Welcome to the new home for Apple Breakfast ! If you ’re a reader ofMacworld ’s UK internet site , you ’ll recognize this column that will now appear on Macworld.com every Saturday . If you ’re young , this is our weekly ingathering of all the Apple word you miss this week , in a handy bit - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a break of day cupful of java or tea leaf , but it ’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hour too .
Spring is in the air
This clause is being written while looking out on a scene of the bleakest wintry desolation : gloom , methamphetamine , bare trees . At meter like this it can soothe the soul to remember before to warmer days – which is handy , because much of this week has been pass speculating about Apple ’s preparation for its customaryspring event , and the ever - rise stockpile of unreleased Cartesian product we expect to be announce .
We began with indications , via “ reliable source in China ” , that thenew iPad Airwould make an visual aspect in the spring , followed by predictions that it would be play along by something call the“iPhone SE+ 5 G ” . Not terribly zippy , as names go , but a launch that would gladden many affectionateness . Apple hasregistered unexampled iPadOS and iOS deviceswith the Eurasian Economic Commission , too , which usually imply something ’s about to launch .
Sadly , such pleasing news may arrive a lilliputian later than common . Apple broadly speaking prefer March as the moment to come out of winter hibernation , as we saw in 2011 and 2012 , then 2015 and 2016 , and at last in 2018 and 2019 . on occasion , as we look in 2021 , it waits until April . But this year we may have to wait until May . Why ? because the new iPhone SE – I ’m disconsolate , the iPhone SE+ 5 G – might not come out of productionuntil then .
But urge up : perchance Apple will herald the iPad Air ( and perchance somenew AirPods Pro , and who knows , perhaps anew iMac ) at an effect in March , then slip out the iPhone SE in a press release a month or so later … although that would probably think of the young SE is too dull to merit its own event .
Now grow up the heating , put on a second pair of windsock , and think warm thought process . There ’s only 99 days until May .
News in brief
The pressure go along to ramp up on Apple ’s control of the App Store . After recently ( and reluctantly ) allowingapp developer in South Koreato usealternative defrayal system , the troupe this week offered asimilar concession in the Netherlands – although only formakers of dating appsspecifically . It ’s not yet clear if Apple ’s move will be enough to appease Dutch authorities , which are currentlyconsidering their answer .
Google is awry . Apple’siMessage is in reality a bankruptcy , forecast Jason Snell .
Samsung , which ground an entire selling scheme around notches being stupid , hasmade a lozenge with a notch . It ’s amazinghow often Samsung does this form of affair : this is the third article on Macworld with a newspaper headline beginning with the four wizardly Word : “ After bemock Apple , Samsung … ”
Sothe Mac is n’t doomed to failanymore?Who’d a thunk it , wonder the Macalope .
Roman Loyola round up5 iPhone features the Mac needsright now .
sad switchers , Apple will give youa mountain less for your Android swop - innow .
Apple has an AirTag job , says Michael Simon . Here ’s how to solve it .
In thelatest instalment of the Macworld Podcast , we talk aboutwhat the app store does right and what it gets oh - so - very wrong , and what we as customer need to do to get the most out of it .
You might think Apple is working ona pen up iPhone , butSamuel Nyberg is not fooled .
Apple haswon backtop smear in the smartphone market , despite widely reported stock problem last tail .
Craig Grannell rounds up the40 finest iPhone gamesthatdon’t price anything . That ’s right : nothing . They do n’t cost a noggin ! They must be demented !
Software, bugs & other issues
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At the remainder of last week , we reported ona bug in Safari 15that could leave in yourbrowsing chronicle and Google ID being leaked ; it was so serious that we suggested looking into alternative internet browser . Well , there ’s just news program : Apple is fixing it .
user are complaining aboutflickering pixelswhen they useApple ’s Thunderbolt Display with M1 Macs . regrettably the display is classified as Vintage , which signify Apple is unlikely to fix the job .
You canrun macOSon thelatest Intel Alder Lake silicon chip . If you dare .
Apple is usually very good at persuading peregrine users to update their devices to the latest versions of iOS and iPadOS – but this year theadoption numbers game are right smart down . We exploresome of the intellect why .
The rumor mill
Anew interpretation of the Mac Profeatured anupgraded M1 Max chipsetwill be liberate this year , according to the reliable leaker Dylan DKT .
Acheaper 14 - in MacBook Prowith an M2 chipcould bring down presently .
orchard apple tree haspatentedBack To The Future - manner self - lace shoes . To which we have two questions : how soon and why ?
