iPhone 7 Could Lose Headphone Jack, Thinner and Larger MacBook Airs, Colorful 'iPhone 6c' in Early 2016? - MacRumors

Apple May Replace 3.5mm Headphone Jack on iPhone 7 With All-in-One Lightning Connector While many Apple fans were chasing down Black Friday deals for their holiday shopping, a new report was making the rounds claiming Apple plans to eliminate the 3.5-millimeter headphone jack on next year's iPhone 7. The change would require users to either embrace wireless headphones or use the device's Lightning port with either Lightning-equipped headphones or a Lightning to 3.5mm adapter for traditional headphones. The change is reportedly part of an effort to allow Apple to make the next iPhone even thinner, and Apple already supports headphone connections over Lightning, but the move would certainly still be a controversial one.   Read Full Article Popular Stories Dec 03, 2015 Thinner MacBook Air in 13" and 15" Sizes Coming at WWDC 2016? According to a new report out of Taiwan, Apple is planning a major overhaul of its MacBook Air lineup at WWDC 2016, likely scheduled for next June. The changes would see a thinner design and a complete reworking of internal components. The revamped MacBook Air is also said to arrive in 13-inch and new 15-inch sizes, with Apple potentially dropping the current 11-inch size from the lineup. With the debut of the new MacBook earlier this year, many have assumed Apple intends to merge the MacBook and MacBook Air lines once pricing on Retina displays and other components comes down enough to enable the MacBook to occupy the sub-$1000 entry-level price point for Apple notebooks. A redesigned MacBook Air, however, would indicate Apple plans to continue offering three separate notebook families for an extended period of time.   Read Full Article Amazon Prime Video Coming to New Apple TV Possibly Within a 'Few Weeks' As of late October, Amazon ceased selling the Apple TV and Google Chromecast, citing incompatibility with Amazon's own Instant Video streaming service. But with a new Apple TV launching the following day with support for third-party apps, any lack of Instant Video support was clearly exposed as Amazon's responsibility. Amazon has now informed at least one customer who inquired about Instant Video support for Apple TV that an app is in development and could launch "within a few weeks span." There is, however, no word on whether Amazon will reinstate the Apple TV to its online marketplace once the app launches.   Read Full Article New A9-Based 4-Inch iPhone Expected to Launch Early 2016 With Apple Pay and Colorful Metal Casing Continuing to fuel rumors of a new 4-inch iPhone under development, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a report claiming Apple is indeed targeting an early 2016 launch for the device. Backing up another report from earlier this week, Kuo says the so-called "iPhone 6c" will come in several colors but use a metal shell rather than the plastic body used on the iPhone 5c back in 2013. Kuo also says the iPhone 6c will include an A9 chip, an 8-megapixel rear camera, and NFC for Apple Pay support.   Read Full Article Popular Design App 'Sketch' Leaves Mac App Store Due to Poor Customer Experience Sketch is the latest high-profile app to be removed from the Mac App Store by its creators, with developer Bohemian Coding deciding that the poor customer experience of the store outweighs the benefits of being in Apple's official marketplace. Among the concerns are lengthy app review times, functionality restrictions such as sandboxing, and a lack of support for upgrade pricing. Sketch's departure has reignited the debate about Apple's "broken" Mac App Store and what can be done to improve the experience for both developers and customers.   Read Full Article 2016 U.S. CarPlay Vehicles: Chevrolet, Honda, Volkswagen and More It's been a bit of a slog for Apple's in-vehicle CarPlay solution, with auto manufacturers taking a bit longer than initially anticipated to add support for the feature on their infotainment systems. But with 2016 models rolling into dealerships over the past couple of months, we're starting to see some more momentum for CarPlay. If you're planning to do some car shopping and CarPlay is important to you, check out our extensive list to see what makes and models are currently supporting it. In somewhat related news, Ford has just announced a software update for its second-generation SYNC in-vehicle software that will bring support for Siri Eyes Free mode to over five million vehicles dating back to the 2011 model year. While it's not nearly as powerful as CarPlay, Eyes Free lets the driver interact with an iPhone without needing to look at the device's display, relying on Siri voice recognition and spoken feedback. Ford has also been announced as a CarPlay partner, but has yet to announce specific plans for rolling out that support.   Read Full Article Apple's Swift Programming Language Now Open Source In line with earlier promises, Apple has officially made its Swift programming language open source, allowing anyone to contribute to its ongoing development. Introduced at WWDC 2014, Swift is now Apple's preferred programming language across iOS, OS X, watchOS, and tvOS, and a port of it is now available for Linux. Apple is inviting the developer community on board as work proceeds on Swift 3, the next major update for the language likely arriving later next year.   Read Full Article

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