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Multiple Leaks Suggest No New Hardware at WWDC
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Sony makes about $6 Billion/year off image sensors. Against a $78 Billion revenue, that may not make or break Sony, but it's not an insignificant part of the company. And the fact remains that iPhone and Nikon both use Sony sensors.
There are a lot of garbage sensors out there. Don't forget there's a billion Android devices a year sold, and many of them are very cheap devices that have cheap crappy sensors. That adds up to a lot of very bad sensors. I've gotten a gift card with a "free" camera inside the gift card. Check aliexpress for an endless assortment of sub $10 cameras. Sony is not the only company making quality sensors, but they absolutely dominate the sector. That's not a myth.
Playstation makes Sony a huge hardware company even if the business model means they also make money of license fees from software devs. And Sony is huge in the TV market. You mentioned media, but don't forget BluRay is a Sony product too.
LOL. Kuo says the new machines are 50-100% faster than Intel. “Overrated.” It’s going to completely revolutionize Mac, eventually, when they start branching off into new form factors and capabilities, no longer limited by what Intel can sell them.
There generally isn’t. They will touch on the switch to ARM but show no devices. They will just drop them on the site like usual when they’re ready.
Such an angry post. Even if it is only software related tomorrow, we still have hardware coming in the fall.
Correct. Massive fall from grace from where they were. Essentially pulled out of the mobile phone market and their TVs are also hit and miss, but always expensive. LG make their OLED panels and they're still inferior to the LG OLED range.
Be under no doubt, if not for PlayStation we wouldn't have Sony today. They were in dire financial straits not so long ago.
The speeds they're talking about imply that the I/O pipelines are also running at full throttle/full bandwidth. Full TB3 speeds, ultra-fast RAM, NVMe.
Wonder if they're going to have Nvidia support too?
Wonder if they're going to have Nvidia support too?
The WWDC email announcement described the Keynote as "announcing the latest software updates and innovations", which doesn't give them the wiggle-room they normally have to sneak in a couple of hardware announcements.
Exactly! Every year I've gone in person I never ever thought I'm glad I attended to play with new hardware. More like.. GIVE ME THE BETAS!!
Well no Apple TV doesn’t surprise me as I suspect that will be a September thing like the last couple (unless there is some real surprise gaming focus anyway). I think really all most want from tomorrow amongst the target audience for the event is some clarity on the plans for the use of arm / Apple chips rather than Intel. I’m very interested to see what they do tomorrow as even without any new products to buy it could be a very interesting event that shapes the next decade (on the Mac front anyway).
It will most likely just be announcements of future hardware.
There’s more than just iOS to focus on. Catalina has been a hot mess, so a Snow Leopard like bug fix release would make a lot of folks happy.
I’m a little surprised. I think something like Airtags would have fit in nicely into this keynote. An accessory that unlocks some cool software capabilities. I wonder if we’ll see some hardware released throughout the week. Possibly a refreshed 27“ iMac with the redesign saved for ARM chips.
I don’t know what a lot of you were expecting though, it is 2-2.5 hours of mostly software talk every year. I enjoy it. Is it the same people whining every year or do people learn and we get new whiners every year?
I don’t know what a lot of you were expecting though, it is 2-2.5 hours of mostly software talk every year. I enjoy it. Is it the same people whining every year or do people learn and we get new whiners every year?
Hard to know whether airtags are the sort of “hardware” that the rumor was addressing.
I really do not like how ominous those Memojis look, or what that could imply.
Wwdc 2005 under Jobs: hour long Keynote, no hardware, just talk of Intel transition and podcasting.
Wwdc2006: new Mac Pro and Leopard demonstration
WWDC2007: another Leopard demonstration with very little change from last year‘s, and iPhone web apps.
WWDC 2011: Lion demonstration, iOS5 demonstration and iCloud.
This is how it’s always been, some have hardware, but most don’t.
Only five of the last 10 WWDC’s have had hardware.
As long as we get to see the new macOS I can live without a big hardware release during WWDC. It's not a consumer event to show off the latest iMac(That should be a separate press release to make a bigger splash. Why would dev's care about a iMac unless it's a new Pro model.)