I asked Jon Prosser from @geniusbar about the future of Apple, whether the Vision Pro will be a replacement for iPhone or the Mac, the rise of Humane and Rabbit's AI pins, and how we move on from the era of the iPhone. Clipped from the Aluminium Podcast - See the full chat with Jon Prosser here: https://youtu.be/8YT9Y9Ojkz4?si=nEkG25WEH16jKLBc
Black Ceramic Apple Watch
Via Mr White on twitter, Series 5 2019 Edition
Apple Doctor
Project Casper would have brought Apple’s own primary healthcare clinics that made use of your data from Apple Watch to get a clearer overall picture of a patients health with long term trends being available that never had been in the past. Apple actually operated a number of clinics in Cupertino as a trial which is still ongoing, though it appears the project has lost a number of people so it’s clearly not been a smooth road.
AirPower
Announced with the iPhone X in 2017, Airpower would have allowed users to place wireless charging accessories anywhere on its surface, that’s iPhones, Apple Watch, AirPods or anything else you happen to have. The issue was for this to work the mat would need multiple overlapping charge coils, and this caused major issues with heat. Late prototypes even included an A10 chip, presumably to aim to manage which coils were charging at any given time, but the project was cancelled in March of 2019, just a day after iOS 12.2 had been released which would have included support fr the AirPower mat.
Cellular MacBooks - 2007 G3 with display mounted antenna
Now make sense with Mobile grade processors inside - Intel Modem acquisition.
Naveen Magapu • 5 hours ago
Can someone please explain the performance differences between the M1 chip in Ipad Pro, A14 bionic in the Ipad Air and also the supposed M1X and/or M2 chip predicted new Macbook 14 and 16. Am i right to assume the A series will continue like A14, A15 etc in the Iphone and mini Ipad ranges? And the M series chips are the most powerful ones to be continued as M1X, M2, M3 etc in the Macbook and iMac ranges?? Is the M1X and M2 both going to come out simultaneously with a redesigned Air and Pro?
#icaveanswers Is Apple keeping users from expanding the RAM in their systems with the M* chips their way of lowering the useful lifespan of a system and thus ensuring that users buy new machines once the system starts to endure a memory bottleneck?
Alan Be Unboxings and News • 8 hours ago
#iCaveAnswers did you know that apple put on there apple worldwide developers conference the they put tags are m1x 14inch macbook pro m1x 16 macbook pro m1x 17 inch macbook pro and the last tag that they put m1x?
Bruce Grubb
#Icaveanswers The MacRumor forums have two threads on Excessive SSD Wear on the M1 Macs. One example seems to be a bank that used an M1 as a postgres server (4mo old, 2% spare, 10% thresh, 98% used, 600TB write 500TB read, 200h "on", 10,000 "Media and Data Integrity Errors" on a 512 GB drive) and someone else has presented "33% of drive life used and 338TB written to disc in approx 1000 hrs of runtime." They are quick to blame Apple but I suspect things like having people run
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Apple Vision Pro is just around the corner! Everyone LOVES iMac. Samsung Unpacked, Google Pixel 8 Pro and more!
0:00 Introduction
0:49 This week's guest, David Lewis
1:55 Getting to know you
5:10 Shooting Log on iPhone 15 Pro
10:42 Apple Vision Pro's strange launch...
19:30 Apple's nostalgia and the iMac
23:30 The Apple Watch Ban Saga
27:04 Jon Prosser's FPT.doc - Tim Cook
28:08 David's Sam Kohl Story
29:40 iCaveDave's Jon Prosser Story & iCaversary
31:16 Podcasting is Hard
32:15 Samsung Unpacked & Google Pixel Pro
38:50 HomePods in Stereo pairs
40:44 Apple Fitness Thirst party for Coach Kyle
42:44 Is multitasking on a Phone a gimmick?
43:39 Time to Walk
47:24 Wrap up
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Viewer Armin Dressler asks:
#iCaveAnswers For the first time since I bought my first Mac back in 1994, I’m going to buy my workhorse Mac second hand. A used Macbook Air M1 can do everything I need and comes for half the price compared to the Air M2 that I so badly wanted. I think Apple exaggerated with the price increase, at least in €urope. Do you think prices will go down again, once the lockdown and supply chain issues are resolved? I hope M3 can justify buying a shiny new Mac again ?
I don't think this is all about supply chain and greed, but more about how tax is displayed in different countries. Outside the US, Sales tax is included in the sticker price almost always, inside the differences in state sales tax means it's often added at checkout, meaning prices look unreasonable to us looking in.
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Viewer Daniel Doran Asks:
#iCaveAnswers so a friend asked me this and I didn't have a good answer... "I own an Intel MacBook Pro. Should I buy an M1 MacBook now or wait for "M1X"? He likes the idea of an even better M1 but likes the price of the current M1 MacBook Pro model.
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MarK Gurman’s Notes…
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First, shockingly it seems Apple listened to noisy people and has added back the option for Safari having its address window at the top of the display rather than attached to the top of the keyboard as in the earlier betas.
Mark also compares this to iPhone 4’s AntennaGate (You’re holding it wrong) and how Apple gave away cases and bumpers to solve it, and the return of ports and removal of the Touch Bar with the upcoming MacBook Pro redesign.
Moving on, he mentions the Google Pixel 6 on the way, and the reports that the flagship feature, the Google designed custom Tensor chip is actually a samsung chip and sure enough, a quick search and it look like its a rebrand of the Exynos 9855.
Now this kind of makes sense that Samsung would be making the SOCs for Google, if TSMC is fully booked out, and they are, Samsung has probably the best fabs around for production though according to AndroidHeadlines.com, which I honestly have never read before and don’t know their reliability, the chip will be substantially behind the next flagship Exynos or Qualcomm Snapdragon chips.
Then in the Subscriber only Q&A segment, He was asked about whether AirPods Pro would be announced this fall, what’s going on with the Mac mini M1X and Whether the next iPhone will have in display Touch ID.
Most interestingly, Mark says that a new Mac mini with the M1X SOC is expected to be arriving within the next “several months”, replacing the current “higher end” intel Mac mini models, which lets be honest are only higher end in terms of port count. The 10 core M1X inside should be substantially faster than the existing intel and Apple silicon models, with double the performance cores and potentially 4x the graphics cores. My only slight confusion is the distinct lack of a headphone port on the new model, given the poor quality of the internal speaker which is really only intended for accessibility reasons during setup, so presumably the intent is to carry the audio via HDMI or USB-C to the monitor, which could then presumably pass it to external speakers if required. Seems a little convoluted, but assuming the pricing on these are reasonable, ie around the current higher end start price of $1099, I may well be opening my wallet.
Andrew Hornback
#icaveanswers I just resurrected and upgraded a 2007 MBP 17" (1920x1200 screen, 2.6 GHz chip) running Mavericks, replaced the HDD with an SSD, added an adapter to go from DVI to HDMI - those work great. I also picked up a 4GB stick to expand it out to 6 GB of RAM and the system's only reading that DIMM as 2 GB. Is there a trick I'm missing?
Lit 8
#icaveanswers what do you think of iOS 6 and Skeuomorphism #lit8questions
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Steve Jobs to be remembered with a Statue in the National Garden of American Heroes
Foxconn gets go-ahead for new factory in Vietnam
Apple’s next MacBooks could ditch Aluminium for Titanium & Polymer.
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Steve Jobs to be remembered with a Statue in the National Garden of American Heroes
Apple founder Steve Jobs will be memorialised in a National Garden of American Heroes along with hundreds of others once completed. “The National Garden will be built to reflect the awesome splendour of our country’s timeless exceptionalism” according to the Executive order.
Among the other states to feature in the garden, set to be competed by July 4th 2026 are:
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Kobe Bryant.
Foxconn gets go-ahead for new factory in Vietnam
Foxconn has been granted a new license for a $270 million plant in Vietnam in order to diversify away from its China heavy operations. The plant is expected to be building MacBooks and iPads for Apple after urging Foxconn to move some of its production out of China in November last year.
The plant is thought to be able to produce 8 million devices each year, and represents 10,000 new jobs to be created this year.
Apple’s next MacBooks could ditch Aluminium for Titanium & Polymer.
A patent has been published (info via Patently Apple) last week covering MacBooks and iDevices using a Titanium base with polymer or glass coverings. It wouldn’t be the first time Apple has used Titanium in Notebooks, as in 2001 Apple released the Titanium PowerBook G4.
Titanium is a great material for a notebook, with a better strength to weight ratio than plain old Aluminium or polymers. Together though, some more of our previous rumours and patents could be coming to fruition.
Apple for quite a while has had a number of patents around charging iPhones and peripherals wirelessly, but of course, with an aluminium chassis, its been pretty hard to understand how this could work, as the patents showed these items charging by the palm rest. With this patent added into the mix, it seems Apple could use this polymer coating over the surface, there could be a different but colour matched material under the clear polymer layer that is far more transparent to the electrical field for charging.
In the past one of the big issues with having a polymer layer over metal has been adhesion, how to keep the layer attached. In this patent, a process of creating tiny pores in the Titanium is described, essentially creating a keyed surface that the polymer can combine with to keep it attached well to the metal surface. This polymer can also be used as a dielectric material to reduce electromagnetic interference as well as
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iCave Answers Stream - Here's the questions submitted before the stream that we answer!
Rob Oo
#icaveanswers Rumor is that the M1X chip for the 16" MacBook Pro will be a 12 core M1, 8 high performance and 4 high efficiency. But this would mean that the single core performance will stay the same as the current M1 chip, but the multicore would be twice as fast. Is it just me, or is it disappointing that the single core performance will stay the same? can't Apple increase the speed of the single core as well to a higher GHz? I know you can increase performance by increasing the number of cores, but can mac core's performance increase or decrease by increasing or decreasing the CPU clock speed?
Lego Vlogger
#iCaveAnswers Is there gonna be a cheaper (less than a 1000$ ) MacBook with M1 in future.
Sander Hoogeland
@I cave answers. What do you think Apples’ rumoured Christmas surprise could be? I think all the theories that people are coming up with at the moment make some kind of sense, but at the same time also do not, but I think that is also because of how weird Love to Dreams’ Tweets are sometimes.
stephen Liggett
#icaveanswers is it possible for a computer to run dual M1 chips? Or quad M1 chips?
Apple is at 5nm which means they cannot shrink the transistors, yet. They need to either make larger chips, run them at higher clock speeds or add additional chips.
Additional chips could create additional PCIe lanes for additional ports, and additional RAM in increments of 8gb. Most importantly it could provide the “PRO” level performance that apple needs to demonstrate in the 16” MacBook Pro, the iMac and the Mac Pro.
They have the power and thermal headroom to do this.
Imagine a machine that can run twice as fast as the M1 machines.
This is what I’m thinking:
MacBook Air 1x M1
MacBook Pro 13” 1x M1
MacBook Pro 13” 2x M1
MacBook Pro 16” 2x M1
MacBook Pro 16” 3x M1
MacBook Pro 16” 4x M1
Mac mini 1x M1
Mac mini 2x M1
iMac small 1x M1
iMac small 2x M1
iMac big 2x M1
iMac big 3x M1
iMac big 4x M1
Mac Pro 6xM1
Mac Pro 8xM1
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Passkeys in iCloud Keychain - “Move Beyond Passwords” Session
Despite their prevalence, passwords inherently come with challenges that make them poorly suited to securing someone's online accounts. Learn more about the challenges passwords pose to modern security and how to move beyond them. Explore the next frontier in account security with secure-by-design, public-key-based credentials that use the Web Authentication standard. Discover in this technology preview how Apple is approaching this standard in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey.
This new feature stores a new type of credential, called a "passkey", in your iCloud Keychain. Passkeys are WebAuthn credentials with the amazing security that the standard provides combined with the usability of being backed up, synced, and working on all of your devices. We're storing them in iCloud Keychain. Just like everything else in your iCloud Keychain, they're end-to-end encrypted, so not even Apple can read them. Your secrets are your secrets. And they're very easy to use. In most cases, it just takes a single tap or click to sign in. And they're stronger than most password-plus-second-factor solutions out there today, thanks to the combined security of WebAuthn and iCloud Keychain. And because it's just a single tap to sign in, it's simultaneously easier, faster, and more secure than almost all common forms of authentication today. Let's add it to that chart. As I just said, it's super easy to use; usually just one tap, or click, to sign in. What we're releasing as part of macOS Monterey and iOS 15 works on all of your Apple devices. Of course, to replace passwords for everyone, this technology needs to work on all of your devices, including those that don't support iCloud Keychain. That functionality is not present in macOS Monterey and iOS 15.
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#iCaveAnswers With Apple events currently being online only, is it possible that Apple are planning on lots of events in 2021 to keep the up the hype.
Could Apple see the rumours and constant speculation online as good marketing as they slowly make announcement after announcement?
The Metal Men Of Munimula • 20 hours ago
#iCaveAnswers Forgetting about my heartbreak over no hardware announcements at WWDC21 and wanting to change the subject to something else, do you think the future of Mac gaming might be better served by cloud gaming services like GeForce NOW?
Marcin Kowalczyk
#iCaveAnswers (in case it was missed before) "do you reason m1x iMacs could come before q4 2021?? @iCaveDave
René Pouliot
#icaveanswers WWDC did not reveal any new product, do you think Somme will be released this week at WWDC as a separate announcement?
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