It is an exciting period to be an Apple user. What was to be a spring event turned into a series of announcements spread over five days in February and March, bringing a multitude of new products: a new application! A new iPhone! Two new iPads! A new chip! Two new Macs!
But apart from the strangeness of the launches, Apple also made some decisions that make us scratch our heads. Although there are certainly a bunch of good things – the drop in the price of the MacBook air, the iPhone 16th processor, the Mac Studio RAM limit – the announcements are strewn with truly strange decisions that leave programming in a strange place for the next 12 to 15 months. Here are five movements that make us ask what Apple thinks.
iPhone 16th: no Magsafe
When Apple launched the iPhone 16th, it defined a ton of questions in the iPhone range. The SE and its very old design have disappeared, all models have now USB-C, and there is a new low-end model with a clear upgrade path. But while we expected a good amount of sacrifices to reach the lower price, we did not expect that Apple does not leave its Magsafe load load operator. Magsafe is one of Apple's best iPhone features and is even directed to AirPods and Android phones via the Qi2 standard. So, so that the jump on the latest iPhone 16th – even a budgetary model – is very strange.
You can get a Magsafe puck to stick to the iPhone 16th if you try, but don't be mistaken – it's not Magsafe.
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iPad Air: Just a M3
When Apple updated the iPad Air in 2024 after more than two years, it was a bit worth waiting. There was a new 13-inch model, a faster M2 chip, a landscape front camera, faster Wi-Fi and Apple Cray Pro. But this time, not so much. Apple's latest iPad Air update arrives less than a year after the last and brings the only thing no one needs, a slightly faster M3 chip. And that's it. No OLED screen, no new colors, no C1 modem, nothing.
Ipad: no Apple Intelligence
If the iPad Air was an unnecessary update, the 11th generation iPad is even without a thing. We didn't expect much, but Apple couldn't even erase this bar. Instead of an A17 PRO chip or an A18 chip to provide Apple Intelligence support, we obtained an A16 chip which is only slightly faster than the A14 in the previous model and does not support Apple Intelligence. It is always a lot at $ 349, in particular with double storage – but why would Apple publish a device in 2025 which does not support its marquee function?
Each new device in the range of iPad, iPhone and Apple Mac is designed for Apple Intelligence, with the exception of the iPad A16.
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Mac Studio: M3 Ultra
The new Mac studio is a ridiculously powerful machine for its size. (Or any size elsewhere.) The configuration of the high -end chip has a 32 core processor with 24 performance cores and eight efficiency cores, 80 graphic cores and support up to 512 GB of RAM. The only strange thing is that the chip is part of the M3 family, not the M4. The reports indicate that the reason is that the M4 chip does not have the ultrafusion packaging architecture necessary to merge two M4 max in one ultra, but if it is true, then we ask: why did the Mac studio arrive last year with a M3 Max and M3 Ultra?
iPad: Pomme in pencil
Oh Apple Crayer, we will never understand you. Even with a new range of iPads, Apple still sells four Apple pencils, two of which are always listed as compatible with the new iPad: the Apple USB-C pencil and the 1st generation of Apple Penyon, which was published almost a decade ago. It has none of the most recent features of the USB-C model, including magnetic load, wireless pairing or overflight of the Apple pencil. However, it costs $ 20 more.
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