0:28 Apple search engine
1:28 iPhone 12 mini in the wild
2:12 Reverse Wireless Charging is built into iPhone 12
2:58 iCaveAnswers – A14 for MacBook, how would it perform?
5:58 Notification Squad
As we talked about 52 days ago… the tech sphere yesterday exploded with news that Apple may be creating their own search engine to rival google.
The US Department of Justice as well as the Eurpoean parliament have been taking aim at antitrust issues and anti-competitive practice recently, and the Financial Times reports that Apple’s web crawlers have been way more active recently.
Right now, Google pays Apple annually a decent chunk of change, between 8 and 12 Billion dollars a year to be the default search engine for Apple’s devices, and accounts for 14-21% of Apple’s annual profits.
What do you think Apple would call their own Search? Spotlight? Siri? Finder Online? (Sounds a bit retro) or just Apple Search? Let me know in the comments
First hands on with iPhone 12 mini emerges online… and has already been pulled to private.
Pre-orders go live next Friday for iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max, so that’s when preview units will likely go out to reviewers, with review embargos likely lifting on the following Tuesday. Just waiting for Jon Prosser to confirm of course.
Reverse wireless charging in iPhone 12 line
“In addition to being able to be charged by a desktop WPT charger (puck), 2020 iPhones also support WPT charging function at 360 kHz to charge accessories. Currently the only accessory that can be charged by iPhones is an external potential apple accessory in future.”
My money is on this being for AirTags and future AirPods cases – and while I don’t think this would be a “top up through the day” option, when you’re travelling you could take a single cable to charge the iPhone and at night pop your AirPods case on top to charge it overnight. Seems sensible.
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Do you know if Apple will release the Macs with Arm A14 chips?
We don’t know ANYTHING for sure until Apple announces it but, lets see how A14 actually stacks up against what apple already has out there.
A14 in iPad Air 4, without active Cooling
Single Core 1585
Multi 4170
Metal 12521
Highest performing Macs right now on Single Core – iMac 2020 Intel Core i9 10910 – 1252
Multicore is a different story, but the closest performance would be a 2019 MacBook Growth a 4 core i7-8569U @2.8ghz at 4166, but this is WITH active cooling
Metal Graphics-
Highest performing Intel Iris Plus graphics score 8498, closest stand alone GPU to this on score is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or Radeon Pro 555 at 12554 and 12468 respectively.
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