Apple get a draw of news , and it can be hard to keep up . If your thinker was on other thing this week , our roundup of Apple - related headlines will bring you up to appointment .
Goodbye Intel, hello Apple Silicon
That ’s it , then ? The honest-to-god team on the trash heap ?
Tough news this hebdomad for Intel , whose family relationship with Apple is going to terminate within the next two years . Apple is switching from Intel processors in the Mac to its own ARM - based chips , which are being branded asApple Silicon .
This is ahistoric transition , although it ’s also a gradual one : there are still Intel - free-base Mac launches to face forward . Some will wonder , however , if it makes sense to buy an Intel Macnow the writing ’s on the rampart .
In the long run this feels like agood move for Apple , which will be able-bodied to lower costs , amend battery liveliness ( or make its Macs thin with the same stamp battery aliveness ) and potentially ratchet up performance . There may be other benefits too ; a former Intel engineer suggests that the switch may have been prompted by the“abnormally bad”quality assurance on the Skylake architecture .
But there will be bumps in the route too : one analyst has predict that manufacturing costswill be gamy initially , and it remains to be seen if Apple would pass any higher cost on to the consumer . Our experience with currentness - based terms fluctuation in the UK suggests that it whole would .
window virtualisation on the Mac now come out to be a stagnant end , too , although some argue that thisprobably does n’t matter .
WWDC delight
Apple Silicon was one of the headline announcements on Monday dark , when Apple hold its first ever online - only WWDC . The event give out reasonably well , on the whole : the deficiency of whooping audience members did n’t look to detract from the air and meant the speakers were able to rattle through the new OS feature so quick that steam starting to follow out of the pinna of watch journalist .
Top of the bill wasiOS 14 , which was discussed for almost half an hour with no pause . It looks like a corker of an update : we await Apple to concentre on stability but there are slews ofbrilliant new featurescoming to your iPhone . One of these is the newfangled ability to set third - political party apps as the nonpayment vane internet browser and email app , but Apple keep that onesurprisingly quiet . There are also lots ofnew Siri feature .
macOS Big Surlooks promise too ( aside from the name , which we cerebrate sounded like an intimidate headmaster ) . One of the less harbinger changes is the return of the much - lovedstartup bell .
But do n’t forget the little software update , each of them packed with modification suitable of aid : iPadOS 14,watchOS 7andtvOS 14 . Software switch bringnew features to the AirPods , too , such as a new Spatial Audio mode , and there ’s a HomePod update that allows you to steamer musicdirect from Spotify and Pandorarather than having to rely on AirPlay .
meritless to bombard you with link – there ’s a lot to cover . For the full roundup , readEverything Apple herald at WWDC 2020 .
News in brief
After four year ’ absence from iOS and macOS , Game Center is back ! It will sport an update design and consolidation with Apple Arcade .
Insider gabfest intimate that Apple Glass could be on the market right now if it were n’t forSir Jony I ve ’s dissent – although establish the guy ’s track record I ’m tempted to assume the objections were well founded . A lot of the debate centred around whether to have a separate hub , or via media on mightiness so the glasses could be self - curb .
bug out this autumn , iPhone and iPad apps willautomatically come along on the Mac App Storeunless developer explicitly opt out . Get ready for a sight of new Mac apps .
Apple has turn over out a wad of unexampled developer tools , includingXcode 12 and ARKit 4 . If you ’ve always wanted to become a dev , now ’s a great time .
Shortly before WWDC , Apple announce that81 % of iPhone and iPod tinge unitswere running iOS 13 . We inquire if that act will now dangle as people throw to theiOS 14 beta .
Amystery microcode updatefor the AirPods Pro may connect to the new Spatial Audio feature , or secure the noise - cancellation take because of an early update – as yet , nobody ’s certain .
A third of all plot on the Chinese App Storecould go away , as strict approval rules are set to be enforce more strictly than in the past .
Bugs and problems
Mac malware has been spotted spreadingthrough Google search result . It ’s a Trojan specifically design to outfox macOS Catalina ’s protection .
The rumour mill
ARM - base Macs still feel a tenacious way off , at least for regular customers . ( Apple has announced that it ’s make a particular ARM - found Mac miniskirt for developer . ) The first consumer Macs with Apple Silicon splintering are expectedby the end of the year .
Another week , another bunch of iPhone 12 rumours . We ’ve seen“the first dummy units ” , which point to an iPhone 5 - esque flat - sided design . And we hear that the new handsets will come withfaster 20W courser , up from 18W on the current Pro models and 5W on the rest .
That ’s it for this workweek . quell Appley !
