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Transcript of Macworld Podcast episode 819: Apple 2022 year in review
RL : In this episode of the Macworld Podcast , we ’ll go over some of the highlight and lowlights for Apple in 2022 . It ’s the yr in recapitulation coming up . stick tuned .
RL : Welcome to the Macworld Podcast . I ’m Roman Loyola [ RL ] here with Jason Cross [ JC ] .
JC : Good morning .
RL : And Michael Simon [ MS ] .
MS : Hello , sir . RL : So since it ’s the remnant of the year and it ’s also a slow news sentence of the twelvemonth .
MS : Apple discharge Apple Music Sing today . That was big news on Macworld.com .
RL : But yeah , we ’re going to take this opportunity to do the common last - of - year topic and today we ’re survive to do the yr in revue . Overall , going through and essay to see what happened during the year , major proclamation , I had this feeling beforehand , but it kind of reaffirmed to me that compare to the last couple of yr – it was kind of a regular , ho - hum twelvemonth .
MS : especially with the Mac , it started out really strong . We got the Mac Studio , which is the first new Mac in I do n’t have intercourse how many years , but a farseeing time . And the redesign MacBook Air , which was great . And then nothing . Like literally nothing .
JC : Well , yeah . Studio Display , first reminder in a million year .
MS : Yeah , right . So , all of that came in March and then July or June , July add the MacBook Air redesign and the M2 chip . Then the whole 2nd one-half of the class , it was like utterly …
JC : Yeah , everyone expect MacBook Pros with the M2 Pro and Macs and Ultra and stuff .
MS : Maybe a Mac Pro which they rag in March but we did n’t get it .
JC : Yeah , and all that material ’s been patently delay till the spring at least , just supply shortages and all that other hooey . I still think that ’s a pretty good Mac yr . First all , the unexampled Air is slap-up . The M1 was already a salutary check , but that old intention really require , advance to jumbo bezel and clobber . So yeah , that ’s heavy . That ’s my preferred Mac . Mac Studio was a giant surprisal . Everybody knew a Mac Pro was coming at some point . And we were all thinking , oh , when there ’s live on to be like a swelled iMac , like Apple ’s silicon iMac and something added , and then out of nowhere , they ’re like , surprise , like , super potent , tiny , like small sort factor PC .
MS : That rumor , I think it was like three or four days before the event begin to kind of pluck up the exhibit and they did n’t know at the time what it was go to be called , that it was a real powerful lilliputian Mac for your desktop . JC : Like two or three Mac mini stack on top of each other variety of matter . And it ’s like , yeah , we had no estimate . And I think that was like a real kind of revival for the Mac in a lot of ways , because sure the M1 iMac , as it is now that 24 - inch sizing M1 iMac and the Mac Mini , those do n’t really satisfy all the screen background users . Then there ’s this wide gulf to the Mac Pro , this immense gap because they made the Mac Pro such a high - end , immense in high spirits - end automobile . Yeah , it occupy in that opening for it , really .
MS : Yeah , the Mac Studio with an Ultra is , as it stands faster than the Mac Pro , that ’ll switch once it gets Apple silicon , but yeah , for two , three , $ 4,000 , which is , that ’s a important investment , but not out of reach for little creative character to development studio . you may get a genuine powerful car .
JC : Even just the one I have is the entry level , right ? But for somebody who doesn’t , need or want a laptop computer , they do n’t need to give for a battery and a concealment and all that other stuff . There was just nothing in that image . It ’s relatively affordable as Apple stuff and nonsense goes . Yeah , I thought a tremendous product . I thought the studio apartment display was the one that had me rub my head . They put like a whole iPhone in it . It ’s got all this depot .
MS : Touch display . It ’s like an iOS gadget .
JC : Yeah . It has no powerfulness push or other strong-arm ascendancy of any kind . I understand the television camera and loudspeaker system aspect , but it ’s got all this storage it does n’t require and it does n’t havedisplay stuff and nonsense it should have . It has no HDR , high refresh rate . They made weird choices with that .
MS : It kind of pop off out , but when the reexamination came out , the photographic camera was fundamentally trashed and Apple kind of fixed it , but then the great unwashed said they did n’t and then we have n’t heard about it since and I do n’t have one to lie with if it ’s suffer any well , but I doubt it . It ’s just an inferior tv camera in an expensive display and you get 5 K , but no one really needs 5K. 4 K would have been fine , chop 300 bucks off . It is , you ’re right . It ’s a unearthly …
JC : And we do require HDR , right ? We do need HDR and variable refresh pace would be nice for creatives , but we did n’t get those . Yeah . So 4 K HDR or else of 5K. It ’s the old eight - twelvemonth - honest-to-god iMac 27 - inch panel . It ’s basically that instrument panel just with the smartness cranked up a little spot . Yeah , it seems like everything was a new , better version of something we had .
MS : Yeah . Apple Watch Ultra fall absolutely into that family where there ’s a mountain of new stuff there . The design is dissimilar , the video display is dissimilar , the activity button is total but it ’s still just kind of a edition on a theme , filling a niche that the Apple Watch might not have mat up . sound terms , 800 bucks I thought .
JC : I was aghast .
MS : For what it is . That ’s a solid Mary Leontyne Price . They had it for a 730 over Black Friday which is I think of that ’s – if it was n’t such a big watch , like if it was a 45 mm , I might have considered it . It ’s too large for me . I just do n’t wish that character of watch . It is n’t for me . Even though I would n’t – regardless of how small it is , I do n’t use three quarters of it . What I would really require is the battery life . My big roadblock to using an Apple Watch every single daytime is the fact that I constantly I had to take it off my articulatio radiocarpea to load it . The Apple Watch Ultra turn over you 36 out of the box and then you may even push that to 60 . That ’s acceptable . I have an SE1 that I really want to use every day and I just ca n’t because I take it off , I put it on the courser and then I draw a blank to put it back on for a solar day and a half . Happens all the fourth dimension .
JC : What other ironware was interesting this year ? We find some , I intend , like the M2 update to the iPads was uninteresting . The 10th gen iPad was , I thought , a disappointment , just because … they introduced it , it ’s the 10th gen iPad , but they introduce it like it ’s a new in - between product . They kept the 9 , they recruit the terms a tidy sum , and then they had that complete wonkiness with the pencil support and stuff like that . I make love where they put the camera and then everything else about that , I ’m care , no , it just feels greedy .
MS : Well , it ’s fine . So the 10th gen iPad is a fine product . It ’s not a $ 449 product is the problem if it was $ 399 , if that was a regular $ 399 , we ’re looking at a complete result . I wrote a pile today was on sale for $ 399 and at that price point , it ’s right smart more understandable . That $ 50 put it from perhaps to do n’t even see it .
JC : Yeah , and they could have get free of the 9th gen . It ’s still cheap but like that , they could still – it would be cheap enough that they could have gotten free of the ninth gen and it would be clear . This thing where they keep the 9th gen around and they have the tenth gen and they both use the old pencil and then there ’s the – it ’s just kind of a mess . I find like just get the melodic phrase .
MS : And the 9th gen is still a very pop product . So I empathize why they keep it around . So knock off that price to $ 299 and make the new one $ 399 . You have to price it far enough forth . $ 399 and $ 329 . So the 9th gen I pay $ 329 , if they price the 10th gen at $ 399 that ’s not enough . JC : I suppose the ninth gen iPads democratic because it ’s the chintzy one and hoi polloi just want a thing . But they get to get rid of it . They got to get that out of the lineup . They ’re sticking around with that dazed old design from a decade ago . It ’s start out to go . I was frantic that they could get it to go with a fresh intention and then they made the new pattern too expensive and hold back the old one around . I ’m like , oh , what are you doing ?
MS : That ’s what we were expecting . When we we heard rumors about the 10th gen iPad for a foresighted time that it would kind of be an iPad but not and this and the home button is moving and I ’m sorry , an iPad Air but not . We thought alright , peradventure $ 349 , maybe they raised it a little bit . That ’s rattling but then $ 449 is like well , wait a minute , that ’s way too much . And I ’m sure at some point they ’ll tweak that pricing but I would n’t recommend it to anybody . The miniskirt at that price , the miniskirt is $ 499 , the Air is $ 599 and I hump that ’s $ 150 more but you ’re getting so much of a better pad of paper for your money there .
JC : And then if you want to use the Apple Pencil , you have to do all these dongles and stuff . So yeah , so that was a lilt and a miss for me . The new Apple TV , I call back was fine . There was nothing wrong with the sure-enough one , but what I screw about it is , I signify , it ’s little , it has no fan . You could n’t get word the sports fan in the old one or anything . Yeah , nobody jazz because it barely moves . What I love about it is they did the right affair , which is they dropped the cost and they dropped it a portion . The new one with twice the computer storage of the previous one is gimcrack . They did get free of the ethernet port unless you buy the more expensive one , but you’re able to really even buy the more expensive one for $ 20 less than the old inexpensive one .
MS : HDR10 + , right . Yeah , that ’s Dolby Vision for Samsung TVs , basically .
JC : Sort of , yeah . It ’s like less good Dolby Vision and they wo n’t ever do Dolby Vision because they commit in this .
MS : I have a Samsung TV and it ’s annoying .
JC : Yeah . And there ’s some stuff they did n’t do . They should have had HDMI 2.1 and something . It ’s fine , whatever . For what it is , it ’s hunky-dory . They still do take an Apple television – they You need a pelt twist that is less than $ 100 . All the contention is still right smart cheaper , but they ’re moving in the right direction big time here . When this thing is a year old and it goes on sales event , it ’s going to be … You ’re able to grease one’s palms one for $ 20 or $ 30 off on sale . It ’s going to be a heavy deal . Yeah .
thou : For $ 99 to $ 100 , which is tight already . It ’s on cut-rate sale on Amazon broadly care $ 125 which is only a few one dollar bill less but you make love , you knock 20 percent off that which it often go on sales event . The previous one was on sale for $ 100 . That ’s what I buy . I grease one’s palms the second gen for or third gen , whatever the one from last year was . Yeah , so it was 80 bucks for the 32 gig which is like that ’s just that ’s an impulse buy that you just do n’t get with Apple products very often . And you have intercourse , so I do n’t have the new chip . I do n’t have the HDR10 Plus support , but I father the newfangled remote , which is fantastic . If you are even take the Apple TV at all , the young remote is so much better . It ’s become my main remote now . It ’s that good . JC : So the other ironware , the other hardware sort of matter for me was the new AirPods Pro , I thought was very good than I thought it would be . Disappointing to me that they did n’t really adjust the design at all . I think the whole touch controls on the stem is like sorry design and awkward to use . It ’s like one of those things that ’s quote cool , but it ’s actually forged to use than just like a button or even just tapping . But they did a lot of nice little things with it and the sound character is like a heavy boost . And the noise canceling is a big boost and , the barrage life is a big encouragement and everything about it is considerably better . And they did n’t skyrocket the toll up or anything like that . So yeah , I thought the new AirPods Pro was a successful update , permit ’s call it .
RL : Apple unveiled their self - stamping ground program . JC : Oh yeah .
RL : For the iPhone .
MS : I wonder who ’s doing that . It ’s coolheaded that they have it and they kind of have no choice but to have it , but it ’s an investment in fourth dimension and money and everything else that just work it to an Apple store and get it fixed . My son over the weekend has he has an iPad Air and he dropped it and it shatter into a million piece the screen . And like the first matter I did was I checked Apple . It was literally the day . Like , I ’m not kidding . Had he send packing it on Monday , it would n’t be covered . Like , it was Sunday was the end of his AppleCare . But I question , like , so if it was Monday , like , would I have live on through that whole rigmarole and get the screen and well , I do n’t call back I even can for the iPad . But it ’s a whole matter . You have to hire material and get clobber and it roll in the hay and it ’s a … I think it ’s a very small specific component of the market that ’s run to manage enough to do that at home . But it ’s cool that it ’s there .
JC : The number of people or even percent of people who are going to go through any of that is nothing . It might as well not live . But it ’s more important to me that part of doing this is also designing their products to be repairable . If we ’re run low to have to volunteer a kit , then our next thing ca n’t have so much glue and all this other stuff that we ca n’t . I think that ’s more important . Then this is decent for those independent repair shops that they just have to bribe official parts . They can get official creature . They ’re not just go with third party tools that possibly do n’t take the screen off properly . or whatever . They can get Apple clobber and for them , it ’s an investiture , but if this is their business , then it ’s a no - brainer . It ’s actually inexpensive for them . I think it ’s a step in the right direction just in term of making these things easy to repair and keep longer alternatively of stimulate to switch them in . But I do n’t think anybody ’s going to do it themselves . I think this whole thing of of them doing it . You ’ll take heed from every individual one of them . Every individual one of them is going , to get hold of us , twinge at us or whatever at this podcast . Every exclusive person who would do it . I would do that . We ’ll hear from all 20 of them . There ’s a billion iPhone owners .
MS : There are some videos . You know , right after it launched , like , you know , well - minded technical school people who tried this out and even they were like , this is difficult .
JC : You know , the iPhone this twelvemonth was weird for me in that this is a little mo true every yr but it was more true this year . It felt like the Pro was the only new equipment .
MS : Yeah . JC : The regular iPhone more than old years feel like he did n’t get anything . It really did get slightly better camera . It bugger off like the previous twelvemonth ’s Pro ’s camera , but it did n’t get hardly anything while the Pro grow always on display and the Dynamic Island and , even newer cameras and that 48 megapixel camera . There ’s no wonder the Pro model is the one that ’s in need . It got the new processor . The even 14 got last class ’s processor , but just thePro version that has the additional GPU heart and soul . But everything about the 14 just feel like the least they could do to change the number on it . And all the coolheaded new poppycock is in the Pro . Honestly , it ’s still really good . The even iPhone 14 , it ’s still good , just like it would have been great to buy an iPhone 13 . It ’s still a really good phone .
MS : Yeah , it got , you know , emergency SOS . Satellite was like the biggest feature , which the kind of thing like alright , I mean , I go for I never actually have to practice that , but I judge it ’s nice to have crash signal detection . The plus is the big one there . So last year , there was the mini , the last two years was a 13 and 12 and a 13 mini , 5.4 inch . And it was , you know , a low , really the only small phone on the market place . And everyone thought like , okay , this is like , this is the niche that everybody wants and then nobody bought it . So now Apple break down the other elbow room , total out with a 6.7 inch non - pro iPhone 14 . And it appears as though nobody need that either , because I do n’t think that ’s sell very well either . Yeah , 900 bucks .
JC : The other thing mass like about the Mini is it was by no means flashy , but it was cheaper . It was the sleazy new iPhone you could get , the tatty like fresh model with the new stuff . and they replace it with one that ’s more expensive .
MS : Yeah , it was $ 699 . The 13 miniskirt when it was new was $ 699 . Now it ’s $ 599 because they knocked a hundred sawhorse off . But yeah , so it starts at $ 899 , which is a lot . And you ’re not getting much . You ’re getting a bountiful screen and you ’re beat better assault and battery lifetime . That ’s it . Other than that , it ’s the same as what the 14 mini would have been .
JC : I recall globally , it ’s the correct move to have small and bountiful , to have regular and big instead of regular and small-scale . But what hoi polloi really want , what globally sells so well are cheapbig phone . So have the more expensive big phone is the awry way . But perchance this is just part of a longer terminal figure scheme because they ramp up these devices and the consistency and , the design form and everything and then they can kind of get used for a while . They keep trade them the next year sometimes . So maybe what we ’ll see is , two twelvemonth from now , they ’ll still be selling a 14 plus , $ 300 tacky and it ’s going to be like democratic .
MS : But they have to , four iPhone models is too many . They make to figure out what to do with that .
JC : I do n’t needfully think four is too many . I just consider that the pricing does n’t work out well . I retrieve a small and big unconstipated to a little and large pro is a fine scheme . I just sense like there ’s a uncanny intersection . or else of catch the 14 plus , you could get a regular pro and it ’s not going to be a meaningfully dissimilar spend for you , right ?
MS : Yeah . Way good camera dynamic island always on display , better chipping . It ’s a laundry list of upgrades to that pro . So yeah , maybe you ’re right . Maybe if the plus was $ 799 or even $ 749 would really make it interesting . $ 250 less than the first appearance - story Pro or the meanspirited Pro , whatever . Yeah , something like that . But Apple does n’t generally do that . Apple TV Plus apart or Apple TV 4 K apart , they do n’t loosely go in the opposite direction . But perhaps , they might have to . But maybe once they look at the gross sales , particularly this quarter , so they ’re going to get trounced because the whole production matter in China , they can not make iPhone 14 Pros , they ca n’t make them period , really . Shipping right now is late December , some places , early January . They ’re going to take a massive hit in that holiday quarter just because theycan’t get these thing to people .
JC : I think overall , I mean the strategy , I do n’t call back they ’re go away to be hurt by nobody want the plus because I think they ’re just corrupt Pros instead and then their average sales event monetary value run up this generation and they ’ll be happy with that . Yeah , so overall , I just feel like the Pro was a really good phone . We were really surprised by the whole Dynamic Island thing because we all hear about the whole punch tv camera oral contraceptive pill thing . We had no clue the software side of that and how it worked and how they make a UI constituent out of it . Everybody was floored and it was great and it ’s fantastic . Then the 14 was a adult letdown because I was like , well , why would I get this over 13 ?
MS : Yeah , it ’s true . Right . It ’s really for like an iPhone 11 upgrader . Even 12 , I would say . And hold on to the 15 , because the 15 look like we ’re going to get USB - cytosine , maybe the Dynamic Island on the non - Pros . So , I would hold off if you have a 12 or later .
RL : Sort of to wrap up the hardware … the heart of the year , the iPod touch was stop , which meant the iPod product line –
JC : The substantial tidings is that it is that there was up until that degree , it was there . It was still survive .
MS : Yeah , that was one of those thing . did n’t actively further it , you had to like go to the store , the apple.com store and find it . But it ’s still , it ’s a number of a bummer that Apple never created like a hand-held non - phone , Phone for kids or for not even youngster , for anybody . Like , so you get to buy an iPhone which has you know , 5 guanine , 4 G , you got to hook it up and activate and all that stuff . The iPod was like this perfect picayune like entering - degree iPhone equipment that they just never really germinate into what it could have been . It could have , should have been just a phone without cellular service , but they ignored it for years and then they update it with something that no one really need .
JC : It could have been every time they make a young iPhone SE , they make a non - cellular rendering and that ’s price like $ 150 punk and that ’s all it is .
MS : I need like an iPhone 12 that I can give to my son and does n’t have well , I entail , now he ’s develop honest-to-god anyway but as like , you bang , between the ages of like four and nine , like people would bed those things . But the iPad touch just did n’t get the attention or the promotion that I think that it deserved .
RL : Should we move on to software and services?JC : We better . We ’ll never finish this podcast .
RL : Like we do every twelvemonth , we get major OS releases , iOS 16 , iPadOS 16 , macOS Ventura , WatchOS 9 . I always forget to mention WatchOS in this whole atomic number 76 roundup .
MS : And I think we had this give-and-take every year . Like , I have in mind , I think at this point they have to update everything every year , but it ’s a lot . It ’s a bunch to do on an annual day of the month . Yeah .
JC : Just to keep the services in apps and sync and stuff like that . Just one class , just skip , just make watchOS , just skip the numbers and get it all to be the same .
MS : They did that with tvOS . They cut like eight interlingual rendition , but with the watch they have it too .
JC : Right , right . Yeah , just do it with watchOS . Just stand up there on stagecoach at WWDC and say like , you know , we ’re just unite this to make it clear for you . Nobody will have a problem with it . It ’s ok . Anyway , iPadOS 16 was delayed / skipped . They started with 16.1 . They just did n’t secrete the 16 release because its biggest feature , Stage Manager , was fall apart . Sadly , when they released it , it ’s still busted , but it was in tough shape and really could n’t have been released . It held off on that and macOS , but macOS is often later anyway .
MS : Well , it ’s weird that they separate iOS and iPad OS for the first time , but even weirder that they still kept the enumeration the same . So as Jason say , 16.1 was the first …
JC : Which I intend is the good style to do it . It would be because it is that release . They just literally skipped shipping the 16.0 release and mulct . They did n’t have to the way they had to with the iPhones because the raw iPhones ask to ship with Io 16 and they did n’t have young iPads to embark then .
MS : We had ecumenical control last year . And Apple delayed it by several months , even though it was work in the genus Beta , they kept it back until they get it proper , which is what Apple does . No one was surprised when they do stuff like that . This is very surprising . Whereas people who champion the iPad and champion Apple products are like , this is terrible . I ca n’t expend this . This is just …
JC : And they ’re leaping to Twitter with all these screenshots and videos and poppycock of like , look how confused this is , look how this totally fails and this is , you know , it ’s the keyboard jazz up and all these like serious clobber . Not just like , oh , I do n’t like it but it ’s literally broken .
MS : And Apple does n’t seem to be really kind of urgently fixing it either . It ’s like , we ’ll seem at it , do n’t interest .
JC : Yeah , I think they just got a pot to do and they ’re never gon na admit there ’s a problem . There ’s only ever betterment . There ’s never a trouble that needs gear up in Apple Edwin Herbert Land . I think that might be part of it . It might be interesting next year . I also cogitate iPadOS 16 is a bit of a dashing hopes because the coolest stuff in iOS 16 is n’t there . It ’s just like the widgets and app program library from a couple of years back where the iPad ’s behind , but like all the lock projection screen customization stuff . That ’s like the biggest , most obvious cool matter in iOS 16 and it ’s not there at all on the iPad .
We did get cool stuff like unsending , and editing messages and messages . That ’s a large one . And some apprisal deepen that in Io 16 , that ’s not , again , that ’s part of a Modern lock screen matter that you do n’t get . But stuff like the catch images and just like grabbing the range without the background and taking the background out and all those nerveless thing . You get those cool things . But the crowing thing , that home base covert redesign and the things that go along with it like , live activities and stuff like that . Some of that , interestingly , did n’t ship with the first release of Io 16 as it usually does . I think iOS 16 ’s best … I think the startingblock for Io 16 is coming this month with 16.2 where it ’s got the novel home architecture and it has alive natural process and live activities are update and more apps go to sustain it . There ’s just a lot of pinch that find the first twain of months . RL : And then with Mac OS Ventura , in all likelihood the biggest characteristic we got is being able to use the iPhone as a webcam , expanding on the persistence photographic camera features .
JC : That is groovy .
RL : Jason has been using it in our podcast recording .
MS : It ’s a stark difference of opinion when he turns it on and apply it .
JC : It looks like all those Twitch streamers who ’s flummox their DSLR hooked up . radius : Yeah , it ’s really wanton to do . There ’s some nice interoperability that ’s happening between the Mac in iPad and iPhone that Apple ’s pop out to do more of in Mac OS .
JC : I feel tough for everybody getting a Sherlock like this , but this is exactly the interoperability and the relief of use of that interoperability . That ’s the Apple hope . That ’s the like , why you are okay with the walled garden is because it ’s really nice in the garden and everything works together . So , I have intercourse seeing that . That ’s my favourite stuff in every macOS sacking is when these things form together better . I wish they ’d update messages on Mac .
RL : That ’s a whole other podcast .
JC : That ’s a whole other podcast . I wish it was more like the iPhone ’s messages .
RL : How about with services ? Is the big service thing that happened this past year the price increase to the subscriptions?JC : Yeah .
JC : Yeah . It ’s still also kind of the cheapest . Everybody ’s raising their prices . So , it is still cheaper than Hulu and all these other things . And that combine with they ’re doingall this clobber with MLB and association football and there ’s public lecture about football , although that will probably be them extra . They really are construct out the table service .
JC : And you do n’t get any of those , right ? You do n’t get any of those league , you just get MLS .
MS : Right . Major League Soccer which is the stepchild of association football . It ’s just the North American League , right ?
JC : Which is not where soccer is most pop , but to their credit , MLS is growing a pile . They just passed NHL in popularity .
MS : Not say a ton , but it ’s something .
JC : It ’s the issue four , right ? It ’s getting there .
MS : It ’s get there , yeah .
MS : It ’s exclusive . It ’s unprecedented as far as I can tell for a major sports league to be undivided to one net with everything like basketball . you’re able to watch the playoffs on TNT and ESPN , baseball , it ’s on Fox . And this is only Apple TV . You ’re getting everything for 100 Buck on Apple TV.JC : We got Mike talking about sports now and it ’s …
RL : Welcome to Sports Talk on Macworld !
JC : Other Apple services . Yeah , so other Apple services .
MS : Wait , there are others ?
JC : You know , iCloud is still disappointment .
MS : Yeah , they still have an up to 5 G .
JC : They keep stress to find any way they can not do that to find free . But the starting paid volume should be higher . The five devoid should be at least 10 . But now they ’ll do thing like , well , if you do n’t have it and you do n’t have enough room in your 5 GB to do an update , we ’ll let you do the update only . We ’ll give you enough storage just for the iPhone update you ’re attempt to do over iCloud , just for the length of time to do the update and then you do n’t really have it . It ’s just kind of annoying .
Not VPN sort of . You bang , private browsing stuff . It ’s not quite a VPN , but it ’s to hide a mickle of poppycock from browsers . It ’s a good service , not a big quite a little , but these sort of privateness affair are . Good stuff to have build into the atomic number 76 .
And what else ? Apple Music had kind of a boring year .
RL : Apple Music Sing !
JC : Yeah , that ’s neat .
MS : That feature just came out .
JC : We ’ll see what happens when that get along out . As we record this , it has n’t landed yet . It ’s a swell thought and it ’s just in time for Christmas .
MS : Yeah , it ’s a nerveless idea . And the Apple Music Classic , we were spill about that this morning over Slack . That was supposed to come out last year . It was in August that they herald that they had bought , the name get by me , so that ’s with a P , a Graeco-Roman music , yeah , Primafonic , a classical music service of process that they were go to convey into Apple Music and have it .
JC : Yeah , they were move to have a consecrate classical experience . So nobody really quite empathise if it was going to be a section in Apple Music or a freestanding app , but they have n’t done either . And that was last summer they bought them . So it ’s kind of weird .
RL : That ’s going to headline WWDC in June .
MS : I stand for , if you ’re into classical music , it sounds like a cool thing , but I do n’t know what ’s find .
JC : Apple Music Voice found this year as a way just to be cheap .
MS : Yeah .
JC : It ’s a $ 5 a calendar month thing . I ’m really curious how well that ’s doing sort of globally . In the U.S. , everyone ’s okay either not pay at all or paying $ 10 a calendar month . Nobody ’s going to go $ 5 is the cost I ’ve been wait for . But over the whole world , I think it might matter more .
MS : Maybe . It ’s a frustrating thing . you’re able to only utilise Siri . If it was $ 5 with ads or something , then okay .
JC : you may make playlists and do all the things . Yeah . Yeah .
MS : There ’s a lot that you ca n’t do and you have to use Siri , which let ’s be fair , is n’t always that bang-up at finding clobber . It ’s really just like a path to upsell multitude to the full Apple Music , it seems . Bait and trade , so to talk . Yeah .
JC : It feels like maybe a cheaper matter that they can finally , when they have all these services that give you free Apple Music , it can be Apple Music Voice . I think they give it to you for a longsighted time .
MS : Something like that work really well for like Amazon has something very , that ’s basically their services that too , but you ’re you ’re accustom to using Alexa for that stuff and nonsense . This is not like you use I use the Apple Music app on my phone all the fourth dimension . This Apple Music Voice , it takes that aside . So , it ’s an interesting matter and Homepod mini is n’t omnipresent enough to kind of supplementation , I do n’t think .
JC : To me , the best thing about it was that since it ’s voice only , and you could ask for any track or artist or whatever , but they also made XII of playlists to meet like modality and activities and stuff like that . Just rafts and gobs of them . And that benefits everyone . Those are just there . If you have full app in music , you’re able to search or you’re able to apply Siri or you’re able to whatever . So I just love the affair . We start out a whole ton of like playlists , active playlist for moods and natural action and stuff .
RL : We also saw in Apple Arcade , I guess , some plot developer contracts expired . So some game developers decided to stop becoming available on Apple Arcade .
JC : Not many , but yeah , a few .
RL : Not many , but a few , which I guess bear witness that for developers , Apple Arcade is n’t for everybody , I guess . We do n’t know how much developer benefit from it , how much they ’re making , I reckon , in other news .
JC : Yeah . I think it depends . I opine the contracts are all a little unlike . It certainly does n’t seem to be a service that anyone talks about . It seems to be one of those things that nobody speak about take or the young biz that ’s on Apple Arcade or anything . It seems like a welfare of having Apple One . There ’s some near material . Now that they ’ve changed their insurance policy to be , we ’re consider a caboodle of hits from the last few years usually after they ’re a year or two one-time and just putting a plus by the name so you have intercourse it ’s a different adaptation and commit it on Apple Arcade . Like Dead Cells Plus just came out . Dead Cells is a tremendous game . Like play with a gamepad , but that plot ’s awesome . It ’s been in the App Store and they just take the App Store versions , call it Ten Cells Plus and put it in Arcade . Like , since they ’ve been come out doing that , there ’s been good stuff and nonsense in there . Just not brand new . RL : But yeah , I wish Apple would push it a little more and maybe induce something else with it . I do n’t have intercourse what , but it does kind of feel like it kind of gets command a lot . And all we see about are fresh games . Here ’s a new game . Jason updates it hebdomadally .
JC : Yeah , every Friday , here ’s the new Apple Arcade game .
RL : Yeah .
JC : It ’s not a big pot . Like nobody ’s die to be all mouth about it online .
MS : I do n’t cognise , SpongeBob Salad was fairly cool .
RL : I think that does it for this instalment of the Macworld Podcast , instalment 819 . Thanks to Jason Cross .
JC : Thank you !
RL : Thanks to Michael Simon .
MS : Thank you , sir .
