some devkit hardware at the company's annual DEV CONFERENCE.
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Multiple Leaks Suggest No New Hardware at WWDC
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They may very well do that. The “no hardware announcement” rumor was clearly intended to mean “apple isn’t announcing new hardware products.”
In the past, the devkit was dev-only (and last time was a lease, not a sale), and was not something that was ever sold to the public.
LOL this sounds like trolling to me. You do realize all those functions your phone performs are driven by software? 🤦♂️
Just going to throw this out there before WWDC starts today.. going to miss interacting with my usual friends at the conference. Haven't missed one of these events in a long time so it is strange to be home watching it online this time. Take every advantage offered online this week to learn what you can. Very much looking forward to it!
I'm all for it, the more diversity the better. Having Intel, AMD & Apple delivering their own CPU driven devices should benefit us all in the long run. I do a fair amount of iOS development as a side to my main job and whilst it'll be bumpy I'm looking forward (as an enthusiastic amateur) to the new tools and platform during the transition away from Intel.
Just wondering how quickly and far the ARM based lineup will develop? I'm assuming MacBook Air & Pro initially over a couple of years timeframe?
Just wondering how quickly and far the ARM based lineup will develop? I'm assuming MacBook Air & Pro initially over a couple of years timeframe?
Which will be available to developers, not consumer hardcore beta testers.
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12 to 18 months.
No new iMac then I really don’t care. Our current devices do pretty much everything we need them to do. Beyond that it’s fiddling with software to make something slightly different.
If that is the case, I'm extremely ticked! All along they led us to believe new iMacs would be announced, and then the day of WWDC they tell us they won't be announced. Like what was mentioned in the tweet, I hope you're wrong, dead wrong.
Apple has scrapped plans to reveal any new hardware at WWDC tomorrow, according to leakers Jon Prosser and Max Weinbach who shared the information on Twitter.
While WWDC is usually a software-driven event, until now leaks had strongly suggested the announcement of new hardware, particularly a redesigned iMac with iPad Pro design language. Other rumored hardware announcements were AirTags, AirPods Studio, and a refreshed Apple TV.
WWDC events sometimes have no new hardware reveals, as was the case in 2018. Last year, Apple used WWDC to offer a preview of the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR. It is possible that Apple has faced supply chain issues this year, and may have decided to postpone hardware announcements until its manufacturing situation improves. It may also be the case that Apple simply did not have any hardware announcements planned for WWDC.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has also said he does not expect any hardware announcements at WWDC. Prosser and Weinbach are serial leakers, and both caution in their tweets that the information is somewhat uncertain.
Apple will livestream the WWDC keynote and we will be covering the event on MacRumors.com and through our MacRumorsLive Twitter account.
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Yes, Idk, if I'm watching now. Software is nice, but a redesigned iMac is nicer. They announce updated software every year, the iMac needs some attention.
Despite being very intrigued about an ARM architecture transition (namely an ARM-based Mac mini), I'm strongly hoping for Apple to showcase a significant Xcode upgrade and announce it is taking developer documentation seriously. From what I've seen of the dev docs, the current versions are abysmal in regard to actually explaining the software frameworks, classes, functions, etc. And even though Xcode has some convenient features, its coding assistance is subpar. I say this after using several IDEs and sifting through various platform and framework documentation over the past couple of years -- none perfect but many offering notably greater code writing suggestions and information than Apple. However, sadly, I think, such an improvement is as likely as exciting new generation hardware announcements.
It does if it cannot cool an i9-9900k properly and they expect to throw in the i9-10900k.
I would never spend that much money on a design that's increasingly likely to be updated. It looks ancient already.
Give us an iMac with no bezel and no chin.
Well, I guess "no new hardware" means no redesigned hardware... well, if the rumors that "new" iMac is ready since March are true (I think Prosser suggested that), it means we will see a final iMac spec bump before 2021 ARM iMac?
Since you heard it through the grapevine that there will be no new hardware, if the rumor gets crushed there there won’t be a an earth shattering KABOOM! Just a little whine 🥂! 😂
Sunday madness...
I didn’t expect Apple to reveal a full Arm line-up or even a full roadmap of the transition today. Apple has never done that in the past. They won’t do it today. You’d have reviewers going online saying “Don’t Buy A New Mac Until 2021!” and you’d have consumers who would listen because social media.
Because of the ARM transition announcement (still happening, right?), I expected some general, high level architecture discussion along with a software development transition solution to be detailed. Developers should know what the transition means to them going forward, Apple expectations, best practices, etc. In that information reveal, I’m looking to get an idea of what all of that means for consumers/prosumers/other professionals. E.g. If the developer community reaction is “screw this, I’m sticking with x86” then maybe my current MBP will be my last or I’ll just wait until all of this gets sorted out before buying any more Mac products.
I admit, I’m interested in seeing the new iMac and AirPods Studio. Maybe this week will be quiet releases. Or because 4th of July holiday is near, products will release the week after. That will keep “Back to School” season going until the big September keynote. 3 1/2 more hours!
I didn’t expect Apple to reveal a full Arm line-up or even a full roadmap of the transition today. Apple has never done that in the past. They won’t do it today. You’d have reviewers going online saying “Don’t Buy A New Mac Until 2021!” and you’d have consumers who would listen because social media.
Because of the ARM transition announcement (still happening, right?), I expected some general, high level architecture discussion along with a software development transition solution to be detailed. Developers should know what the transition means to them going forward, Apple expectations, best practices, etc. In that information reveal, I’m looking to get an idea of what all of that means for consumers/prosumers/other professionals. E.g. If the developer community reaction is “screw this, I’m sticking with x86” then maybe my current MBP will be my last or I’ll just wait until all of this gets sorted out before buying any more Mac products.
I admit, I’m interested in seeing the new iMac and AirPods Studio. Maybe this week will be quiet releases. Or because 4th of July holiday is near, products will release the week after. That will keep “Back to School” season going until the big September keynote. 3 1/2 more hours!
Usually self promotion. I’m not one to shame masturbation, but when a multi billion $ corporation does it, on stage for two hours, with smarmy self-importance & faux social/environmental responsibility, while slowly burning the respect they earned a decade ago by never fixing the bugs & bad designs they introduced in 2013 ...it’s just gross.
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Isn’t that always the attitude of current developers? We’ve lost so much software and hardware (due to drivers) over developers refusing to update for Mac OS changes. The CPU architecture killed lots of stuff, and the time it took for even the bigger companies to finally transition their major products was stupidly long. Then the same thing happened with transitioning to 64-bit. It’ll happen the same way if a transition to ARM happens. All I know for sure is that I’ll be screwed some way because I’m poor and can not afford to re-buy the same thing every three years to satisfy late-stage-capitalism Apple. The ecosystem is broken unless we virtually subscribe to their yearly unnecessary changes.
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You can have you opinion and those of us who miss Steve can have ours. It would be easier if the current leader actually had vision but he lacks any type of that. So, once we get a true visionary leading the company, then we can move on.
I hate to see Apple losing to these other companies. Yes, the products are still great, but the company has lost a lot of the excitement that was brought by Steve.
So until then, get used to it.