Welcome to our hebdomadal Apple Breakfast column , which includes all the Apple newsworthiness you miss last week in a ready to hand pungency - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it conk peachy with a Monday aurora cup of coffee or tea , but it ’s cool if you desire to give it a read during lunch or dinner party 60 minutes too .
Stop the car
So . FarewellThenApple Car .
Long - bleed rumorsphereObsession , technologicalPipe dream , and inspiration forA million thinkpieces .
Including this one .
“ We ’ll see where it rent us . We’re not really sayingFrom a product tip of viewWhat we will do . ”That was your catchphrase .
Your evolution was dubbedProject TitanAnd you have nowSunk .
After a decennary , hundreds of hires , and billions spent in R&D , Apple has no car to show for its trouble . And that must qualify , of path , as a nonstarter .
With Tesla experience result with reliableness ( andaccountability ) , there ’s patently way in the market for an electrical car made by a reputable tech business firm that obsesses over the small particular and defy to embark a productuntil it ’s perfect . Paradoxically , indeed , Apple’sreported abandonmentof the projection highlights many of the quality it would have brought to the automobile market . But that ship , to flux my tape transport metaphor , has sail .
As the company has repeatedly point out , build both the hardware and software for a product is Apple ’s special acquirement and a machine designed by Apple engineers and go by Apple package was a mouthwatering proposition . That now wo n’t bechance . But that does n’t entail Project Titan has been a stark bankruptcy . For various reason , the Apple Car , with an upper - case atomic number 6 , was never very likely to take place . But the Apple machine , in the down - case sense of a marque - agnostic motorcar experience shaped by Apple ’s computer software ecosystem and design methodological analysis , is very much here to stay and is something to be lionise .
CarPlay , most evidently , already be and is usable across a wide range of automobiles , benefit a far wide user base than would ever have been able to yield a car really build in Cupertino . And it ’s pretty great , partly because nobody make a exploiter - well-disposed port like Apple , and partly because it mean drivers can exchange between dissimilar makes of machine without having to learn from scratch how that particular company likes to structure nested menus . ( Personally , I find the CarPlay experience most thwarting in the moment when I float outside Apple ’s user interface into my Skoda’sinfotainment system . The direct contrast is stark . )
And as good as CarPlay is right now , it ’s going to get good . CarPlay 2.0 has been in the pipeline for a while now , and purport to take Apple ’s control of your vehicular experience much further : instead of sit in its neat little box and controlling piloting , music , and a few other minor functions , it will take over the entire front board , admit speed and fuel dial , and handle mood ascendency and more . No longer will I need to worry about the segue from CarPlay to SkodaOS , since it will all be CarPlay . The whole thing sounds heavy … it ’s just a pity thatit ’s recently .
Perhaps this stuff seems superficial , simply a matter of how many touchscreen buttons you need to weightlift to trip your “ road head trip ” playlist . But think about the future . As autonomous cars steady puzzle out their path from skill fabrication to everyday norm , the issuance of safety for passengers ( and pedestrians , cyclists , and so on ) will be paramount . Which company would you rather entrust to make life - or - death conclusion on your behalf : the one whichdefied the FBIto protect iPhone users , or the one streamlet by Elon Musk ?
Foundry
It ’s meter toThink Different . Here are5 wild PC ironware ideasthat would be even undecomposed on the Mac .
Plus5 MWC announcementsthatshould have come from Apple .
Vision Pro reportpaints the picture of aniche productwith surprising set up - up hurdles .
block the script . Malus pumila isselling Vision Pro all wrong .
Anintrepid YouTuberhas DIYed theAirPods Max upgradeApple refuses to make .
Podcast of the week
A mess of rumors have been course through the mill , and we talk over what seems feasible , what seems improbable , and more in this installment of the Macworld Podcast !
you could catch every episode of the Macworld Podcast onSpotify , Soundcloud , thePodcasts app , orour own site .
Reviews corner
The rumor mill
Tim Cook say Apple will‘break new soil ’ in AIthis year.iOS 18is shaping up to be a breakthrough liberation .
Macs , iPads , and abig new iOS update – here ’s what’scoming from Apple in March .
Apple is run a‘technology investigation’ahead of a potentialsmart glasses launch .
Apple is likely toaxe 2017 - 2019 iPadsfromiPadOS 18compatibility list .
The smalleriPhone 16 Prois again rumored tojump to a 5x optical rapid climb .
… while a report claims theiPhone 17will ultimately get analways - on presentation .
composition : macOS redesign is coming , but not this year .
And dread not , Apple’siOS redesignwon’t be a visionOS clone .
Software updates, bugs, and problems
iOS 17.4release is just days away with thesemajor new feature and hole .
Apple hasreleasedthe fifthmacOS 14.4 genus Beta .
There ’s anotherunexplained microcode updatecoming to yourAirPods Pro 2 .
