Lukáš Gondek An even bigger iPhone, iPads in baseball, an improved Smart Connector, Tim Cook visiting Palo Alto and iOS 9.3 as the most stable system in years…
A 5,8-inch iPhone with an OLED display could come next year (26/3)
While this September, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the appearance of iPhones should remain almost untouched, a major change in the user's design awaits next year. In 2017, Apple should release an iPhone that, with its glass design, will be very similar to the iPhone 4 from a few years ago, but different from it will be a curved display. Apple would like to use one of the highest quality AMOLED display types at the moment, but it depends on the pace of production and whether Apple will have time to prepare these displays by 2017.
If so, the smaller 4,7-inch iPhone would continue to be sold with an LCD display, while the larger iPhone, on the other hand, would get a curved AMOLED and a larger 5,8-inch screen. But if the production is not fast enough, with a smaller number of AMOLED displays, Apple would release the 5,8-inch version only as an exclusive offer, and the 4,7- and 5,5-inch iPhones would remain with LCDs.
Kuo also notes that iPhones should finally come with wireless charging and even facial and iris recognition in 2017 to expand security options.
Source: MacRumors
Apple will announce financial results on April 25 (March 28)
Apple disclosed on its investor website that it will report financial results for the second fiscal quarter of 2016 on Monday, April 25. For the first time since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, its sales are expected to decline year-on-year. For the first time in 13 years, revenues could also fall compared to last year.
Source: MacRumors
Apple to supply MLB teams with iPad Pros (March 29)
Apple and the American baseball league MLB have agreed to use iPads as the main tool for coaches during games. iPad Pro will offer countless new possibilities for coaches to use data from previous games to better predict situations and plan strategies right during the game.
A California-based company has developed a special app for MLB that is personalized to each team, but will only work offline. Microsoft also came up with a similar program, which distributed its Surface tablets in the NFL among American football teams.
Source: MacRumors
Apple has patented an improved Smart Connector (March 30)
Apple has registered a new patent that expands the capabilities of the Smart Connector, through which only the Smart Keyboard is connected in iPad Pros. According to the patent, up to three different devices could be connected to one output thanks to this connector. Their individual connectors would simply stack on top of each other thanks to magnetic forces.
In the patent drawings, one version of the Smart Connector resembles the MagSafe connector, which is still the most widely used option for charging MacBooks, while the other resembles a connector similar to an Apple Watch charger. Thanks to this new technology, both energy and data could be transferred through the connectors of several devices. The technology can then recognize which device is connected (keyboard, external hard drive, charger, etc.), and based on that transfer the right amount of power and data to each of them.
Source: 9to5Mac
Tim Cook stopped by the Apple Store in Palo Alto for the iPhone SE launch (31/3)
Tim Cook, like after the release of the iPhone 6, again visited the Apple Store in Palo Alto, California, on the occasion of the release of the iPhone SE and the 9,7-inch iPad Pro. In the half-empty store, he found time to chat with the salespeople there and also to take photos with customers. While the Apple Store in Palo Alto is not the closest apple store to the Apple campus, it was in this store that Apple founder Steve Jobs always made a very unexpected appearance.
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- CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) 31. March 2016
Source: 9to5Mac
According to analysis, iOS 9.3 is the most stable version of iOS in recent years (March 31)
Despite several problems that iOS 9.3 brought to users around the world, the latest version of iOS according to the statistics of the company Apteligent the most stable Apple operating system in several years. In the last week, only 2,2 percent of devices crashed, which is better than the latest Android, which crashed on 2,6 percent of devices.
The previous versions of iOS 8, 9 and 9.2 failed to work at 3,2 percent in March, which means that users with older versions of iOS have a higher chance of encountering system crashes. Additionally, Apple released an update on Monday that fixes several critical system bugs, so that percentage should drop even more.
Source: MacRumors
A week in a nutshell
The biggest surprise of the past week was certainly the FBI report which announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation he proved crack iPhone encryption without Apple's help. The lawsuit was thus ended and Apple published a report saying this case should never have come to trial.
New iOS 9.3 caused many users have problems opening links, which subsequently Apple done release of version 9.3.1. We keep hearing news about the iPhone SE, whose components are a combination of the internals of previous iPhones, which allows its low price, as well as the iPad Pro, which can charge much faster thanks to the more powerful USB-C adapter.
Foxconn in the purchase of Sharp saved almost half and Apple published report on the quality of suppliers' working conditions for 2015.
