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Apple Event - 9/9/15 - crystal ball gazing

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Most know that Apple is having a launch event next week - we're expecting new iPhones/iPads/AppleTV, and the rumour mills are churning hard... yeah it's hit's on the Apple crack pipe maybe...

The neglected children in their product line - Airports... and Airports have always been decent router/AP's that are somewhat vendor agnostic...

I'm actually thinking we might see an Airport Extreme AC2600 - might be Broadcom, but could be QC/Atheros... but we could be surprised with a Marvell solution - Apple has used all three vendors in their solutions over the years...

And the Airport Express - it's showing it's age - the current one is QCA based as an N600 class device, dropping in an 802.11ac 5GHz radio supporting AC867 could put it into the AC1200 class with the current SoC, but would be good to see the AP Express get GiGE... but perhaps moving the Express back to Broadcom (iDevices are all BRCM except for the 1st gen iPod Touch, which was Marvell)

Software... not that anyone cares unless you track apple builds...

Apple's done a lot of development on iOS for HomeKit, and iOS is Darwin (XNU) plus FreeBSD - the current Airport builds (7.6.x for express, 7.7 for ExtremeAC) are NetBSD based, but moving forward, perhaps they move the Airports into the darwin realm to support HomeKit and their iCloud stuff...
 
hehe - you should give a darn...

Seriously - and it's a good thing if Apple jumps into the MU-MIMO AC2600 pool...
 
But Apple as a rule doesn't care much about standards or interoperability unless it benefits their profit motive.
To wit Thunderwire et al, iPhone/iPad without USB, etc.

But, hey, it's just my personal perspective.
My wife has iPhone, iPad - because her friends told her these were the best - don't look at anything else, no matter the 2x, 3x price.

Apple excels at demographic-targeted marketing. Usually.
Way back, I got hired on contract to do a hard disk driver for the Lisa. That was the first time I could take a mouse and draw electronic graphics. I was amazed.
But then, I'd not been to Silicon Valley to see the originals.
 
A lot of their stuff is standards compliant. Actually if you look at their wifi products, Apple products typically support many more standards than anyone else in the consumer space. 802.11r as an example.

My biggest pet peeve with Apple is that their routers do not support a web based admin utility. That combined with their airport utility for windows being about 8 years out of date...

It would be nice to see the express updates with 11ac and a GbE port(s).
 
azazel1024 said:
A lot of their stuff is standards compliant. Actually if you look at their wifi products, Apple products typically support many more standards than anyone else in the consumer space. 802.11r as an example.

My biggest pet peeve with Apple is that their routers do not support a web based admin utility. That combined with their airport utility for windows being about 8 years out of date...
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Well, the solution is to buy a Mac? :confused:
 
sfx2000 said:
The neglected children in their product line - Airports... and Airports have always been decent router/AP's that are somewhat vendor agnostic...

I'm actually thinking we might see an Airport Extreme AC2600 - might be Broadcom, but could be QC/Atheros... but we could be surprised with a Marvell solution - Apple has used all three vendors in their solutions over the years...

And the Airport Express - it's showing it's age - the current one is QCA based as an N600 class device, dropping in an 802.11ac 5GHz radio supporting AC867 could put it into the AC1200 class with the current SoC, but would be good to see the AP Express get GiGE... but perhaps moving the Express back to Broadcom (iDevices are all BRCM except for the 1st gen iPod Touch, which was Marvell)
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After doing some inventory checking online and stopped by the Apple store on Saturday, I'm thinking we won't see an update to the Airports on 9/9 - everyone seems to have plenty of stock...

So what folks are suggesting in the rumour stream

iPhone 6s/6sPlus
iPadMini 4
iPad Pro (unlikely, but who knows)
AppleTV 4th Gen
iMac Retina on the 21.5" (4k screen)

Product Line Refresh - but apple is due for a PL refresh on some of the older products - esp Macs as many are still on Haswell/IvyBridge - The Airs and rMBP 13 were bumped to broadwell last spring with the MacBook One release...

Skylake/Broadwell refresh perhaps on rMBP 15"?
Mini to Broadwell (maybe since Airs went to Broadwell on last product line refresh)
Retina Thunderbolt Display (27"@5K, 21.5"@4k?)
iMac to Skylake or Broadwell

I'll leave the Airports on this list, but again, unlikely

Some products might be dropped - 27" non-Retina iMac, 13" MacBook Pro (non-Retina)

SW - much expected here after the WWDC stuff earlier this summer...

iOS9/ATV8,
OSX 10.11,
Watch OS 2.0
new iTunes,
iLife/iWork app updates,
iCloud update,
HomeKit official release
xCode update for new OS SDK's and features
 
Yeah, lot of missed, dash hopes, tattered rainbows and unicorn tears, lol...

Ipad Pro - yep

ATV4 - yep - this will be interesting - apple never wanted to be a gamer platform, but the independent developers thought elsewise... anyways, nice to see it turn from a hobby to a platform - remote is nice, btw...

WatchOS 2 - meh

iPad Mini 4 - this is pretty cool - iPad Air A8 gubbins, but they changed the physical dimensions - they're now forgiven for the iPad Mini 3... killing off the last of the iOS zombies (nixing the iPad Mini 1), and putting a strong foundation for iOS 9 (note, now all iOS is 64 bit on A7 or later)

Some iCloud business improvements - basically cheaper..

No new Airports, no new Macs - the sorrow, some of these are pretty old in the product lineup.

So next Spring (2016) as this is their last big event for the year.. follow the money - iPhones, iPads, aWatches, that's where their focus is these days... they tossed a bone in 2015 with the MacBook One to the Mac folks, along with OS X 10.11...

timelines for iOS 9, OS X 10.11 - all good...

iTunes, iCloud, OS App Store - still the same train wreck...
 
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