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What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2020?

manu chao said:
Adjacent to that, allow iOS device backup on Macs to non-boot drives. Many people might have a relatively small SSD as their boot drive with additional storage on (mostly) external drives. However, backing up iOS devices to a Mac (via iTunes pre-Catalina or Finder in Catalina) automatically uses ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup.
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System Preferences>Users&Groups>"Username"-Rightclick User=Advanced Option>Home directory
 
"What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2020?". Just two things:

1. Full APFS documentation, and specifically how to write to such disks (as done already for how to read them), so that Alsoft can release DiskWarrior 6 to rebuild the directory of APFS disks?

2. Time Machine 2 to make backups into APFS target disks.
 
brucemr said:
Increase free iCloud storage above current 5 GB.

Too small, especially with multiple Apple devices. Struggling to fit just simple backups of 2 or more devices.
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There are a few ways I've found to help alleviate the storage cap. 1) Don't save photos in the cloud at all. Just back up phone photos to your computer once a year, then delete the photos off phone. 2) No mail in the cloud, your email provider provides the cloud storage. 3) Purge your Messages once a year.

I'm down to 1.43GB of cloud storage using this approach.
 
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Based on the annoying notifications about my lack of movement on Christmas Day, the ability to report ‘Rest Days’ to Apple Health and track these, stopping unwanted move alerts on rest days or if I’m unwell.

Also, the option of a circular Apple Watch model. I don’t care if I get reduced screen viewing. Or else I’ll buy the next Withings Watch instead.
 
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  • iMac redesign! It's been 10 years Apple and you're well aware.
  • 13/14" MacBook Pro with Scissor Keyboard
  • MacBook Air with Scissor Keyboard, and Quad Core processors
  • iPhones with 5G - Especially looking forward to the rumored 5.4" OLED model.
  • New iPad Pros
Will be interesting to see what Apple has in store.
 
34" iMac small bezel.
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The ONLY thing I want is a large phone that can use the Apple Pencil.

Everything else they make, already works well enough. I just need that.
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For a Mac desktop, this is what I want. Everything separate and modular, and let me attach what I want. They could easily do this now.
www.cultofmac.com

Apple considered a stackable Mac Pro way back in 1984

Apple is rumored to be using a stackable, modular design for its next Mac Pro, allowing components to be easily swapped in and out. It's an innovative
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Hardware:

- Mac Mini with 8-core cpu bump
- Apple designed eGPU shell / config
- AirPods with volume control
- iMac with Pro XDR design cues
- Apple TV Pro - faster internals, bundles with a controller


Software:

- better autocorrect typing on iOS
- a Siri that works
- redesigned Apple TV UI
- per app brightness on iOS
 
.) less bugs
.) 120hz Displays in all apple devices. Come on it’s 2020.
.) 32” or bigger iMac witch exchangeable ssd & ram.
.) 4th iPhone camera for portraits (85mm full frame equivalent)
 
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Apple Watch (with always-on display) that is usable for sleep tracking (lasts ~36 hours on a charge). (Yes, I know the rumors.)
 
I'd love a 120hz iMac with smaller bezels and better cooling (iMac Pro level cooling).

I'd love a bigger Mac Mini with a single PCI-E slot.
 
Things I would like to see but probably won’t happen due to insufficient demand: iPad mini Pro, Mac mini Pro (larger enclosure with a PCIe slot for GPU) and a 27” 5K monitor based on the iMac chassis.

Things others would like to see but probably won’t happen due to insufficient demand: SE-sized iPhone, Mac Pro mini (the fabled xMac/mid-tower without Xeon/ECC) and a round Watch.
 
weaztek said:
There are a few ways I've found to help alleviate the storage cap. 1) Don't save photos in the cloud at all. Just back up phone photos to your computer once a year, then delete the photos off phone. 2) No mail in the cloud, your email provider provides the cloud storage. 3) Purge your Messages once a year.

I'm down to 1.43GB of cloud storage using this approach.
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Why do people have such a weird hangup with spending 99¢, lol?
These same people that will go to great lengths to have scheduled times of the year they have to remember to do all this memory management maintenance wouldn’t think twice about spending $12 buying a coffee for them and a friend at Starbucks. The cream & sugar that’s going to be gone in 10 minutes is “worth it”, but that same amount to NOT have to do all those steps, not have to worry about hdd failure on the backup device, etc. & have everything seamlessly backed up for an entire year, somehow isn’t???
That breaks my brain.
Y’all think VERY lowly of what your time is worth or something.
 
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I want a focus on battery life technology.

Having to charge AirPods, iPad, MacBook, iPhone and Apple Watch is no fun.

If they all had battery for days... that’d go a long way in terms of mitigating the charging headache.
 
Mini pro. Just like Macpro, but w 1 PCI 4. Pro machine not focussed on video.
Return of Airport & Servers.
Watchmini - THIN! display always on. greyscale. Haptic notifications. Light button. year long battery. Dual time, stopwatch. THIN! No apps.
 
Justanotherfanboy said:
Why do people have such a weird hangup with spending 99¢, lol?
These same people that will go to great lengths to have scheduled times of the year they have to remember to do all this memory management maintenance wouldn’t think twice about spending $12 buying a coffee for them and a friend at Starbucks. The cream & sugar that’s going to be gone in 10 minutes is “worth it”, but that same amount to NOT have to do all those steps, not have to worry about hdd failure on the backup device, etc. & have everything seamlessly backed up for an entire year, somehow isn’t???
That breaks my brain.
Y’all think VERY lowly of what your time is worth or something.
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I'm a professional photographer. I trust my own hard drive and 3 backups far, far more than I trust Apple's cloud. Especially this week since my Calendars, Notes and Contacts aren't syncing correctly over their cloud (known issue). 😂

I don't use Apple Mail (Thunderbird is considerably better IMO) on my Mac. And all email providers host email on their server. So what exactly am I missing by not using Apple's cloud?
 
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Fangio said:
An affordable Mac Pro 7,1 light – same form factor but aimed at prosumers.
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A non-Xeon, non-ECC version, which is what I assume you’re asking for, would be about $5,800 using X-series CPUs

Not much of a savings on the base model, though upgrades would be cheaper. Max of 18 cores/256GB RAM, which isn't bad.
 
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