Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column , which include all the Apple news you missed last week in a ready to hand bite - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we conceive it goes great with a Monday morning cup of java or tea , but it ’s nerveless if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too .
Shrink different
The iPad is in a difficult place . As I’vediscussed before , it does n’t really have anywhere to go : the post - PC human race never fare to come about , leaving a dwindle down marketplace of lounge - based tablet users for whom a very introductory specification and feature set up is more than good enough , and who will take a passel of convincing to substitute their existing model with something new .
At some point soon , Apple is expected to break to the world its master key plan for the iPad . But it remain to be find out whether the world will be convinced . One theory is that we ’ll get a bigger - screen iPad Air , which is a sensible if unthrilling thought . While another more recent forecasting indicate that Apple is going toshrink the bezel .
Shrinking the bezels is one of those thought that always sound good to consumers and journalists , but I mistrust ring less pleasingly in the ears of engineers . From the outside that pestiferous screenless number around the edge of your iPad seems like dead wood , shout out out to be replaced by either more sieve ( who would n’t need more screen blank in a machine of the same size ? ) or nothing at all ( who would n’t want a smaller gimmick provide the same screen space ? ) . But of course , in practice there is nothing remotely like drained Natalie Wood in the design of a current - gen iPad , which is crammed so full of vital luxuriously - powered component that a 1960s rocket scientist wouldthink it was magic .
So while debezelling might fathom like a unproblematic and obvious modification , there are complications that may not be patent to the layperson . Adding the componentry for extra screen distance add toll in terms of weight and battery capacity and literal monetary value ; as would removing the componentry that lie under the bezel you ’ve now removed . An iPad is a finely honed ecosystem of interlocking parts , and an adjustment in one area will result in consequences somewhere else that you credibly wo n’t wish .
In any case , we ’ve been here before . The iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max had their bezel shrunk fractionally liken to the old generation , barely registering on ourreviewer ’s radar . The M2 MacBook Air has slim bezels than its predecessor , but this meant the front - face camera had to be put in an annoying pass . More projection screen space overall , then , but also a more trouble optical profile .
TheiPhone 16generation is likely to see a similar shrinking , as could an upcomingbig - screen iMac , because it ’s the sort of deepen Apple ’s marketing machine can luff to as wholly positive . But I would argufy that . At best it makes very niggling difference to the user experience .
Bezel febricity is a dubious quest , as far as I ’m worry , but particularly so in the case of the iPad . An iPhone with penny-pinching - invisible bezel can still be hold in relative comfort , while a bezel - free MacBook can sit on a lap or be held from beneath . But the zero - bezel iPad would lessen between the two stools . Its weight and physical design think there ’s nearly always a steadying ovolo crawl around on to the front surface , which is all right when it ’s on the bezel , but frustrating when it ’s fog and leaving pollex print on active silver screen .
There arelots of thingsApple can transfer about the iPad reach ; they may or may not carry through it from irrelevancy , but they ’re deserving a try . While wither the bezel strikes me as a thriftlessness of fourth dimension .
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U.S. Justice Departmentsues Appleover its‘iPhone monopoly . ’
The Macalope thinksApple and AIareimperfect together .
Office 2024 for Mac is comingand youwon’t need a subscriptionto get it .
Podcast of the week
Apple has been making motion late in theworld of AI . permit ’s find out what it means for Apple users .
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The rumor mill
salve the date : Apple is bruit tolaunch Modern iPadsonTuesday , March 26 . Or peradventure
TwoAirPods 4 modelsare come this year with noise - cancellation and alower cost .
Apple isreportedlyin talks to licenseGoogle ’s Gemini AIfor use in iOS .
study : raw anti - glare andscratch - immune displaycoming toiPhone 17 .
Software updates, bugs, and problems
Apple made areal plenty of macOS Sonomawith the14.4 update .
‘ GoFetch ’ flawin Apple ’s M - serial publication chips can leakhidden encryption keys .
Tests show how theM3 MacBook Air ’s good lineament canhinder performance .
Oracle warns : Java users should hold off on update tomacOS Sonoma 14.4 .
