Apple March Event 23rd

Craigels

So now that Jon Prosser (Apple Leaker) has more or less confirmed that Apples March event will be help this year on March 23rd. He mentions that Air Tags, IPad Pro, Air Pods & Apple TV are ready.

Is all this is true what product or products are you wait to purchase? For me I'm definitely interested in the iPad Pro 12.9 inch with the updated mini led screen and updated chip.

shanec1928

assume the imac will be announced since that are running stock of it down

eeloe

Looking forward to seeing what’s announced, the new iMacs are going to be incredible with the M1.

I’m probably gonna pick up the new AirPods if they are a different design to my current pro’s and have some nice features.

A slightly better ANC experience would be nice.

Need a Username

I’m interested in the new AppleTV

I’m hoping they’ve added Spatial audio but that is probably unlikely

But the thing I want the most on AppleTV is an improvements in the TV app and iTunes app mobiie libraries. I really want a customisable library.

Leftwaffe

I love my AirPod Pros but if there is significant changes to the new models then I might invest. My pros are still quite new so I reckon I’d get a decent chunk for them.

askpt

I believe I’m waiting the most for the Apple TV with Thread (for HomeKit) support and better internals. I already feel the one I have is already slow executing some Arcade games.

Also I’m curious about AirTags. I currently own a few Tile devices but I could switch a few for AirTags since the iOS network is way bigger than the Tile network.

whippet

AirTags would be really nice - I have a few tiles that have died recently. Grant it as I don't go anywhere these days it isn't an issue

I just got the AirPod Max so I don't think herself would let me upgrade the AirPod Pros this time round !!

Depending on what the iMacs are like - I might consider swapping my Microsoft Studio Pro for one - but I am really liking the touchscreen / pen on the studio and I don't ever see Apple bringing touch to the MacOS

Need a Username

whippet wrote: »

AirTags would be really nice - I have a few tiles that have died recently. Grant it as I don't go anywhere these days it isn't an issue

I just got the AirPod Max so I don't think herself would let me upgrade the AirPod Pros this time round !!

Depending on what the iMacs are like - I might consider swapping my Microsoft Studio Pro for one - but I am really liking the touchscreen / pen on the studio and I don't ever see Apple bringing touch to the MacOS

Do you have an AppleTV ?

I would like to know what movies on AppleTV sound like with AirPods Max ?

Aquos76

Leftwaffe wrote: »

I love my AirPod Pros but if there is significant changes to the new models then I might invest. My pros are still quite new so I reckon I’d get a decent chunk for them.

Is there a market for second hand airpods though, personally I wouldn't put airpods from someone I didn't know into my own ears. I gave my old ones to my wife ok, but a stranger, I don't thing so.

andy.dunleavy

waiting for 14" macbook pro later in the year

Leftwaffe

Aquos76 wrote: »

Is there a market for second hand airpods though, personally I wouldn't put airpods from someone I didn't know into my own ears. I gave my old ones to my wife ok, but a stranger, I don't thing so.

I don’t know mate. I hope so. Mine are in perfect nick. Don’t use them much as I haven’t got time tbh with work and kids etc. But I have the original box, I never used the original in-ear pieces either so they’re completely clean. Also got a case and a pack of brand new foam ear tips for them, never opened.

I’d be hoping to get a decent sum tbh. I’d be skeptics buying them second hand on Adverts etc myself tbh. Maybe someone on here would be interested.

whippet

Need a Username wrote: »

Do you have an AppleTV ?

I would like to know what movies on AppleTV sound like with AirPods Max ?

I haven’t really tried it yet ... but I might give it a bash this weekend when I can ignore the kids for long enough

peteeeed

https://twitter.com/LeaksApplePro/status/1369642089387024386?s=20

lots of pics of the supposed airpod 3's doin the rounds

Leftwaffe

peteeeed wrote: »

https://twitter.com/LeaksApplePro/status/1369642089387024386?s=20

lots of pics of the supposed airpod 3's doin the rounds

Yeah I won’t be buying those....

The only reason I own the current pros is because of the in ear piece. All other AirPods fall out of my ears.

Edit: Actually... they’re just the regular version. I wonder the new Pros have an in ear piece still.

eeloe

Leftwaffe wrote: »

Yeah I won’t be buying those....

The only reason I own the current pros is because of the in ear piece. All other AirPods fall out of my ears.

Edit: Actually... they’re just the regular version. I wonder the new Pros have an in ear piece still.

I don't think they're going to be releasing pro's at this event, they'll probably be later in the year.

Doodah7

Thank God if those Airpods are real. I can’t wear the Pros as I seem to be allergic to the tips while my original Airpods are fine. Would definitely get these as an update if they don’t have the silicone tips.

Andrew76

Looking forward to seeing what they come out with in terms of the iPad Pro, more so the 11" - mini-LED, 8GB RAM and no price hike would be nice.

peteeeed

air pods 3 may not be coming out till the end of the year

https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/15/apple-airpods-3-not-launching-until-q3-says-kuo/

askpt

Now since the original HomePod was cancelled can we expect a “HomePod bar” in this March event?

eeloe

They've just released a new ad for AirPods Pro, so we can basically 100% expect that there WON'T be new AirPods Pro at this event.

Gregor Samsa

askpt wrote: »

Now since the original HomePod was cancelled can we expect a “HomePod bar” in this March event?

Apple said in their statement "We are focusing our efforts on HomePod mini". It seems like quite a specific statement to me. I think if they were going to replace the HomePod with something, they'd do it at or after the announcement of the replacement. This has all the appearances of a streamlining of the lineup, not an expansion.

That said, it is surprising that they've left a gap regarding Atmos. I guess they'll want to fill that somehow (a new device, or support added to the HomePod Mini, or the long shot of extending Siri support to other devices like Sonos) at some point.

They could do with upgrading Siri, Alexa is light years ahead when it comes to assistants.

Leftwaffe

PespiChallenge wrote: »

They could do with upgrading Siri, Alexa is light years ahead when it comes to assistants.

That’s a fact.

eeloe

PespiChallenge wrote: »

They could do with upgrading Siri, Alexa is light years ahead when it comes to assistants.

What do you think they could improve upon?

I use siri a lot, and to be honest it's pretty good.

If you mean that alexa has "skills", there is the whole shortcuts community for Siri that really does open it all up!

Aquos76

In my experience Siri gets far to much wrong, especially when trying to compose messages. Also I have a number of smart devices set up around the house and I find Alexa gets them every time where as Siri does not.

I also find that Siri responds when I ain’t even speaking to it, I have ‘hey Siri’ set up but I often get it responding to me for no reason.

Gregor Samsa

Aquos76 wrote: »

I also find that Siri responds when I ain’t even speaking to it, I have ‘hey Siri’ set up but I often get it responding to me for no reason.

This happens to me about 3 times a day, and it's driving me nuts. Mainly on my Apple Watch, but sometimes on my phone too. Siri suddenly coming to life when I say something on a phone call or to someone in person that sounds nothing like "Hey Siri". It was amusing the first time, but it's getting to be a real pain now.

Aquos76

Yep, I’ve since disabled it on my watch, tried disabling it on the phone also, but CarPlay doesn’t work without it enabled.

Gregor Samsa

eeloe wrote: »

What do you think they could improve upon?

I use siri a lot, and to be honest it's pretty good.

If you mean that alexa has "skills", there is the whole shortcuts community for Siri that really does open it all up!

Even Skills aside, I don't think Siri is a patch on Alexa, which is a pity, because I'd instinctively prefer to be using Apple's assistant.

Ask Siri for a recipe, and it comes back with "here's what I found on the web", and a couple of links. Ask Alexa for a recipe, and it offers to send it to your phone, or read it to you. If you choose it to read it to you, it first gives you a summary of how long the dish takes to make, and automatically breaks it down into ingredients and then technique. It's the same for many other instruction based things you ask - Siri just leaves you with a web search, Alexa acts like you'd expect a smart voice assistant should.

I find Siri very slow to control my Hue lights too. Ask Siri to turn off the bedroom light, there's a long pause followed by something like "Coming right up", another pause, and then the light goes on. I'd be as quick going over to the switch. With Alexa, the command is executed instantly without any unnecessary banter.

awec

Siri is fairly mediocre.

It is quicker and more efficient to just open your phone and do whatever you want to do.

Agent Coulson

Siri feels like it was made in the 1980’s and some how survived to be around in the 21st century compared to Alexa who actually works smart and works like it’s from the 21st century.

askpt

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

I find Siri very slow to control my Hue lights too. Ask Siri to turn off the bedroom light, there's a long pause followed by something like "Coming right up", another pause, and then the light goes on. I'd be as quick going over to the switch. With Alexa, the command is executed instantly without any unnecessary banter.

This can be related with your home network as well. Until I upgraded to a proper router system my Home devices were slow to respond. Currently it’s at normal speed.

Aquos76

askpt wrote: »

This can be related with your home network as well. Until I upgraded to a proper router system my Home devices were slow to respond. Currently it’s at normal speed.

If that was the case then Alexa would be affected, I have a mesh system in my house and I get consistent speeds of 500mb+ throughout the whole house and thats on both 2.4 and 5ghz bands, and i find Siri terrible compared to Alexa and Google also actually. My young lad uses Google hub and thats very responsive also

Gregor Samsa

askpt wrote: »

This can be related with your home network as well. Until I upgraded to a proper router system my Home devices were slow to respond. Currently it’s at normal speed.

As above, I have a TP Link Deco M9 mesh network with three access points. Blazing speed and stability for every other device and service in the house. Now, I'm not saying that Siri/HomeKit isn't sensitive to network quality, but there's very little I could upgrade to.

Oafley Jones

I've said it before, but Siri is the primary reason I didn't buy a HomePod. And CarPlay is the daily reminder that hammers home that message. Siri is absolute frustrating to use. I'd estimate nearly half of my interactions with Siri are a failure. There's nothing smart about it. Alexa on the other hand is a joy to use.

askpt

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

As above, I have a TP Link Deco M9 mesh network with three access points. Blazing speed and stability for every other device and service in the house. Now, I'm not saying that Siri/HomeKit isn't sensitive to network quality, but there's very little I could upgrade to.

With a good mesh network is really impossible to blame the network. Regarding Alexa, I may be wrong, but I believe it connects using Alexa skill to Philips Hue web service and it makes a little bit “faster”? Between the lights and hub it’s ZigBee so not really related with the assistant you use.

Currently I only have HomeKit devices and Homebridge exposing a few. The only “lag” I found it’s with LG TV (HomeKit native but not that reliable).

P.S.: I don’t use Alexa (just tested a few times) so I can be wrong with this assumption.

TitianGerm

Guys would you buy a 2020 iPad Air this week for €550 or hold off and see what's announced this week?

Craigels

TitianGerm wrote: »

Guys would you buy a 2020 iPad Air this week for €550 or hold off and see what's announced this week?

Hold off

Leftwaffe

TitianGerm wrote: »

Guys would you buy a 2020 iPad Air this week for €550 or hold off and see what's announced this week?

Hold off and see, it’s only a few days. But there absolutely nothing wrong with the Air 2020. Great devices and will be for years if you bought it.

Think it’s only new iPad Pros for this event? The upgrades in the iPads will be minuscule from what I’m reading. New screen, chip and port I think. Have the latest Pro as of now and it’s an unbelievable device. They’re running out of room for improvement.

TitianGerm

Leftwaffe wrote: »

Hold off and see, it’s only a few days. But there absolutely nothing wrong with the Air 2020. Great devices and will be for years if you bought it.

Think it’s only new iPad Pros for this event? The upgrades in the iPads will be minuscule from what I’m reading. New screen, chip and port I think. Have the latest Pro as of now and it’s an unbelievable device. They’re running out of room for improvement.

I've cancelled my order for the 2020 Air. It was discounted on Amazon the other day to £470 and the price is what caught my eye.

Doodah7

iPad Air 4 will not be updated. It was only released last October!!

The updates will likely be the iPad Pro 2020 (it's spec is now quite similar to the Air 4) and a new iPad mini.

£470 was a fantastic price for the Air 4. Unlikely to be that price again as it was more than a £100 below retail. 20% off an Apple RRP is almost unheard of for the latest version of one of its products. You should have held on to it. You have three months to return to Amazon in the unlikely event that something new does come along.

TitianGerm

Doodah7 wrote: »

iPad Air 4 will not be updated. It was only released last October!!

The updates will likely be the iPad Pro 2020 (it's spec is now quite similar to the Air 4) and a new iPad mini.

£470 was a fantastic price for the Air 4. Unlikely to be that price again as it was more than a £100 below retail. 20% off an Apple RRP is almost unheard of for the latest version of one of its products. You should have held on to it. You have three months to return to Amazon in the unlikely event that something new does come along.

I can't get it now as the order has been cancelled. It was coming in at €549 using Revolut.

Doodah7

TitianGerm wrote: »

I can't get it now as the order has been cancelled. It was coming in at €549 using Revolut.

Yeah too late once cancelled. That would have been a saving of €130 off the Irish price or just under 20%. Even the refurbished price (which they haven't started yet as the device is so new) will never go that low.

eeloe

All reports are suggesting that this event has been postponed and pushed out to April.

Is it wrong that i was really looking forward to this, damn lockdown...don't really have much else to look forward to, eh?

Leftwaffe

eeloe wrote: »

All reports are suggesting that this event has been postponed and pushed out to April.

Is it wrong that i was really looking forward to this, damn lockdown...don't really have much else to look forward to, eh?

Any reason why?

Gregor Samsa

Leftwaffe wrote: »

Any reason why?

Looks like the March date was misinformation. I wonder were Apple trolling Jon Prosser (and other leakers), who often says he'll shave off his eyebrows if the leaks he breaks aren't true.

https://twitter.com/jon_prosser/status/1372343185364647936


https://twitter.com/jon_prosser/status/1372130203590352899

radiotrickster

Anyone think the April event will have AirPods? I was gonna buy the wireless charging case ones in January and said I'd hold off until the rumoured March Apple event, but now I'm seeing reports that AirPods won't be updated until quarter 3 which is too long a wait.

Noxegon

radiotrickster wrote: »

Anyone think the April event will have AirPods? I was gonna buy the wireless charging case ones in January and said I'd hold off until the rumoured March Apple event, but now I'm seeing reports that AirPods won't be updated until quarter 3 which is too long a wait.

For what it's worth – the current AirPods are a really good product.

The left ear in my first set stopped working properly after about two years of (ab)use, and I took that as an opportunity to upgrade to AirPods Pro. The noise cancelling in these (and the ability to turn it off temporarily when you need to) is magnificent.

Even if Apple bring out new ones I really can't see myself upgrading.

In short, if you want them now, I'd suggest buying them now

radiotrickster

Noxegon wrote: »

The left ear in my first set stopped working properly after about two years of (ab)use, and I took that as an opportunity to upgrade to AirPods Pro. The noise cancelling in these (and the ability to turn it off temporarily when you need to) is magnificent.

Even if Apple bring out new ones I really can't see myself upgrading.

Thanks a mil! I’m looking at getting the standard ones this weekend. I’ve never found any sort of earphones with soft tips to sit right in my ear, and my partner let me test his wireless earphones today. I tried all the tips that came with his and they just weren’t for me.

I’ve been hesitant on getting AirPods for years but it feels like everyone has them now, so I’m gonna take the plunge!

Leftwaffe

Noxegon wrote: »

For what it's worth – the current AirPods are a really good product.

The left ear in my first set stopped working properly after about two years of (ab)use, and I took that as an opportunity to upgrade to AirPods Pro. The noise cancelling in these (and the ability to turn it off temporarily when you need to) is magnificent.

Even if Apple bring out new ones I really can't see myself upgrading.

In short, if you want them now, I'd suggest buying them now

The noise cancellation on the Pros is an incredible feature. I couldn’t see myself ever having headphones without them now.

eeloe

I’d give it another week or two and see if the event is actually happening in April.

I’d wait, be kickin yourself buying a set now and a new set could be released so soon.

radiotrickster

eeloe wrote: »

I’d give it another week or two and see if the event is actually happening in April.

Haha, I literally just went and bought my pair this morning! Maybe I'll hold off on opening them up, just in case.