Apple Teases Special Product Launch Coming Next Week (9to5mac.com) 27
Apple CEO Tim Took took to X today to tease a special Apple product launch happening next week on Wednesday, February 19. 9to5Mac reports: Few specific details were shared, but Cook did include a brief video featuring the Apple logo in silver plus the following words: "Get ready to meet the newest member of the family. Wednesday, February 19. #AppleLaunch" [...] The most likely product is the brand new iPhone SE 4, which rumors suggest will pack a variety of powerful upgrades. [...] There are several other hardware possibilities for the February 19 launch. We're currently expecting at least three other products to debut in the near future: the M4 MacBook Air, an M3 iPad Air, and a new 11th generation base model iPad.
Reading into the teaser, the silver color does subtly give off Mac vibes, so perhaps the M4 MacBook Air is coming. The circle design in the video has some wondering if AirTag 2 could be the focus of the launch. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, however, doesn't believe that's the case. Gurman suggests the iPhone SE 4 will be the new product. That would make the circle a potential reference to the device's single rear camera.
Reading into the teaser, the silver color does subtly give off Mac vibes, so perhaps the M4 MacBook Air is coming. The circle design in the video has some wondering if AirTag 2 could be the focus of the launch. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, however, doesn't believe that's the case. Gurman suggests the iPhone SE 4 will be the new product. That would make the circle a potential reference to the device's single rear camera.
It's a... NEW CAR!! (Score:1)
Maybe Apple is following through on their plans to produce an electric car. I could interpret the announcement as adding a new kind of product than an update to any existing product. Part of me is curious, but for the most part I expect nothing ground breaking. We shall see soon enough.
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Re:It's a... NEW CAR!! (Score:4, Informative)
I'm pretty sure Apple gave up on their car ambitions. It also wouldn't make much sense to get into the electric car biz during a presidential administration that is openly hostile towards EVs.
Wasn't Apple rumored to be announcing a somewhat cheaper version of their 3D goggles at some point?
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Their cheaper 3D headset is a year or more off.
Apple BEV (Re:It's a... NEW CAR!!) (Score:1)
Why do you assume any car ambition would be electric?
Is there any reason to assume otherwise?
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Announcements of announcements. (Score:3)
Can we actually report news rather than vague hype and bullshit?
Is that asking too much?
Re: Announcements of announcements. (Score:2)
Because actual news wouldn't be approved by the Lord Cook. That's why slashdot still hasn't mentioned the unpatchable iphone 15 hardware exploit that was mentioned basically everywhere else a month ago.
Is it just me (Score:2)
Or is it that the editors get super excited any time Tim Cook opens his mouth?
That, and they love even the most mundane news about <twitter clone of the month>.
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Yuck
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It's a holdover from the old days when Slashdot used to love Apple for being the scrappy underdog foil to Microsoft's evil empire. Nowadays though, it's really hard to tell which one is out evil-ing the other.
Re: Is it just me (Score:3)
Apple always had NIH syndrome, even back then. I recall saying at the time that if apple ever got as big as Microsoft, they'd be far more controlling and doing their own proprietary shit. And guess what happened?
Now these same assholes that lobbed exactly those kinds of complaints about Microsoft are totally ok when apple does a much worse version. Hated internet explorer? That's great because on apple shit, not only is it the default browser, it's the mandatory one. And the mobile web is paying the price.
Can Apple upgrade their cloud stuff? (Score:2)
One thing I'd like to see is an upgrade to iCloud. At least bring it up to par with OneDrive, GDrive, and other services with versioning capability, which might be the only thing protecting most users from ransomware. Maybe even allow archives that can be set read-only and to unset it requires re-authenticating via some 2FA means, or authenticating twice in an hour. This, plus add things like S3 compatibility, so backup programs can use iCloud as a target.
Maybe even long term archiving like Glacier DeepA
And non-cloud stuff! (Score:2)
Like fix the dang bug in local synchronization with macOS' Calendars and iPhones. :(
How about a less expensive Vision Pro? (Score:2)
Apple's current VR goggles are way too expensive to achieve mass appeal. Maybe they should release a Vision Air that is $1000 USD instead of $3500. I'd love a state of the art VR headset that is not sold by Meta.
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Maybe they should release a Vision Air that is $1000 USD instead of $3500.
Your zero key is sticking.
Again. Another phone⦠(Score:1)
Who cares (Score:2)
I am not be a US citizen or live there, but I can sure as hell vote with my wallet.
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Soon we'll be buying cheap Russo-Chinese goods manufactured just to the north of the Gulf Of Mexico.
It's a Desktop Robot (robotic arm) (Score:1)
It's a Desktop Robot (robotic arm)
target segment - criemer
Have they officially announced the home control? (Score:2)
Have they officially announced the rumored home control extra expensive iPad with speaker thing? I know that was a rumor floating a while ago, but don't remember seeing the usual Apple hype cycle about it. Could be that.
Or,. yet another increment on the iPhone, which is way overpowered for a phone, and way useless as anything else, and has been for quite a while.