What to Expect at Apple's 'Let Us Loop You In' Media Event

[trickyt57]

This Apple event will be split into two parts - the really boring bits, and the exciting stuff, which will blow your mind away.
BORING STUFF:
New smaller iPad Pro, New larger Apple iWatch, New wrist bands for your watch, New 4.5" iPhone.

EXCITING STUFF:

1. Handwriting recognition in iOS 10.0
2. New fatter iPhones are much easier to hold and have 250% more battery life.
3. Multi-SIM iPhones designed for international travellers.
4. New 24 core Mac Pro - can be expanded up to 128 core.
5. Apple introduces a movies and TV show subscription service with unlimited watching for $9.99 a month.
6. Apple TV gives access to worldwide live streaming TV
7. Portable iCloud storage device acts as your personal router for all devices constantly synching with your iCloud.
8. Speech recognition and translation software built into iOS 10 will allow you have simultaneous conversations with a foreigner, or to simultaneously have a radio program or movie translated to your mother tongue.
9. Upgraded SIRI will actually give you useful answers instead of saying things like "Who me?", "I really have no opinion" or "OK, I found this on the web for....."
10. New iPhones and iPads will have an optional plastic loop at the back into which you can slip your fingers. It will help to avoid dropping the device.

WILL NEVER HAPPEN Just in my dreams):
Apple TV allows installation of third party streaming services such as KODI, TVMC, Napster, Popcorn etc.

 

[MacRazySwe]

- Skylake MacBook Pro
How is that not boring?

- Skylake quad-core Mac Mini
Starting at $999. No, thank you!

- A retina MacBook Air with 14" screen (by removing current bezels)
Yeah, that could be something. Still with a fan, but taking some design cues from the new MacBook.

- Updated Mac Pro
Absolutely uninteresting to 99% of all Apple customers.

- Anything about HomeKit that gives you hope it will become something
But it won't, so why bother?

Why would they go quad-core and lower the price of the third tier? Quad means they will have to pay more to Intel and their margin is shrinking anyway.

You must be fun at parties.

 

[michaelsviews]

I think it's pretty clear by now; Apple is no longer interested in computer making.

It would seem that it's not at the top of there list, or maybe waiting for the summer time and there festival of wwdc which if your lucky and the lottery picks your name you can go, be privy to the new hardware and drool over it while your using your 15" MBP thats internals are older then dirt BUT it still gets the job done. Insert happy face here

 

[chromite]

Yeah I feel the same, if the MBA was properly updated, the 12" MB I feel would have not sold hardly at all compared to the MBA. There were WAY too many compromises for thinness with the 12" MB. I'd pick the MBA 100 times over the MB. Love the design and display of the MB but MBA can get much more done and has more ports, better keyboard etc.

What specifically can get done on a MacBook Air that can't be done on a 12" MacBook? I sold a 15" MacBook Pro retina and bought a 12" MB because I wasn't using the MBP anymore. The 12" MacBook is speedy. I'm curious as to what exactly can be done on a MacBook Air that can't be done on a 12" MacBook?

 

[scottsjack]

It would seem that it's not at the top of there list, or maybe waiting for the summer time and there festival of wwdc which if your lucky and the lottery picks your name you can go, be privy to the new hardware and drool over it while your using your 15" MBP thats internals are older then dirt BUT it still gets the job done. Insert happy face here

At my local Apple Store the computers are now relegated to a little bit of side space. What used to be two tables with six iMacs each near the entrance is now just three iMacs stuck against a side wall. While it is true that Apple still sells some nice hardware it is obvious that they in their own minds they are no longer really in the computer business.

 

[MNJohn]

Apple will hold its first event of 2016 next Monday, and while it won't be as exciting as last year's event that saw the launch of the Apple Watch, Apple is planning to introduce several new products. Headlining the event will be the 4-inch iPhone SE, Apple's first 4-inch iPhone since 2013.

Joining the iPhone SE will be a new 9.7-inch iPad, a range of new Apple Watch bands, and software updates for iOS 9, watchOS 2, tvOS, and OS X El Capitan.


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Is Apple still in the computer business? Really?

 

[mbh1976]

Indeed, it is a shame that Intel hasn't released the Skylake chips that are needed for the 13" MBP, the MBAs and the Mac mini after shipping the first production Skylake chips last August.
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What a roundabout way of saying the 5c was a rehoused version of the 5.

I didn't say that. I was responding to a comment that the 5C was a rehoused 5S, which it's not.

 

[HighDesert50]

Alas, I do miss the drama that Mr Jobs brought to these events. Always a new insight, inspiring, and bathed in a quirky passion that both the developer and consumer could appreciate. Mr Cook is a fine helmsman but I wish he sometimes displayed more the passion of the risk taking explorer.

 

[ValO]

The design of the iMac and MacBook Pro is getting stale, will it be enough to excite people if all they do is bump the specs with Skylake processors?

I guess that' s why it is taking do long to release new hw. I feel a redesign is on its way, with new hw of course, but it won' t be presented this event . They' ll wait for wwdc.

I guess the upcoming event is very underwhelming on purpose.
Share prices have to drop, before the next stock buyback.
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Not yet though. There is no such thing as an ARM chip that would rival a top-spec 15" MacBook Pro for example, let alone a baseline 13" still... Just a little ways off. Not dissing you totally, it is certainly a possibility but not just yet I don't think. And I don't think anybody would like to totally rewrite everything to work with ARM either, including Apple. It will take awhile for it to happen.

They still need an arm based Mac OS and rewriting /compiling of apps/software.

And this is where the iPad Pro line up will play an important role. I think the first step will be to release a iOS pro for the iPad pro' s to pave the way. It will feature extensions for keyboard/trackpad and file management/finder support and encourage developers to use extensions for the keyboard/trackpad/filemanagement in existing apps. So one version of an app that is touch based for classic iOS and when a keyboard/trackpad is attached through smartconnector it will load the extensions for keyboard/trackpad support.

 

[Dumbinho]

I see a lot of people complaining that this keynote won't be exciting. But I think people are not realizing. This event is first after so long that we saw no parts leak. Yes we heard rumors but we haven't really seen any parts leak. I'm actually excited about that.

 

[XTheLancerX]

What specifically can get done on a MacBook Air that can't be done on a 12" MacBook? I sold a 15" MacBook Pro retina and bought a 12" MB because I wasn't using the MBP anymore. The 12" MacBook is speedy. I'm curious as to what exactly can be done on a MacBook Air that can't be done on a 12" MacBook?

You're right, I didn't really say this with experience with either device, but Core-M chip vs a regular Intel chip sort of turns me off.

 

[satchmo]

As much as I'd love to see new MB's on Monday, Apple typically spreads out their announcements over the year.
Anything is possible but my guess is:

Spring = iPad, iPhone SE, and Watch
Summer @ WWDC = MacBooks updates and iOS/OSX
Fall = iPhone 7, iMac update

 

[KPandian1]

The one surprise I want to see is Apple introducing in its computer division, the server line of products, either Monday or in August/September. MS, Google, Amazon, etc., are minting their own currency as server based service providers - while Apple is buying it from them!

While the transition to Intel based computing maybe killed Apple's servers, it is now about time to restart them. I have a feeling that such a line will be sweet music for so many professionals using Apple computers for their heavy duty work already.

 

[Precision Gem]

Not sure that a black loop watch band is new. I bought one off Amazon for $30 about 4 or 5 months ago. The aftermarket copy bands seem to be ahead of Apple. I also have several sport bands that are replicas of Apples band but at $15 that are in "new" colors. So it looks like Apple will be catching up with the pirated band makers.

 

[jonnysods]

Alas, I do miss the drama that Mr Jobs brought to these events. Always a new insight, inspiring, and bathed in a quirky passion that both the developer and consumer could appreciate. Mr Cook is a fine helmsman but I wish he sometimes displayed more the passion of the risk taking explorer.

The keynotes used to be so exciting!!

Now? Mildly interesting. Most people here sound jaded and pessimistic. I'm actually in that boat. Apple need to roll something out each month for a few months. Some attention on the Mac line would be a huge relief to me!!

 

[0958400]

Quit fracturing the product line with stupidly named/rebranded products. Why couldn't this be released at just another size option as part of the iPhone 7 line in September?

Apple seems to lose focus and in the process of it, losing audience's attention and stability. A first step should probably be to eliminate in-between sizes.

The time to experiment with various tablet sizes should soon come to an end and in that process: have naming process that people can understand.

iPad, iPad 2 ... iPad Air... iPad mini... iPad Pro... iPhone Plus... this sounds more like Canon's camera models, just as confusing.

 

[satchmo]

Mr Cook is a fine helmsman but I wish he sometimes displayed more the passion of the risk taking explorer.

I agree with the first part of your sentence. But I'd much rather see someone other than Cook steer unchartered waters. IMO, his vision of the Apple Watch was misguided. It's one of those projects that Apple should have said no to.

 

[Gudi]

I'm curious as to what exactly can be done on a MacBook Air that can't be done on a 12" MacBook?

The Core-M in the fanless 12" MacBook is optimized for short burst performance, while the 13" MacBook Air can hold its peek performance for a sustained period of time.

 

[I7guy]

I agree with the first part of your sentence. But I'd much rather see someone other than Cook steer unchartered waters. IMO, his vision of the Apple Watch was misguided. It's one of those projects that Apple should have said no to.

Is that why Apple has the largest market percentage with the AW, because it failed?
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The keynotes used to be so exciting!!

Now? Mildly interesting. Most people here sound jaded and pessimistic. I'm actually in that boat. Apple need to roll something out each month for a few months. Some attention on the Mac line would be a huge relief to me!!

Some people are jaded, but Apple has a billion customers, each with their opinion. I'm looking forward to this event.

 

[Roller]

PLEASE give us a new MacBook Pro 13" with a Skylake CPU or give us death.

Update your forum name to Broadwell and then we'll talk.

Seriously, I want Skylake updates too, but I'm not expecting an announcement. In fact, I don't recall when I've had lower expectations for an Apple event.

 

[briloronmacrumo]

With no rumors pointing towards a refresh, it's unlikely to happen, but with Skylake chips available for some machines, such as the MacBook, a Mac-related announcement remains a slim possibility..

A Mac Pro refresh is also overdue but this is likely related to Apple waiting on other components( maybe AMD's Polaris ). Newer Xeon CPUs are now available compared to those found in the 2013 Mac Pro. A Mac Pro refresh potentially would increase its financial and technical attractiveness.

I would like to see Apple "realize" that customers don't consider iMacs portable and decrease the thinness to improve the heat dissipation. This form over function binge will hopefully stop at some point.

 

[Wild-Bill]

Yawnfest.......

No Skylake MacBook Pros..........not interested.

 

[jimmirehman]

cmon, NEW Airport Extreme!!!!!!

 

[SpaceCaptain]

A 24-core mac pro expandable up to 128 cores???

So a $13,000 trashcan that can be maxxed out to.... $25,000? (assuming $3000 processor upgrade per level, current pricing for 12core)
And what exactly can you do with 128 cores? Most video folks consider the 8-core the "sweet spot" because most pro apps dont utilize 12core/24thread...

Skylake MBPr is cool, but what i'd really love is a geforce baby titan that wont overheat in the first 30sec of video render.
Speed was never really a problem for the MBP, its always been heat. Albeit its gotten better over the last decade, im sure there was a person who sued Apple over burning his thighs with a titanium g4 powerbook.

 

[ilaird]

Most of the announcements are obvious incremental stuff, but personally I'm excited by the new 9.7" iPad Pro. The Pencil is amazing, because it lets you really write and draw on a "smart piece of paper", which is something I've been waiting for a very long time. But I didn't want to carry around a huge iPad - I like keeping things small and light, so a MacBook Air and iPad Air work great for me. But if I could swap the iPad Air for an iPad Pro the same size, that'd be perfect!