Welcome to our weekend Apple Breakfast column , which includes all of the Apple news program you missed this calendar week in a handy bit - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we reckon it goes great with a morning cup of chocolate or afternoon tea , but it ’s nerveless if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner party hour too .
When the chips are down
When function for office in other 2016 , Donald Trump vow to “ get Apple to build their damn calculator and things in this country rather of other countries . ” This vague , half - formed programme waswidely ridiculedbecause it seemed so visionary : You ca n’t just tear up a complex overseas supplying Ernst Boris Chain and start from scratch in a territory with almost none of the required accomplishment and base . But publicly at least , Apple gave the idea a polite reception .
likewise modified in oscilloscope is this hebdomad ’s announcement that supplier TSMC ( which is based in Taiwan ) will make Apple silicon chip at aplant in Arizona . Again , we ’re not talking about the manufacturing of actual Apple products , but merely one component . But it ’s a major one . TSMC work chips for iPhones , iPads , Macs , Apple Watches , Apple TVs and , well , somewhat much everything Apple sells , so the company could start announce that some of these devices are “ ( Partly ) Made in America . ”
Not yet , though . Because the first caveat to this positive - sounding write up is the timeframe . The plant does n’t open until 2024 , which obviously decree out the initial rivulet of the iPhone 15 , the Apple Watch Series 9 , and the next generation of Macs and iPads . TSMC and Apple rushed to get the news show out there , but the issue of the move are still a fair way off .
Even when the plant is run , it wo n’t be making all of the chips that Apple uses ; it simply wo n’t have the capacity . Nor will it be coiffe up for the 3 millimicron manufacturing process which the company isexpected to switch to in 2023 . wreak at either 5 nm or 4 nm , the plant will have to focalize , at least initially , onlegacy chipsthat are n’t nearly as of import as a unexampled A - series CPU . If you finish up corrupt an iPhone 13 or 14 in 2024 , you might chance that its central processor was work up in Arizona , but that ’s unlikely to utilize to an iPhone 15 or 16 . And it ’s more probable the plant will be making lesser chip for a small number of Apple Watches and Apple TVs .
And that ’s assuming everything go right and the industrial plant open as planned . A sprawling Foxconn works in Wisconsin announced in 2017 that was hypothesize to bring 13,000 job and manufacture cutting - edge displaysnever met its goalsand hasmostly been abandoned .
in the end the job with Apple ’s “ Made in America ” plan is that the company is n’t really motivated to bring its fabrication home , and wo n’t benefit in any virtual sense from doing so . Doing most of the manufacturing in China , Vietnam , and India makes sense because labor is cheaper in those countries , labor laws tend to be less favorable to prole , and existing manufacturing plant are put up to make tech products at plate . Apple has n’t coiffure up a complex international supply chain for the merriment of it ; rather , each inter-group communication in the range is the optimal pick for legal , economic , talent , or tax cause . Moving any part of it to the U.S. will entail high cost and lower net – and likely high damage for consumer . What Apple really wants is upright PR about creating Job and get buffalo chip in the U.S. The Arizona flora has attain those headlines already and should rescue the jobs . But if the great unwashed read those stories guess the iPhone 15 will be powered by a check made in the U.S. , they ’re sadly mistaken .
Of naturally , the Arizona plant may be the start of a massive switching . It ’s potential that financial incentives promised by consecutive administrations ( including theCHIPS Actsigned into law in August ) will mean it makes sense for Apple to pull significant swathe of its supplying chain back into the U.S. But this will happen if and when it do good Apple , and not a moment earlier .
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TheMac fell shortof expectations but stillblew us off in 2022 , imagine Jason Snell .
Apple mightactually be doomedif Tim Cook ca n’t fixits biggest iPhone problem .
We can see5 reasonswhy you ’ll desire toupdate to Io 16.2right away .
To beat Google in thespeaker war , Apple demand to deploy itssecret mini weapon .
Apple hasupdated its pricing tier , stand for iOS apps can now be as small as 29 cents , oras much as $ 10,000 .
Appleused illegal tacticstodissuade retail workers from unionise , agree to the National Labor Relations Board .
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One simple trickmade Safari Michael Simon’sgo - to Mac browseronce again .
The rumor mill
Apple is reportedlyworking on a folding silver screen – but itwon’t be an iPhone .
The highly anticipatedApple machine projectjust got a lot less ambitious – andeven more stay , according to report .
And while we ’re being pessimistic , Apple’smixed - reality headsetmay be arrivinglater than we think .
Podcast of the week
In the latest episode of the Macworld Podcast , we go over some of thehighlights and lowlightsfor Apple in 2022 .
you could catch up with every episode of the Macworld Podcast onSpotify , Soundcloud , thePodcasts app , orour own web site .
Software updates, bugs & problems
Apple has broughtend - to - close encryptiontonearly every iCloud service , including backups .
After a year in limbo , Apple hasquietly killedits controversialCSAM picture - glance over feature article .
Google Chromenow usesless shelling and runs smootheron your Mac .
iOS 16.2 , which was delivered to developers this workweek and may have launched to the public by the time you translate this , bringsApple Music Singand the Freeform app .
But why does Apple’slatest medicine featurehave suchhigh system requirements ?
And the release ofmacOS Ventura 13.1appears to be imminent .
And with that , we ’re done for this week . If you ’d care to get regular roundups , sign up forour newssheet . you may also follow uson Twitterfor breaking news news report . See you next Saturday , delight the rest of your weekend , and stay Appley .
