**Apple's Latest Developments and Upcoming Releases**

Recently, there have been several developments and announcements regarding Apple's latest products and features. One of the most exciting news is the rumored new HomePod with a display on top. This new design is expected to make the device cheaper than its original price point, likely under $300. The addition of a touchscreen display will allow users to interact with the device in ways previously not possible, such as running shortcuts and performing tasks directly from the screen.

The new HomePod's display is also expected to be more advanced than previous models, allowing for smoother and more intuitive interactions. With its improved design and features, it's likely that this new HomePod will become a popular choice among Apple fans. The release date for this new device has not been officially announced, but based on recent rumors and reports, it's possible that we can expect to see it sometime later this year or early next year.

Another notable development is the upcoming Apple TV, codenamed "j255". This new model is expected to feature an A14 chip and an additional gigabyte of RAM, which could lead to improved gaming capabilities on the device. The new Apple TV is also rumored to be a more affordable option than previous models, with some reports suggesting that it will be cheaper than Roku or Chromecast.

The release date for this new Apple TV has not been officially announced, but based on recent rumors and reports, it's possible that we can expect to see it sometime later this year. The device is expected to feature a similar design to previous models, but with the added benefit of improved performance and affordability.

In other news, Apple has filed a patent for an advanced ultrasonic touch sensor technology that could be used in future AirPods models. This technology would allow users to control their devices even when wearing gloves or using wet hands, making it more accessible to people with disabilities or those who live in areas where water is present.

The development of this new technology is still in its early stages, and it's likely that we won't see these sensors used in AirPods models anytime soon. However, the potential benefits of this technology are significant, and Apple fans should be excited to see what the future holds for their favorite wireless earbuds.

In other news, Apple has reportedly failed to develop its own 5G modem chip after working on it for several years. According to recent reports, Qualcomm will remain the exclusive supplier for 5G chips in future iPhone models, with some estimates suggesting that Apple will only receive a 20% share of the market. This is a significant setback for Apple, which had hoped to develop its own 5G chip technology and cut ties with Qualcomm.

However, according to reports, Apple does plan to continue working on its own 5G chip technology in the future. It's possible that we can expect to see these chips used in future iPhone models sometime between 2024 and 2025. In the meantime, the lack of a homegrown 5G solution means that Apple will have to rely on Qualcomm's chips for at least the next few years.

Finally, demand for the upcoming iPhone 14 is already through the roof in China, with some retailers and scalpers reporting extremely high prepaid deposits for the device. According to recent reports, these deposits are significantly higher than those required for previous models, suggesting that the demand for the new iPhone is strong. Apple has also recently raised prices for current iPhones in Japan, which could be an indication of higher prices for future iPhone models.

Overall, it's been a busy week for Apple news and rumors, with several developments and announcements making headlines. From the rumored new HomePod to the upcoming Apple TV and AirPods, there's always something new to look forward to from Cupertino.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys my name is brandon and welcome back to apple weekly another week another round of software updates and a bunch of apple news so as we do every weekend we're going to discuss some more new features in ios 16 beta 2 along with talking about the performance and the battery life and after we talk about the software we're going to discuss why the next generation homepod is going to be much better than the original bad news about the apple watch series 8 why demand is already higher than usual for the iphone 14 how apple failed and more and as always if you guys want to stay updated with all things apple make sure to click that subscribe button down below so you don't miss next weekend's episode alright so as usual let's start off with even more ios 16 beta 2 features and changes so first up is visual lookup now works for insects so if i go into my photos right here and if i search for a bug you can see here i have a spider if i go ahead and swipe up you can see we now have a visual lookup and we get a new icon there for insects and it says look up the insect you will see the little icon on the bug right there as well if you go ahead and tap on that it will give us some results for what that insect is now we also have quite a few changes in the shortcuts application in ios 16 and the first thing i noticed is that shortcuts run much faster in ios 16 and specifically here on beta 2. so i'm going to go over to my shortcuts here i'm going to go to my view battery cycle and i'm going to do it on ios 15 here as well and by the way you'll see some differences here that i didn't mention in my original what's new video you could see on ios 15 it would show the amount of actions underneath of the name of the shortcut now on ios 16 you don't get that so it looks a lot cleaner not as cluttered all right so we're going to run the apple frames shortcut right here and take a look at how much faster this shortcut runs on ios 16 and compared to ios 15 and like i said i did also notice a boost here in beta 2. but take a look at this still waiting on ios 15 still waiting still waiting so you can see a big difference and especially like shortcuts with a lot of actions you will see a big difference like this one right here so literally it takes like half the amount of time if not even faster on ios 16. there we go finally and here's another one here's time machine if we go and tap on that you can see it pulls up on ios 16 and before it does on ios 15 not as big of a difference but there is still a difference also you'll notice up top the little ui here is much different as well i did not mean to save a screenshot right there because see up top there is a difference in the ui as well so we have the markup in the top right on ios 15. now on ios 16 it's down there and at the bottom right and you can just see a lot of things are kind of moved around here in ios 16. and then one last thing i just noticed is that if you press on something like amazon price history you will see on ios 15 it would say text up there in the top left because that was the action but now in ios 16 it just shows the name of the shortcut instead of that specific action so you can see there it says the name versus text over here on the left you'll also notice that the background is not near as blurred as it was on ios 15. there's a new dictation sound in ios 16 beta 2. so if you tap on dictation you will hear this is the new sound now if you were typing out something and you wanted to find a specific word you know every single time it showed up in a document normally you would go to the three dots right here and then go to find in notes and search for whatever you want to search for but there's another way to do that in ios 16. so if you select that word right there and you scroll down a little bit to find a selection it will pull up that menu right there that way you don't have to type it in when you go to the three dots right here and then go to find in note so just a quicker way to do that in the weather application you will now get this new little pop-up that says tap for more detail see hourly weather for the next 10 days so you will see that i got it when i changed cities so it wasn't like i hadn't used the feature before i just changed cities and it showed me that new pop-up and then speaking of weather we also have something new here so you can actually see that live right here i haven't even touched it so you can see it's still there but if you go to the day right here and you go to your precipitation so if you go to rainfall you will see that we now have different types of precipitation or rainfall down here so we have rain sleet mixed precipitation and snow so now it will break it down if it's snowing somewhere you know if it's snowing at one part of the day and raining at another part it will show that because it's color coordinated in the graph right there so it just breaks it down for a much more precise you know view of the weather and if we head back into safari and go to a shared tab group you can see up in the top right we now have little avatars for the people we are sharing that tab group with whereas before it just showed that little blue icon right there if you tap on that you will see a difference here as well so it's just laid out a little bit better we have some blue in there and if we go to manage shared tab group you can see the interface now takes up the entire screen whereas on beta 1 it just was this little pop out you could still see like that tab group in the background with everything kind of grayed out but now it takes up the entire screen right here it just looks a lot cleaner and at beta 2 you also have copy link now that was not there in beta 1 and if you go to share options you now have an adding people section right here if we head into the home application we have a nice little hidden feature here so if you go and haptic press on one of these icons right here and go to edit home view it puts you in jiggle mode but if you tap on it you actually now have the option to resize that specific element so for instance i can shrink this a little bit right there and i could do that for any of these if i want to make this one bigger i could just tap right there if i want to make both of these big i could do that you can see right there you could change between two different sizes for these little sections here and the whole map which is pretty cool it gives it more of a custom look you can kind of customize it to how you like in the watch application we have a few changes to the preview of the new watch faces so for instance you can see here for lunar it now shows a darker image than it did in beta 1 play time we have some different colors we have some greens and some blues in there for astronomy you can see slightly different there as well portraits we have a different image a different girl there and for modular you can see the gradient is kind of flipped and you can kind of see the differences better here under astronomy for the earth and the moon you can see just a different preview image right there and then one other thing i wanted to mention and it's not related to ios 16 but apple did just launch their apple community plus program at least to the public this was pretty under wraps beforehand it was only for select members but now this apple community plus program basically gives you perks for engaging and posting helpful things on the official apple forums so it is by invitation only as you can see right here and the rewards aren't really mentioned it just says that you get access to special perks white glove experiences and more but it's not very specific but this is pretty interesting if you are active in the community and you like to help on those forums now as far as bugs go i don't like to spend too much time talking about the bugs because you guys know it's an early beta they're expected but i did want to mention a few things and the first one is that sometimes when you go into a sleep mode if you go into your sleep focus mode right here your notifications will become kind of opaque so it's not happening right here it is a bug but sometimes they will be kind of faded and less opaque than they should be and that is definitely a bug that is not intended because it doesn't happen every single time but that is one thing i noticed when you go into a sleep mode it happened to me like once in the past week and then also if you were to delete a stock application like your weather you would not be able to install it again here in beta 2. so this is one thing that apple mentioned in the release notes and they said that the bypass to this or the work around is to connect to wi-fi and try installing it but quite a few people have said that once they remove like the weather application or the clock application they're not able to re-install it at all and then i've already mentioned all the other previous bugs i've been facing here in beta 2 in last week's apple weekly episode so none of those are any different here i have still been facing most of those and of course the apple music is one thing i have noticed has improved a lot since beta 1. apple music would crash a lot in beta 1. it's not as bad here in beta 2. it still does crash every once in a while but it's not near as bad i know some people also have banking apps that are still crashing again that is up to the developer of that application a lot of them do work but some of them will not that is intended you know that's how it works pretty much every single year people have issues with banking applications so that's always one thing to keep in mind but yeah anyways moving on to the performance and the battery life nothing has really changed since i talked about this last weekend the performance like i mentioned is pretty good i mean there are crashes that's not really something i would consider performance that's more of like a bug but the overall performance is actually pretty good i mean i think it's much better than ios 15 was at this stage even ios 14 or 13. i think this is one of the best i've seen in terms of overall performance really and battery life and i mentioned this on twitter as well we were you know kind of told that ios 16 would be this buggy mess that would be released later than usual like the public beta would come later than usual but it's really not been the case for me or most of you guys it's been pretty good so i really don't have too many complaints about the performance or the battery life here in ios 16 at least on beta 2. beta 1 was a nightmare beta 2 much much better than beta 1 both in terms of performance and battery life alright so now let's talk about what is next for apple so we are officially in july where has 2022 gone it's flying by but anyways we should be seeing ios 16 developer beta 3 next week so next week is a us holiday on monday the fourth of july but i don't think that's gonna stop apple from releasing anything that whole week so i do think next week is likely for ios 16 developer beta 3. i'm leaning more towards the sixth instead of the fifth for some reason but we should see it really any day next week i would say from the 5th through the 7th is the most likely now we should also see the public beta come the following week so apple does usually wait about a week sometimes a little less it could come that same week but it's usually a week after the developer beta so we could see the public beta the first public beta of ios 16 on the week of the 11th it could come right there on the 11th or it could come on the 12th or the 13th but i would expect it that following week and then as far as ios 15.6 goes we should see the rc build next week i would assume we're going to see rc next just because we could see the new macbook air on the 15th that is what rumors are saying if that's the case i do think we're going to see the rc next week and then the final 15.6 the following week on the 11th but of course that could be off by week it could be another beta next week then the rc then the final we'll have to wait and see all right so now let's move on to the latest apple news alright so first up let's talk about upcoming apple products more specifically products coming between the fall of this year and the first half of next year and we're not going to mention the arvr headset don't worry we've talked about that every single week you know pretty much for the past couple months but nothing is new this week so we're not going to talk about that instead let's talk about the upcoming apple watch se and the series 8. so according to german at bloomberg the apple watch se is going to be getting the same chip as the flagship apple watch for the first time ever of course the apple watch sc just came out but we're gonna see that same chipset as the flagship he said this so apple is preparing three new variations of the apple watch a new low end se a standard series eight and a rugged edition aimed at extreme sports for those hoping for a faster chip in this year's apple watch i'm told the series 8 chip will have the same specifications as the series 7. the sc will stick to the screen size of the current model but it may get the same s8 chip as the flagship series 8 watch an upgrade from the s5 in the current se from 2020 so that would be a huge upgrade for the se watch especially if it sticks to that same price point which german says it could take the price point of the series three since that of course is no longer being sold by apple and then for the series eight as you just heard the chipset inside is looking like it's gonna be the same as the series seven and if you remember the series seven also had the same chip as the series six so basically apple hasn't upgraded the chipset inside of the apple watch the flagship apple watch in two years and that's pretty strange and kind of makes me already begin to think that the apple watch se is going to be the best value of the bunch and then let's talk about the next homepod as well which funny enough this report came out right after i tweeted about wanting a new homepod soon so this same report says that a new regular-sized homepod is coming in the first half of 2023 so it says this the homepod co-named b620 will run the same s8 chip coming to the watches and will be closer to the original homepod in terms of size and audio performance rather than a new homepod mini the new homepod will have an updated display on top and there's even been some talk of multi-touch functionality so not only are we getting a new big homepod but it's also going to have a display up top that is going to be so much better it's probably going to be cheaper as well than the original homepod even with inflation and everything i cannot imagine that going for another you know 300 plus bucks so i think it's gonna be cheaper and it's gonna be so much better so i cannot wait for this new homepod especially if we can like do things and run shortcuts from that display on top i think that'll be awesome now we're also hearing that a new apple tv is on the way so it says this the new apple tv codenamed j255 is in development with an a14 chip and an additional gigabyte of ram that compares to the a12 chip announced as part of the 2021 apple tv last year and could be useful for additional gaming capabilities rolling out in tvos 16. now i would expect basically an identical design for this new apple tv but what i think everybody is more excited for is that cheaper apple tv stick to compete with roku and chromecast now we don't know if that's coming this fall or you know if it's coming next year but we should get the answers pretty soon if both are coming this fall now let's move on to a pretty interesting pattern that apple just recently filed and that is for an advanced ultrasonic touch sensor for the airpods pro and airpods max now what does that mean well it means that the higher end airpods would be able to perform better while wet or while wearing gloves so according to patently apple ultrasonic touch sensing systems can be less affected when conductive electrically floating liquids like water droplets or insulated objects like gloved fingers come into contact with its touch sensitive surface and you could read the article i will have it linked down in the description below but it does get pretty technical but this sounds awesome and it sounds like something that will take the airpods to the next level but we're still likely at least a couple years away from this i would not expect to see these sensors on the new airpods pro 2 coming later this year but it should get you hyped for the future of airpods and what they can do and then let's talk about how apple failed more specifically how they failed to develop their own 5g modem after working on it for the past several years so here's what ming chi quo recently had to say my latest survey indicates that apple's own iphone 5g modem chip development may have failed so qualcomm will remain the exclusive supplier for the 5g chips and 2023 iphones with a 100 supply share versus a previous estimate of 20 he continues by saying i believe apple will continue to develop its own 5g chips but by the time apple succeeds and can replace qualcomm qualcomm's other new businesses should have grown enough to significantly offset the negative impacts caused by the order loss of iphone 5g chips so basically qualcomm will now supply 100 of the chips for the 2023 iphone models rather than just 20 like expected but quo does expect apple to continue working on its own 5g chips so that they can cut out qualcomm completely but now it looks like that won't be happening until 2024 at the very earliest and then speaking of the upcoming iphones the demand for the iphone 14 is already through the roof for china according to quo he said this the demand for iphone 14 and the chinese market may be stronger than that of the iphone 13 my latest survey indicates that some chinese distributors retailers and scalpers have to pay the highest prepaid deposit ever for iphone 14 to ensure a sufficient supply implying the iphone 14 demand in the chinese market will likely be higher than expected at present the iphone 14 prepaid deposit is significantly higher than the iphone 13 and even twice as high in some areas the iphone 14 shipment forecast of component suppliers and ems is about 100 million and 90 million units in the second half of 2022 respectively and in japan apple just raised the prices of iphones by almost 20 we're talking about current iphones so this is likely due to the weaker currency against the dollar but it's also indicative of higher priced iphone 14s to come so there you have it guys that is the latest batch of apple news from this past week along with some additional new features and changes found in ios 16 beta 2. so if you guys enjoyed this video if you did i would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up also make sure to subscribe for more ius 16 and apple weekly coverage but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soon youwhat's up guys my name is brandon and welcome back to apple weekly another week another round of software updates and a bunch of apple news so as we do every weekend we're going to discuss some more new features in ios 16 beta 2 along with talking about the performance and the battery life and after we talk about the software we're going to discuss why the next generation homepod is going to be much better than the original bad news about the apple watch series 8 why demand is already higher than usual for the iphone 14 how apple failed and more and as always if you guys want to stay updated with all things apple make sure to click that subscribe button down below so you don't miss next weekend's episode alright so as usual let's start off with even more ios 16 beta 2 features and changes so first up is visual lookup now works for insects so if i go into my photos right here and if i search for a bug you can see here i have a spider if i go ahead and swipe up you can see we now have a visual lookup and we get a new icon there for insects and it says look up the insect you will see the little icon on the bug right there as well if you go ahead and tap on that it will give us some results for what that insect is now we also have quite a few changes in the shortcuts application in ios 16 and the first thing i noticed is that shortcuts run much faster in ios 16 and specifically here on beta 2. so i'm going to go over to my shortcuts here i'm going to go to my view battery cycle and i'm going to do it on ios 15 here as well and by the way you'll see some differences here that i didn't mention in my original what's new video you could see on ios 15 it would show the amount of actions underneath of the name of the shortcut now on ios 16 you don't get that so it looks a lot cleaner not as cluttered all right so we're going to run the apple frames shortcut right here and take a look at how much faster this shortcut runs on ios 16 and compared to ios 15 and like i said i did also notice a boost here in beta 2. but take a look at this still waiting on ios 15 still waiting still waiting so you can see a big difference and especially like shortcuts with a lot of actions you will see a big difference like this one right here so literally it takes like half the amount of time if not even faster on ios 16. there we go finally and here's another one here's time machine if we go and tap on that you can see it pulls up on ios 16 and before it does on ios 15 not as big of a difference but there is still a difference also you'll notice up top the little ui here is much different as well i did not mean to save a screenshot right there because see up top there is a difference in the ui as well so we have the markup in the top right on ios 15. now on ios 16 it's down there and at the bottom right and you can just see a lot of things are kind of moved around here in ios 16. and then one last thing i just noticed is that if you press on something like amazon price history you will see on ios 15 it would say text up there in the top left because that was the action but now in ios 16 it just shows the name of the shortcut instead of that specific action so you can see there it says the name versus text over here on the left you'll also notice that the background is not near as blurred as it was on ios 15. there's a new dictation sound in ios 16 beta 2. so if you tap on dictation you will hear this is the new sound now if you were typing out something and you wanted to find a specific word you know every single time it showed up in a document normally you would go to the three dots right here and then go to find in notes and search for whatever you want to search for but there's another way to do that in ios 16. so if you select that word right there and you scroll down a little bit to find a selection it will pull up that menu right there that way you don't have to type it in when you go to the three dots right here and then go to find in note so just a quicker way to do that in the weather application you will now get this new little pop-up that says tap for more detail see hourly weather for the next 10 days so you will see that i got it when i changed cities so it wasn't like i hadn't used the feature before i just changed cities and it showed me that new pop-up and then speaking of weather we also have something new here so you can actually see that live right here i haven't even touched it so you can see it's still there but if you go to the day right here and you go to your precipitation so if you go to rainfall you will see that we now have different types of precipitation or rainfall down here so we have rain sleet mixed precipitation and snow so now it will break it down if it's snowing somewhere you know if it's snowing at one part of the day and raining at another part it will show that because it's color coordinated in the graph right there so it just breaks it down for a much more precise you know view of the weather and if we head back into safari and go to a shared tab group you can see up in the top right we now have little avatars for the people we are sharing that tab group with whereas before it just showed that little blue icon right there if you tap on that you will see a difference here as well so it's just laid out a little bit better we have some blue in there and if we go to manage shared tab group you can see the interface now takes up the entire screen whereas on beta 1 it just was this little pop out you could still see like that tab group in the background with everything kind of grayed out but now it takes up the entire screen right here it just looks a lot cleaner and at beta 2 you also have copy link now that was not there in beta 1 and if you go to share options you now have an adding people section right here if we head into the home application we have a nice little hidden feature here so if you go and haptic press on one of these icons right here and go to edit home view it puts you in jiggle mode but if you tap on it you actually now have the option to resize that specific element so for instance i can shrink this a little bit right there and i could do that for any of these if i want to make this one bigger i could just tap right there if i want to make both of these big i could do that you can see right there you could change between two different sizes for these little sections here and the whole map which is pretty cool it gives it more of a custom look you can kind of customize it to how you like in the watch application we have a few changes to the preview of the new watch faces so for instance you can see here for lunar it now shows a darker image than it did in beta 1 play time we have some different colors we have some greens and some blues in there for astronomy you can see slightly different there as well portraits we have a different image a different girl there and for modular you can see the gradient is kind of flipped and you can kind of see the differences better here under astronomy for the earth and the moon you can see just a different preview image right there and then one other thing i wanted to mention and it's not related to ios 16 but apple did just launch their apple community plus program at least to the public this was pretty under wraps beforehand it was only for select members but now this apple community plus program basically gives you perks for engaging and posting helpful things on the official apple forums so it is by invitation only as you can see right here and the rewards aren't really mentioned it just says that you get access to special perks white glove experiences and more but it's not very specific but this is pretty interesting if you are active in the community and you like to help on those forums now as far as bugs go i don't like to spend too much time talking about the bugs because you guys know it's an early beta they're expected but i did want to mention a few things and the first one is that sometimes when you go into a sleep mode if you go into your sleep focus mode right here your notifications will become kind of opaque so it's not happening right here it is a bug but sometimes they will be kind of faded and less opaque than they should be and that is definitely a bug that is not intended because it doesn't happen every single time but that is one thing i noticed when you go into a sleep mode it happened to me like once in the past week and then also if you were to delete a stock application like your weather you would not be able to install it again here in beta 2. so this is one thing that apple mentioned in the release notes and they said that the bypass to this or the work around is to connect to wi-fi and try installing it but quite a few people have said that once they remove like the weather application or the clock application they're not able to re-install it at all and then i've already mentioned all the other previous bugs i've been facing here in beta 2 in last week's apple weekly episode so none of those are any different here i have still been facing most of those and of course the apple music is one thing i have noticed has improved a lot since beta 1. apple music would crash a lot in beta 1. it's not as bad here in beta 2. it still does crash every once in a while but it's not near as bad i know some people also have banking apps that are still crashing again that is up to the developer of that application a lot of them do work but some of them will not that is intended you know that's how it works pretty much every single year people have issues with banking applications so that's always one thing to keep in mind but yeah anyways moving on to the performance and the battery life nothing has really changed since i talked about this last weekend the performance like i mentioned is pretty good i mean there are crashes that's not really something i would consider performance that's more of like a bug but the overall performance is actually pretty good i mean i think it's much better than ios 15 was at this stage even ios 14 or 13. i think this is one of the best i've seen in terms of overall performance really and battery life and i mentioned this on twitter as well we were you know kind of told that ios 16 would be this buggy mess that would be released later than usual like the public beta would come later than usual but it's really not been the case for me or most of you guys it's been pretty good so i really don't have too many complaints about the performance or the battery life here in ios 16 at least on beta 2. beta 1 was a nightmare beta 2 much much better than beta 1 both in terms of performance and battery life alright so now let's talk about what is next for apple so we are officially in july where has 2022 gone it's flying by but anyways we should be seeing ios 16 developer beta 3 next week so next week is a us holiday on monday the fourth of july but i don't think that's gonna stop apple from releasing anything that whole week so i do think next week is likely for ios 16 developer beta 3. i'm leaning more towards the sixth instead of the fifth for some reason but we should see it really any day next week i would say from the 5th through the 7th is the most likely now we should also see the public beta come the following week so apple does usually wait about a week sometimes a little less it could come that same week but it's usually a week after the developer beta so we could see the public beta the first public beta of ios 16 on the week of the 11th it could come right there on the 11th or it could come on the 12th or the 13th but i would expect it that following week and then as far as ios 15.6 goes we should see the rc build next week i would assume we're going to see rc next just because we could see the new macbook air on the 15th that is what rumors are saying if that's the case i do think we're going to see the rc next week and then the final 15.6 the following week on the 11th but of course that could be off by week it could be another beta next week then the rc then the final we'll have to wait and see all right so now let's move on to the latest apple news alright so first up let's talk about upcoming apple products more specifically products coming between the fall of this year and the first half of next year and we're not going to mention the arvr headset don't worry we've talked about that every single week you know pretty much for the past couple months but nothing is new this week so we're not going to talk about that instead let's talk about the upcoming apple watch se and the series 8. so according to german at bloomberg the apple watch se is going to be getting the same chip as the flagship apple watch for the first time ever of course the apple watch sc just came out but we're gonna see that same chipset as the flagship he said this so apple is preparing three new variations of the apple watch a new low end se a standard series eight and a rugged edition aimed at extreme sports for those hoping for a faster chip in this year's apple watch i'm told the series 8 chip will have the same specifications as the series 7. the sc will stick to the screen size of the current model but it may get the same s8 chip as the flagship series 8 watch an upgrade from the s5 in the current se from 2020 so that would be a huge upgrade for the se watch especially if it sticks to that same price point which german says it could take the price point of the series three since that of course is no longer being sold by apple and then for the series eight as you just heard the chipset inside is looking like it's gonna be the same as the series seven and if you remember the series seven also had the same chip as the series six so basically apple hasn't upgraded the chipset inside of the apple watch the flagship apple watch in two years and that's pretty strange and kind of makes me already begin to think that the apple watch se is going to be the best value of the bunch and then let's talk about the next homepod as well which funny enough this report came out right after i tweeted about wanting a new homepod soon so this same report says that a new regular-sized homepod is coming in the first half of 2023 so it says this the homepod co-named b620 will run the same s8 chip coming to the watches and will be closer to the original homepod in terms of size and audio performance rather than a new homepod mini the new homepod will have an updated display on top and there's even been some talk of multi-touch functionality so not only are we getting a new big homepod but it's also going to have a display up top that is going to be so much better it's probably going to be cheaper as well than the original homepod even with inflation and everything i cannot imagine that going for another you know 300 plus bucks so i think it's gonna be cheaper and it's gonna be so much better so i cannot wait for this new homepod especially if we can like do things and run shortcuts from that display on top i think that'll be awesome now we're also hearing that a new apple tv is on the way so it says this the new apple tv codenamed j255 is in development with an a14 chip and an additional gigabyte of ram that compares to the a12 chip announced as part of the 2021 apple tv last year and could be useful for additional gaming capabilities rolling out in tvos 16. now i would expect basically an identical design for this new apple tv but what i think everybody is more excited for is that cheaper apple tv stick to compete with roku and chromecast now we don't know if that's coming this fall or you know if it's coming next year but we should get the answers pretty soon if both are coming this fall now let's move on to a pretty interesting pattern that apple just recently filed and that is for an advanced ultrasonic touch sensor for the airpods pro and airpods max now what does that mean well it means that the higher end airpods would be able to perform better while wet or while wearing gloves so according to patently apple ultrasonic touch sensing systems can be less affected when conductive electrically floating liquids like water droplets or insulated objects like gloved fingers come into contact with its touch sensitive surface and you could read the article i will have it linked down in the description below but it does get pretty technical but this sounds awesome and it sounds like something that will take the airpods to the next level but we're still likely at least a couple years away from this i would not expect to see these sensors on the new airpods pro 2 coming later this year but it should get you hyped for the future of airpods and what they can do and then let's talk about how apple failed more specifically how they failed to develop their own 5g modem after working on it for the past several years so here's what ming chi quo recently had to say my latest survey indicates that apple's own iphone 5g modem chip development may have failed so qualcomm will remain the exclusive supplier for the 5g chips and 2023 iphones with a 100 supply share versus a previous estimate of 20 he continues by saying i believe apple will continue to develop its own 5g chips but by the time apple succeeds and can replace qualcomm qualcomm's other new businesses should have grown enough to significantly offset the negative impacts caused by the order loss of iphone 5g chips so basically qualcomm will now supply 100 of the chips for the 2023 iphone models rather than just 20 like expected but quo does expect apple to continue working on its own 5g chips so that they can cut out qualcomm completely but now it looks like that won't be happening until 2024 at the very earliest and then speaking of the upcoming iphones the demand for the iphone 14 is already through the roof for china according to quo he said this the demand for iphone 14 and the chinese market may be stronger than that of the iphone 13 my latest survey indicates that some chinese distributors retailers and scalpers have to pay the highest prepaid deposit ever for iphone 14 to ensure a sufficient supply implying the iphone 14 demand in the chinese market will likely be higher than expected at present the iphone 14 prepaid deposit is significantly higher than the iphone 13 and even twice as high in some areas the iphone 14 shipment forecast of component suppliers and ems is about 100 million and 90 million units in the second half of 2022 respectively and in japan apple just raised the prices of iphones by almost 20 we're talking about current iphones so this is likely due to the weaker currency against the dollar but it's also indicative of higher priced iphone 14s to come so there you have it guys that is the latest batch of apple news from this past week along with some additional new features and changes found in ios 16 beta 2. so if you guys enjoyed this video if you did i would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up also make sure to subscribe for more ius 16 and apple weekly coverage but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soon you\n"