Apple Loop: Powerful iPhone 15 Pro Leaked, Apple Music’s Shock Update, Apple Confirms USB-C iPhone - Forbes

Taking a look backmost astatine different week of quality and headlines from Cupertino, this week’s Apple Loop includes iPhone 15 Pro specs leak, Apple confirms USB-C future, MacOS 13 launch, astonishing 16-inch iPad Pro, Apple Music prices rise, and Apple reveals stunning Q4 numbers.

Apple Loop is present to punctual you of a fewer of the precise galore discussions that person happened astir Apple implicit the past 7 days (and you tin work my play digest of Android quality present connected Forbes).

iPhone 15 Pro Specs Set To Improve

With the agelong pb clip connected user electronics production, it shouldn’t beryllium astonishing that details connected the adjacent iPhone are available. Nor should it travel arsenic excessively overmuch of a astonishment that the specs volition beryllium bumped up. And nor is it a astonishment that the choky 6 GB confines of the iPhone 14 Pro volition beryllium expanded up to 8 GB:

"TrendForce predicts that the 15 Pro models volition beryllium equipped with an accrued 8GB of RAM to complement the A17 chip, compared to 6GB for the iPhone 14 Pro models. The modular models volition apt proceed to person 6GB of RAM."

(MacRumors).

iPhone's USB-C Future

This whitethorn not beryllium the lone large alteration coming to the iPhone 15. Following authorities successful the European Union, Apple volition beryllium forced to vessel astatine slightest 1 mentation of the iPhone 15 with USB-C successful spot of the lightning larboard truthful they tin beryllium sold successful Europe… though that mightiness not unit a power implicit the full portfolio:

“...Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of worldwide marketing, confirmed that Apple volition travel caller European Union instrumentality mandating the usage of USB-C connected each smartphones sold successful its subordinate countries from autumn 2024. But that mightiness not beryllium the extremity of the Lighting larboard connected iPhones."

(Forbes).

Here Comes Apple’s MacOS 13

We mightiness not person a caller MacBook Pro (yet), but MacBook owners are getting an upgrade with the motorboat of the adjacent mentation of macOS, acceptable to beryllium installed astir the world, pursuing the customary investigating play aft WWDC. What’s worthy noting is not the leaps guardant but the steps taken to homogenize the Apple ecosystem:

"Overwhelmingly, caller features for macOS simply assistance it support gait with what is happening connected the iPhone and iPad. That feels doubly existent successful Ventura, wherever a halfway strategy app has been rewritten from the crushed up to reflector its iOS counterpart, wherever a caller model absorption diagnostic is being implemented successful the aforesaid mode connected the iPad, and wherever caller apps and updates to aged ones are progressively conscionable iPad apps moving wrong macOS windows."

(Ars Technica).

Go Big And Go iPad

Will Apple super-size the iPad Pro scope and present a 16-inch tablet by the extremity of adjacent year? There are surely indications that specified a instrumentality is being planned. As with immoderate device, determination are tons of iterations, and not each marque it to the market, but if Apple wants your adjacent machine to not beryllium a machine but beryllium an iPad, having a ver ample surface would beryllium a bully (if expensive) option:

"Samsung bedazzled the manufacture earlier this twelvemonth by announcing the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, a 14.6-inch tablet. It would person served arsenic an perfect laptop replacement had it not tally One UI, an operating strategy designed for smartphones. Apple wants to one-up Samsung and present an adjacent larger iPad adjacent year. According to a study by The Information, a 16-inch iPad volition beryllium launched sometime successful Q4, 2023. The tablet could beryllium unveiled alongside the rumoured 14-inch iPad Pro mentioned successful earlier leaks."

(Notebook Check).

Apple Subscription Prices Rise

Apple has announced a terms emergence for users of Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple One, citing licensing fees that request to beryllium paid to rights holders. Still, you person each your playlists, your temper charts, and your favourited artists locked into Apple Music. You’re not going to permission your curated lists down for a tiny terms rise, are you?

"Apple cited the caller summation successful licensing fees. Apple Music and its competitors volition person to wage 15.35 percent of euphony gross to songwriters and publishing rights holders starting adjacent year, a 0.25 percent summation implicit the existent complaint and astir 5 percent much than the aged rate. But astatine $10.99, Apple’s work is present much costly than Amazon Music, which is $8.99 per month, and Spotify, which has been stuck astatine $9.99 per period for much than a decade. "

(Hot Pod / The Verge).

And Finally...

Apple’s Q4 gross study is here. It shows an 8 percent emergence successful gross twelvemonth connected twelvemonth to $90 billion, with nett income up 1 percent to $20.7 billion. Unlike different Silicon Valley results, Apple is keeping its vessel steady:

“Apple is not being wounded arsenic overmuch arsenic we were primitively disquieted astir successful presumption of user demand,” said Daniel Morgan, a elder portfolio manager astatine Synovus Trust Co., which counts Apple among its largest holdings. “You could marque the lawsuit that user request is steadfast based connected these maturation rates.”

(Wall Street Journal).

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