Official Apple Watch Dock, iPad Pro and Apple Pencil Tidbits, Rumors on New 4-Inch iPhone and Apple Watch 2 - MacRumors

Apple Launches Magnetic Apple Watch Dock for $79 After some leaked photos showed up early in the week, Apple on Wednesday officially introduced its $79 Magnetic Charging Dock for the Apple Watch. While the company has recently featured a few third-party Apple Watch docks online and in its retail stores, this marks the first dock of its own for the wrist-worn device. The new dock has a flat circular shape with a charging puck in the center, similar to some other recent third-party docks. Apple's dock, however, allows watches to be charged either laid flat across the charger or on the side for Nightstand mode by taking advantage of a hinge that allows the charging puck to be flipped up into a vertical position.   Read Full Article Popular Stories Nov 19, 2015 iPad Pro's Lightning Port Supports USB 3.0 Transfer Speeds, New Adapters in the Works Following last week's launch of the iPad Pro, we've continued to learn more about the device and its capabilities. One tidbit is that the Lightning port in the iPad Pro supports faster USB 3.0 transfer speeds, which will make it easier to transfer data to and from the device. New adapters will, however, be required and Apple has yet to release them. Other iPad Pro news includes a display shootout comparing the quality of the iPad Pro and iPad mini 4 displays to that of the iPad Air 2, and comments by Tim Cook reiterating Apple's position that it has no intention of converging the Mac and iPad product lines, even as the iPad Pro potentially opens the door for more people to go iPad-only for their computing needs. Finally, a number of iPad Pro users have reported their devices becoming unresponsive after charging. In a new support document, Apple has acknowledged that it is aware of the issue and investigating it, while providing users with instructions on how to perform a force restart as an interim fix.   Read Full Article Hands-On With the iPad Pro Apple Pencil Two of the iPad Pro's key accessories, the Apple Pencil and the Smart Keyboard, have been in extremely short supply since the device's launch last week, with many early customers still awaiting delivery and current online orders being quoted 4-5 week shipping estimates. Meager supplies have been trickling into some Apple retail stores for walk-in customers, and we've gotten our hands on one and put together a video overview of the new stylus. In other Apple Pencil news, we've seen one of iFixit's traditional teardowns showing off the guts of the accessory with its tiny folded logic board carrying a handful of chips, and several testers have put the Apple Pencil up against Microsoft's Surface Pen to compare the two devices. Jony Ive has also spoken a bit more about the Apple Pencil, noting it's not envisioned as a replacement for finger-based input on touchscreen devices.   Read Full Article New 4-Inch iPhone Again Predicted to Launch in 2016 A new version of Apple's 4-inch iPhone remains the focus of some rumors this week, with another analyst claiming Apple is aiming to introduce the device in 2016. Yet another rumor claims the device is ready to go whenever Apple elects to launch, but conflicts with some other rumors by claiming it is based on A8 chip rather than the state-of-the-art A9 chip from the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus that has been rumored for the so-called "iPhone 6c."   Read Full Article Some Mac App Store Apps 'Damaged' Due to Expired Security Certificate Last week, a number of users found themselves unable to open apps previously downloaded from the Mac App Store due to some changes Apple made on its end with security certificates. The changes resulted in a number of questions and complaints directed at developers, leading to confusion over what was happening and who was responsible. Apple reverted some of its changes relatively quickly to address the issue, and this week began contacting developers to explain what happened, describe how it fixed the problem, and encourage developers to upgrade to more recent communications protocols for certificates to ensure compatibility going forward.   Read Full Article Quanta Reportedly Developing Next-Gen Apple Watch for 2016 Launch Apple and its manufacturing partner Quanta are reportedly working toward a 2016 debut for the next-generation Apple Watch, with rumors pointing toward a similar second-quarter launch timeframe as seen of the original device. Apple is reportedly also looking to bring on another manufacturing partner to assist Quanta with production on the device, helping to spread the load and increase available supplies. With increased supplies, Apple may be able to accelerate the international rollout of the second-generation Apple Watch, as the original model has been fairly slow to expand to new countries.   Read Full Article

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