Updated July 27. iPhone 12 screen leak and MacOS and FaceID updates below. Originally on July 14.
Apple Loop is here to remind you of some of the many discussions that have taken place around Apple over the past seven days (and you can watch my weekly Android news summary here at Forbes).
Leaks in the new iPhone 12 design
The latest leak around the iPhone 12’s family circle is hidden in the latest beta version of the iOS 14 accessibility tools. It is not an apparent leak in the same way that it displays a phone graph, but it is still a leak, due to the way the code is implemented. Gordon Kelly of Forbes reports:
“Thanks to some very good detective paintings from 9to5Mac, Apple’s plan to launch its smallest iPhone without glasses has just been unveiled in its new beta edition of iOS 14. And it’s the evolution of a six-year software feature in iOS 14 that the game provides.
Which, in its own way, confirms the smaller 5.4-inch iPhone 12. More about Forbes.
New iPhone 12 Design Leaks (more)
July 27 update: Over the weekend, take a closer look at the iPhone 12 screens released on Weibo. The images, probably from the production lines, show the packaged screens before the iPhone meeting process. The speculation is that those screens are of the 5.4-inch variety. Tim Hardwick reports:
“At first glance, the panels appear to have the same notch length as the iPhone 11, but a higher screen/bevel ratio, possibly due to their pre-assembly appearance.
“That said, despite the hand on the image, it is not evident in the images without delay the size of the iPhone 12 panels that must be designed. Blogger Weibo Digital Chat Station claims they are for the 5.4-inch model, suggesting that we are for a smaller notch than the 5.8-inch iPhone 11.
Apple designers naturally look more than the iPhone 12 in September. And, of course, the camera will be used to showcase Apple’s technological prowess. The most recent report through the famous analyst Ming-Chi Kuo highlights the use of a “periscope” zoom lens on the iPhone of 2021:
“Periscope cameras (sometimes called folded optical) are already provided on several high-end smartphones, such as Huawei’s P30 Pro unveiled last year. By using mirrors, the trail of incoming light can be bent, allowing the periscope lens to be longer and oriented in another direction; the apparent merit here is to have the sensor next to the lens, rather than directly the lens.
“… A longer lens will require more internal space, if you’re looking for higher levels of optical zoom, you’ll have to sacrifice anything else, such as battery volume.”
More here at Forbes.
The lifespan of an Intel MacBook
With the transition from the MacOS platform to Apple’s own chips, the ARM architecture, what about Intel’s huge device user base? Switching to ARM may not be instantaneous, so your hardware is rarely very dead. Even with Apple’s most productive intentions, the Intel MacBook is dead:
“MacOS on ARM didn’t come out of nowhere. Apple’s engineering team will have been running internally for many years, and some of the main third-party software will have worked with the new architecture. The lack of “new ” MacOS features in recent years has left the MacBook line, i.e., it resembles Apple’s secondary team, iPhone and iPad families.
“… But ARM is the long term of the Mac platform. Apple will need to master the ball in this, in fact, it will only need to strongly boost development, it will need to be publicly noticed to drive development. “
July 25 Update: Hide the latest beta version of macOS internally is another representation of the guidance of the Mac platform and how Intel machines will be left behind. Biometric security is available on some Mac machines with touch ID on multiple MacBook Pro machines. The latest mac edition of MacOS has a code for the inclusion of FaceID, Apple’s 3D facial popularity system. Anmol Sachdeva from Fossbytes reports:
“When Apple incorporated FaceID biometric authentication generation into iPhone X, a snippet was discovered with the internal call of the assignment”, “in the iOS update and developers have now discovered references to “PearlCamera” on macOS Big Sur Developer Beta 3. ..
“However, the assignment is in its infancy and Apple would possibly take some time to load FaceID into MacBooks.”
With the use of the True Depth camera to capture the face, this will not be available on any of the existing Intel machines. Given the two-year window to transfer to ARM, there is each and every chance that FaceID on MacOS will only be available on ARM machines.
What does Apple’s brilliant WWDC graphic mean? Discreetly contrast Intel and AMD chips with upcoming Apple chips for the Mac platform, but is there a message here? Jason Snell has some “Fun with Graphics”:
“On some level, it’s a bit of meaningless marketing. No labels. The wide diversity of laptops and desktops is represented by two perfectly rounded rectangles. ‘Macs with Apple Silicon’ are represented by a blurry gradient of squares. Does that mean?
“This is a consultation that won’t be discussed until the end of the summer betas. It will be some time before we have a transparent concept of what the first Macs of this new era will look like. Much to do … however, this chart.
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Your iPad will make you cheaper
More news from the network, this time in the next update of the iPad Air range. This is the pleasant combination of more strength for less money. Alex Alderson reports:
“The next iPad Air can only have a larger screen and a more resilient chipset than the existing model, but it can also be cheaper. It is thought that the iPad Air 2020 will come with a 10.8 or 11 inch screen and an A13 Bionic SoC, which would be updates over the 10.5-inch screen and an A12 Bionic on the existing model ».
More about NotebookCheck.
The good luck of the iPhone SE
Apple, like many manufacturers, is facing a drop in sales due to the effect of the coronavirus pandemic. With a 23% decline in sales according to Coutnerpoint Research, the new iPhone SE stands out. Launched in April, the mid-range iOS smartphone exceeds expectations. Juli Clover reports:
“Since $399, the iPhone SE was sold on postpaid and prepaid channels. More than 30% of iPhone SE buyers were upgrading from an iPhone 6s or earlier, and more than 26% of iPhone SE users came from an Android device, which Counterpoint said is a higher than normal Android to iOS transfer rate.”
More about MacRumors.
Apple’s environmental progress
With a commitment to making all corporate carbon impartial until 2030, Apple continues to use its scale to publicize environmental issues and their own impact. Alex Hern reports:
“Most of the progress,” Apple says in its 2020 Environmental Progress Report, “will be achieved by reducing its carbon emissions. But the remaining 25% will come from ‘carbon removal solutions’ such as forest planting and mangrove restoration.
“The company is making an investment component of a newly announced $100 million (78.5 million pounds) fund for a racial justice and equity initiative in minority-owned enterprises that can help erase its home chain.” Systemic racism and climate replacement are not separate disorders and will not respect separate solutions,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s environmental officer.
More about The Guardian. As a component of this commitment, Apple demonstrated that it would begin with low-carbon aluminum as an intermediate step toward a carbon red fusion process. The first client hardware to gain benefits will be the 16-inch MacBook Pro:
“For now, this MacBook Pro will be unique, but it will join through the rest of the MacBook range, then the Mac family, before the new aluminum ends up in all Apple products. This is not a quick change. they may not have a “before and after” deadline, so there is no way or customer to specify that they need the new materials. Instead, they have to settle for the wisdom of Apple’s advancement.”
More on that, in Forbes.
And finally…
With the switch to MacOS 11 Big On, Apple has a new default wallpaper. How simple it would be for Andrew Levitt and his friends to capture the same symbol in less than seven days. One thing’s for sure, it’s clear that Craig Federighi is camping in Levitt’s head.
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