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What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2018?

I would like an upgraded iPad mini, with no bezels and pencil support.

I would also like to see an updated 12.9 iPad Pro with the same screen size but no bezels, making the overall body size smaller - something between the 10.5 and 12.9 we have now.

I'd also really like raise to wake for the iPads, so you wouldn't need a front cover.

I'm fairly easy about face ID or a home button, although I like the style on the 7plus with the haptic feedback. I use touch ID for lots of things I've forgotten the passwords for, so would like to keep a fingerprint scanner in the mix somehow.
 
What everyone else said, plus jet black macbooks with wireless charging, usb 3.2, uhs-III sd-slots, smaller standalone monitor without camera, selectable mouse cursors & green button behaviour in macOS. Ditch the non-retina machines and the eject button on the magic keyboard, move to usb-c as pheripheral connector.
Maybe replace the 64GB appleTV with a 1TB version with syncing capabilities of the past.
 
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Others have already covered all of these, I just say some of them again.

1. Mac mini - or reasonable priced headless mac with upgradable ram, storage, gpu (or decent gpu)
2. Routers
3. Monitor
4. 4in iPhone
5. Backlit keyboard and return to AA batteries for keyboard and mouse
6. A reasonably priced 15/17in mac laptop with matt screen. Clean up line.
7. Keep products up to date.
8. Fix MacOS and iOS
9. iCloud improvements
10. More effort in AppleTV space. TVOS app store and API improvements
11. Transparency, honesty and integrity (well... as much as a profit chasing public company can do)
12. Stop sucking up to the board and institutional shareholders, it makes you deceive your users. Chasing short term sales targets for the benefit of shareholders ends up in bad behaviour.
 
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audiomatt said:
No/optional Touchbar ( people wouldn't mind having it there if they had function keys)
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You can set it so the F keys always show. That's what I do.
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ThatSandWyrm said:
I have the 2017 15" MBP. The touch bar is a useless gimmick.
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So true.

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3) 16GB of RAM is borderline for "pro" work. Needs to at least support 32GB. This is my biggest frustration with it.
5) Offer a 17" version.
6) A removable battery.

Simply updating the components inside a 2008-era 17" MBP (which was actually "pro" level in performance at the time) would be exactly what I want.
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Agree, agree, agree. And bringing back MS Entourage with the min project manager (grumble) would help as well.
 
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Upgradable Mac Mini/Mac Mini Pro (desktop class CPU & GPU, similar to Zotac Magnus 1070), hex core CPU option. Intel SGX support enabled. Lots of conectivity: USB 3.2, HDMI 2.1, TB3 with DP1.4.

Apple Cinema Display 27-32" 5K with HDR (min 1000nits), updated TB3 that supports DP 1.4 (Titan Ridge), HDMI 2.1 with HDCP 2.2. MacOS with HDR support.

Stable MacOS & iOS.

Mac Pro with PCIe 4.0 slots.
 
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A Mac Mini that can be a great 4K player in both the video and audio department including the latest HDMI and HDCP, ability to output 4K/60p/HDR, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, DTS-HD-Ma, Dolby Digital Plus, etc. The current inability to bitstream modern codecs is frustrating and no longer acceptable because when Plex or other apps convert the original stream into PCM it is limited to 7.1 and we lose ATMOS and DTS:X data. You might say, just get an Apple TV, but not everyone wants that, why limit the Mac. Be limitless!!
 
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my hopes are:
Mac Mini/Mac Pro will be the same machine.. just a modular machine.. low end will be a mac mini replacement.. high-end will be a mac pro replacement.

Macbook Pro's will really set themselves apart from the macbooks.. (from what i understand, intel and chipsets were the holdup) chipsets and processors should be in place my their june announcements. 32gb of ram.. ati video chipset. revised keyboard. (i personally dont mind the current macbook pro keyboards that so many people hate) nvidia would be nice but wont happen bc nvidia doesnt want to give up control over their drivers. it'd be nice if it had face detection like the iphone x

mac display that I can plug a laptop into and have a desktop experience. basically a monitor/dock in one.

OS X: i dont need any new features.. just make it solid again.. i have a HUGE amount of wireless networking issues when moving around my house that i shouldnt have.. it would be nice if icloud or some other apple service was a true dropbox alternative. where i could really have two macs in sync.

iOS: same as OS X.. just smooth it out.. slow down.. focus on stability and battery life.
 
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The Mac Pro. While I have no need in an incredibly powerful machine and no desire to be tethered to a desk, I have a feeling that whatever leads to a modular platform will yield to results elsewhere, including portables and a new Mac Mini.

I'm not sure if it's on the Intel roadmap, but a 12" MacBook with Thunderbolt 3 instead of USB-C only. That would be a nice upgrade for my wife.

I'd LIKE to see a new SE. If I'm dreaming they make a phone with the footprint of the SE but similar to the X in terms of the full screen. I suspect that's a few years away, but that would be nice.

Just got my AirPods and I love them. I would much prefer them in black though.
 
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MacRumors said:



In our recent What to Expect post, we covered everything we think we'll see from Apple in 2018 based on the current rumors that are circulating about the company's 2018 plans.

Three new iPhones are on the horizon, one a followup to the iPhone X, one that will serve as an "iPhone X Plus" with a larger OLED display, and one with an LCD display that will be positioned as a low to midrange device with a cheaper price tag. Apple's first smart speaker, the HomePod, will come out in 2018, and we're also expecting a revamped iPad Pro, refreshed Macs, and new software, but there's always a chance for a wildcard update or new product that will surprise us all.

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A high-end modular Mac Pro, new original TV shows, AR smart glasses, and autonomous driving software are all products Apple is working on, with no official release date known. We want to hear from the MacRumors community -- what are you expecting or hoping to see Apple release in 2018?

Are there specific features you're hoping Apple will implement in iOS 12, tvOS 12, watchOS 5, or macOS 10.14? Popular wishlist items for last year included a dark mode for iOS, a customizable Control Center (which happened!), animated icons, iPhone complications, a swipe-based keyboard, offline Maps and Siri, and more.

Let us know what you want to see in the comments, and make sure to check out our What to Expect post to get a glimpse at the current rumors. Apple's plans for 2018 will become more clear in the early months of the year, and as always, we'll be covering every rumor that pops up in-depth here at MacRumors.

The MacRumors forums are also a rich resource for discussing upcoming products and rumors, and with so many exciting changes on the horizon for 2018, our forums are the place to be for lively discussions on what's coming.

We'd like to thank all of our readers and forum members for making MacRumors the absolute best source for Apple news, rumors, and advice on the web. We wouldn't be here without you, and we look forward to yet another rumor-packed year in 2018.

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1.Offline maps
2. Speed limits (Australia)
3. Reminders app revamp/sorting options/auto hide checked items
4. Longer Apple Watch 3 battery life
 
Make Apple affordable again. I am sick to death of them putting an extra $500 on products for no reason. I remember when apple products got gradually cheaper every year. Not the other way around.

Better QA. Os releases have been horrible lately.

Make airdrop reliable.

Make photos app and sharing work way better.

Improve Siri exponentially, or give up and accept google assistant

Licence out MacOS, for those of us that dont like waiting three years for a hardware refresh......with Apples extra $500 tacked on for good measure.

Stop adding $500 to you iphones.

Stop screwing over Australia for pricing. We are closer to where these things are built there is no excuse. The market is not that volatile

Add widgets to the iOS home screen.

Intigrate vulcan into the OS

Custom watch faces to the Apple Watch

Stop charging 2010 prices for SSD

Stop overcharging on Ram

Put more ram into your mobile devices.

Stop adding gimmicky features like dynamic wall paper, animoji, live stills, then never update them again or worse not allow the community to add to them.

For the love of god put in modern graphics cards.

Airpods were great!
 
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I have been one of the folks who upgraded every other year and I am not price sensitive. But I have stopped, and might switch away from being an all-Apple household after 15 years. Here is what I want.

1. A pro laptop, with lots of memory and the ports that I am actually using (I know, Apple won't bring them back), which include USB 3, HDMI and SD. Most importantly, I need the return of good keyboards; the current generation is unbearably loud, hard, and cannot deal with dust. And I don't care for the gimmicky touch bar.
I hope that my current MBP lasts me until Apple finds their way again and rediscovers how to make a keyboard; right now an upgrade feels too much like a downgrade.

2. An iPhone without a notch and Face ID but a large display and a headphone port. Touch ID works perfect for me, and I listen to music on good headphones a lot. My 6s will probably die this year, and I expect that I will switch to Android.
 
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  • Fix the contacts and make them seamless between iphone/ipad/Mac - I have contacts in my phone (may be from gmail) that don't show up on my iPad - they just give the number in messages or say unknown. There should be a way to make them all sync across devices seamlessly - and backup to icloud.
  • More affordable MB/MBP's
  • New iPad Mini
  • Lower prices on iPad Pros
  • Apple TV/Homepod integration
 
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Gameboy70 said:
Ive’s recent comments suggest he’s been bludgeoned by enough criticism over the recent direction of MacBooks that Apple is probably prepared to release a less user hostile successor—probably not in time for this year, but early next year.
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I hate to be snide, but that's what happens when you don't gather user requirements before you start designing. Apple has got buildings full of software engineers and system administrators, for example (I've even met some of them because they're my customers). I'm shocked that nobody bothered to ask these in-house users what features they need in a high-powered, portable system. I'm also astounded that, as the former go-to brand for photographers and videographers, they didn't poll their current customers in those markets for what they needed in a system for location work. I don't know enough about gamers, music producers, etc. to even begin to comment on their needs, but a similar approach would probably have worked for them.

I'm sure there are a lot of people who are really happy with the current lineup (and I'm glad for them), but there are many categories of "pro" users, who were formerly very well-served by Apple, for whom the current products just don't work very well.

As for me, I'm a year past due for a refresh on my 2012 Retina as it is. I'll probably be forced to upgrade before the end of 2018. so this pretty bad news for me.
 
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