Where did 2014 go ? It seems like only yesterday we were preparing for WWDC and now we ’re headed into 2015 . call up back over the retiring year you might be excused if you thought that now a mickle had really happened . Sure Apple launched two new iPhones , revealed the Apple Watch , and revamp both its operating system , but did Apple enough to keep its fans glad , and was everything as rose-cheeked as the gorgeous Yosemite sunset look-alike would evoke ?
Here are some of the hit and Miss for Apple this year .
Apple misses
1 . Apple started 2014unable to fulfil order of the new Mac Pro . set up just before the end of 2013 , some of the 2013 order were n’t fulfilled until February 2014 .
2 . Asecurity flawdiscovered in tardy February could allow a hacker to intercept your data when your Mac , iPad or iPhone was connected to an unprotected WiFi hot spot . Apple patched the defect quite chop-chop , but unfortunately for Apple this was one of a number of surety outcome to hit Io in 2014 .
3 . May saw a US jury find Samsung guilty of violating Apple letters patent . They awarded Apple $ 119 million in damages , but this was below Apple ’s hope - for $ 2.2 billion . Both companies live on on to challenge the verdict .
4 . Apple had yet more black eye in the pillow slip in August , with Judge Lucy Koh finding that : “ Apple has not establish that it suffered significant injury in the form of either lost sales or reputational injury . ”
5 . At the end of August Apple announced an iPhone 5 battery replacement programme , claiming that a “ very small share ” of iPhones were affected . That same month Apple began to offer a Sleep / Wake clit replenishment programme for the iPhone 5 after it determine that the “ slumber / wake up clitoris mechanism on a humble percentage of iPhone 5 role model may stop working or work intermittently ” . Read : How to fix break iPhone ringlet release .
6 . Topping off the bad word in August come reports that au naturel photos of Jennifer Lawrence and around 100 big - name stars including Cara Delevigne , Cat Deeley , Kelly Brook , and Rihanna had made their way onto image bulletin control board 4chan . By some means hackers had been able to access celebrity photos that were stored in iCloud , although Apple take that the privacy falling out was not the result of a compromise of any of the systems used for its iCloud storage service . take : how to make certain your photograph ca n’t leak out from iCloud .
7.iOS 8was available to download a few days after the iPhone launch event in September but it ran into some trouble due to its requirement that installers had more than 5 GB of free quad on their gimmick . As a result the espousal of iOS 8 is behind that of iOS 7 . Read : how to download Io 8 without delete anything .
8 . The iPod classic was discontinued on 9 September because the 160 GB hard drive was no longer being manufactured by the provider .
9 . October saw thelaunch of Yosemite , the new version of OS X. While the new operating organization has much to commend it , some users were ( and still are ) foil by WiFi progeny following initiation of the update .
10 . There were more iOS security concerns in November when malware was discovered that was said to take advantage of a glitch in an iOS feature that permit organisations to instal their own apps on non - jailbroken iOS gimmick . WireLurker was follow by another iOS 8 malware menace have a go at it as Masque Attack . Before you run out and corrupt an Android phone , you would have to incapacitate and neglect Apple ’s substantial iOS security measures measure to be affected . Read : iPhone and iPad security measures
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Apple hits
1 . Remember the NSA scandal ? In January Apple released a statement colligate to its affaire in this , claiming that : “ We believe strongly that our customers have the right field to empathize how their personal entropy is being handled … ” tally : “ Personal conversations are protected using remainder - to - end encoding over iMessage and FaceTime , and Apple does not store location information , Maps searches , or Siri requests in any identifiable form ” .
2 . 24 January was a big day for Apple and the Mac – it had been 30 years since Apple introduced the first ever Macintosh . Apple celebrate this milestone with a Happy Birthday Mac website which included a timeline and stories from Mac users who visit the site .
3 . In April Apple updated the MacBook Air and lowered prices for the popular laptop computer range , now starting at £ 749 .
4 . Apple introduced a newcheaper iMacin June . The £ 899 entry - level poser was bestow to the existing orbit of iMacs , all of which saw a price drop .
5 . Also in June Apple split its stock so that investors got seven shares for every one share they owned . interpret abouthow to invest in AAPL shares here .
6 . Apple updated theMacBook Pro with Retina displayin July advance the processor and lowering prices .
7 . Apple sold 10 million newiPhone 6andiPhone 6 Plushandsets in the first weekend of sales in September – 4 million of those in the first 10 hours . In 2013 the iPhone 5s and 5c combined to accomplish 9 million sales in the first weekend
8 . Apple October event might have seen Apple establish two new iPads but we were most excited about the new5 K iMac with Retina displayand theMac mini , which ultimately pick up a boost after two years .
9 . At the very final stage of October Apple CEO Tim Cook came out as queer , submit that “ If hearing that the CEO of Apple is jolly can help oneself someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is , or bring comfort to anyone who finger alone , or inspire people to assert on their par , then it ’s worth the trade - off with my own privateness . ”
10 . In a great final stage to the year , at the close of November , Apple ’s part price outgo $ 100 . If you moot this in terms of the pre - disconnected stock price ( Apple split its strain back in June ) , it had last broken through the $ 700 barrier . At the same time Apple ’s Market Cap surpassed all record and made Apple the most valuable society in the world : the first company to be worth $ 700bn .
Not bad for a twelvemonth where not very much happen .
