Welcome to our hebdomadal Apple Breakfast chromatography column , which includes all the Apple intelligence you miss last week in a handy bite - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday first light cup of coffee or tea , but it ’s cool if you want to give it a read during tiffin or dinner hours too .
One week to go
There are just seven days to go until Apple’sWWDC 2023keynote presentation , the second big event in the company ’s calendar and the first of any kind since last fall . This time next week , the golden few will be give ear the ticker party at Apple Park ( and await forward to theirspecial tour ; no , of course I ’m not covetous ) , while the rest of us will be huddled around our reminder heed to the up-to-the-minute announcements . Both groups , it ’s fairish to say , will have mellow expectations .
From the phone of things – and for all Apple’sruthless effortsto keep affair secret , a tidy sum has leaked – there will be some large news to justify the hoopla . The job is that the news , as big as it is , will only be relevant to a small audience .
Now , I ’m not enunciate that Apple is going to neglect the iPhone altogether at WWDC 2023.iOS 17is expect to include a heap of new feature , including a clever fresh showing function and , very likely , the momentous ability to install apps from third - company stores without jailbreaking . But most pundits fit that this is start to be a muted update with no “ tentpole melioration . ” It ’ll be about fix bug and amend reliability , with a few “ skillful to have ” new feature film chucked in as a bonus .
On the computer hardware side , there ’s the opening of new Macs , such as a15 - inch MacBook Airand aMac Pro(finally ) . But macOS itself – commend this is suppose to be a software outcome – looks like headed for a tiresome June , so much so that my colleague has wonderedif Apple cares about macOS anymore . “ Our macOS 14 news show hub has nothing , ” he laments . “ The chirp cricket just give way style to the sad trombone . ”
Instead , the highlights of WWDC 2023 are likely to sit in two categories : the mixed reality headset , and watchOS 10.Reality Prois certainly an interesting scene to me , give that it ’s an entirely new intersection line that could eventually be more important to Apple ’s luck than the iPhone . It ’s genuine futurist , risk - taking stuff . The problem is that , for now , it ’s recession . ATrendForce reportlast week predicted that Apple ’s headset will ab initio be place at developer , not consumer , and that this year ’s shipments are likely to fall poor of 100,000 whole . By Apple ’s standard , this is peanuts , and the product is for the most part irrelevant to the huge majority of people look out the keynote .
The Apple Watch is n’t quite as recession as that , but it ’s nowhere near as mainstream as the iPhone or even the iPad . bet on which enquiry firm you ask , there are likely between 1 billion and 1.5 billion iPhone users in the worldly concern right now . The Apple Watch substance abuser base , by line , sits somewhere between 100 million ( which the lineofficially passedin 2021 ) and 200 million , the close together full number ever sell . And so it ’s moot how much the WWDC hearing will worry about even a fundamental rethink of the way we curb our Apple Watches .
I ’ve reason in the yesteryear that a wearisome Apple upshot isbetter than no event , and I recall it ’s important for Apple to give proper attention to the Cartesian product on the perimeter . Apple ca n’t make every issue about the iPhone , any more than we can make every article about it . by from anything else , it needs to ascertain the mathematical product that will take the iPhone ’s berth once the tills terminate ringing .
But make no misunderstanding : this is going to be the riskiest set of announcements Apple has made in years . A colossal global audience has been await a retentive sentence for this consequence . It would be bluff , to say the least , to spend most of the event talking about one product whose gross revenue get rolled in with menage products and accessories , and another whose client fundament for this year would check in a large play stadium .
Foundry
Reviews corner
Apple isfinally readyto admit theApple Watch is all wrong .
Apple ’s AI futurecould be a lot brighter than it seems , allege Jason Snell .
Bungie’sMarathon revivalis amissed opportunityfor Apple and the Mac .
Jason Cross arguesthat Warner Bros. Discoveryblew it with the new Max appfor Apple TV .
ChatGPT can give youadvice on buying a new Mac . It just happens to bebad advice .
Samsung ’s newSmart Monitor M8is the next best matter to a32 - inch iMac .
The rumor mill
A leaked lean of key players inApple ’s headset teamreveals the project’smisguided priorities .
Apple has given us ahuge WWDC cluebyinviting the VR pressto the tonic .
The iPhone 15 may not postulate aMagSafe - manifest chargerfor15 - James Watt fast charging .
And the twelvemonth after , Apple reportedly plans to switch back to avertical camera layouton theiPhone 16 .
Patent activitysuggests a hereafter Apple Pencil could haveFind My financial support .
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Software updates, bugs, and problems
No , iOS 16.5hasn’tkilled your iPhone ’s battery .
New Io and macOS updateshave fixedsevere flawsin iPhones and Macs from the retiring 10 years .
calculate out : ThewatchOS 9.5update mightturn your Apple Watch screen green .
Io 16.5fixes a security holethat was purportedly addressed last year . Mind you , it alsostops an Apple adaptor workingwith some iPhones and iPads .
