Welcome to our weekend Apple Breakfast pillar , which let in all of the Apple news you missed this hebdomad in a ready to hand pungency - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a morning cup of coffee or tea , but it ’s cool if you want to give it a read during dejeuner or dinner hour too .
High profile, low margin for error
If I could slip a page from The Macalope from a moment , Android Central ’s Andrew Myrick had an interesting hot take this week : Apple ’s getting a pass with the iPhone 14 problem , and it does n’t make sense . Like Morgan Freeman at the end of “ Seven,”I agree with the second part .
Apple has certainly made some missteps with this year ’s raw devices and OS update . The new iPhones have been afflict by a seriouscamera shake hemipterous insect , while the Camera app itself has been reported asopening annoyingly slowly . iPadOS 16 has been delayed ; iOS 16 has a Mail bug that causes anendless loop of app clank , and Apple has been obliged to admit that its unspoiled lineament may bedraining your barrage . These are not the headline Apple want .
But the reporting of these event – on this and other tech sites , and in the general pressing – is also plenteous demonstration that Apple is not catch a notch . Indeed , itnevergets a notch . Apple is the most scrutinized tech party in the world , and every mistake it makes is swoop on with something close to glee . Even determination that eventually turn out to be perfectly reasonable get poke fun at the time .
Just search at the reception when Apple dropped the iPhone ’s headphone seaman in 2016 or discontinue include a courser with new iPhone purchase in 2020 . In both display case , far-flung sentence from the media and parody from rival companies … which then softly followed lawsuit a short while by and by to substantially less disconfirming reportage . Apple is a merriment and traffic - favorable target for criticism , and that mean it end up taking the ack-ack gun and giving cover to other company .
This is n’t a bad thing , of course . Scrutiny is good , and keep company honest ; that ’s specially authoritative for a company as powerful as Apple . Errors are more likely to be addressed if they ’re publicized in the media . ( The photographic camera shake and other Io 16 bugs already got a fix in iOS 16.0.2 . )
And the fact that Apple acts as a lightning conductor for so much examination can be a powerful force for variety . The middling phone manufacturer might be sick about the approximation of dropping the courser from the box , just as most PC shaper were nervous about drip optical drives . But Apple has both the power to get away with it , and the profile to draw all the criticism , thereby embolden the rest to do similarly . Indeed , only this hebdomad my colleague Jason Snell has praise Apple’scourage to vary the worldby drop the strong-arm SIM .
Apple ’s eminent visibility is a dual - edged sword . I doubt Tim Cook would change position with any other chief executive officer ; unfavorable judgment comes with the dominion when you ’re number one , and I wo n’t be shedding any tears over Apple ’s negatively charged closet reportage . But I do think it ’s a bit much that the latest entry on the sempiternal list of Apple criticism is that it does n’t get criticised enough .
metalworks
The iPhone 14 may be the startle of anextreme style : Apple’smid - orbit is losing out .
The iPhone 14 Pro’snew 48MP lensis so good it canbeat a costly mirrorless camera .
The Macalopehas a questionthat ’s as tough to answer as it is to say : WhenApple ’s criticsdeserve as much literary criticism , is it really critical ?
Jason Cross reveals16 veil iOS 16 featuresyouneed to find out .
Ateardown of the iPhone 14reveals “ themost substantial redesignsince the iPhone X. ”
Reviews corner
We ’ve been place the new iPhones through rigorous testing in the Macworld science lab , and can now let out the effect in ourfirst in - astuteness reviews .
And in our roundup of theApple Watch Ultra follow-up , we come upon animpressive debutthat go beyond expectations .
Tune in next hebdomad for our iPhone 14 review !
The rumor mill
Logitech appears to have accidentallyrevealed two new iPads . Which adds a niggling spice to theOctober event .
Apple’sDynamic Islandwill reportedlyexpand to all iPhone 15 modelsin 2023 .
Podcast of the week
The commencement of anew iPhone generationis upon us with the liberation of the iPhone 14 . And these iPhones may be the most crucial model for Apple in recent history . We ’ve got the fresh iPhones and we talk about why they ’re so crucial in this episode of the Macworld Podcast !
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