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0:00 On Today’s Apple Daily
0:32 Apple Hiring Senior Engineer for Health Tech
1:14 Apple releases Big Sur 11.3 Beta the day after 11.2 public release
2:06 iPhone SE3?
3:44 And have we seen the end of $50K Mac Pros?
6:19 Notification Squad
Apple Hiring Senior Engineer for Health Tech
A new job posting suggests that Apple is preparing to go hard on health hardware – as the role is mainly around ramping up factory production for these devices. The fact that Apple is ramping this up for production means they’re likely all designed and ready to go, so it’s likely we’ll see releases of this hardware towards the end of this year.
So what kind of think might Apple be producing? My best guess would be things like connected scales, thermometers, potentially even their own branded gym style equipment which would fit well with Apple’s Fitness plus and health apps to better track your health in a wider way. Add this to the rumoured blood glucose monitoring touted for Apple Watch series 7 and we could have a real range coming very soon.
Apple releases Big Sur 11.3 Beta the day after 11.2 public release
Apple is wasting no time in bringing their next update out for developers, just a day after 11.2 going live, and while we don’t have a lot of details it looks like there are improvements to M1 Macs and how they handle iPad apps, allowing them to run in more of your window than previously as well as better touch alternatives like being able to assign hotkeys to various multitouch gestures.
Just as with iOS 14.5’s beta, this also adds in support for the latest controllers from PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, potentially pointing to Apple taking games more seriously? New Apple TV anyone? More personalisation has been added to Music and News Plus, and the support segment of About My Mac has also been overhauled with a new interface.
Souvik Mukherjee
#iCaveAnswers, Are we going to see a new, redesigned, bezelless iPhone SE(or SE plus)along with, maybe, Airpods Pro 2 in the first quarter of 2021?And if so, what’ll be the pricing, surely more than $400 I guess, nah? Don’t answer this now. Answer during the next Premiere. Lol.
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#iCaveAnswers Don’t you think they will rebrand the iPhone XR to the iPhone SE Plus? It will be single camera, A12/A13, LCD and remain at $499 with the iPhone SE (2020) at $399? I don’t see Apple dropping the price anymore than $50 to maybe $449 and $349 as they are older hardware by now. What do you think?
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#iCaveAnswers if Apple has already introduced the idea of cheaper Macs that can perform so well with M1 at $699 for the Mac mini, what reason do they have for increasing the price to beyond $1999? If they include say an M2X into a Mac Pro (G4 Cube design) and it really only costs about $999 more for the SoC to go from M1 to M2X in terms of R&D, shouldn’t we expect a price ceiling? If you think about it like this, Mac mini but with a beefy M2X and dedicated custom GPU with a huge unified memory pool of around 32-64GB memory should mean the price caps to around $1999. There’s no screen, no crazy cooling, no accessories, no frills, just a very powerful cube, does this warrant a price hike into the several thousands? This is the end of $5,000+ Mac Pro? Surely they can’t justify selling a $50,000+ Apple Silicon Mac Pro?
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