Welcome to our hebdomadal Apple Breakfast column , which includes all the Apple tidings you missed last week in a handy bite - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we call up it go great with a Monday forenoon cupful of burnt umber or tea , but it ’s nerveless if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too .
Apple’s fourth revolution
A calendar week before the Macworld San Francisco tonic kicked off on January 9 , 2007 , Apple update its internet site on New Year ’s Day witha cryptic messagethat read , “ The first 30 years were just the beginning . Welcome to 2007 , ” an obvious tease for the exposition . But until Steve Jobs took the stage and said , “ Every once in a while a revolutionary production comes along that change everything , ” no one had any musical theme what was come .
It ’s toilsome to believe in an old age where everything leak , but we really did n’t know Apple was planning to turn the roving phone diligence on its head with the iPhone . There were grumble for age that Apple had experimented with an iPod that could make song — there was even a joke slide in the tonic about it — but nothing had ascend to the level of at hand release , so it was n’t clear what the tease was come to to .
This metre we know . WhenApple writes“Code raw world , ” and “ A new era begins , ” there ’s little question that it ’s referring to its newAR / VR headsetthat has been rumored for years . And even though we know what ’s coming this time , it ’s no less of a monolithic event .
The launch of Apple ’s headset might experience like an eventuality or a foregone decision , but watching its debut today will be one of the polar moments in Apple ’s chronicle , along with the iPhone , the iPod , and the original Macintosh . The iPad , Apple Watch , and AirPods are all huge class - delimitate products for Apple , but they do n’t sit down with the large ones . The headset will .
Even if it is n’t clear at the start , the headset is one of those devices that could fundamentally change Apple ’s direction . Like the iPhone and iPod , it will endure its portion of ridicule for its gamey price and derivative functionality , mass will complain about its excogitation and betoken out its deficiencies . But in a year or five , the rest of the world will get up to Apple ’s visual sense .
Much like the iPhone and iPod , the headset we see today will be a lot unlike than the one that breaks through and becomes the one everyone wants . But make no fault , today is as big of a keynote as the one on January 9 , 2007 ; the only departure is this time we know it ’s arrive . There are deal of unknowns — the innovation of the machine tribal chief among them — but today ’s keynote wo n’t be a surprise on the level of Macworld San Francisco 2007 . No matter . It ’s still one of the four most exciting announcements in Apple ’s chronicle .
Time will distinguish if the headset will be as big as the revolutions that preceded it , but those arguments are for another day . Today , let ’s just enjoy the show .
Foundry
WWDC 2023begins today , and that means two thing : Selling the futurity and purchase time .
TheApple silicon transitionhas made amess of desktop Macs .
A lot will be annunciate atWWDC , butwearables will steal the show .
Leaked prototypesreveal thecolorful Apple accessorieswe never got .
The rumor mill
What unbelievable hazard : we managed to determine acopy of the scriptforWWDC 2023 .
AnApple Reality Pro leakreveals a seriously high - rhenium display:4 K for each eye !
Apple is set to give Mac Studio andM2 MacBook patronage - insnext hebdomad asWWDC rumors convolution .
Wenow know whyApple require to make theiPhone 16 Proa little bigger . ( Hint : it ’s not about the sizing of the screen . )
Podcast of the week
The biggest Apple consequence of the year is almost here ! In this episode of the Macworld Podcast , we preview what ’s in storage at WWDC ! operate system updates , Apple watch enhancements , new Macs , a new mode to see realness , and more on the show !
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Software updates, bugs, and problems
Apple Music Classicallands on Android – but iPad and Mac usershear cricket .
If you have n’t moved fromMy Photo Streamto iCloud Photos , meter is running out .
