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Still , the earnings call was another reminder of how heavily Apple has run and continues to lean on the iPhone , the bombshell that dropped from a blue sky in 2007 and casts a tail over the tech mart to this day . Of a total of $ 81.8 billion in revenue this after part , an astonishing $ 39.7 billion amount from the iPhone . It ’s simultaneously impressive that the goose is roil out the egg 16 years on , and alarming that Apple still has n’t constitute a new source of protein .
With Vision Pro unbelievable to be wearing out the buttons on Luca Maestri ’s estimator any time soon , a more realistic candidate to replace the iPhone as taxation champion is the Apple Watch . It ’s not yet remotely like ( the entire Wearables / Home division , which also includes AirPods and HomePods , made just $ 8.3 billion in total ) but the direction of travel is upright , with that family increasing by two pct while the iPhone send away by the same perimeter .
And the Apple Watch has far more way to grow . It ’s a younger mathematical product , having launched in 2015 , in a newer sector . Rather than depending on press upgrades to be customers in a saturated market , Apple ’s watch naval division is doing a good job of finding newcomers : the ship’s company enounce that in its most recent fiscal quarter , two - third of Apple Watch emptor were buying that twist for the first time . The smartwatch market is also far less commoditized than smartphones . Android telephone offer a compelling choice to the iPhone , but nobody has really dispute the Apple Watch ’s hegemony . It ’s a little like the iPad ’s effortless authority of the lozenge sphere , except with a tidy overall outlook .
Of course , you need an iPhone to even moot buying an Apple Watch , but you do n’t need thelatestiPhone . That ’s why the Apple Watch is the ultimate “ halo effect ” Cartesian product , a relatively low-priced gadget with no competitor that requires another Apple gimmick . citizenry may exchange from iPhone to Android , but few , if any multitude are move to give up their Apple Watch for a Galaxy or Pixel watch . Apple is so far ahead , the retiring few Apple Watch update have been comparatively minor and new buyers are still clump to the twist .
Looking ahead , it ’s hard to escape the feeling that the smartphone ’s days are numbered . But the smartwatch , like the sneaky mammal who snuck around after the dinosaurs were wiped out , has a place in the new world . Vision Pro wo n’t make much sentience in junction with a phone , but it could couple neatly with an Apple Watch as an redundant source of haptic feedback and wellness data , an extra stage set of controls that you do n’t need to see . One potential AR / VR futurity , indeed , is to move the inputs and much of the compute exponent to a carpus - go up wearable , then keep the headset as lean and lightweight as possible . With its dominant smartwatch , Apple is in a swell position to attack whatever the succeeding tech market looks like .
Foundry
Apple needs toscrap the AirPods Maxandstart over .
Apple isdoomed . Why ? Because it does n’t have afolding earpiece .
Dan Moren rounds upthree overlooked Apple appsyou shouldstart using right now .
Is theiPhone 15 Proalreadydead on reaching ? perchance .
Here ’s a solutionto theiPhone 15 Pro ’s price hike : Do n’t grease one’s palms one .
Hoo boy , Apple’sVision ProDeveloper Kit termsare savage .
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The rumor mill
Apple’siPhone 15 eventwill reportedly beheld on September 13 .
Applewants to makea fullybezel - less iPhone display .
Apple’shot raw downslope colormight be‘dark ’ Ti . Or then again itmight be pinkish .
The iPhone 15 Pro’snew designwill reportedly make iteasier to prepare .
The7th - gen iPad miniis tipped toarrive this year .
Vision Pro’smust - have accessorymight be anAirTag 2 .
The 2nd - genApple Watch Ultrareportedlywon’t be as heavyas the current model .
We ’re starting to make up to ahuge drop . Here’severything arrive from Applein August 2023 .
Podcast of the week
The next undulation of Apple acquittance is n’t your typical product update . They boast Apple silicon that will set up the features for the iPhone , iPad , Apple Watch , and Mac for years to come . Here ’s what to expect with thefuture of Apple atomic number 14 , in this instalment of the Macworld Podcast !
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Software updates, bugs, and problems
New malwarecan give a hackercontrol of your Macwithout you pull in it .
Apple has acknowledged aScreen Time bugthatbreaks parental controls .
The latestChrome for iPhoneupdate makes it easier tofind what you ’re await for .
