For years now Apple has been rumored to have been working with its network of Asian suppliers on the commercialization of mini-LED display technology, and now it seems the company may have already found a way to boost production.
Apple's upcoming iPhone 12 models launching later this year are expected to adopt cheaper, less complex battery technology in order to offset a pretty costly upgrade to 5G.
If Apple is forced to remove China's popular WeChat app from the App Store globally, worldwide iPhone shipments could decline by as much as thirty percent.
According to a new report from TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, future iPhone models coming in 2022 will feature greater optical zoom than the current iPhones' 2x optical zoom by switching to a periscope telephoto lens design, which bends the light 90 degrees rathe than using a series of prisms and mirrors like the current iPhone lenses.
Apple should borrow some of the miniaturization techniques for its upcoming third-generation AirPods from the current AirPods Pro noise-cancelling earbuds.
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the next iPhone to be released later this year will improve photography quality by utilizing "high-end" lens arrays in the rear camera.
Apple's first Mac models powered by in-house designed processors based on the same ARM CPU technology that's utilized in the company's mobile chips should be a new iMac all-in-one desktop featuring an all-new form factor and a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro notebook.
Apple should release a pair of third-generation AirPods with an updated industrial design and possibly bringing some new features sometime in early 2021.
Apple may stop bundling free earphones with new iPhones by the time its next iPhone models launch this fall, a major change considering that the company has been shipping its free wired earphones, called the EarPods, ever since the original iPhone launched back in 2007.
Later this year, Apple was supposed to release products that use tens of thousands of mini-LED backlights instead of LED backlighting, providing local dimming for deeper blacks, richer color and sharper image. However, the coronavirus situation appears to have spoiled those plans and prompted the iPhone maker to push back its mini-LED product roadmap to 2021.
Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo with TF International Securities thinks one of the more important reasons for Apple to ditch Intel processors in its Mac computers is price.
If the rumor mill is accurate, than we will see the first ARM-based Mac break into the public eye later this year. And that could very well be the dam breaking.