iPhone SE Leaked on Weibo? Apple’s Skunkworks Robotics department And 2024, the Year of the iPad - Early May is Gurman’s latest prediction of the week. Submit your Memoji or Vision Pro Persona image for the #WWDC24 merch here: iCaveDave.com/dubdub iPhone SE Leaks - Real? Acording to a leak via Liandr (@TechLiandr) on X, Details of Apple’s upcoming iPhone SE update have appeared on Weibo in China, along with an image. Most of the details line up with what’s expected, with a few exceptions. Looking much like the iPhone 12-14 but with a single camera, the device is said to feature a 6.1” 60hz OLED display from BOE, an A16 Bionic, 48mp main camera with Optical Image Stablilisation and a 12mp FaceTime selfie camera, a Type C connector, old school notch as opposed to the current Dynamic island, Bluetooth 5.3 and an IP68 rating, with an expected $499 price point and a release date in Q1 of 2025. So I have to say, there’s a few red flags here. The design all sounds right, along with the display. We’ve heard recently that Apple was trying to drive down Samsung on the panel price to sub $30, so using BOE to provide these makes sense. But it would have done regardless, as Samsung are generally providing Apple’s more advanced displays for the Pro models, with their dynamic framerate ProMotion displays, as opposed to budget options. None the less, nice for the SE to get its first upgrade from LCD to OLED. About time. Apple Robotics Next up, it turns out Apple has an internal Skunkworks team working on their AI and home robotics initiatives, according to the Gurmanator in the more appropriately named than normal PowerOn newsletter, saying: “Creating a unified smart home strategy remains an Apple goal, but the vision has been hard to fulfill. The need to finish up the Vision Pro got in the way, I’m told, diverting resources away from the smart home efforts.” I would personally love to see Apple get more serious about their home automation, given that HomeKit has been pretty lacklustre compared to the fanfare it arrived with years ago. Year of the iPad And in other Gurmey news, 2024 is set to be the Year of the iPad, followin 2023, the year of the no-iPads. The latest date to expect iPads to release being the week of May 6th, with Apple stores set to get a point of sale refresh later that week, just as he reported they would when he thought they were coming in late March. The delays are being blamed on complexity with the new OLED displays for iPad Pro, with those devices likely to be thinner, brighter, with the facetime cameras moved to the landscape side and potential for Magsafe charging of some kind as well as new pro keyboards with a more Mac like feel. Gurman did spoil himself a bit for me though, saying that the big issue with iPads isn’t hardware, but software and that it still can’t replace the Mac. ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO REPLACE THE MAC. Team Kinetix asks, iCaveAnswers, in 1982 a presenter on Tommorow's World held up a CD and said "This is the Compact Disc, it will revolutionise computer technology". Tech has moved on so quickly since the early 80's. How long will it be before we look back on early Vision Pro reviews and laugh at how outdated it is? And what comes after Spatial Computing? Join the conversation http://iCaveDave.com/twitter​ http://iCaveDave.com/facebook​ http://iCaveDave.com/instagram​ http://iCaveDave.com/youtube​ http://iCaveDave.com/merch​ http://iCaveDave.com/discord​