When to Expect Apple's Next Event: 16-Inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro Refresh, and More?

[guzhogi]

It is a 10 year old design. You cannot even adjust it vertically. As you clearly mention, look at the Surface Studio how it is fully touchscreen and you can even tilt it. Although you might not like the design of the Surface Studio, the functionality is way ahead of the iMac.

Just curious. So many people say they want a new design without saying what they want changed. You're good, you have a reason (and a valid one, IMO). Other people just want a change for the sake of change. While I can understand that to an extent, I'm more of a "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" kind of person. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

 

[incoherent_1]

Touch ID is meant to be a convenience layer that makes security more convenient. It is supposed to be easier than entering your password. On iPhone this worked, because the Home button and Touch ID sensor were one in the same. So the very act of picking up your phone and waking it up by pressing the button simultaneously authenticated.

On the Mac, this is not the case. Reaching for the Touch ID sensor is a bad user experience. You should not have to take your hands off the keyboard or the trackpad. As it is, I've eschewed unlock with Touch ID in favor of unlock with Apple Watch, because the latter is automatic and effortless.

The worst, however, is Autofill in Safari.

On a Mac without Touch ID (like my iMac), when you click inside of a form field and your Autofill options appear....the correct and natural behavior is to click one, and it gets inserted into the fields.

On a Mac with Touch ID, if you try to do this you've done it wrong. The "correct" way is to mouse over and highlight the Autofill selection, but whatever you do, don't click it! Stop there is the right selection highlighted, then reach up and touch the Touch ID sensor. Now it gets filled. This. Is. Terrible. They thought they were saving a step, but all they did was make it completely unintuitive. So unintuitive that you will continuously do it wrong forever.

Face ID is the way forward here. The MacBook has the ideal design for Face ID...plenty of space around the FaceTime camera, which is always pointing toward the user's face during normal use. Just like when looking at iPhone, Face ID would just work any time it needs to, and it would not disrupt your workflow.

I'm also in favor of more Apple Watch authentication, but I realize that is not a built-in solution.

Interesting! I’ve never minded reaching up to touch the Touch ID sensor but I can see where that may not work for everyone.

My main (major) concern with Face ID on a laptop is that many people [myself included] like to keep the camera covered.

Ideally, Apple adopts a two-prong solution and allows people to choose on both iOS and macOS which security option they prefer. I’d also love a magic keyboard with built in Touch ID — that would be an instant purchase for me.

 

[hellokittymeow]

iMac Redesign anyone?

YES!!! Redesign the iMac Pro and the iMac already. Get rid of the disgusting bezels and chin! It is long over due! The same front facing 1990's thick bezel design for a decade now. Its an outrage!!!!

 

[head_bigg]

YES!!! Redesign the iMac Pro and the iMac already. Get rid of the disgusting bezels and chin! It is long over due! The same front facing 1990's thick bezel design for a decade now. Its an outrage!!!!

My biggest gripe with the current design is how the back protrudes like a disease. I'm all for an even, flat-surfaced back right about now. Give us a back-lit keyboard once and for all, and perhaps make the foot stand a base for wireless charging so us users can casually charge our phones there while we work.

 

[Steve121178]

Just make it look like this & include 256GB SSD as a baseline option.

My first & only iMac was the late 2012 model. It's still performing as well as the day I bought it. Overall, an excellent investment for a superb product.

 

[Falhófnir]

ARM is a whole new area since most professional software is base on X86. Adobe seems to hate to change their software for a long time.

It's up to developers who wanna develop for ARM based Mac. It's not about how many ARM apps are already available. So tell me. How many professional app or software available for ARM?

Well if you're counting MS office/ iWork (no less 'professional' for being simple word processing/ spreadsheet/ presentation apps) then at least two of each of those; full Photoshop is confirmed as coming; I expect there will be a version of Final Cut available for the launch of any ARM Mac, same deal with all of Apple's other software; Various browsers (again, no less professional for their wide range of applications); Who knows who Apple might be working with to develop a special new version of a particular program to launch alongside new ARM Macs. I think that already covers a very wide base of 'professional' work! What you mean is how much specialised software is available. The answer is very little because as yet the ARM versions of Windows and Mac are in their infancy, or yet to officially exist.

Once Apple officially comes out with a new range of ARM based Macs proclaiming them to be the future of the platform (or even just announces a transition at WWDC) I would expect the software landscape to populate with new compatible versions very, very quickly. At that point, I'd be far more worried about x86 apps becoming abandonware as developers shift their focus to the future of the platform. I'm sure they will continue to patch the x86 versions for a couple of years after, but putting a lot of effort into new features will be unlikely. Unlike Microsoft who are all about maintaining compatibility for legacy software over several versions of windows, Apple aren't shy about killing off the old when they move on (as they are right now demonstrating by amputating anything that is still 32 bit on Catalina). Developers will know this, and know the user base of intel Macs will only start shrinking once the transition gets underway. The number of users who will doggedly stick with their ageing x86 Macs until the bitter end for one piece of abandoned software is dwarfed by the number who will just move on without a fuss.

 

[Derekjv74]

I'm really hankering for an iPad Pro update! This November it will make 4 years since I last updated and I don't want to buy last year's model. Macrumors seems to have two conflicting thoughts within the same article. One says processor and camera updates in 2019. The other says no updates until 2020. I'm dying for some clear news on this front.

 

[ksec]

May be someone could check the history, but Apple sent out invitation 7-8 days prior to the event. That means if we dont have anything on Monday. We wont be getting an October event....

 

[Pro7913]

I guess there won't be any event because they didnt have any special events in 2015 and 2017. Coincidence?

 

[Steve121178]

I guess there won't be any event because they didnt have any special events in 2015 and 2017. Coincidence?

What coincidence?

 

[Whathappened]

I have been a full-on Apple fan for most of my life. But like REM, I'm losing my religion. I LOVE my Apple watch and TV, I'm ambivalent about iPhone, and I don't know that I will buy another Mac.

I had expected to update my Retina iMac (the first one) after a few years when I bought it, but they haven't made anything that made me want to buy it and it is still powerful enough.

I wanted to replace my Mac Pros with a new Mac Pro, but they really did go PRO with it, so that the base is so expensive if you are not going to customize it, it's a terrible value.

As much as I like MacOS, due to a lack of hardware innovation and wow factors, I'm really not interested in paying the Apple tax anymore.

And I'm not going to use an iPad for my computer. It may work for some, but not for me.

My gaming rig has just become my daily driver.

So, as financially successful as Apple has been, they have left lots of money on the table, because they just aren't that interesting anymore. I am keeping a sliver of hope that they have something up their sleeve.

<<braces for fan attacks>>

As you said, your iMac is still powerful enough. Why upgrading then? There is no “Wow-factor” in desktop computers. New iMacs will have faster hardware, same or slightly or just differently nice(r) screen, Touch ID. Good stuff, but nothing that changes the way computers are being used by people.
There was no real need to update the iMac yet and many users switched to laptops with docks or Mac minis, so it’s a declining market. And it’s not like 15 or 20 years ago when every pc generation was much, much faster than the one I t superseded.

Plus we need to save resources anyway.