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What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2023?
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They're not going to just scale up the existing iPhone calculator app, because you'd end up with buttons two inches across. So, they'd have to make a new app, that makes use of all that space. Then, well, you can't just have a super capable iPad calculator and keep the same old four-function calculator on the iPhone, so they'd have to work out how to shoehorn all that new functionality into a new iPhone calculator app. There are a bunch of third party calculators out there that have already covered this ground. They'd be taking on a project that they don't want, that would sherlock a bunch of the existing calculator apps, instead of working on things that only Apple can add to iOS. I'd rather have Apple working on iOS internals (both adding features and fixing bugs), rather than on adding yet another a calculator app. Just buy PCalc and be done with it.
OLED iPad Pros or a mini-LED 11 inch iPad Pro. Please.
Also, hopefully this is finally the year they figure out multitasking on the iPad. It needs a new UI. Stage Manager has been meh. Start from the ground up.
Also, hopefully this is finally the year they figure out multitasking on the iPad. It needs a new UI. Stage Manager has been meh. Start from the ground up.
You asked for my entire wishlist:
1. Apple Event on my birthday (March 6)2. M2 Pro/M2 Max MacBook Pro
3. "HomePod Ultra" with a screen that can do FaceTime Calls
4. Apple Reality
5. RCS on iPhones in iOS 17
6. Redesigned control center in iOS 17
7. Remove objects and people from photos (Google Pixel selling point on iPhone)
8. iOS 16 lock screen customization on iPad and Mac
9. Theme Packs on Apple's platforms
10. Smooth iOS animations on macOS (It lacks in animations A LOT...)
11. Apple Music on the Mac to function more like the iPad version
12. Sideloading macOS apps on iPadOS
13. Calculator app on iPad (And calculator redesign on macOS based on iPad calculator)
14. Volume Mixer on macOS
15. Translate app on macOS
16. Redesigned right-click menu on macOS (Copy Windows and make it customizable)
17. Safari on Apple TV (Amazon TV has this, and it has a similar remote to the Apple TV Remote, so ik Apple can do it)
18. Messages on Apple TV
19. M3 MacBook Air to not have 1 NAN SSD
20. 13-inch MacBook Pro to be completely dropped
21. Apple Pencil 2 support on base iPad
22. Whole iPhone 15 lineup to have A17 Bionic
23. iPhone 15 mini (I will legit upgrade to this if it comes out and has A17 Bionic)
24. Dynamic Island on iPhone 15 Lineup
25. Apple's lineups to not be confusing
26. App Library on macOS
27. Widgets placed anywhere on macOS (I thought I saw a patent for this for macOS 13)
28. Settings app to be consistent on iPadOS and macOS
29. Finder app comes to iPadOS 17 (and iOS 17)
30. macOS icons on iOS 17
31. iPad Catalyst (basically the reverse of Mac Catalyst, iPad apps from Mac apps)
32. Apple Pencil 2 support on MacBooks
The death of the notch on everything, MiniLED on 11" iPad Pros, and the rise of the "audiophile amplifier connection" (i.e. headphone jack) on at least iPad Pros.
It is amusing the Aqua interface design was described as lickable yet we always had to keep it at arms length. Today we hold devices close enough to lick (please don't do that) but everything is cold frosted glass...
I've been working on one.
Anyone who wants to tell me what features they want.
Feel free to PM me.
Be happy to have some beta testers too.
- skip/scrap iPhone 15 (it's lame) and go straight to iPhone 16.
- MacBook Air Pro.
- Apple Laserwriter III
- iPod renamed Color Newton
- bring back earphones being included with phones and include AirPods
- 1000w wireless charging
- MacBook Air Pro.
- Apple Laserwriter III
- iPod renamed Color Newton
- bring back earphones being included with phones and include AirPods
- 1000w wireless charging
The easiest thing I’d like would be adding 0.5mm or so between the keyboard and the screen of a closed laptop so the keys don’t touch the screen. That would remove the main source of dirt on my screen.
Replace disabling smart charging for 24h with turning off until fully charged.
make Photos.app use less space for caches: less than half of my photos library is my photos, the rest is different scaled and cropped versions, and since I have a reasonably fast processor and fast disk access, but don’t have a lot of storage space, I’d rather just have the key photos cached and regenerate the rest on demand.
Maybe improved ergonomics on the laptops, rounding off the front edge (perhaps a stylistic change too, so it looks like a thick and thin iPad stacked up while closed).
In the realms of fantasy, perhaps, but micro-LED displays
Replace disabling smart charging for 24h with turning off until fully charged.
make Photos.app use less space for caches: less than half of my photos library is my photos, the rest is different scaled and cropped versions, and since I have a reasonably fast processor and fast disk access, but don’t have a lot of storage space, I’d rather just have the key photos cached and regenerate the rest on demand.
Maybe improved ergonomics on the laptops, rounding off the front edge (perhaps a stylistic change too, so it looks like a thick and thin iPad stacked up while closed).
In the realms of fantasy, perhaps, but micro-LED displays
I want to see Tim to take a fart so they can no longer say they are “carbon neutral”.
Release iPhone 15 with USB-C and camera ai that doesn’t ruin HDR photos whenever there is a slighest sense of background lighting.
Release iPhone 15 with USB-C and camera ai that doesn’t ruin HDR photos whenever there is a slighest sense of background lighting.
I thought of one other thing for both IOS and TVos. I would love to see a new home screen for both. They've had the same home screen pretty much since the first Iphone and it would be nice to put icons and widgets anywhere and not in a locked location like what Apple has now. Also, I would love to see a TVos update where MacRumors doesn't say "Most of the time, these updates are minor". I would love to see a TVos update that is more major and visible then it's been. In this era of Streaming, I feel like the TV operating system could use some modernization.
an updated imac with a 27" screen
or
a 27" or larger monitor that is moderately priced so that I have enough $ left to purchase a new mac
I’m betting we may see M3 by Oct-Nov timeframe. All M1 and M2 need to be upgraded to M3.
Mac mini needs an M3 and M3 Pro option.
27” 5K iMac Pro (and/or 32” 6K?) would be awesome, but I’m not jonesing for it now that the Mac Studio and Studio Display exist.
ProDisplayXDR needs a 2nd Gen update.
Studio Display needs a higher end model with ProMotion and miniLED.
That’s the top of my list.
Portable Mac lineup needs to look like this:
12” and 13.6” MBA
15” MacBook Studio with single fan design (replaces M2 MBP)
14” and 16” MBP
Mac mini needs an M3 and M3 Pro option.
27” 5K iMac Pro (and/or 32” 6K?) would be awesome, but I’m not jonesing for it now that the Mac Studio and Studio Display exist.
ProDisplayXDR needs a 2nd Gen update.
Studio Display needs a higher end model with ProMotion and miniLED.
That’s the top of my list.
Portable Mac lineup needs to look like this:
12” and 13.6” MBA
15” MacBook Studio with single fan design (replaces M2 MBP)
14” and 16” MBP
Re-release or re-engineering of the Mighty Mouse.
Still hanging on to my last functional one. They’ve made no better mouse. Having an analog trackball is way more agile and reliable and accurate than the gimmicky trackpad garbage. No one out there is scrolling horizontally with as much finesse as we are.
Still hanging on to my last functional one. They’ve made no better mouse. Having an analog trackball is way more agile and reliable and accurate than the gimmicky trackpad garbage. No one out there is scrolling horizontally with as much finesse as we are.
Lower prices and fewer software bugs.
On Friday, we shared a What to Expect Guide that highlights everything we're expecting to see from Apple in 2023, based on current product rumors and historical release data.
We're counting on the release of the mixed reality headset that Apple has been working on for years now, along with the Apple silicon Mac Pro and a number of other refreshed Macs. There's an iPhone 15 with a USB-C port in the works, and we could get new HomePod and AirPods Max refreshes.
We know what we think we're going to be seeing from Apple in 2023, but we want to hear opinions and wishlists from the MacRumors community. What do you want to see Apple release this year?
Are there new iPhone features you're hoping for, or something new in iOS 17 or macOS 14? What are you wanting to see from Apple's AR/VR headset?
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yeah honestly… their lineup should be so much simpler. the names and the products themselves.
Reverse the scaling and rasterisation stages in UI rendering, now that the icons are based on SF Symbol so they can scale without blurring. That would allow arbitrary display scaling for UI elements, which apart from being nice for accessibility and hopefully being more energy efficient would mean that heterogeneous multi-monitor setups can more easily match display sizes (windows sucks at that too, but Compiz Fusion could do it a decade ago without the blurring MacOS produces).