Good to see the Vision Pro labs expanding to NYC. It was a glaring omission when the first labs were announced.

Besides the AirPods Pro 2 update having just a USB-C charging case the H2 chip has been tweaked to provide lossless audio for the upcoming Vision Pro. Brian Tong’s YouTube channel has a great interview with Apple VP of Sensing and Connectivity Ron Huang explaining why(hint, turns out the Vision Pro may have an H2 as well, Mr.Tong scooped the heck out of that one).

Ok first off this is in no way related to my bias for WHITE apple products. If available I will always default to silver/white. Nothing to do with my love for the iPhone’s 4S and 7 Plus in sliver/white , iMac G4 and G5 etc. In my not that small group of friends who either update their iPhones every year or every 2-3 years, there is a disappointment that the iPhone 15 does not come in white. Yes even with the extremely muted pastel colors they are bemoaning lack of white. Some will get the iPhone 15’s Pro in white titanium but the majority will not. They will not upgrade this year. I’ve already gotten multiple calls asking if the spring update for the iPhone 15 color will be white. 😳🧐.

As usual Gruber is not first out of the gate with his Apple Event reactions but as he lets the event simmer and percolate he always has one of the best retorts bar none, the below being one of my favorite parts of his post on Daring Fireball.

“On the surface, camera features and GPU specs don’t seem related, but they share one thematic similarity: they’re two areas where Apple is behind the industry state-of-the-art. iPhone cameras aren’t behind the state-of-the-art for phone photography, of course — they’re probably the best, and undeniably among the best. But they’re not the best cameras, period, full stop, in the world. Apple wants them to be, and is pursuing this relentlessly year after year. And while Apple Silicon GPUs are also undeniably market-leading for phones, they’re just as undeniably not market-leading in PCs, where Nvidia reigns supreme. I firmly believe Apple wants to do to Nvidia with GPUs what they did to Intel with CPUs — match or surpass them in pure performance, and utterly blow them away in performance-per-watt.”

“But my god, what a GPU the A17 Pro seems to have. Hardware accelerated ray tracing is a huge deal, and a major differentiating factor between Apple’s M-series chips (which don’t have it) and high-end PC GPUs from Nvidia and AMD (which do). Clearly, this new GPU is not just the biggest aspect of the A17 Pro, it’s going to be the biggest aspect of the M3-series chips for Macs and iPads (and, eventually, Vision headsets) too. The A-series chips have always had world-class GPUs for phones, but Apple is attempting to narrow the high-end GPU gap on the PC side as well.”

Not sure where I’m going with this. But never the less I’m really confused about the why of yesterdays news. It’s seems disingenuous and petty that this would even leak. I think apple is better with some form of connection to Jony Ive. Yes I fully understand that egos and ideologies can get the best of anyone. But not when both sides have a long history of successes and mutual respect. The bond that was Steve Jobs connects Apple and Jony Ive way beyond any disagreement or hurt feelings. Plus I would think that if this report is actually true, both sides would have made a statement. Very strange.