receive to our weekly Apple Breakfast column , which include all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy collation - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes gravid with a Monday dayspring cup of coffee or tea , but it ’s cool if you need to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too .
In defense of boredom
This yr has in worldwide been pretty slow for fans of the man ’s richest technical school company . The new iPhones for 2023 were conservative upgrades on the previous year ’s models ; the new Apple Watches were barely unlike ; there have n’t been any novel iPads at all . And while the Mac reach did get the excitement of the M3 rollout , it was n’t the heavy leap we hop it would be and the fun wo n’t last , with 2024 look to be one of that product’sdullest yr ever .
There are near reasons for all this , of trend . Namely , Apple has been forced to commit a disproportionate clump of its developmental resource over the past few years to Vision Pro , the moonshot launch it hop-skip will one day replace the iPhone as its primary platform and revenue source . Vision Pro looms so heavy over Apple ’s long - term hereafter that every other product has on the face of it been left to languish in the shade .
It has to be said , though , that nobody else telephone it in quite like Apple . The iPhone 15 Plus is dull and conservative , for sure , but it ’s still a keen phone . I ’m happily using the Apple Watch Series 9 , a top - tier smartwatch whose only crime is that it does n’t take enough risks . Even when it ’s on automatic pilot , Apple faithfully flies in the right management .
This is what will define Tim Cook ’s legacy at Apple . When he arrived , it was a sort of piratical dream factory subordinate on inhalation from a smattering of geniuses . Now it has excellence bake into its very processes and does n’t rely on anyone … except perhaps Cook himself , although he ’s done everything he can to make the company bigger than himself . His heavy achievement is to make the excellent seem routine .
As the last few years of political play have learn us , there ’s a lot to be said for dull dependability . But is it enough ? Apple’smost recent balance sheetsuggests customers are starting to yearn for a small excitement , and refusing to snap open up their wallets until they get it . The long - wait arrival of Vision Pro , and the hoped - for renaissance of the iPad , could make 2024 a twelvemonth to remember . I hope so . But whatever happen in the calcium light , you may look on Cook ’s Apple to keep doing the boring thing well , and long may it continue .
Foundry
Dan Moren explainshow Apple cantake on Amazon — and win .
There ’s aniPhone mini suckerborn every minute , estimate the Macalope .
uncollectible news , phratry : 2024 could be one of thedullest years everfor the Mac .
Macworld presents theeverything natural endowment guideforiPhone user .
Apple is break up withGoldman Sachs , leaving theApple Card ’s fatein limbo .
Thisadorable retro Macwould be perfect if itdidn’t run Windows .
The incredibly thinAirJet fanturns a MacBook Airinto a MacBook Pro .
Podcast of the week
The newApple Watch Series 9is available , but is it worth buy ? In this instalment of the Macworld Podcast , we talk about what makes the Apple Watch compelling and when is the correct time to upgrade an Apple Watch if you already have one .
you could catch every episode of the Macworld Podcast onSpotify , Soundcloud , thePodcasts app , orour own site .
Reviews corner
The rumor mill
A new hearsay claims Apple’sin - house 5 G modemproject isdead before arrival .
Are thereany surprisescoming from Apple inDecember 2023 ?
Software updates, bugs, and problems
Update Chromeon your Mac tofix this exploitalready in the wild .
orchard apple tree devices vulnerableto newBluetooth security department hole attack .
Can yousolve the caseof the mysteriouslyreoccurring iPhone alarm ?
Pay no attention to the police – NameDropis perfectlysafe for fry .
Apple releasesmacOS Sonoma 14.1.2to fix exploitedzero - daytime WebKit flaws .
iOS 17.1.2is out now with twocritical security updates .
iOS 17.2will lastly lease you customise your iPhone’smain alert sound .
