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iPad has become Pro with M1, so what does iPadOS need to do at WWDC to keep up with the power it provides? This and more in today’s iCave
I’m iCaveDave.
First Apple’s earnings report overview, then AirPods Production cut and iPadOS changes, and we’ll round out the show by answering your questions in iCave answers, so lets do this.
Apple earnings report
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2021 second quarter ended March 27, 2021. The Company posted a March quarter record revenue of $89.6 billion, up 54 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.40. International sales accounted for 67 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Macs have had their best 3 quarters ever in the past three quarters, and Mac revenue was up 66% this quarter.
The investor call itself was fairly uneventful apart from a couple of notes about upcoming supply constraints on Mac and iPad, but interestingly the Apple stock price actually went up in after hours trading which is unusual for these investor calls even wet Apple smashes all expectations.
AirPods Production has been cut by 25-30%.
Nikkei Asia is reporting that Apple’s cut their AirPods Production due to lower than expected demand, but they still sold over 72 million pairs last year alone. This reduction is to help reduce stock holding which is Currently thought to be high, but also comes ahead of the AirPods 3rd generation refresh that is slated to come later in 2021 with a new design and possibly spacial audio coming to the base model, but with Active noise cancellation remaining a an AirPods Pro feature for now.
Making iPadOS PRO
Team Kinetix
#iCaveAnswers th anks for your thoughts on iPadOS. For me what’s needed is an improved file management system, being able to use files from external storage and better external monitor support, the latter of which we know is coming. Pro apps is more down to the third party developers, in my use case, Adobe and their creative suite
Better file management – Bring Finder to the Mac
Cross browser support with other rendering engines, not just webkit
Browser dev tools/ inspector
Better multi monitor support – Samsung Dex style maybe
Third Party App Store or Web downloaded apps – unlikely
Terminal?
Missing Apps from iOS – Weather, calculator, Health, fitness, watch
Persistent networking for background Apps
Evan Rodgers • 8 hours ago
#icaveanswers Do you think the iMac and iPad Pro will have the highest and lowest binned M1 chips?
Evan Rodgers • 14 hours ago (edited)
#iCaveAnswers do you think Apple will stick with a single chip SOC for the M1X, or will they advance to MCM (multi chip module) with GPU chiplets? The latter allows them to keep small die sizes and increase yield.
RiggsSec • 1 day ago
#icaveanswers Did Apple claim the ‘M’ in M1 stood for Mac or is that just an assumption everyone makes? I wonder if Apple Silicon will be split between ‘mobile’ (maxing at 8 cores) and ‘desktop’ or ‘pros’ (starting at 12 or 16 cores).
machine tool • 17 hours ago
#iCaveAnswers Will we see m2/m2x macbook pro (14″ & 16″) by the end of 2021?
Andrew Hornback
#icaveanswers – What happens if we end up with an M2 chip that outperforms the M1X? If we posit that the M*X chips will be for Pro models and the non-X chips are for base models… that could get sticky from a product positioning perspective. Do you think the graphics capabilities, port selection, screen type, etc. on the Mac (and possibly iPad) models is going to be a major differentiator between Pro and non-Pro versions moving forward? I’d love to see that bit of product positioning strategy a little better defined.
Tim Allen

• 1 day ago (edited)
#iCaveAnswers Hi Dave, hope you don’t mind a general question… Do you have any strategies when you HAVE to contact tech support to get a straight, correct answer back? I have tried both showing my technical expertise and appearing completely clueless—here lately neither seems to help elicit a sensible response. Often they don’t even appear to read what I wrote. Do you have any success in this area?