“I don’t really think 2016 was a particularly great year for anybody. Why would any year that starts with the losses of Lemmy and David Bowie be anything other than awful?” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “Apple felt it too, and it will take even more corporate courage for the company as it moves into another year of transition in 2017.”
“Apple’s new spaceship-shaped campus is expected to open for business next year with around 12,000 employees moving to the new office,” Evans writes. “We don’t yet have a huge selection of available 4K content, but it seems inevitable. Apple is in the position to kick start this with iTunes, UHD movie rentals (big broadband only) and 4K support in Apple TV.”
“The Apple Watch needs to be a connected product to truly shine. It needs its own SIM. Once it has that you can predict a range of new medical sensors and services, and FaceTime camera,” Evans writes. “iPads will all go Pro. I am hoping for an iPad Pro Mini, which I think would be popular, However, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks the company will offer 9.7-inch, 12.9-inch and10.5-inch iPad Pros, with the smallest model being a lower powered version. I hate that idea, by the way, as it adds an unnecessary level of complexity for no compelling reason that I can see.”
Many more predictions in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: 2016 was actually a great year, even for Apple. iOS 10 and macOS Sierra are significant improvements (after – ahem! – a few point releases) and we got the stellar iPhone 7 Plus (in gorgeous Jet Black, no less) and the new AirPods (which even shipped a few units before Christmas) hinting at a post-iPhone world. The new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models are excellent, as are the Apple Watch Series 2, Apple Watch Nike+ and watchOS 3. Apple’s Services business revenue skyrocketed and, most importantly, Apple stood up to U.S. government overreach protecting everyone’s privacy rights in the process!
That said, we expect Apple to execute better in 2017 and the sooner they finally get their asses into the spaceship and eliminate that massive distraction the better!
Fewer ports and everything thinner?????
Just guessing.
2016 was a particularly great year for every American citizen and the rest of the free world, whether they realize it yet or not.
• There are 3,141 counties in the United States.
• Trump won 3,084 of them.
• Clinton won 57.
• Clinton won California by 4.2 million votes and New York by 1.6 million, running up the score in places where she would have won regardless.
• Outside of those two states, Trump won the rest of the country by 3 million votes.
• There are 62 counties in New York State.
• Trump won 46 of them.
• Clinton won 16.
• In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton only won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond)
• Therefore these 5 counties alone more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.
• These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles.
•The race was to win electoral votes. Both campaigns were geared to do so, Popular vote totals were meaningless. Trump did not try to win the popular vote. He knew the rules and won by them.
• Citing popular vote totals signifies that you are trying to change the rules of the game AFTER you’ve lost, like a three-year-old.
• You lost. Stop making yourself look even stupider. Or don’t. We don’t care. We’re too busy preparing to annihilate Obama’s litany of bullshit and stack the Supreme Court with conservatives for decades to come.
• The United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles.
• When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election.
• Large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc) don’t and shouldn’t speak for the rest of our country.
Hence, the nearly divine wisdom of the founding fathers in creating the Electoral College.
See a neurologist. Your obsessive BS is completely irrelevant and inappropriate to the discussion and does not belong here. You only expose yourself and your obvious lack of credibility. Also, get help.
About those 2017 Macs- we’ll see. Hopefully.
You better check your facts. LOL
http://www.snopes.com/trump-won-3084-of-3141-counties-clinton-won-57/
2014 offers us another trip to the Factfree Zone. Clinton carried 57 counties in Texas and Georgia alone, let alone the other 48 states plus DC. That is not to say that Trump did not legitimately carry the Electoral College, only that it was far from the landslide that his supporters have claimed. Facts matter. You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts when they differ from verifiable reality.
I didn’t read any of this thread, but when I saw snopes, I had to comment.
I do not trust snopes. They have been proven to be vindictive when challenged and shown to be wrong.
Snopes seems to be correct an overwhelmingly large percentage of the time. However, like Wikipedia, the key part of it is the citing of sources.
If you hadn’t ignored the thread, but instead looked at what was said and why Snopes was referenced, you’ll easily see that this was not only a case where Snopes corrected a foolishly false statistic, but provided numerous citations of credible sources and info that’s easily verified.
Correction: “The Associated Press finds that Clinton won 487 counties nationwide, compared with 2,626 for President-elect Donald Trump.”
As in most any argument with a Dem/Lib/Prog and their various strawmen, my original point remains exactly the same.
You lose Dem/Lib/Prog. You’re all really good at that. 🙂
Under Obama, the Democrats have lost over 900 state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, and 13 Senate seats. The Obama legacy is total failure. The Democrat Party is merely a regional party by all rational definition.
The Republican Party controls the governor’s office and both chambers of the state legislature, a governing trifecta in 24 U.S. states vs. the Democrats with only 6 (Wash., Ore., Calif., Hawaii, Del., and R.I.)
At the federal level, the Republican Party owns the governing superfecta:
1. Presidency
2. Senate
3. House
4. Supreme Court
In 2018, the Republican Party is poised to exceed 60 seats, a supermajority sufficient to stop a filibuster, assuming filibusters still exist at that time.
Enjoy the Trump administration and the coming decades of a conservatively-stacked Supreme Court. I certainly will.
Snopes and facts in the same sentence? LOL That’s the one with the guy who embezzled $100k to buy whores right? http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/21/snopes-co-founder-accused-of-embezzling-company-money-spending-it-on-prostitutes/
It is even better than what you relate. Wait until the next Senate election in two years. That, plus what already exists will be the greatest Republican domination in over 100 years.
This is a site about Apple news, so shut the fsck up with your right-wing political rants. We all lost this election: we now have a sociopathic time-bomb ready to sell-out to whomever gives him the “best deal”. His lies about “draining the swamp” and being the great populist will soon haunt all of those supporters who stand to lose their healthcare, medicare, social security, and freedom of speech.
Take your fascist crap elsewhere.
Your comment has no relevance to this article, but I’ll comment on it anyway.
I live in California and last I heard, we’re still part of the United States. Trump represents the greatest threat to American liberty since World War II. He uses fear, envy and hate to propagate his message. If you don’t believe, listen to his words on the campaign trail.
He used the rhetoric of the hate book Elders of Zion in his speeches. He said that he would register people based on their faith. If anything is more un-American than that, I’m not aware of it.
He used the tired rhetoric of blaming foreigners for our problems when actual illegal immigration is down. He called Mexicans rapists and said that a judge on his fraud case was biased against him because the judge was Mexican by ancestry, but American by birth.
He is a divider and believes that winning is more important than how you win. America is about the how.
Trump is a disgrace and I am ashamed that he is my President.
Right on, 2016 may go down as one of the best years in American history. The neo-communist left be damned.
I expect less advancement in consumer electronics, more frustration with buggy softwares, unending excuses and promises from Apple.
Rose gold some where new, 2 sims and curved OLED in iPh, increased thinness across the product line and iteration continuing to replace innovation. (I guess I shouldn’t be so caustic during the Holiday Season.)
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2017 is the year that 12,000 people move into the donut office. Who here believes Apple is going to have time and focus to impress us with refreshing replacements to all the stale hardware currently sitting on Apple Store shelves?
Here’s what I expect product line by product line:
Apple Watch: more ads, more bands, more OS tweaks.
Apple TV: minor software tweaks only, perhaps drop the 32GB model. New ATV 4K model in 2018.
Airport: sell out inventory, dead. Dumb move, Apple.
iPod Shuffle: dead (dumb move, as it’s ideal for workouts) Should instead have a waterproof model to replace it that clips easily onto swim goggles, bike helmets, etc.
iPod Nano: dead (dumb move, as it was ideal for kids, camping, and other lightweight needs. Should be updated with better screen, more battery, faster processor, and 64 GB memory)
iPod Touch: hard to say here. Apple will probably update it toe be largely common with iPhone 5E components.
iPad mini: no change, end of year 2017 discounting ahead of 2018 refresh
iPad 9.7″: no change, end of year 2017 discounting ahead of 2018 refresh
iPad 12.9″: no change, end of year 2017 discounting ahead of 2018 refresh
iPhone SE: no change before late 2018 / early 2019 replacement
iPhone 6S, 6S+: no change, will sell till they are gone in early/mid 2018
iPhone 7, 7+: : roll to S models with modest refresh
iPhone 8: instead of replacing the existing 6S/7 iPhones, this new one is a special edition with more glass, another 0.5mm shaved off, fewer ports, a special finish, and a very high price. home button integrated into display for “TouchID Anywhere”. Every time you pick up your phone, special accelerometers will have to guess whether you wanted to unlock it or not. New emoji and slight speed bump on A11 processor. Ive video tells everyone it is the clearest impression yet of the future of computing. Limited production with special Ive-designed packaging.
Mac Mini: minor refresh only
iMacs: minor refreshes only
trashcan Mac Pro: minor refresh only, cheapened with plastic housing and middling Core processors to be remarketed as a home PC. All USB-C ports plus ethernet.
12″ MacBook: no change
MacBook “Pro”: no change
*NEW STUFF*
2017 Mac Pro – a rectangular workstation returns, designed by someone other than Ive who will remain nameless. It will nevertheless be a narrow-focus machine with minimal user expansion options and a high price tag. Apple will be too cheap to include any keyboard or other peripherals but at least it will have current CPUs and GPUs and room for a PCI card and more than one internal drive.
minor updates to Carplay, security patches to all the OSes, more cable adapters. No all-new accessories or Macs.
No words — not even “Pipeline” or “Roadmap” for AR or VR or Apple Car or Apple Pay or iTunes.
Ive is finally shuffled out the door so he can devote more time to charity events.
*What we want but won’t ever get*
– all new 17″ MacBook Pro that is as thick as the old one and faster than ever, with better battery life under hard use than any Apple portable.
– Apple buys Here and completely revamps its distant 4th-place Maps offering
– Apple buys IX Quick or DuckDuckGo or a bunch of firesale Yahoo assets and dramatically improves its search capabilities, kicking Google off of iOS and Mac for good.
– Apple offers new NAS Personal Cloud lineup so people can have their own cloud instead of relying on iCloud By Google as they do today.
– Apple dramatically improves Mac app store, providing more freedom and more incentives to get the best developers on board.
– Apple rolls out all-new MacOS (with a capital M) that is underpinned by all new, more efficient file system.
– Apple ditches Lighting, incorporates USB-C across the board, and gives away all the free adapters you need with every purchase to ease the transition.
– Apple buys Nintendo and starts migration of Apple TV from a weak video rental box to a full fledged gaming + video set top box that outperforms Sony and Microsoft by all measures. Apple abandons app management hell and just provides a simple, clean IMDB-like search engine where the user can get whatever he wants, and Apple will deliver it at the resolution the user wants, for either predictable flat a la carte pricing or a modest monthly subscription. No Live TV, no exclusives, just the world’s greatest collection of cinema and classic series — no regional restrictions, totally worldwide distribution.
– Finally, we wish Ahrendts and Cook would retire with Ive, to be replaced by people much more in touch with average and pro users, and much more passionate about the usability of products within the entire ecosystem, not just the superficial look of their consumer fashion models.
Mike.
I read every word and agree with just about everything you just said.
After a succession of extremely disappointing keynotes from Apple I set my bar low in October and braced for the worst, and STILL was disappointed.
I expect 2017 to be more of the same. Software wise I think macOS is going to remain as clunky and backwards as it has always been, Siri will stay stupid and iCloud will remain as slow and clumsy as ever.
Innovation at Apple is officially dead.
I wish we had better things to hope for, but that seems pretty reasonable Mike. My expectations might even be lower.
Apple just keeps getting more bloated and slow, putting all its efforts into incremental iPhone updates and letting the entire rest of the company product lines rot. What a way to squander the talents of the house that Jobs built.
In my case, there are certain things we must have in my house, and where Apple seems to be missing the boat. Let’s hope they change their ways int 2017:
ISP — it comes in via cable, ISP provided modem offers gigabit ethernet. How many products is Apple going to remove the ethernet jack from? All of them?
Router — okay, so since Apple thinks all things must be wireless, we need a router. Does one get a 4 year old Apple design or does one get the latest meshing multichannel models from the competition? Apple just hasn’t kept pace. Extreme doesn’t cover the house and Express is only N, not worth getting anymore. Really want new Airports with better coverage and speed.
Desktop — we love photography so photo editing needs a big screen. We really like the 5K iMac and it does most of what we need, except I want a bigger screen or a matching second screen. Apple doesn’t offer either. Mac Pro is overpriced and Mini is slow sealed junk. I would really like to have had something that offers future expansion and am worried since the iMac is not future proofed as a machine and Apple currently is in the mode of removing features rather than adding them, then the first thing that goes wrong means we’d have to replace it with a hackintosh or another iMac is identical to what we have today. Zero real improvements to the desktop Mac lineup in 2+ years.
Wifey loves to have a computer with her when we travel. It’s a Lenovo running Windows 7 because she thinks MacBooks are too expensive and don’t have the ports she likes for her cameras and stuff. Now with the 2016 MBP, I have no evidence to prove her wrong. For her needs, the MBP would be a huge step backwards in useability. Apple just isn’t even trying to get Windows users to switch.
iPad – got it for Wifey’s birthday. She looks up weather and stuff on an iPad Air2. I have grown to hate it, she doesn’t use it for anything but lightweight surfing. It probably won’t be replaced when it dies.
iPhones – we each have a 6. hers has only a few apps on it. Mine is loaded with tons of apps. Neither of us is interested in the slighest in moving to iPhone 7 because we have lots of legacy peripherals with old stereo jacks – cars, mobile speakers, B&W Zeppelin, mini stereo at the office. Seriously thinking of getting an iPhone 6S just to stave off the transition a while longer.
iPods – got a few, used all the time for the gym. don’t want to carry a big screen phone when you’re sweaty and moving. They are ready for replacement but we aren’t going to buy until Apple updates the ones on sale now or drops the price. By now faster A chips should be available, right??? When Apple???
Apple Watch, TV — we played around with our friends’ units. not impressed at all. Just don’t see the value in another gadget.
Television + BluRay + antenna — serves up all the media we want without app hassle. Apple doesn’t compete on total price or convenience.
Looked at the Apple store this year Xmas shopping, and for the first time ever I saw nothing at all that interested me. Nothing. We can only hope Apple has something new in store for 2017.
So sad! The magic died with Jobs.
So – it turned out it was not Jonathan Ives and his team that added the magic after all. They are clueless without the guiding hand.
Jony: Please leave Apple now.
More Fwhatever and his cronies. Fwhatever is a very poor loser and an even poorer winner. And this site is sliding even further downhill. It is fast turning into BreitbartDailyNews.
“Apple Watch . . . needs its own SIM”
Yea, that’s what I want. To pay two monthly internet charges instead of just one.