receive to our hebdomadary Apple Breakfast column , which include all the Apple newsworthiness you drop last calendar week in a handy bit - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it become smashing with a Monday dawn cup of coffee tree or tea , but it ’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too .
Future shock
Those of us who write about technology for a living often have a tendency to fixate on the future . Thenext generation of iPhones , next year ’s Macs , the feature that will be unlock when the next solidification of software update get : if we ’re not careful , focusing on the things that are n’t here yet can blind us to the real and attainable benefits of the technology usable right now .
But sometimes this learning ability is completely justified . Such as when the companies we publish about take a similarly future - obsessed approach and sacrifice the short - full term success of their current products in service to a longer - term vision . Like , to take a completely random example , Apple in 2023 and 2024 .
We knew in advance that last year was going to be dull : There was an apprehension that Apple needed to push in the lead on the moonshot project that could one day take the iPhone ’s place as its Prime Minister computing weapons platform and that the developmental drain make by this possession would inevitably touch on innovations in other areas . The resultant was a wearisome iPhone 15 launching , a boring Apple Watch Series 9 launch , and a ecumenical gumption of kill prison term until the Vision Pro amount along and gave us something interesting to peach about . As my fellow worker Jason Snell put it , we were all hoping that Apple ’s quiet 2023 was thecalm before the storm .
But after Vision Pro launched at the start of the year , thing do n’t palpate like they ’ve changed . Vision Pro itself is , perhaps necessarily , a curio of a product that very few citizenry are buying and represents essentially a coup d’oeil of what may become possible in spatial computing some years from now . In other Bible , another slip of next obsession . The second - gen framework , which is expected to be sleazy and therefore approachable to a far larger audience , is n’t likely to be here until 2026 .
The MacBooks and iPads we ’ve had so far this yr , meanwhile , havefailed to set the world alight , and the approaching iPhone 16 launching is principally hanging on the rollout of Apple Intelligence , Apple ’s long - delayed entry into the AI area . Which in turn is in all likelihood going to take some years of iteration before it ’s really worthwhile , and wo n’t go far in full until 2025 . ( Though the iPhone 17 might be a
The main affair I desire from Apple Intelligence is an improved version of Siri because Siri is almost unusably forged on the HomePod and pretty dreadful elsewhere . But the time lag is going to be a long one , obviously , because Apple Intelligence and the new Siri are n’t expected to roll out to the publicuntil iOS 18.4 in the leaping . And because it needs a lot of processing power itwon’t feign the HomePod … or the HomePods some of us were speechless enough to have already bought four of , anyway . ( Okay , two of them are HomePod minis . I ’m not made of money . )
If any HomePod get the welfare of AI Siri , it ’ll be that current darling of the rumor blog , the HomePod with a concealment . I ’ve written elsewhere that giving the HomePod a screenwon’t fix its problems , but a newfangled Siri might . We do n’t yet know whether this fabulous production will ever launch , whether it will get an A18 processor , or whether Apple will let its AI system to lead on a smart speaker . But with the eternal rest of the Apple range rejoice in the doldrums , it ’s something to look forward to .
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What on earthhas happened to theApple rumor factory ?
A screenwon’t restore the HomePod ’s problems : Apple require to vary theexecution , not the approach .
Apple’snext - gen HomePodcould changeeverything we make love about Siri .
Podcast of the week
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The rumor mill
iPhone 16 Prois rumored to havemuch quicker charging speeds .
TheApple Watch Series 10will have a larger filmdom , other ‘ far-famed ’ upgrade .
A newHomePod with a displaycouldhijack the iPhone 16 launchthis fall . And take care , here’seven more evidence !
UncoveredApple chip identifiersreveal surprisingslate of unreleased iPads .
TheiPhone 17 Pro Maxmay be Apple ’s first phonewith three 48MP cameras .
Software updates, bugs, and problems
Attention iPhone user : Anew SMS attackcouldsteal your Apple ID certificate .
TheseApple Intelligence and Siri featuresare comingafter the iOS 18 launch .
authentic leakersays surpriseiOS 17.5.2iPhone update is on the mode .
