Julie, you gotta correct the 10GB RAM on the iPhone SE part as well
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What to Expect From Apple in 2018: Three New iPhones and iPad Pro With Face ID, HomePod, Refreshed Macs, and More
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For me, this is just more confirmation that getting off the Apple train was the right choice. Not interested in any of this. I'm happy with my current tablet PC and smartphone, and Apple has no plan to provide anything as an alternative. Over this past holiday, I jumped with Amazon Echos and a lot of other home automation gear. The Apple TV, which I really like, is most likely now going to get pushed out because it doesn't integrate as well as competing products with Echo and Harmony Hub... all I can do is literally turn it on and off.
For my other family members, my wife's SE is getting long in the tooth and survived one swim in a cup of coffee. She likes the small form factor because she always has a cellular iPad with her all the time. Hope they update it at some point, but not holding my breath. Her iPad is also getting old, but not interested in FaceID, so I may have to get her one of the older ones if they go that direction. My one daughter that I'm still funding needs a new iPhone, but probably will grab a 7 while they are still a thing; or give her my old 6s+ (which I've not used at all since AC+ replaced it).
For my other family members, my wife's SE is getting long in the tooth and survived one swim in a cup of coffee. She likes the small form factor because she always has a cellular iPad with her all the time. Hope they update it at some point, but not holding my breath. Her iPad is also getting old, but not interested in FaceID, so I may have to get her one of the older ones if they go that direction. My one daughter that I'm still funding needs a new iPhone, but probably will grab a 7 while they are still a thing; or give her my old 6s+ (which I've not used at all since AC+ replaced it).
Julie, you gotta correct the 10GB RAM on the iPhone SE part as well
I fixed that too. Thanks
Well, consumer’s financial constraints possibly.
Really like my IPad Pro 10.5 and use it daily for a couple hours, and Oled would be fantastic. But the IPhone X jumped up what, 25% in retail cost with the screen and Facedepth?
I’d assume the IPad would jump up more than that given the large screen production, though the Samsung S3 Tablet does have an Oled screen, but Samsung would severely have to ramp up 10 inch Oled panels, and not sure if the premium is there for Apple to be able to charge. And then you’d want a 12.5 Oled as well for that model of Pro?
Not happening for a couple years I’m guessing.
You should see my mom while she is holding her phone. She looks like holding some kind of animal that is about to bite her lol. Anyway, one had operation is not a concern for her since she couldn't one hand even her 4" iPhone before she got 6S
You should see my mom while she is holding her phone. She looks like holding some kind of animal that is about to bite her lol. Anyway, one had operation is not a concern for her since she couldn't one hand even her 4" iPhone before she got 6S
Lol, in fact that was kinda stupid for me to say, think there's are few people which can hold such a monstrosity.
New products are cool, but my hope is Apple puts more focus on cleaning up long running pain points that get handed off from one update to the next, not even talking about new ones that are inevitable. It just works...Sorta.. has gotten old, along with the senior team. No doubt they can make deals, and money, but focusing on details of experience across the ecosystem seems to be on autopilot.
Literally no credible analyst for Apple predicts a bad 2018. In fact, they predict a much better 2018 than 2017.
I know you're upset about your battery issue, but Apple will replace it for $29.
Hope Apple really didn't abandon the wireless products, a nice mesh system would be good.
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Gotta LOVE those concepts though.That macPro picture again, the screen will fall over, and the MacPro won't look anything like that.
And, a white mouse and keyboard!
Borderless screen... I'm waiting for something like this along with OLED in the iMac and I'm changing mine.
So you prefer bezels which are so 5 years ago.
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I assume you want floppy disks back on computers again? It’s 2018.
Maybe waiting for Intel to release a 28W quad core?
Already there are 3.5MHz Kaby Lake dual-core processors that outperform the current high-end mini by 30+% in raw CPU power, and have faster video (and 4K@60Hz).
Mini prediction: in addition to a return of the quad core, Apple will switch from soldered to socketed, upgradable RAM. Max RAM capacity will also increase from 16GB to 32GB on the new mini.
For me, the most exciting thing Apple announced in 2017 was the HomePod. And here we are at the end of the year and we have NO idea when it will be released. Hell, we can't even be sure that it *will* be released.
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It would be nice if they would introduce a higher-spec macbook pro without the gimmicky touch bar. And also release their external gpu offerings.
I'm not sure why the mac writers have jumped on the "just can't have or wont' have OLED" bandwagon based on the usual idiot who issues out rumors. To be honest, there's not much reason to upgrade from what we have now without it. It's not as if apps are taxing the chips right now. Someone's making 13.3" OLED laptop screens for laptop makers and it's not exactly blowing up those prices. An OLED 13" alienware OLED isn't much more expensive at all than the regular.
We'll probably look back on the apple pencil and laugh. It really needs a redesign and shrunk down some.
HomePod isn’t meant to compete with $30 dots and $80 echos. It’s more a competitor for the likes of Sonos.
There is a market for great sounding audio by Apple. How big a market is yet to be seen.
I wouldn’t expect a refresh before two or even three years, it’ll be a pretty mature product at release.
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6 cores in 2018, 32GB in 2019 when Intel releases Ice Lake.
A new 12.9” iPad Pro was just released 6 months ago but I suppose there may be another refresh in 2018.
Ming-Chi Kui aka Tim Cook. Leaking their own insider information to create hype.
Mac Pro will be pushed into 2019, Mac Mini will be discontinued when Apple can no longer get the 4th gen intel chips.
But iOS 12 will have lots of new animojis and stickers. And plenty of bugs to make iOS 11 look like the good old days.
If it's not blatantly obvious now, touch ID will not be here for next years iPhone. Apple me that clear when I said They said Face ID was their future. The only phone that might retain touch ID, is if Apple updates the iPhone SE. Which we should find out in a few months if they hold a spring Keynote.
I prefer bezels to a notch.
They could have made the notch into a strip the width of the phone, extended the phone a few mm and used the extra volume on battery. But they have real courage to put the notch in instead.
And speaking of 5 year old tech, it's nice they finally include an OLED like other flagship phones had 5 years ago and sub-$300 phones got 2 years ago.