Everything you need to know about NEW iPad Air, Apple Watch Series 6, Apple One & More!

The A14 Chip: Apple's New Powerhouse

The latest news from Apple is that they're working on a new chip, dubbed the A14, which is expected to be released alongside the iPad Air. The A14 chip is significant because it's the first chip to be manufactured on a five-nanometer process, which should result in improved power efficiency and battery life. This is particularly important for Apple devices, as battery life has been a major point of contention in recent years.

The A14 chip retains the same basic structure as the A13 chip, with two performance cores and four efficiency cores, as well as a four-core GPU. However, it's worth noting that these specifications are being compared to the previous generation iPad Air, not the latest models. Apple is touting significant improvements in CPU performance, graphics, and machine learning capabilities, but we'll need to see the actual product itself before we can get a better sense of just how much of an upgrade this new chip represents.

Despite the modestly sized upgrade, it's clear that Apple is committed to making their devices more efficient and sustainable. The A14 chip should result in significant improvements in battery life, which could be particularly interesting on the iPad side of things. This is because Apple has been facing increasing competition from Android devices, many of which offer longer battery life due to their larger batteries.

One feature that's worth noting about the A14 chip is the increased number of cores in the Neural Engine. Apple claims that this will result in a 40% faster CPU, 30% better graphics, and 70% faster machine learning capabilities. However, it's not clear exactly how these improvements will manifest themselves in real-world usage.

The iPad Air: A Design Conundrum

One of the most interesting aspects of the A14 chip is its placement within the broader context of Apple's product lineup. The new iPad Air is essentially a stripped-down version of the 11-inch iPad Pro, with many of the same features and specs. However, it lacks the Face ID camera and pro motion display that are found on the Pro model.

The question becomes: why would you choose to buy the iPad Air when you could spend $600 on a used 2018 iPad Pro? The answer may lie in the price difference between the two devices. As we mentioned earlier, Apple is expected to release an iPhone with Apple Silicon Max chip later this year, which may also affect consumer demand for the latest and greatest iPad Air.

For now, it seems that the iPad Air's design is meant to appeal to those who want a more affordable option without sacrificing too much in terms of performance. However, as we see how well the new chip performs in real-world usage, it will be interesting to see if this strategy pays off for Apple.

Touch ID and the Future of Biometric Authentication

One feature that's been noticeably absent from Apple devices is Touch ID, a fingerprint-scanning system that was previously found on the iPhone 5s. However, it appears that Touch ID may make an appearance on future Apple products.

In fact, our insider sources have confirmed that the upcoming iPad Air will indeed come with Touch ID in the home button, which could be a major selling point for consumers who prefer this type of biometric authentication system. The question is: when can we expect to see Touch ID on iPhones?

Insider Information: iPhone 12 Cases Reveal No Touch ID

Despite our earlier speculation about Touch ID's return, it appears that Apple may have other plans in mind. According to a recent report from our sources, the official specifications for upcoming iPhone 12 cases reveal no mention of Touch ID. Instead, they suggest that the new phone will feature an in-display fingerprint scanner or a traditional power button with no fingerprint sensor.

This information has left some fans disappointed and wondering if Apple is truly committed to reviving the Touch ID system. However, it's worth noting that these are just official specs for iPhone 12 cases, and we may yet be surprised by the final product when it launches later this year.

The iPad Air: A Tightrope Walk

One of the most interesting aspects of the new iPad Air is its design. While it retains many of the same features as the 11-inch iPad Pro, including a larger screen size and similar overall dimensions, it's clear that Apple is walking a tightrope when it comes to pricing.

With a starting price of $599, the iPad Air is positioned directly between the 7th-gen iPad and the 11-inch iPad Pro. However, as we mentioned earlier, the iPad Pro offers several features that make it worth considering for those who want more. These include Face ID, pro motion display, and more storage.

The question becomes: what exactly sets the new iPad Air apart from its competitors? Is there a specific reason to choose this device over others on the market? Only time will tell.

Conclusion

That's all for now. As we wait for the actual product itself and more information about the A14 chip, it's clear that Apple is committed to making their devices more efficient and sustainable. Whether or not these efforts will pay off in terms of consumer demand remains to be seen.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso today was apple's september 15th time flies event and just like we thought they introduced new apple watches and ipads so in today's video we're going to go over everything that was announced today but i'm not just going to regurgitate all the same information that you either saw when you watched the keynote or saw in one of i'm sure 48 million other videos like this that you're going to see today so today i'm going to give you the highlights give you my take on it and we'll talk about what we should expect next month in october all right so the first thing that most people are probably wondering right now is what the heck where was iphone 12 i hate to be the one to say it again but you know we kind of told you since apple announced this event last tuesday people have been cautioning us that there won't be iphone 12 at the event so it didn't exactly come as a surprise but as you would expect with the internet people got all worked up and thought that it was going to happen anyway and then it didn't and then they were really disappointed so nice going there internet so what did apple announce at today's event well they announced two new apple watches and two new ipads as well as two new subscription services so let's start with the apple watch apple watch series 6 has basically the same design as the series 5 and as the series 4 which is also the same design as the series 5. so the design didn't change the only thing that changed visually is two new case colors there's a dark blue which i suspect is going to be a strong foreshadow for this year's iphones and also a product red which i think looks really tasty and accompanying the new cases are new watch bands there's a solo loop silicon and a solo loop braided these are basically stretchy bands that don't have a clasp and there's also a redesigned leather band that i think looks really nice actually now internally the series 6 did see some upgrades as well we have a new apple silicon chip the s6 which is based on the a13 it's a dual core chip so it's based on two of the high efficiency cores taken from an a13 chip and it should offer better performance as well as better battery life it also allows the series 6 to have a brighter display which means that if you're outdoors you won't have to do as much of this if you want to look at your apple watch i just triggered siri go away there's also a new blood oxygen sensor which fires infrared lights into your wrist and can measure the amount of oxygen in your blood it takes about 15 seconds and apparently can help measure your cardiac and respiratory help and of course as with all of apple's health initiatives on their fitness aspect of the apple watch they have launched like a million different new studies to i don't know learn more medical stuff i don't pretend to know exactly what it means or remember what exactly the studies would do but i do appreciate that apple takes the time to not just develop products but also figure out how they can be implemented and figure out how to use them to improve people's wellness speaking of improving people's wellness and specifically your kids wellness about not being lost seamless transition there's a new family setup mode which basically allows you to pair a whole bunch of apple watches to a single iphone and then if you have a bunch of kids you can slap some apple watches on them and then it allows you to do stuff like messaging notifications and location tracking in case they're always running off and getting lost in order to use this feature you need a series 4 or newer apple watch with cellular connectivity so if you have five kids it's probably going to be pretty expensive if you want to use this feature but maybe it's not quite as expensive as you were thinking because now we have a new apple watch se this is something that a lot of us have been looking forward to and i think is going to be a big big seller basically the apple watch se is the same body as a series 4 a series 5 and a series 6 but with the internals of a series 5 no ecg no blood oxygen sensor and no always on display it starts at 279 and it comes with the option for gps and cellular as well so i think that's going to be a really big seller the fact that it's the same form factor with the same much larger and nicer screen than the uh series three apple watch which they're still selling for 199. i think it's a really good price point and it's a really good feature set because quite frankly i think there are a lot of people who aren't particularly interested in the ecg or the blood oxygen sensor and basically just want like a nicer fitbit and that's kind of what the apple watch se is so i think a lot of people are going to be getting that for christmas or hanukkah this year speaking of fitness man i'm really on a roll with these transitions today apple has announced fitness plus which uh looks odd so it's it's 9.99 a month or 79.99 for a full year and it's uh as far as i can tell it's to work out videos but you can watch them on your apple tv on your ipad and on your macbook your your apple watch sends data to the screen and it and it shows up on the screen while you're working out and they're going to add a bunch of new work out so i guess it's kind of just like expensive youtube videos is a way to think about it it does sync with apple music though which is nice and you get three months free if you buy an apple watch so if you're as confused as i am you can just buy one of these new apple watches and find out just be sure to cancel the subscription if you don't actually want it now speaking of subscriptions funny that you should mention this apple one was also announced today a lot of people have been predicting this i know greg from greg's gadgets he's been predicting this for quite a while today it was proven to be a reality the basic plan is 14.95 a month and that comes with apple music apple tv plus apple arcade and 50 gigabytes of icloud storage at six dollars a month less than you would pay if you bought all those individually or you can step it up to the family plan for 19.95 a month which allows you to share it with five other people and bumps the icloud storage to 200 gigabytes and then finally the big boy is the premiere version for 29.95 a month that adds in news plus and fitness plus later this year and then bumps the icloud storage to two terabytes i don't even know what i would do with two terabytes of icloud storage it seems to me like the family plan is going to be the best option for most people because it gives you you know you can share it with people a decent amount of icloud storage i personally though i'm not going to get either of those because right now i pay three bucks a month for 200 gigabytes of icloud storage and i pay 10 bucks a month for apple music so i don't really see the need to spend an extra two dollars a month for well apple arcade and less storage anyway the stuff that some of you are probably more interested in are the new ipads the first thing to get an update was the 329 dollar ipad this was actually a very significant update it keeps the same design but gets a substantial power bump with an a12 chip this is a huge upgrade from the a10 fusion that was in the outgoing model so to give you an idea of how how substantial that actually is the a12 has the six core bionic design so it's got two high performance cores and four efficiency cores the a10 chip which was first introduced in the iphone 7 has two high performance cores and two efficiency cores but it's important to remember that that was a fusion chip not bionic which means that you could only use the performance cores or the efficiency cores you couldn't use all four simultaneously this makes an already great value device almost irresistible save for just one thing my only major gripe with the previous generation 10.2 inch ipad was well for one it had the a10 fusion which is no longer a concern but they still only give you 32 gigabytes for that base price you have to pay an extra 100 to bump it up to 128 gigabytes i would have appreciated like a middle ground option so paying 50 to get 64 gigs that would have probably been a good sweet spot but as it stands 32 gigabytes it's a little bit light these days granted it has an a12 and it's 300 bucks which is like insanely cheap so i don't know let me know in the comments below if you think 32 gigabytes is okay at that price point or if you think they should add a 64 gigabyte option and then we have the big boy from today's event the ipad air now i'll admit i was wrong i thought that this thing would not have an a14 this was kind of a surprise to most of us who have been analyzing and predicting this event we did not expect an a14 chip now to be fair to myself the reason that i did not expect an a14 in the ipad air is because there is only been one time that apple introduced their silicon in an ipad before an iphone and that was the original ipad 10 years ago it was also the original apple silicon chip so it was definitely an exception not the rule but now we have another exception and that is a14 in the new 2020 ipad air given that the runtime of today's event was literally almost exactly an hour i suspect that the iphone was originally going to be at today's event but they couldn't justify announcing it in september when it wouldn't even be shipping until late october or november now some people would point out that the iphone 10 was announced in september and shipped in november but the iphone 8 was announced then as well and it was available you know on the normal schedule so to have both iphones the the 12 and the 12 pro coming out more than a month after the event i understand why they chose to wait but anyway that a14 chip looks pretty interesting it's the first chip on a five nanometer process which should be really really good for power efficiency and battery life so we're definitely gonna have to keep our eye out for the battery life on the ipad air besides that it retains the same basic structure as the a13 two performance cores plus four efficiency cores and a four chord gpu but now we double the neural engine from eight to sixteen cores apple is touting forty percent faster cpu thirty percent better graphics and seventy percent faster machine learning but it's important to note that that is in comparison to the previous generation ipad air with an a12 that's not comparing it to an a13 so we're gonna need a lot more information and probably the actual product itself before we can see how much better a14 is than a13 now it definitely does seem like this year's performance improvements are a little bit more modest than we had expected but don't necessarily lose hope about apple silicon i wouldn't draw any conclusions from that in terms of what we are expecting in in the ipad pro the a14x next year and the apple silicon max coming out later this year in october i mean quite frankly how much power do you really need in an ipad air or in an iphone like i have an iphone 11 pro and an iphone se and i've never noticed them being slow same with my iphone 10s max with an a12 like they're not slow chips you don't necessarily need more power where this does translate is in more battery life so i think that could be really interesting especially on the ipad the other thing that the ipad added was touch id in the home button that i think is actually going to be very interesting and i'm really hoping that at some point we'll get that on the iphone as well i don't think that's going to come out this year because well i've got some uh some insider information for you guys i do have my hands on some iphone 12 cases that were made apparently with the official specifications and i don't think there's going to be touch id in the power button make sure you're subscribed and we'll probably have another video at some point where we go into those cases and hopefully some iphone 12 dummy units but as far as the ipad air is concerned i think this is a very interesting tightrope that apple is walking because obviously the design is extremely similar to the 11-inch ipad pro in fact the ipad air is 10.9 inches so it's only 0.1 of an inch smaller in terms of the screen size than the ipad pro it's also very similar in terms of overall dimensions it's a couple of millimeters narrower exactly the same height and 0.2 millimeters thicker than the 11 inch ipad pro so most of the difference in screen size manifests itself as thicker bezels though not by much so so the big question for me is why would you buy the 11 inch ipad pro because what exactly does it offer well it offers face id instead of touch id it offers pro motion it offers more storage 128 gigabytes versus 64. and it offers the ultra wide camera and lidar sensors so four features of arguable importance for two hundred dollars i'm not sure where it gets really interesting though is when you consider a used 2018 ipad pro so you can get those for about 600 bucks and at the same price i would probably go for that and get promotion we'll have to find out in person though i'm trying to get my hands on a 2018 11 inch ipad pro and i'm going to be reviewing the ipad air when it's available in october so make sure you're subscribed to see that and leave a comment down below suggesting which color i should go for i think i'm i got my eye on the blue one so today's event was definitely interesting a lot of great stuff and i understand why some people were maybe a little bit disappointed but frankly if you were surprised that's on you october is going to be really really interesting we've got airpods studio in the works which i have seen and they look amazing we've got air tags on the way iphone 12 apple silicon max it's going to be a lot of fun so make sure you're subscribed because i'll be talking about all of it so with that i'd like to thank you all for watching this video don't forget to like comment and subscribe follow me on twitter lukemiani and don't forget to check out my twitch channel and my subreddit both of which are linked in the description below and with that i'll see you all in the next video youso today was apple's september 15th time flies event and just like we thought they introduced new apple watches and ipads so in today's video we're going to go over everything that was announced today but i'm not just going to regurgitate all the same information that you either saw when you watched the keynote or saw in one of i'm sure 48 million other videos like this that you're going to see today so today i'm going to give you the highlights give you my take on it and we'll talk about what we should expect next month in october all right so the first thing that most people are probably wondering right now is what the heck where was iphone 12 i hate to be the one to say it again but you know we kind of told you since apple announced this event last tuesday people have been cautioning us that there won't be iphone 12 at the event so it didn't exactly come as a surprise but as you would expect with the internet people got all worked up and thought that it was going to happen anyway and then it didn't and then they were really disappointed so nice going there internet so what did apple announce at today's event well they announced two new apple watches and two new ipads as well as two new subscription services so let's start with the apple watch apple watch series 6 has basically the same design as the series 5 and as the series 4 which is also the same design as the series 5. so the design didn't change the only thing that changed visually is two new case colors there's a dark blue which i suspect is going to be a strong foreshadow for this year's iphones and also a product red which i think looks really tasty and accompanying the new cases are new watch bands there's a solo loop silicon and a solo loop braided these are basically stretchy bands that don't have a clasp and there's also a redesigned leather band that i think looks really nice actually now internally the series 6 did see some upgrades as well we have a new apple silicon chip the s6 which is based on the a13 it's a dual core chip so it's based on two of the high efficiency cores taken from an a13 chip and it should offer better performance as well as better battery life it also allows the series 6 to have a brighter display which means that if you're outdoors you won't have to do as much of this if you want to look at your apple watch i just triggered siri go away there's also a new blood oxygen sensor which fires infrared lights into your wrist and can measure the amount of oxygen in your blood it takes about 15 seconds and apparently can help measure your cardiac and respiratory help and of course as with all of apple's health initiatives on their fitness aspect of the apple watch they have launched like a million different new studies to i don't know learn more medical stuff i don't pretend to know exactly what it means or remember what exactly the studies would do but i do appreciate that apple takes the time to not just develop products but also figure out how they can be implemented and figure out how to use them to improve people's wellness speaking of improving people's wellness and specifically your kids wellness about not being lost seamless transition there's a new family setup mode which basically allows you to pair a whole bunch of apple watches to a single iphone and then if you have a bunch of kids you can slap some apple watches on them and then it allows you to do stuff like messaging notifications and location tracking in case they're always running off and getting lost in order to use this feature you need a series 4 or newer apple watch with cellular connectivity so if you have five kids it's probably going to be pretty expensive if you want to use this feature but maybe it's not quite as expensive as you were thinking because now we have a new apple watch se this is something that a lot of us have been looking forward to and i think is going to be a big big seller basically the apple watch se is the same body as a series 4 a series 5 and a series 6 but with the internals of a series 5 no ecg no blood oxygen sensor and no always on display it starts at 279 and it comes with the option for gps and cellular as well so i think that's going to be a really big seller the fact that it's the same form factor with the same much larger and nicer screen than the uh series three apple watch which they're still selling for 199. i think it's a really good price point and it's a really good feature set because quite frankly i think there are a lot of people who aren't particularly interested in the ecg or the blood oxygen sensor and basically just want like a nicer fitbit and that's kind of what the apple watch se is so i think a lot of people are going to be getting that for christmas or hanukkah this year speaking of fitness man i'm really on a roll with these transitions today apple has announced fitness plus which uh looks odd so it's it's 9.99 a month or 79.99 for a full year and it's uh as far as i can tell it's to work out videos but you can watch them on your apple tv on your ipad and on your macbook your your apple watch sends data to the screen and it and it shows up on the screen while you're working out and they're going to add a bunch of new work out so i guess it's kind of just like expensive youtube videos is a way to think about it it does sync with apple music though which is nice and you get three months free if you buy an apple watch so if you're as confused as i am you can just buy one of these new apple watches and find out just be sure to cancel the subscription if you don't actually want it now speaking of subscriptions funny that you should mention this apple one was also announced today a lot of people have been predicting this i know greg from greg's gadgets he's been predicting this for quite a while today it was proven to be a reality the basic plan is 14.95 a month and that comes with apple music apple tv plus apple arcade and 50 gigabytes of icloud storage at six dollars a month less than you would pay if you bought all those individually or you can step it up to the family plan for 19.95 a month which allows you to share it with five other people and bumps the icloud storage to 200 gigabytes and then finally the big boy is the premiere version for 29.95 a month that adds in news plus and fitness plus later this year and then bumps the icloud storage to two terabytes i don't even know what i would do with two terabytes of icloud storage it seems to me like the family plan is going to be the best option for most people because it gives you you know you can share it with people a decent amount of icloud storage i personally though i'm not going to get either of those because right now i pay three bucks a month for 200 gigabytes of icloud storage and i pay 10 bucks a month for apple music so i don't really see the need to spend an extra two dollars a month for well apple arcade and less storage anyway the stuff that some of you are probably more interested in are the new ipads the first thing to get an update was the 329 dollar ipad this was actually a very significant update it keeps the same design but gets a substantial power bump with an a12 chip this is a huge upgrade from the a10 fusion that was in the outgoing model so to give you an idea of how how substantial that actually is the a12 has the six core bionic design so it's got two high performance cores and four efficiency cores the a10 chip which was first introduced in the iphone 7 has two high performance cores and two efficiency cores but it's important to remember that that was a fusion chip not bionic which means that you could only use the performance cores or the efficiency cores you couldn't use all four simultaneously this makes an already great value device almost irresistible save for just one thing my only major gripe with the previous generation 10.2 inch ipad was well for one it had the a10 fusion which is no longer a concern but they still only give you 32 gigabytes for that base price you have to pay an extra 100 to bump it up to 128 gigabytes i would have appreciated like a middle ground option so paying 50 to get 64 gigs that would have probably been a good sweet spot but as it stands 32 gigabytes it's a little bit light these days granted it has an a12 and it's 300 bucks which is like insanely cheap so i don't know let me know in the comments below if you think 32 gigabytes is okay at that price point or if you think they should add a 64 gigabyte option and then we have the big boy from today's event the ipad air now i'll admit i was wrong i thought that this thing would not have an a14 this was kind of a surprise to most of us who have been analyzing and predicting this event we did not expect an a14 chip now to be fair to myself the reason that i did not expect an a14 in the ipad air is because there is only been one time that apple introduced their silicon in an ipad before an iphone and that was the original ipad 10 years ago it was also the original apple silicon chip so it was definitely an exception not the rule but now we have another exception and that is a14 in the new 2020 ipad air given that the runtime of today's event was literally almost exactly an hour i suspect that the iphone was originally going to be at today's event but they couldn't justify announcing it in september when it wouldn't even be shipping until late october or november now some people would point out that the iphone 10 was announced in september and shipped in november but the iphone 8 was announced then as well and it was available you know on the normal schedule so to have both iphones the the 12 and the 12 pro coming out more than a month after the event i understand why they chose to wait but anyway that a14 chip looks pretty interesting it's the first chip on a five nanometer process which should be really really good for power efficiency and battery life so we're definitely gonna have to keep our eye out for the battery life on the ipad air besides that it retains the same basic structure as the a13 two performance cores plus four efficiency cores and a four chord gpu but now we double the neural engine from eight to sixteen cores apple is touting forty percent faster cpu thirty percent better graphics and seventy percent faster machine learning but it's important to note that that is in comparison to the previous generation ipad air with an a12 that's not comparing it to an a13 so we're gonna need a lot more information and probably the actual product itself before we can see how much better a14 is than a13 now it definitely does seem like this year's performance improvements are a little bit more modest than we had expected but don't necessarily lose hope about apple silicon i wouldn't draw any conclusions from that in terms of what we are expecting in in the ipad pro the a14x next year and the apple silicon max coming out later this year in october i mean quite frankly how much power do you really need in an ipad air or in an iphone like i have an iphone 11 pro and an iphone se and i've never noticed them being slow same with my iphone 10s max with an a12 like they're not slow chips you don't necessarily need more power where this does translate is in more battery life so i think that could be really interesting especially on the ipad the other thing that the ipad added was touch id in the home button that i think is actually going to be very interesting and i'm really hoping that at some point we'll get that on the iphone as well i don't think that's going to come out this year because well i've got some uh some insider information for you guys i do have my hands on some iphone 12 cases that were made apparently with the official specifications and i don't think there's going to be touch id in the power button make sure you're subscribed and we'll probably have another video at some point where we go into those cases and hopefully some iphone 12 dummy units but as far as the ipad air is concerned i think this is a very interesting tightrope that apple is walking because obviously the design is extremely similar to the 11-inch ipad pro in fact the ipad air is 10.9 inches so it's only 0.1 of an inch smaller in terms of the screen size than the ipad pro it's also very similar in terms of overall dimensions it's a couple of millimeters narrower exactly the same height and 0.2 millimeters thicker than the 11 inch ipad pro so most of the difference in screen size manifests itself as thicker bezels though not by much so so the big question for me is why would you buy the 11 inch ipad pro because what exactly does it offer well it offers face id instead of touch id it offers pro motion it offers more storage 128 gigabytes versus 64. and it offers the ultra wide camera and lidar sensors so four features of arguable importance for two hundred dollars i'm not sure where it gets really interesting though is when you consider a used 2018 ipad pro so you can get those for about 600 bucks and at the same price i would probably go for that and get promotion we'll have to find out in person though i'm trying to get my hands on a 2018 11 inch ipad pro and i'm going to be reviewing the ipad air when it's available in october so make sure you're subscribed to see that and leave a comment down below suggesting which color i should go for i think i'm i got my eye on the blue one so today's event was definitely interesting a lot of great stuff and i understand why some people were maybe a little bit disappointed but frankly if you were surprised that's on you october is going to be really really interesting we've got airpods studio in the works which i have seen and they look amazing we've got air tags on the way iphone 12 apple silicon max it's going to be a lot of fun so make sure you're subscribed because i'll be talking about all of it so with that i'd like to thank you all for watching this video don't forget to like comment and subscribe follow me on twitter lukemiani and don't forget to check out my twitch channel and my subreddit both of which are linked in the description below and with that i'll see you all in the next video you\n"