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What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2021?
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wowsers i'd be mad as heck, heck i get upset when the ipod shuffle does not shuffle.
hopefully there is a simple solution to this problem.
I want to see following things from Apple:
1. A Port-less, Deep Water resistant, Notch-less, 120 Hz iPhone, with touch ID Support.
2. I want to see a product that combines AppleTV+Speaker with inbuilt battery for portability. This is a Dedicated AppleTV Product.
3. I want to see a Dedicated Gaming AppleTV Gaming Console with SSD not Flash Storage, because if Apple is serious about Gaming on AppleTV 128 GB is not good Enough for Gaming storage.
4. I want to see Apple reconsider its stance on Game Streaming, Provide Game and App Streaming services itself, because it is coming for sure.
5. Create Apple Servers using M series processors for providing Game and App Streaming services.
6. Provide M1 Based Servers to Developers as a service.
7. Double iCloud Storage at the same price, Google gives 100 GB as the minimum tier.
8. An Apple Sports Camera, better than GoPro, people will be willing to Pay for an Apple Sports Camera.
9. Apple Car Rumours/Announcements.
10. iPhone and Laptop Touch sensors with multi finger and both hand finger recognition.
11. A Better Material for Charging Cables so they dont break off at Ends in Tropical areas.
12. Would like to see a 64 Core M2 Processor for Workstations.
13. A new Product Category where your Phone can Act as a Mac Computer. And For heavy Tasks an App Streaming and Game streaming subscription service from Apple.
14. I hope Apple Arcade Succeeds with a dedicated Gaming AppleTV, also Apple should reconsider and release a Game Controller deigned by Apple Sold with the Dedicated Apple Gaming TV.
15. Mag Safe Charger for Laptops, Dog at my home has already bent the current charger plug badly.
1. A Port-less, Deep Water resistant, Notch-less, 120 Hz iPhone, with touch ID Support.
2. I want to see a product that combines AppleTV+Speaker with inbuilt battery for portability. This is a Dedicated AppleTV Product.
3. I want to see a Dedicated Gaming AppleTV Gaming Console with SSD not Flash Storage, because if Apple is serious about Gaming on AppleTV 128 GB is not good Enough for Gaming storage.
4. I want to see Apple reconsider its stance on Game Streaming, Provide Game and App Streaming services itself, because it is coming for sure.
5. Create Apple Servers using M series processors for providing Game and App Streaming services.
6. Provide M1 Based Servers to Developers as a service.
7. Double iCloud Storage at the same price, Google gives 100 GB as the minimum tier.
8. An Apple Sports Camera, better than GoPro, people will be willing to Pay for an Apple Sports Camera.
9. Apple Car Rumours/Announcements.
10. iPhone and Laptop Touch sensors with multi finger and both hand finger recognition.
11. A Better Material for Charging Cables so they dont break off at Ends in Tropical areas.
12. Would like to see a 64 Core M2 Processor for Workstations.
13. A new Product Category where your Phone can Act as a Mac Computer. And For heavy Tasks an App Streaming and Game streaming subscription service from Apple.
14. I hope Apple Arcade Succeeds with a dedicated Gaming AppleTV, also Apple should reconsider and release a Game Controller deigned by Apple Sold with the Dedicated Apple Gaming TV.
15. Mag Safe Charger for Laptops, Dog at my home has already bent the current charger plug badly.
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Better Apple Music recommendations based on music I listen to.
More health monitoring parameters and sensors on Apple Watch.
More health monitoring parameters and sensors on Apple Watch.
I would be happy if they would just eliminate the "Headphone Safety" feature — I despise this "feature." Apple thinks they know how loud I should listen to my music, so they automatically turn the volume down on my speakers without warning! This "feature" can't tell the difference between a headphone and a Bluetooth speaker in another room, but because they know best, they keep turning the volume down to "protect" me. I was happier with my old MP3 player — at least it didn't screw up the volume of my music.
My BF has a Mac Pro and an iMac Pro and no interest in nVidia hardware support. Much more interested in Apple GPU support for the Pro than nVidia support for Apple Silicon systems.
The big thing for me is, that I really hope that — if Apple removes the lighting port — that they would come up with another way for people who have hearing devices like myself; with Cochlear implants or hearing aids. My cochlear implants has bluetooth, however a lot of people who aren't able to upgrade to the newest hearing devices may not have bluetooth capabilities yet and relies on the lighting port to be able to do things with the phone itself such as a special audio headphones to plug into the cochlear implants to listen to music. Hearing devices are far more expensive than any of the Apple products (except for the Mac Pro and XDR display maybe). When Apple first removed the headphone jack — I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to enjoy listening to my music anymore on my phone because my cochlear implants back then didn't have bluetooth, Thankfully Apple came up with the dongle that you can plug your phone in and listen to music.
But I am also hoping that Apple will continue to add in more accessibility features such as having sound recognition be able to recognize more sounds and continue to improve the feature.
But I am also hoping that Apple will continue to add in more accessibility features such as having sound recognition be able to recognize more sounds and continue to improve the feature.
I want Apple to take a good hard look at their software operations like Apple Music and ask themselves how they can make it better. I'm sick and tired of tuning into WWDC or their other promos and they are just talking about what is new and "You're going to love it". I want them to look at what they have and be like "How can we improve this" so people can actually love it. For example, Car Play since the update to IOS 14 has not been all that great in Hondas. Apple Music could use some major improvements (Like putting the heart on the player itself, organizing curated playlists better, having a search filter inside each playlist, etc), The Watch could have a major overhaul in terms of software and monthly challenges that just repeat themselves over and over. I don't want new gifs or emoticons or new gaming stuff. I want a product that works. If you're going to be charging so much for products and services, you should have a product and service quality control department that has the job of making these things better. Also, they should be all ages, so hire someone who is like 16 years old up to 50+. The wider the demographic the better spectrum you can have as to what people want.
One other thing, and this has to do with the whole quality control. I think the whole beta testing thing is a joke. You have 9 betas, and then when the real one is going to the public, app developers complain about the lack of timing between the GM (Whatever that is) and public release. From where I'm sitting, this stuff is announced at WWDC and people know it's coming. You want to have beta releases to test out the kinks? Fine, but make them every two weeks rather than every week and there should be no more than 5. When you get to the final beta, things should be nearly perfect. I just don't understand why we have 9 beta tests and then when it's finally released to the public it still doesn't work. I mean the whole concept of the Beta test is to feedback bugs, yet I feel like on this forum and on Reddit, all the Beta is now is wanting to get the new IOS early. Lets be more efficient with the Beta tests and actually treat them like Tests rather than food for the addicted audience.
One other thing, and this has to do with the whole quality control. I think the whole beta testing thing is a joke. You have 9 betas, and then when the real one is going to the public, app developers complain about the lack of timing between the GM (Whatever that is) and public release. From where I'm sitting, this stuff is announced at WWDC and people know it's coming. You want to have beta releases to test out the kinks? Fine, but make them every two weeks rather than every week and there should be no more than 5. When you get to the final beta, things should be nearly perfect. I just don't understand why we have 9 beta tests and then when it's finally released to the public it still doesn't work. I mean the whole concept of the Beta test is to feedback bugs, yet I feel like on this forum and on Reddit, all the Beta is now is wanting to get the new IOS early. Lets be more efficient with the Beta tests and actually treat them like Tests rather than food for the addicted audience.
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I'm into smaller phones, so I would love for Apple to make an iPhone 13 nano.
I have been using the iPhone SE (from 2016) up until I got the iPhone 12 mini, which is the first phone from Apple which I felt could be something for me since 2016. Although there are many aspects about the iPhone 12 mini which I really enjoy, I still find it too big for my taste, and would switch to an iPhone with a smaller physical footprint in the blink of an eye. I know that all of the YouTube-reviews of the iPhone 12 mini refer to it as being "really small" or "tiny", but I still find it huge.
In addition, I would love for this year's iPhone-lineup to be less slippery than the iPhone 12's. I would never have imagined this to be an issue, but the iPhone 12 mini (at least) is extremely slippery, and I'm very conscious when I hold it that I have a firm grip, so that it doesn't accidentally slip out of my hands.
I have been using the iPhone SE (from 2016) up until I got the iPhone 12 mini, which is the first phone from Apple which I felt could be something for me since 2016. Although there are many aspects about the iPhone 12 mini which I really enjoy, I still find it too big for my taste, and would switch to an iPhone with a smaller physical footprint in the blink of an eye. I know that all of the YouTube-reviews of the iPhone 12 mini refer to it as being "really small" or "tiny", but I still find it huge.
In addition, I would love for this year's iPhone-lineup to be less slippery than the iPhone 12's. I would never have imagined this to be an issue, but the iPhone 12 mini (at least) is extremely slippery, and I'm very conscious when I hold it that I have a firm grip, so that it doesn't accidentally slip out of my hands.
- iPad mini with TouchID on the standby button
- 11-inch widescreen MacBook
- AirPort integration in HomePod (mini)
- USB-C across the board
- macOS on iPads or at least software freedom and pagefile support (multitasking is not a real thing if every app which takes up all the RAM nukes all other apps)
- QA being done by Apple and not hipster influencers, bugs being squished rather by importance and not by how many clicks influencers can accumulate on a bug
kkthxbye
- 11-inch widescreen MacBook
- AirPort integration in HomePod (mini)
- USB-C across the board
- macOS on iPads or at least software freedom and pagefile support (multitasking is not a real thing if every app which takes up all the RAM nukes all other apps)
- QA being done by Apple and not hipster influencers, bugs being squished rather by importance and not by how many clicks influencers can accumulate on a bug
kkthxbye
That makes sense, except for the fact that there are no PCI cards with Apple GPU silicon. I do not even know if the latest AMD 6000 series cards even work yet in the Mac Pro, which is also sad. Good thing neither (RTX or Radeon 6xxx) can be bought easily right now, so the bitching about it is pointless right now.
If you were to listen to popular complaints here, this is what they want from Apple:
A 5.1" iPhone with a 5x zoom lens, fingerprint sensor, 6000mAh battery, 3 chargers included (1 for use, and 2 for redundancies), and it runs Crysis.
A 5.1" iPhone with a 5x zoom lens, fingerprint sensor, 6000mAh battery, 3 chargers included (1 for use, and 2 for redundancies), and it runs Crysis.
LOL. You forgot to throw in that it needs to run Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 at 200fps.
For those MacBooks that have just 2 ports, having one on either side, that's what I'd like to see. #commonsense
If you choose to not put a case on your iPhone, then you have to accept that you're more likely to drop your phone.
If Apple have not by now provided sturdier cables with the phones, tablets and laptops, then they never will. I recommend you buy the braided Mophie cables from the Apple website or an Apple Store.
A foldable iPhone will arrive this decade. Ideally many of us would like a large screen in a small form factor.
If you choose to not put a case on your iPhone, then you have to accept that you're more likely to drop your phone.
A couple of things... significant price reductions.
Perhaps a change on the accessibility from other devices. Any phone or computer should be able to play airplay video and\or audio, and integration with other devices. Take the Sonos One for example... Decent speaker that can be combined with many other speakers, and has support for many different music services, and offers airplay.
Perhaps a change on the accessibility from other devices. Any phone or computer should be able to play airplay video and\or audio, and integration with other devices. Take the Sonos One for example... Decent speaker that can be combined with many other speakers, and has support for many different music services, and offers airplay.
In our What to Expect article that we shared yesterday, we covered everything that we think we'll see from Apple in 2021 based on current product rumors and historical release data.
New, more powerful Apple silicon Macs with redesigns, iPhone 13 models with upgraded cameras, new Apple Watch models, and updated AirPods are in the works, plus we're expecting to finally get the AirTags and a new Apple TV.
We know what we think we'll see in 2021, but we want to hear from the MacRumors community. What are you hoping to see Apple release this year?
Are there new features you want to see in iOS 15 or macOS 12? Apple Smart Glasses? Updated iPhone features?
Let us know what you want to see in the comments, and take a look at our What to Expect article for a look at the current rumors. We'll learn more about Apple's 2021 product plans during the first months of the year, and as always, we'll have in-depth rumor coverage here at MacRumors.com.
Our MacRumors forums are also an excellent resource for discussing upcoming products and rumors, and with the most exciting Mac refreshes we've seen in years on the horizon, our forums are the place to be for discussions on what's next.
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4. Wherewith and even so, I do regret venting upon you.