Earlier on Thursday, a suspicious rumor began to appear on the network, claiming that Apple was developing icloud time machine for Mac and a series of new airport routers Although the sources with reliable disclosure history shared relevant information, the existing information is still shrouded in a lot of clouds on the exact hardware details. Apple insider pointed out that airpods has been out of production for four years, and the original tower product shape can be traced back to 2013.
As early as before the shutdown, foreign media sorted out many rumors about the new hardware of airport, but the heat did not dissipate in a year and a half.
Interestingly, in a document submitted to the FCC on May 23, Apple introduced in detail a device code named a2657, which looks like a network adapter.
However, considering that Wi Fi information labeling only supports 802.11n at most and includes near-field contact (NFC) function, which is not common on routers, the division of its product line is quite suspicious.
As for the new airport time capsule speculated by some people, only 32GB of built-in storage is obviously too tight.
Another rumor on Thursday also mentioned the redesigned time machine that integrates with icloud network disk.
Since it is very different from the current icloud drive or time machine, it is bound to usher in a thorough redesign - especially the operation of deleting files from an apple device will also be synchronized to other devices.
As an ideal backup solution, it is obvious that such "delete synchronization" functions need to be treated with caution. For example, in iphone And ipad On, users can use icloud backup, but it is more like being in the middle of backup and synchronization.
Apple in a support document For example, device backup does not include data that has been uploaded to icloud in other locations (such as icloud photos, memos, and calendars).
As for the strengths and weaknesses of icloud time machine, from Apple's official point of view, it will help attract more customers to stay in their own ecosystem (especially included in the all inclusive apple one subscription family bucket), and benefit some customers at the same time.
For users with only a single Apple ID, the maximum 4tb cloud disk It may not be enough. As for Mac backup, the more reasonable capacity should be 10TB. However, referring to the existing pricing strategy, it is not clear how much Apple will charge for icloud time machine.
Of course, it is the network connection experience in the real world that most affects the customer experience. Even for Gigabit (Gbps) access, the upper limit of the theoretical downlink rate of end-user equipment is only 125 mb/s - not to mention that the uplink rate of most users in the United States is less than 5 mb/s.
To sum up, even if Apple really intends to bring back the airport product line, it is most likely to continue to be a local backup solution for Mac. After all, the file transfer speed in the LAN is much faster than uploading to icloud.
In addition, the 32GB storage space provided by the device may only contain the latest snapshot of the MAC system, while the older version will be hosted on the icloud cloud disk as a long-term archive.
Finally, Apple has decided to hold WWDC 2022 global developer conference on June 6 (Monday). If you are interested in the keynote speech, you can pay attention to the synchronous report on this site.