Apple’s Pixelmator deal, more
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Welcome to 5 mac daily for monday， november fourth twenty twenty four on your host, chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by card pointings. Leading off today, we have a couple of new apple vision related rumors to talk about. First, according to supply chain analyst ming chi kuo, apple has delayed its plans to release a more affordable apple vision headset in twenty twenty five. Initially, IT was believed that this apple vision headset would be cheaper than the current vision pro and cost about two thousand dollars and released next year based on his supply chain checks.

Quos ys, this product has been layed beyond twenty twenty seven, so this means the only new apple vision product on apple road map at the moment for imminent release is an updated version of vision pro in twenty twenty five, powered by the m five chip. Meanwhile, according to mark government from bloomberg, apple is seriously considering developing a cheaper apple vision device that all float all of the computing power to your iphone. In this case, the headset itself would essentially be a display and a battery.

Girl has mentioned the I, D. A in the past, but IT was just one of the many ideas apple was considering for future products and the apple vision family based on the most recent reporting from government. However, IT sounds like this idea might have more merit.

Now the product could be similar to other products on the market, like the X O glasses, which show content from your iphone through the displays of the glasses. Offloading all of the computing to the iphone would let apple have much more flexibility with the design of the vision headset itself and address some of the complaints around comfort and weight. But whether or not this product ever sees the light of day remains to be seen.

But one thing that is clear is that apple is coming up with multiple different ideas inside its vision products group in response to vision pro feedback. Next up today, also according to bloomberg smart Green, apple is planning a total redesign for the macbook pro. And when twenty six, historically, apple has taken a four year design cycle with the macbook pro, but things have slightly shifted with this generation.

Apple was initially planning to follow that four year time eline and released a major redesign to the macbook pro in twenty twenty five. But one big change with this generation of macbook prose will be a change in display technology. Currently the macbook pros sure a mini L D display, but with this next generation redesign, apple is widely expected the transition to OLED similar to the latest m four ipad pro.

The switch in display technology is what caused apple to push back its plans for a major redesign to twenty twenty six. In addition to the OA displays, the new macbook prose will reportedly have a senner design and feature the m six chip, which will be built on the new two, namely process for improved performance and improved efficiency. Other design changes remain unclear, but again, garon says this will be a total redesign of the foreign tor where the current design introduced and twenty twenty one we are sponsored this week.

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There will be no material changes to pixel matter pro, pixel meta for I O S and photo matter apps at this time. Stay tuned for exciting updates to come into. Quote, pixel matter is a seventeen year old company and says that the apple acquisition will let its tools have an even bigger impact on creative people around the world.

Pixel meta has become a staple of the apple ecosystem over the years with its incredibly popular and powerful pixel master pro, which is similar to photoshop, and photo matter, which is similar to light room, the apps have added a number of powerful A I and machine learning features over the years, including background removal tools and is popular image upscaling super resolution technology. Apple acquires companies on a regular basis, but it's rare that acquisitions are ever publicly confirmed like this. One of the more recent examples of a move like this is when apple quire dark sky and twenty twenty using IT as the basis for a dramatic redesign to the apple weather APP.

Apple also acquired workflow in twenty seventeen and used IT as the foundation for the evince al launch of shortcuts. There seems to be plenty of opportunity for syn nerc y between pioli or and apple's existing photo tools like the photos APP. The question is whether apple plans to bring more of the photo matter and pixel matter features to photos or to keep them as separate apps available for a subscription purchase running out today.

Apple has launched a new service program for iphone fifteen plus models or IT says a very small percentage of devices may show no rear camera preview. This is the first iphone service program in several years, coming after the twenty twenty one service program for iphone twelve models that experience an area peace speaker problem. This new service program is for iphone fourteen plus models sold between April tenth of twenty twenty three and April twenty eighth of twenty twenty four potentially affect around a year of iphone fourteen plus models.

The device launched in september of twenty twenty two, so the issue didn't pop up until later on. In the devices life cycle, again, apple says the service program covers a very small percentage of devices, and you can check to see if your iphone fourteen plus is eligible by using the serial number checking tool at the link. And the show is below there ups up another episode of nine five mac daily.

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