receive to our weekend Apple Breakfast pillar , which includes all of the Apple intelligence you neglect this week in a handy bite - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we remember it goes great with a morning cup of deep brown or tea , but it ’s coolheaded if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too .
True love waits
Back in the 80s Steve Jobs magnificently told the Macintosh development squad , “ Real creative person ship , ” an aphorism that ’s often taken as a pean to crunch polish and an exhortation to get the product out the door no matter what . But it ’s deserving bearing in intellect that he also tell them : “ Do n’t compromise ! ” He wanted it done , and he also wanted it to be perfect . No curiosity mass find out the guy severely to work with .
In reality , of course , “ stark ” and “ now ” are often reciprocally exclusive , and Apple ’s usual ism in such office is that it ’s undecomposed to be late than rubbish . Time and meter again , from smartphones to wireless headphones , the society has sat on the by-line biding its time while competitor rush to infix a new grocery , before join of late with a well - made and dominant product . Just as authoritative , however , are the times when Apple explored a market and make up one’s mind not to bother : we now know there really was an Apple television , for lesson , but the society decide not to ship after all . The fuller quotation could be : “ genuine artists ship thoughtfully designed product that make sense in the current marketplace , and cancel projects that do n’t . ”
The importance of this approach , as ever , is proven by the exception . Sometimes Apple does erupt out of the starting mental block full of hope and naive eagerness , and the outcome are rarely pretty : Apple Maps , for instance , was evidently unready for the market at launch , while the TV+ service , despite being a late entrant to the cyclosis market , was not yet sufficiently supplied with content for a normal period , countenance alone the pandemic to add up . In both cases , it ’s understandable why Apple did n’t need to wait any longer ( map services call for substance abuser data point to grow , for instance ) , but each in its own mode shows the peril of precipitateness and its risks for a company ’s brand .
It remain to be seen which class , late or never , will implement to Apple ’s farsighted - rumoredmixed - reality headset , which was expected to debut thisspring(then again , we ’ve heard that one before ) , and is now apparentlydelayed until the summer . After a certain point , hold pop out to suggest at deeper problems , and bitter experience from the AirPower saga mean I wo n’t be counting my mixed - realism Gallus gallus until they ’ve hatch .
Then again , I ’d rather look than see a rushed ware , and if the locomotive engineer ca n’t iron out the problem I ’m felicitous to miss out entirely . The thing that separates Apple from other technical school ship’s company is its greater willingness to say the most crucial word in business : no . And its ability , most of the time , to brush off pressure to ship untimely … no matter where it comes from .
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Reviews corner
HomePod ( 2nd - gen ) review : Improvements , butnot the ones we wanted .
Is Apple induce aMac Pronobody wants , asks Jason Snell .
Weround up 7 waysyour iPhone couldliterally preserve your life .
When itcomes to AI , possibly Apple issmarter than it look .
ForgetVentura . RunMac OS 9on your unexampled Mac !
There have beendelays , but Apple still wants torent you an iPhone .
Microsoftjust killedany chance of aBoot Camp revivalon Apple silicon .
Video of the week
Apple will almost sure as shooting switch from Lightning to USB - C when the iPhone 15 launch later this twelvemonth . But why not have both ? One YouTuber shows how we can enjoy the best of both worlds :
The rumor mill
The iPhone 15 may be become anew camera blow . Here are4 radical possibilities .
Apple patentsappear to confirm a button - less iPhone 15 Pro , and twit afuture fold iPhone .
Should you buyany of the latestMacBook rumors ?
Good news : A new15 - inch MacBook Aircould be hereas soon as April .
Bad news show : The 2nd - genApple silicon iMacmight takethree year to arrive .
TheseiPhone 15 rendersshow off thenew designand monolithic television camera jut .
Podcast of the week
Apple could liberate thenew , big MacBook Airthis April . What ’s fresh with this laptop , and what does it mean for the MacBook batting order ? Also , we talk about the new updates to iOS , iPadOS , and macOS .
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Software updates, bugs & problems
If you bought aMac , iPhone , or iPadover the past 5 years , youneed to update it now .
If you own anM2 MacBook Air or MacBook Pro , meanwhile , there ’s an update … for your cable .
