An anonymous Twitter account with a fairly accurate track record has shared details about several Apple products that are supposedly under development, MacRumors notes. Many of the items listed by the leaker have not been extensively rumored until now, including a new iPad Air with under-the-screen Touch ID, an ARM-based 12-inch MacBook, and an Apple game controller by 2021.
the new iPad Air will be using the mini led screen, comes with full screen with no notch, not Face ID，but Touch ID under the screen
— 有没有搞措 (@L0vetodream) March 10, 2020
Apple is developing their own game controller
— 有没有搞措 (@L0vetodream) March 8, 2020
大致布局应该是这样的：
airpods 3lite
apple tv
airtag
iPhone9 A13
imac
macbook 12 arm
mac mini
ipad pro 11 12.9 tof
airpods X头戴式耳机
无线充电板
homepod lite
ipad air4 全面屏11寸带指纹
ipad 2020 A12
游戏手柄
iPhone12 lite
iPhone12 6.1
iPhone12 pro 6.1
iPhone12 pro 6.7— 有没有搞措 (@L0vetodream) March 12, 2020
All four “iPhone12”can support 5g networks，the baseband is come from qualcomm，and have a brand new color“Navy blue”
— 有没有搞措 (@L0vetodream) March 19, 2020
In recent weeks, the account has noted that some products and components have been delayed, including the new iMac models and the A14 chip.
in my dream iMac delay
— 有没有搞措 (@L0vetodream) March 29, 2020
Apple's chip A14 from TSMC ——delay
— 有没有搞措 (@L0vetodream) April 19, 2020
The same Twitter account accurately revealed several details about the new iPhone SE before any other leakers that we know of, including that the device would launch in the second week of April and come in three storage capacities. Likewise, the account accurately claimed that new iPad Pro models would launch in the third week of March.
MacDailyNews Take: This account had been remarkably accurate in the past, so the possibility that some very cool new stuff along with a paradigm-shifting product like an Apple-designed ARM-based Mac are on the way despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic!
And, by they way, gaming on Apple TV, iPad, and Mac with a game controller is the only way to go. We’d love to see what Apple can do with a game controller that works across their lineup of tvOS, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS products.
All of that + new MicroLED will make for a very nice iPad Pro redesign in fall 2020 or spring 2021!
-10000000 Made in China
Yes, true. China has spent the last 30 or 40 years developing and refining their world class manufacturing and assembly capabilities as well as related infrastructure. Any meaningful shift away from China (to India, Vietnam, Taiwan, etc…) will take 10 or 20 years, but it will happen (to some degree). This move was underway even before the “virus which shall not be named by its place of origin” was exported around the globe.
iPad Air and AirPods launching tougher early May would seem to make sense. Get everything out of the way before WWDC and sole focus on an all-new MBP w/ARM processor launch, for singular media focus and for Devs to get their heads around.
Glad to hear about an iPad Air as it had been quiet on that front, and as that is the model I was lining up to buy. I will now wait as I am in no rush.
Great to see the return of Touch ID. Face ID hasn’t been very useful from behind a mask.