Outside Apple's September 7 event, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Here are all the most exciting things that Apple didn't show us. Were you expecting a shiny new MacBook Pro, perhaps one with an OLED touch-screen strip that replaces the function keys? So were we -- until Bloomberg reported that we wouldn't see any at Apple's September 7 event, and might not even get them this year. (On the plus side, Bloomberg also reported a new iMac and MacBook Air could appear alongside them.).
It's kind of incredible that Apple is still selling a four-year-old MacBook Pro, and that dungeons and dragons dice iphone case its flagship MacBook Pro with Retina Display is still using Intel processors that are two to three years out of date, Mac users are getting understandably antsy about when, or whether, they'll be able to upgrade from older systems, Your guess is as good as ours, but know this: Intel's newest processors won't have MacBook Pro-grade variants (with quad-core and Iris graphics) ready until early next year, Apple also didn't announce any new iPads -- Pro or otherwise -- though we weren't really expecting them today..
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a stellar track record for these things, said in August that we should see three new iPads in 2017: a more affordable 9.7-inch iPad, an updated 12.9-inch iPad Pro 2 and even a 10.5-inch iPad for those who need a size in between. Samsung's AMOLED screens boast vibrant colors and deep, inky blacks. Apple hasn't caught up. And weren't the new iPhones supposed to have gorgeous, dynamic, colorful, inky AMOLED screens like the ones you'd find on Samsung's Galaxy handsets? That's the rumor, to be sure -- and one such rumor suggested that Apple had secured 40 million AMOLED screens from Samsung itself (and more each year) to make it happen.
But AMOLED is just one of the many rumored features that probably won't arrive until the iPhone 8 arrives next dungeons and dragons dice iphone case year, Why? My colleague John Falcone already hazarded a guess: Apple's still trying to figure out how to make the iPhone's Home button disappear beneath that screen, or become a part of the display panel, Until Apple figures out how to make that happen (and puts it into production), today's iPhone design may be locked in, And as for a flexible AMOLED screen in your next iPad -- 2018 is the rumored time frame for that..
Apple may finally be waterproofing the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus (or at least making them water-resistant), but it still hasn't jumped on the wireless-charging bandwagon. Wireless charging is a pretty convenient way to keep a phone's battery topped up, and rumors suggested the tech was pretty high on Apple's agenda. Not only that: a Bloomberg report suggested that Apple was working on long-distance wireless charging as well. Guess we'll have to wait for next year's iPhones to find out. Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Samsung are all pushing hard on VR and AR technologies, and the $99 Samsung Gear VR headset is a surprisingly decent reason to pick a Samsung Galaxy over any other smartphone.