iOS 17 – We’ve heard about the new Nightstand mode lockscreen – It’ll most likely only come to always on displays, so iPhone 14 Pro and later, though maybe on earlier phones while connected to power? If this is true, maybe we’ll also see Apple releasing a magsafe charging stand designed for your nightstand too later in the year when the software is made fully public.
People are EXCITED for this event too – Apple’s stock price is basically trading at an all-time high right now, the buzz is hitting different, and I WISH I was in California right now. If for nothing else, Apple has just started selling Ted Lasso merchandise in the Apple Park visitor centre store. Now do I love Ted Lasso? No, its awkwardly written when most of the characters are British but written by an American. But the merch is cool, and it makes me hope Apple will soon sell branded clothing in all their stores. I’d be down for that.
There’s also a new journaling app coming which will allow you to record your activities and mood, and potentially share with friends – sounds a little like Apple is trying once again for a more private social networking system? RIP iTunes Ping.
There’s still little clarity on the updates to macOS, though we are expecting some more Macs to be unveiled and ship soon after the keynote. First, that 15” MacBook Air. I still think there’s an outside chance of an M3 chip inside even if its not on the 3nm architecture we hoped, and I think the biggest clue we may get in the keynote would be if the Mac Studio with M2 Ultra is introduced first. If so, they’re saving the MacBook Airs with M3 as it’s a new generation until after that.
M2 Ultra is also expected to appear, but not inside the Mac Pro that we were all expecting just a few weeks ago, but in an updated Mac Studio. – 24 CPU cores 76 GPU and up to 192GB of Unified memory. That thing is gonna be a beast. Don’t expect new displays to go along with it though, those appear to be on hold, at least for now.
Apple Reality Headset – as well as the pair of MicroOLED 4k sony displays, external screen, and combination glass, aluminium and carbon fibre build, we’re hearing about built-in speakers (which I thought must be there, Apple can’t 100% rely on every user having airpods or simply no sound….), but also reportedly an X1 Processor – 8 performance and 4 efficiency cores, 64GB of Unified memory, and an insane Metal score of 141585… Unfortunately, this has already been flagged as almost certainly faked or at least inaccurate by Geekbench themselves. What will power the system remains to be seen, but it’s been rumoured to be a pair of M2 processors. This would make more sense than using a single M2 Pro as we know that the M2 can be cooled passively as in the MacBook Air, whereas the M2 Pro needs fans.
Of course, as this is shipping later in the year, there may be an M2-powered development hardware kit, with the retail version running a pair of M3 chips for better performance and power efficiency, as well as potentially the fixed ray tracing that was intended for A16.
Joe
#iCaveAnswers – If Final Cut Pro on the iPad is one-to-one feature parody like the macOS version of Final Cut Pro, would you switch to the iPad for video editing or just stick to what you know on Mac?
Joe
#iCaveAnswers – How often you should back up your devices? I do it twice a week.
iBonnie
#iCraveAnswers do you think iOS 17 will have redesigned icons or stay the same like iOS 16?
Greg West
#icaveanswers Might the FCP for iPad become a free app for AppleOne subscribers? And could this subscription plan ever trickle down to the non-professional apps like Pages and Keynote, leaving only the free web-based versions for non-subscribers (like Microsoft’s Office 365)?
Marcin Kowalczyk
#iCaveAnswers do You think the TSMC 3nm yield struggles will affect the timeline for the ULTRA series chips? (for example for future studio mac not to mention the pro]
Team Kinetix
#iCaveAnswers Do you still think we’ll see 3nm Macs in 2023? Or are Apple using all the 3nm production capacity for A17 chips for iPhones this year?
M3 Macs in 2023 or 2024?
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