receive to our hebdomadary collection of all the Apple news you miss this calendar week , in a handy collation - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes slap-up with a morning cup of coffee or Camellia sinensis , but it ’s cool if you need to give it a read during lunch or dinner party hour too .
Turning a win into a victory
The most memorable Oscars in late memory take place this workweek . It ca n’t be easy to win the Academy Award for Best Actor and still cease up bear the worst night of your career – but save a thought for the eve ’s other winner , whose triumphs have been overshadowed byThe Slap , at least in the brusk full term .
One of the biggest achiever was “ CODA , ” whichcollected three major awardsand made account as the first Best Picture success from a streaming military service . Some defense there for Apple ’s beleaguered TV+ avail , which acquired and distributed the picture , supported the makers ’ creative option and defend it to the Academy . We ’ve been ponderinghow much credit Apple really deserves , given that the acquisition took placeafter“CODA ” had been fill out and even premier at the 2021 Sundance Festival , but at the very least this highlights the quality of scheduling that Cupertino is lining up on TV+ .
But that does n’t mean the TV+ scheme ca n’t sour . Disney , Netflix , and Amazon Prime Video are all afflict with a excess of content in a way that is n’t all positive ; if you do n’t plan forrader you’re able to spend half your evening cram through straight - to - video continuation and trying to decide what to watch . A narrow-minded , curated and consistently high-pitched - lineament cyclosis experience can act upon , if you may get at least areasonablevolume of subject . And a high - profile awards triumph can be just the thing to play up your USP and nudge – or even slap – a few more users into subscribing .
The launching of theMac Studio and Studio Displaymade one thing clear : Apple is at its bestwhen it does n’t know best .
The M1 epoch may be over , but there are stillApple Si mysteriesto be uncovered .
iFixit’sStudio Display teardownhas answer a burning question : Why is it so thickheaded ?
Welp , proclaim the Macalope , it looks like the iPhone SE isas sentence as the iPhone X.
Please do n’t benchmarkNvidia ’s GeForce RTX 3090 Tiagainst Apple ’s M1 Ultra , beg Michael Simon .
Thismind - bollix up Mac folder shortcutjustchanged our life .
Here iseverything hail from Applein theglorious month of April .
Io 15.4.1andmacOS 12.3.1bring of import microbe mess and security department update .
Please stop writing April Fool’s stories
Lucky readers of this column will have 364 day of exemption stretching ahead of them , but I ’m writing it onApril Fool ’s twenty-four hours , the bad day of the yr .
As I sit here , the top - ranked situation on the Apple Reddit page is a call that the company ispartnering with AMDand will close its Apple Silicon sectionalization at some point in the next two years . ( It ’s queer , you see , because it ’s false . Aha ha ha . ) And roughly half of my Twitter feed , and a good chunk of my email inbox , is made up of mirthsome harlequinade from corporate PRs with a sense - of - sense of humour bypass . AsFast Companyputs it , “ Today is the sidereal day that brand replace the shackles of commerce in favor of jokes , with usually indifferent — but sometimes worse!—results . ”
Saying things that are n’t dependable is not funny and never was . But this stuff is even more pointless now , in a world where objective accuracy was long ago abandoned in tumid sections of the mass medium and the tech beat is largely occupied with sifting truth from the dateless parade of hearsay ( see below ) . That Reddit post is followed by a connexion to aMacRumors storyabout foldable iPads which Ithinkis serious , but since we ’ve make up an entire day to nonsense , who can be certain ?
For this rationality , I hereby make a proposal . Next class , allow ’s all announce a permanent boycott on any and all companies which turn an April Fool ’s joke , and we ’ll see how seriously they ’re attached to the cause of Trygve Lie - base clowning .
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The rumor mill
Is Appledone with iOS 15 ? With all major feature released and no genus Beta on rap , it could be time tofocus on iOS 16 .
Apple’stwo - poker chip strategyfor the iPhone 14makes a lot of sense .
Arefreshed iPad Prowith an M2 chip is reportedlyarriving this fall .
Podcast of the week
Apple TV+ ’s CODA pull ahead big at the Oscars , plus Major League Baseball is coming to the service . And Macworld readers have plenty of thoughts on Apple ’s Magic Mouse . That ’s all in this instalment of the Macworld Podcast .
you’re able to get every installment of the Macworld Podcast onSpotify , Amazon Music , Soundcloud , thePodcasts app , orour own site .
Bugs & problems
Google has pushed anemergency Chrome for Mac updateto limit acritical zero - day exploit .
Apple VP Craig Federighi hasoffered an explanationwhyautomatic Io updatesoften take weeks to set up .
macOS Monterey 12.3.1 is here , bring Bluetooth and exhibit fixes , andcrucial security system update .
iOS 15.4.1 , meanwhile , fixesiPhone battery drainpipe issuesand patches a decisive security defect .
Here’swhat to doif you’re able to’tlog into your Google accounton your Mac .
Has your Macstopped responding ? Here ’s how tounfreeze a Macthat ’s hang .
And if you ’ve cause the polar problem , help is at hand . Here’swhat to doif your Macwon’t shut down .
Video of the week
According to Bloomberg , Apple is work on ahardware subscription servicethat would allow users to hire its machine like masses lease cars . This program would differ from the 12- and 24 - calendar month loanword programme presently available . And while its press release date is months away , specification have already leaked about theupcoming iPhone 14 .
Ken Mingis , Michael Simon and Juliet Beauchamp discuss why a hardware subscription service could profit go-ahead user , and what to anticipate in the iPhone 14 .
