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What's Coming From Apple in 2016: Apple Watch 2, iPhone 6c, iPhone 7, Skylake MacBooks, and More
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With the launch of the Apple Watch, the iPhone 6s and the 6s Plus, the new Apple TV, and the iPad Pro, 2015 was a major year for Apple. The Apple Watch introduced a whole new category, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus saw the debut of 3D Touch, and the iPad Pro brought Apple's largest iOS device yet.
iOS 9, watchOS 2, and OS X 10.11 El Capitan brought refinements to Apple's operating systems, and the fourth-generation Apple TV came with a brand new operating system, tvOS. 2015 saw a huge number of new products and software updates, and 2016 promises to be just as exciting.
A second-generation Apple Watch is in the works and could launch in early 2016, while new flagship iPhones, the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, are coming in late 2016. Those who love smaller devices will be excited to hear a 4-inch iPhone 6c may be coming early in 2016, and Apple's Mac lineup is expected to gain Skylake chip updates.
New software, including iOS 10, OS X 10.12, watchOS 3, and an upgraded version of tvOS are all expected in 2016, and Apple will undoubtedly work on improving services like HomeKit, Apple Pay, and Apple Music.
As we did for 2014 and 2015, we've highlighted Apple's prospective 2016 product plans, outlining what we might see from Apple over the course of the next 12 months based on current rumors, past releases, and logical upgrade choices.
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Apple needs to ditch AMD in it's MacPro line. I want nVida. I want Cuda support for my 3D needs.
I would buy a pro I can add a few Titans too at some point.
I want the ability to upgrade my RAM and HD in ANY desktop OS X device I intend to buy. That's deal breaker in my book.
I would have a 5K iMac now if I could buy a low end model and upgrade the RAM.
Right now my ONLY option for the machines I want is a Hackintosh.
I also want a Bluetooth Aluminum keyboard with a numeric key pad. I'm still using the original Apple BT keyboard because it's the only one with the numeric keypad I need for Blender3d.
I don't mind paying a premium for things that just work. I do mind being told how I must work because Apple want to turn computing into s CE experience.
That's why I NEVER had an iProduct. Little things like the ability to change my battery and expand with MicroSD card are important to me.
Samsung just lost my business because they've copied these "bad apple" concepts with their new line of products.
I don't need to shave with my thin devices. I hardware I can control.
If the Adobe CC Suite was available for a Linux distro, I would leave Apple and Windows and never look back.
I would buy a pro I can add a few Titans too at some point.
I want the ability to upgrade my RAM and HD in ANY desktop OS X device I intend to buy. That's deal breaker in my book.
I would have a 5K iMac now if I could buy a low end model and upgrade the RAM.
Right now my ONLY option for the machines I want is a Hackintosh.
I also want a Bluetooth Aluminum keyboard with a numeric key pad. I'm still using the original Apple BT keyboard because it's the only one with the numeric keypad I need for Blender3d.
I don't mind paying a premium for things that just work. I do mind being told how I must work because Apple want to turn computing into s CE experience.
That's why I NEVER had an iProduct. Little things like the ability to change my battery and expand with MicroSD card are important to me.
Samsung just lost my business because they've copied these "bad apple" concepts with their new line of products.
I don't need to shave with my thin devices. I hardware I can control.
If the Adobe CC Suite was available for a Linux distro, I would leave Apple and Windows and never look back.
a thinner watch with better battery life, anywhere from 1 to 10 days would be awesome, a widespread and maybe a bit too much to hope for yes i know, but pebble time steel have 10 days standby, and not even half the sensors apple watch got, but any improvement would be great, and maybe it becomes independent of iPhone?
Wow, I'm eagerly waiting for all those gadgets. I must say, Apple comes with a unique ideas and creative features that no other brand has.
Serious question here. I have a macbook pro retina late 2013 version and I have applecare until dec 2016. My trackpad keeps on messing up and they have replaced it 2 times and changed the battery once and the ssd (512GB in my case) once. My trackpad is constantly messing up again and it's really annoying. Does anyone think next time if I bring it all up that apple would just replace this faulty macbook pro retina 2013 with another one (possibly with a skylake one when it comes out). Should I wait for the skylake processor 2016 macbook pro retina to come out which could be in the coming months or should I just take it in as soon as I can for a possible replacement?
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First of all, a 2013 Macbook Pro surely wont be replaced with a 2016 Version! Secondly if u still under warranty, go repair your macbook. Thirdly, if u still can use your mac until the skylake comes out, wait. If you need a new macbook badly, don't wait, buy now. It wont be a very big difference. It depense if you really need the top upgrade. Which has only upgraded things. All is up to you.
It's happened before for the 2011 Macbook Pro, the hard drive (HDD) kept on crapping out and they replaced it for this 2013 Macbook Pro retina that I am typing on right now. They do it for the newest one that they have, you just have to convince them.
Do not quite understand Apple's logic in the new 4" iPhone.
Apple wants to dumb it down so it does not take sales away from the 4.7" and 5.5" model, but it is for the emerging markets?
The emerging markets want large size smartphones since the do not have the fund to buy a PC and a smartphone.
Apple does not want make a 4" with up-to-date features and price the same as it flagship model! That is somewhat of a "no-no?
Apple wants to dumb it down so it does not take sales away from the 4.7" and 5.5" model, but it is for the emerging markets?
The emerging markets want large size smartphones since the do not have the fund to buy a PC and a smartphone.
Apple does not want make a 4" with up-to-date features and price the same as it flagship model! That is somewhat of a "no-no?
It would make sense if it was seriously cheaper, like half the price of 6+, but everyone knows that's not going to happen.
I'm waiting to see what happens with the Mac mini. I need to replace my ageing Mac mini server with something new.
I'm hoping they will not do something stupid like gutting all the connections for USB-C (I really can't get over the fact that with a single USB-C on the MacBook, they have killed effectively using it and charging it except for certain single uses with expensive adaptors, and what irks me most is that you can't charge it while it is in TDM).
I'm hoping they will reintroduce the Mac mini server option.
I'm hoping they will not do something stupid like gutting all the connections for USB-C (I really can't get over the fact that with a single USB-C on the MacBook, they have killed effectively using it and charging it except for certain single uses with expensive adaptors, and what irks me most is that you can't charge it while it is in TDM).
I'm hoping they will reintroduce the Mac mini server option.
Sorry, in Tim's Apple, you have to buy a Mac Pro. It doesn't matter if the Mac Pro would work for you or not -- it's the Mac Pro, or the highway.
I'm really disliking Tim's Apple - customer's wishes be damned.
Yea cuss its's not like they introduced bigger screen iPhones for those who wanted them and kept a 4" iPhone for those who wanted them also
Apple have given more choices under Tim Cooks Apple than they did under Steve Jobs.
We're talking about COMPUTERS. Not your iToys.
For people who need REAL computers, there is a LOT LESS CHOICE.
Apologises for that part, but i do disagree, there is an iMac with 4K and 5K displays and there are MacBooks, i'm sure they are what you call REAL computers.
As I recall, Steve Jobs is the one who dropped "Computer" from Apple's name.
At this point REAL old computers to be honest.
The MacBooks have become these glued together, un-repairable, un-upgradable CE devices. The iMacs are stuck with second rate AMD graphics, as is the MacPro.
This is why I Hackintosh. They just don't make a machine worth a damn for MY needs. It's a premium cost for what I DON'T want.
Hackintosh is a labor of love in that you continually need to tinker and tweak. It's like using Linux. Not worth the hassle.
Paying less for a lot more performance is always a big mistake. /s
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Hi Phil.
When my 2009 iMac died I replaced it with a Hackintosh – i7-4770s, 16 GB RAM, etc. Yes, it was quite some work to get it up and running but now everything including OS updates works perfectly. It's definitely more work than our 2011 iMac or the Air, but when I tried to use a Chromebook with Linux I spent about half of the time fixing things that kept on breaking for no apparent reasons.
Obviously I wouldn't recommend a Hackintosh to a non-nerd
but the 2011 iMac is struggling and the config I'd like to replace it with costs over 2300 euro. So we just hope the 2011 one will continue running a bit longer and perhaps, just perhaps Apple gives up spinner drives in the meantime.I'm glad you emphasized MY and I DON'T, because it underscores how Apple operates. I too hate glued systems and their RAM upgrade policy, but 90% of people who use real computers get by perfectly well with what Apple sells.
It's that small 10% who wishes Apple were a computer company again and not a fashion and consumer product company.
But if you remember your Apple history, it languished and struggle for market share when it simply was a computer company.
Much as I admire their computers from mid-2000 onwards, the only reason they still exist is due to the iPod, and exponential growth via the iPhone. They struggled as a computer company before that because their computers were crap, they had a rotten OS, and the connectors were all proprietary. Apple's old history before Intel Macs is best forgotten as they were just another worthless computer manufacturer like computer history's other relics. They just got lucky with the ipod.