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November Event Coming? Everything Apple Didn't Announce at the October Event
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I really hope it is a revival of the Macbook, maybe with bigger screen. That laptop is ridiculously portable.
I don’t think we’ll see both Airtags and studio headphones this year, maybe one or the other. So I predict the first quarter 2021 will launch the iPhone SE Plus, maybe alongside the studio headphones, but the Apple tags would be an excellent fourth-quarter hit leading into the holidays.
Airtags strike me as a product of dubious usefulness especially at Apple price points.
That’s not an accurate comparison.
Apple will be comparing these to professional studio headphones in the same price range.
Only audiophiles and full-time sound engineers will be able to fully appreciate AirPods Studio. These are not designed for casual home users.
any news about a new-design iMac? i am still working on the 2011 mini, been waiting long for a new iMac
No, he was talking about attaching one to your phone. So you lose your car keys, you pick up your phone and say "where are my car keys". Makes sense. But you lose your phone, so you pick up your phone and say "where is my phone"? Phone answers "right in your hand you dummy" whether you have an airtag on it or not.
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high end headphones cost more than 600 dollars. They are not for everyone though, it is more of highly specialized listeners who use High Res FLAC players with mini-amps for their headphones. I have cheap Audio technica M20x for studio work and Sennheiser Momentum wired for 200 dollars for music, also AKG 182 for my macbook studio work, but I have seen those very expensive headphones from Sennheiser, Grado, Focal, Shure (I can't afford them though).
Great call.
Unlikely. A single November event is certainly possible. I doubt that they would hold a second November event, let alone a third.
A silicon-based Mac would be cool. Not sure why anyone would need Air Tags when Tile is available. And I can't imagine any update to AppleTV that would entice me to "upgrade"...the current processor is plenty fast, and I watch in 4K HDR on an LG OLED. What else can they offer?
Yeah there is little wrong with the current Apple TV the only minor upgrade required would be hdmi 2.1 for uncompressed atmos out otherwise it’s pretty fine as it is
I fully expect this to kill the Mac off unless they release Intel alongside and can somehow sort the compatibility issue. At the very least it will be several years of hurt for Mac owners like it was with iPad... which still isn't really where you'd want it to be. This isn't like the move from Power PC to x86, Windows was far more popular and so it was easy for developers to port their stuff. This is moving to ARM where all they'll get is Mobile apps.... which PC people do not want. It'll require developers putting in the time to port their stuff to it, which is where the several years of hurt comes into.
That all relies on Apple not closing off the Mac ecosystem like IOS, which if they do that.... it's dead. If you cannot install from "unsafe" sources, then the Mac is dead.
That all relies on Apple not closing off the Mac ecosystem like IOS, which if they do that.... it's dead. If you cannot install from "unsafe" sources, then the Mac is dead.
Id expect this to mostly be around the Arm based Macs, probably a mini and a MacBook. I’d love to see a new TV as I am expecting the new one to do something interesting with gaming which I’m guessing the 4K won’t support but sounds unlikely from the rumours. Personally I am not that bothered about headphones or Airtags but I think they will want some padding products like that around the main focus of the new Macs.
I thought everyone will talk about ARM Sillicon Macbooks, butT apparently everyone is still bitter over AirTags. Let me tell you, AirTags won't happen until Corona is over, otherwise make no sense to release tracking device unless you want to track yourself while at home.
Apple would probably present only 2 devices maximum at November Event, as they did in the previous ones. Let's be realistic about it: ARM is obvious (OMG can't wait for this!!) & something related to that... iMac? I don't see other devices as AppleTV or iPad Pro being refreshed on this event.
Apple would probably present only 2 devices maximum at November Event, as they did in the previous ones. Let's be realistic about it: ARM is obvious (OMG can't wait for this!!) & something related to that... iMac? I don't see other devices as AppleTV or iPad Pro being refreshed on this event.
Have you missed that iPhones already got the U1 chip last year? Which is the one using the ultrawideband radio technology for this very precise localisation. The U1 chip itself is tiny. There makes zero sense to put it into a puck-sized device that is then attached to other technology instead of just adding it to the 'motherboard' of whatever device you are selling.
AirTags (like Tiles) are for attaching to things that aren't technology: keychains, wallets, bags, hats, dogs and possibly older and lower tech technology (cameras, TV remotes).
Do you know what a Tile tracker is? This is just Apple's version of it (enhanced with an ultra-wideband chip).
They might LOOK similar, but I very much doubt that they will SOUND similar
There is definitely a price/quality relationship for audio gear at the low-mid end. $300 headphones do make sense - but adding cosmetics like leather ear cups won’t make the $600 version sound any better.
There is loosing and there is misplacing. The former might a bit more about bad luck, the latter largely of how organised and forgetful you are. I have lost or forgotten a couple of hats over the years, took it off in a restaurant and forgot to take it back with me or it simply fell out of a coat pocket somewhere. Travelling is is a situation where you are more likely to loose or misplace something as you are breaking routines and moving between a larger number of new locations.
Some might argue that it is missing a useable remote. Generally, when people are somewhat dissatisfied with a product or just don't find it particularly compelling, they tend to convert that feeling into an expectation that the product should be updated (or should have been updated already).
Did they ever clarify whether this two-year period would start with the announcement or with the release of the first Apple Silicon Mac?
Tile currently doesn't have an ultra-wideband chip in them. That doesn't mean their next version might not have one in them but Apple certainly has the technological prowess to beat them to it, and they might be able to do it better. Also, if AirTags can leverage all Apple devices in use in the world, that would be a powerful network of 'base stations' an AirTag could use to phone home. AirTags tracking can likely also run better in the background on Apple devices than a third-party app from Tile.