Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column , which includes all the Apple tidings you missed last hebdomad in a ready to hand bite - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we cogitate it goes great with a Monday dayspring cupful of coffee or tea , but it ’s coolheaded if you want to give it a read during dejeuner or dinner hr too .
If you love somebody, set them free
Intriguing growing last week , as Apple published asummaryof itsDMA Compliance Report . This outlines the company ’s plans for meeting the requirements of the EU ’s far - contact and enormously significant Digital Markets Act and includes a number of eye - catching measures . Some of these are discuss in ouranalysis of the promulgation .
One that receives relatively little blank business organization that tricky moment when a mortal who have a smartphone on one company ’s software political program decide to swap to a phone on another . ( I do n’t have a go at it why I ’m being coy . We both know the platforms are Apple ’s iOS and Google ’s Android . Everything else is within the margin of error . ) There are tools and guide to help you make the transition : Apple falls over itself to aid you tack to iPhone and Google makes a Switch To Android app for iOS . But for obvious reason , each society is motivated only to aid with the focal point of travel that benefits itself , while building in as many hurdle race and cephalalgia as possible to dissuade you from going the other means .
That ’s all go away to change . Hopefully .
There ’s not a whole lot of item , including the critical question of whether this will employ globally or only in the EU , but in the sum-up Apple reveals that it “ is developing a solution that help mobile operating system providers develop more drug user - friendly solution to transfer datum from an iPhone to a non - Apple phone . ” This tool appear to be some agency off , with Apple flippantly noting that it “ aims ” to get it out there by fall 2025 . ( This cue me of my minor calculate to get their coats on in meter for school , and may not impress regulators . ) But it ’s all a question of baby steps for the world ’s handsome walled nurseryman , and this is progress .
And the playfulness matter about the DMA – if anything is fun about exhaustively detailed regularization – is that it enforce to everyone who require to operate in the EU . If Apple sees the writing on the wall and recognise that it has to provide a more robust iOS - to - Android prick , Google will be doing the same affair in turnabout . And while Tim Cook will be grinding his teeth at the thought of iPhone customer jumping ship , he should see the opportunity stand for by Android customers climbing alongside . It ’s likethat scenein theMad Menpilot where all the cigarette party have to stop make wellness claims : it hurts everyone equally , which means , supply you know how to swivel , it does n’t injure at all .
The fact is that , in gratification surveys , Apple products tend to scorevery highly indeed . ( Indeed , almostimplausibly so . ) Take away all the chopine lock - in nonsense and the iPhone is still an incredibly effective advert for itself : felicitous owner are persuaded to stick by with the same brand in the future , and friends and loved ones on other platforms get phone envy and start to reckon a switch . A world in which switch over smartphone brands is trivially easy is one , I would guess , where the iPhone is if anything evenmoresuccessful . Which make it all the unknown that Apple has resisted such a state of social function so vigorously for so long .
metalworks
With theM3 Airs , Apple ’s MacBook lineupfinally makes sentiency .
Crash of the Titan : Thelong and winding sagaof the Apple Car .
But we have n’t seenthe last of the Apple Car , reckons Dan Moren .
AppleterminatesEpic ’s iOS developer account , scoot Fortnite fans ’ hope .
TheiPad - Mac hybridwe all require is now a world – as aweird Vision Pro accouterment .
Apple front a mammoth$2 billion EU fineover Spotify’sApp Store ailment .
Apple finally has a$999 MacBookworth buying .
Podcast of the week
Apple just released aMacBook Air update , but what else can we expect this month ? In this episode of the Macworld Podcast , we speak about the very busy fountain time of year that Apple has in memory .
you could catch every episode of the Macworld Podcast onSpotify , Soundcloud , thePodcasts app , orour own site .
Reviews corner
The rumor mill
Thatfoldable MacBookrumor makesmore sensory faculty than you ’d think .
NewiPhone SE 4 leakrevealsbig - screen overhaulwith a nick and Face ID .
TheApple leaping eventwe’re all wait forprobably is n’t happening .
Software updates, bugs, and problems
Stop read thisand goupdate your Apple twist .
Do n’t believe the latestsocial medium panic attack . Your iPhone is n’t suddenlysharing personal infowith alien .
We ’ve gotthree ( and a half ) reasonstoupgrade to iOS 17.4right now .
Do n’t panic , but there ’s aday - one macOS updatefor thenew M3 MacBook Air .
Multi - display supportiscoming to the M3 MacBook Provia a computer software update .
Your HomePod is about to become awhole lot less annoying , thanks to an significant change inHomePod Software 17.4 .
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