I hope the next generation MacBooks don't look like that. The color scheme is ok, but the white bezel and keyboard is awful. The last generation design (M1) without Touch Bar and an even thinner bezel would be sufficient. I think Apple is gonna milk the M1 some more before switching to M2. They are likely saving M2 for the MacBook. I suspect the MacBooks will come with a binned M1 Pro SoC.
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What to Expect From Apple in 2022: iPhone 14, New iMac, AR/VR Headset, and More
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Long timers are going to love the perpetual Apple Care. I'm getting an Apple Watch 7, and will get the monthly Apple Care. I want to keep that watch for a few years, and keep coverage on it, just in case, and probably won't buy another one until maybe the AWX. I have a hand-me-down 12 Pro Max, and wish I could do the AC extension on it. I'll probably keep that until I either get an update, or can buy a new one. Going from employed, and having money to 'underemployed' and it's quite a shock. But anyway...
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Yup, when they first announced it my impression was negative, “It’s just a cash grab”. Now I know several people with the Monthly AC+ on their devices, and they think it’s the Cats Meow. Another example of Apple knowing it‘s user base more intimately than they know themselves.
Long term owners will help AAPL hit that $3 Trillion Cap very soon. Reguardless of prices, IMO.
My reading glasses are frameless so until AR can be used on frameless glasses I have to keep waiting. No way in hell would I wear frames.
We have suspected that the M1 was substituted because of its performance/functionality fit, aka Thunderbolt USB 4 port as a example because they didn't have anything else that was ready. There were a lot of people thought that Apple was out to change the way iPadOS 15 was going to work with M1, but they didn't seem really interested in wanting to make the iPad Pro a laptop replacement. So a more capable A series cold be true.
It's good to see that Apple is stepping up on the VR industry. Pretty much excited about how this will go.
Funny, but probably true.
We have seen the price points being slowly raised in the last two years. Ipad Air 4, iPhone 12, MacBook Pro 14". I can see the next will be the MacBook Air, and the iPhone Pro. Apple doesn't take the component shortages lightly, and they will ensure their consumers pay for it...
This is the most surprising thing to me. Not sure why they would leave behind the M-Series at this point. It basically has the same thermal envelope as the iPad Air. No A-Series has anything close to 16GB RAM. Looking forward to using my M1 iPad Pro 1TB/16GB for a long, long time. Can’t think of any reason to upgrade for ages. Sure OLED is nice but Mini LED is pretty good and the display will probably last longer than OLED before it starts having image retention. I’ll upgrade once they have mLED many years down the line.
I mean, component prices + inflation mean prices will change. We’re just used to technology being cheaper over time due to economies of scale and advances in taking previously cutting edge stuff and making it mass market.
Tech isn’t changing at that rate anymore.
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You forgot the Apple Watch 8
Expecting a new health sensor this year. Let's get it.Actually, tech does get cheaper and as new features get commoditized. One can get a 5G phone for ~$200 now. Apple just prefer keeping (or increasing) their price points by using fancy materials and/or processes, or preventing a feature from being trickled down.
In any device? How do you propose MagSafe would be something that would be logical for the likes of the AirPods? Although they can wirelessly charge, similar to the Apple Watch, why would that need a MagSafe charger if those products can wirelessly charge already.
More specifically, I think MagSafe should just be applicable to likes of the MacBook, iPhone, etc. Mainly because of the amount of times those products are charged on a wired connection on a daily basis as the primary.
SAFARI SUCKS!!!! Quotes the entire part instead of highlighted part anyways… :X
I mean, I would expect Apple to raise the price like they raise price on iPhone in Turkey, even if they choose to maintain supply chain Business As Usual during the price hike. The fact that Apple is a bit reluctant at raising price by 50% YOY is mildly surprising to me, and in a good way.
I'm really not hard with my products, after years they seems new, with all accessories and not scratch.
I can understand a failed product due to costs assembly policies: Every iPhone with Touch ID I'd buyer before SE had chunky home button in 18 months, SE in 3-4 wks. 7 iPhone SE and 2 screen changed for this issue, 9 Home button in 2 years: it's not a failed one, it's a product line policie. SE was the first one assembled in India, the Chinese iPhone 5/5s didn't know this issue. The last SE was send at home completely scratched on rear, was the last day of warranty, I'm going to Apple Store and they changed it again. I'm not talking about batteries, a tragedy from iOS 13 to iOS 15.
Trust me, I had more to do than spent my time, my money and my health with idiots called Genius online or in Apple Store, set every month a phone with all the app, documents, photos 'cause the company wasn't good enough.
Would talk about MacBook screens? Every year little bugs ran under my screen. EVERY SINGLE YEAR. I made video, I was in Apple Store with Genius who laughing bets on single bug who win the race. 5 Screen in 4 years, the last 2 6 months, the last one was a 2016 screen (different font on MacBook logo) 'cause they hadn't 2015 anymore, repaired out of warranty 'cause was unbelievable had a bugs colony in my Mac.
The 2019 MacBook had yellow point under the screen. They repaired it (but I need to insist also I had AppleCare) and the MacBook bottom case wasn't closed well, and they scratch it. Changed every part of the case, the screen is also yellow again.
My home and home of my parents, sisters, are full of Apple products of the past and today, services (iTunes Match, Apple Music, Apple TV, AppleCare everywhere, Airports, mouse, trackpad, also the battery charger for first Aluminum Magic Keyboard!, HomeKit, CarPlay, tell a product I have one or two of them), I could recognize how worst is Apple today than years ago.
I'm in Apple 'cause I'm tired about Microsoft dumb or Linux fragmentation, but hey, Apple now compete with them in sw (hw not cause linux didn't had proprietary hw I'll buy and I'm not spent a cent on MS hw) buggy hits.
It's me?
Could be, but as a customer who make this company rich in my own I can tell them sells crap and doesn't want you told it.
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Oh, I've forgot: tons of music songs and albums purchased from iTunes Store and simply erased (also if I pay for years iTunes Match) 'cause the major republished billions of releases of the same albums/songs changed the color of one thing in cover, so if you want to download again your album in cloud puff, the album not matches 'cause they cancelled your payed release. And Apple what do about this scam? NOTHING. Something like 2.000€ of music lost and they gave me a 5€ bonus.
Hey Apple, what I expect from you in 2022? Tons of scams and authorities executions against you, what else? ?
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Personally I am expecting the following during 2022…
Spring Event
iPhone SE, Watch SE, New iPhone 13 colour, iPad Air
WWDC
Along with software announcements I also expect M1 Pro Max Chip, Mac Pro, iMac Pro, Mac mini
September Event
iPhone 14 / 14 Max / 14 Pro / 14 Pro Max, Apple Watch, AirPods Pro
October Event
M2 Chip, MacBook Air, Mac mini, MacBook Pro (entry), iPad Pro
November Event
Possible announcement of headset… but I doubt it
Spring Event
iPhone SE, Watch SE, New iPhone 13 colour, iPad Air
WWDC
Along with software announcements I also expect M1 Pro Max Chip, Mac Pro, iMac Pro, Mac mini
September Event
iPhone 14 / 14 Max / 14 Pro / 14 Pro Max, Apple Watch, AirPods Pro
October Event
M2 Chip, MacBook Air, Mac mini, MacBook Pro (entry), iPad Pro
November Event
Possible announcement of headset… but I doubt it
If there’s a new major product like VR/AR, that’s great.
But if not I just pray we don’t have to hear the tired “amazing pipeline” rant we’ve heard a million times already. I don’t mind waiting, but pumping up products that are years (if ever) away has started to get very repetitive.
But if not I just pray we don’t have to hear the tired “amazing pipeline” rant we’ve heard a million times already. I don’t mind waiting, but pumping up products that are years (if ever) away has started to get very repetitive.
I have long regretted that AAPL stopped making displays (except for the $5,000 Pro Display XDR, which is hardly a display "for the rest of us"!). So would welcome seeing them get back into that space once again. My 24 inch iMac display is pretty awesome. Too bad I can't use it as a larger, external display for my MBP. Having a free-standing Apple display with Thunderbolt and HDMI input would be awesome!
And, of course, I'd love to see the resurgence of a high-end HomePod, maybe even a HomePod-based sound bar with built in Apple TV tuner, so long as it comes with a more reasonable price tag. Ideally, the direct-connect nature of such a HomePod would help with the bandwidth hogging that accompanies using OG HomePods (or HP Minis, for that matter) as default speakers for an Apple TV 4K. But I'm not holding my breath on this one.
And, of course, I'd love to see the resurgence of a high-end HomePod, maybe even a HomePod-based sound bar with built in Apple TV tuner, so long as it comes with a more reasonable price tag. Ideally, the direct-connect nature of such a HomePod would help with the bandwidth hogging that accompanies using OG HomePods (or HP Minis, for that matter) as default speakers for an Apple TV 4K. But I'm not holding my breath on this one.
I don’t buy the iPhone 14 Pro design, especially with the flush camera back. the camera module is so big and protrusive on the 13 Pro models, I don’t see them walking backwards. Everyone’s camera modules are increasing in size, like Apple’s.