Rumors from Apple’s next big iPhone event, which might include an iPhone 11 Pro, new Apple Watch ceramic and titanium models, an update to the cheaper iPhone XR, and more.
Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks so, but the company’s design team? Not so much, according to a report from the Financial Times.
Cook is reportedly pushing ahead with its launch against the wishes of Apple’s top designers, who hoped to debut a more lightweight pair of AR glasses instead of the much bulkier headset that Apple’s expected to reveal in June.
Japanese blog Mac Otakara shares, based on a Weibo post (via MacRumors), a whisper that Apple will launch a new yellow iPhone 14 variant this spring.
Last year’s Peek Performance event added a new green option to the iPhone 13, so who knows, at the end of this game of telephone, there might actually be a phone. In yellow.
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That’s according to leaker Ice Universe, who shared renders of what’s supposed to be the iPhone 15 Ultra, which 9to5Mac later corroborated.
In addition to a USB-C port, smaller bezels, and a buttonless design, the image shows a much less obnoxious camera bump when compared to the one we saw on the render of the iPhone 15 Pro.
The company’s highly-anticipated mixed-reality headset hasn’t even been announced yet, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says it’s readying a second device equipped with a “more powerful” processor.
Apple’s set to debut its headset at WWDC June, which is rumored to come with next-gen hand-tracking and an external battery. But if you don’t want to spend upwards of $3,000 on the device, Gurman says Apple’s working on a cheaper “Reality One” headset as well.
All that talk about computational photography but at the rate we’re going the iPhone 39 Pro Ultra will have like seven full-frame sensors.
An Apple patent (PDF) awarded on Valentine’s Day hints at future iPhones with touch-sensitive volume sliders and folding screens.
There’s also a “virtual shutter button” that sounds a lot like the solid-state buttons predicted by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo last year.
Whether Apple actually makes a foldable iPhone (we’ve seen patent applications before) or is playing the wait-and-see game is still up in the air, but Kuo had also predicted a foldable iPad for 2024.
After saying that Apple’s buy now, pay later service is “nearing public release” last week, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now believes it could launch as soon as March or April.
Apple’s currently testing the service among retail employees, which has been heavily delayed due to “technical and engineering issues” since the company announced it last June.
That’s according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who also says the iPhone 15 will support Wi-Fi 6E. (That’s not too surprising, given the newest iPad Pros, Mac Minis, and MacBook Pros support Wi-Fi 6E, too.)
However, Apple is still working on its own combined Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Plugged-in analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is updating the rumors for 2024’s MacBook Pro lineup before we even have a chance to touch the laptops Apple announced today.
In a shocking surprise, he’s anticipating new M3 Pro / Max chips inside them, made on a 3nm process launching in the first half of the year. Sure, you could wait for those, but if the rumors hold true, the more significant jump could be due in 2025 with OLED and touchscreens.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple’s gearing up for a new product announcement tomorrow. Could it (finally) be the M2-equipped 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros?
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman believes Apple will bring its planned in-house MicroLED displays to the iPhone a “few years” after it adds them to the high-end Apple Watch Ultra in 2024.
There’s a less clear timeline for when the company could bring the rumored displays to the iPad and Mac, however, as Gurman says this might happen “one day.”
On the Vergecast we discuss the possibility of touchscreen Macs, and what it all really means for pressing confirmation buttons, zooming in on maps, or maybe using an iPad app or two.
With Nilay roaming the wilderness of upstate New York, I talked to Alex and Dan as we imagined the possibility of Macs with OLED screens that you can touch and tried to figure out what MicroLED would do for us.
We also previewed Samsung’s next Unpacked event and attempted to use unlicensed music with some help from Siri.
In addition to ditching a high-powered M2 “Extreme” chip, Apple tracker Mark Gurman reports that the new Mac Pro might not come with user-upgradeable RAM, either.
Upgradability in any form is always nice to have, so it’s a bummer to see this go — especially on a device that could cost $5,999 and up. Fortunately, Gurman says it should still come with two SSD storage slots, though.
On the most recent Vergecast episode, we speculated about Apple’s plans for a new Mac Pro and what it might be like when it arrives with one of the company’s M-series chips inside.
However, the latest rumor from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman claims plans for some sort of extreme “double-M2 Ultra” chip have been scrapped (for those counting at home, that’s four M2 Max CPUs working as one) to stick with an upgraded Ultra chip combined with a modular design.
If that’s all there is to it, what does that mean for the future of the already impressive — but not modular and easily upgradeable — Mac Studio?
This podcast was recorded before Elon Musk’s Twitter ban extravaganza reached its peak, but we dug into the @ElonJets mess. From Apple, we’ll check out the report that it will allow outside app stores on iOS as well as the hole left by a missing M-series Mac Pro in its desktop lineup.
I tried to recap Sam Bankman-Fried’s transition from media tour to handcuffs, and then we talked more about the golden age of streaming and why David Zaslav’s biggest problem might be in his presentation.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is back with yet another prediction about Apple’s mixed-reality headset and says mass shipments of the device could kick off in the latter half of 2023 as the company deals with “software-related issues.”
This is a bit later than Kuo’s previous prediction, which indicated Apple could start shipping the headset in the second quarter of 2023. Apple’s expected to reveal the headset during an event in January.
According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, a mixed reality headset from Apple could debut in 2023, complete with its own OS and app store.
While that all lines up with what we’ve heard, he also revealed that internally, the platform has changed names, going from “realityOS” to “xrOS,” for “extended reality.”
Whatever they call it, hopefully, it’s more fun to use than Meta’s Quest Pro — see our video review of that device below.
