Welcome to our veritable collecting of all the Apple news you missed this hebdomad , in a ready to hand bite - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we remember it go away great with a good morning loving cup of coffee or tea , but it ’s nerveless if you need to give it a read during dejeuner or dinner time of day too .
The long goodbye
This hebdomad Applereportedly thin out all tieswithdesign caption Jony I ve . But one could be forgiven for cogitate he left the company quite a long fourth dimension ago : I ve handed in his aluminum badge and heavy weapon back in 2019 , and has since been working with Apple on a self-employed consultancy basis . Exactly how much has he contrive in those three years ? Well , now , there ’s the question .
One possibility , argued persuasively by9to5Macthis hebdomad , is that I ve ’s consultancy correspondence was only ever a PR fiction designed to appease shareholders . I ve , the internet site reckons , basically checked out back in 2015 , at least as far as consumer products were concerned ; he had grown bored with the press and repetitiveness of looking at iPhone image week in and week out , and wanted to leave to spend more clock time back in England . Tim Cook buy some time by render him a forwarding and letting him lick on fun newfangled projects – namely Apple Park and raw Apple Store designs – but members of his squad had to ill-treat up and take over solar day - to - sidereal day direction responsibilities .
By the time 2019 rolled around it was therefore operationally prosperous to manage without Sir Jony . But how would that look ? What was required was a eminent - profile organisation to give the appearance of persistence for the benefit of well spooked shareholders . Do n’t worry , everyone . Jony is still on the payroll . Everything is all right .
This theory was largely justify by the appearance this calendar week of a neatly clock andfluffy GQ interviewwith Evans Hankey and Kate Bergeron , two of the hitherto little - know invention leads who took over from I ve in 2019 ( officially ) and very likely originally ( in reality ) . In between gushing about the brilliance of the MacBook Air redesign , GQ remark nonchalantly that “ Having taken armorial bearing of Apple ’s product design following Jony I ve ’s going from the company in 2019 , Hankey has been creditworthy for the look and feel of all of its devices since – from the iPhone to the AirPods . ” So what was the $ 100 million agreement with Jony I ve all about , then ?
A mixture of teamwork and individuation
The fact is that industrial excogitation is an uneasy smorgasbord of teamwork and individualism . You call for a gifted and collaborative squad for the actual design , but you need a charismatic person to betray theideaof the design . As humans we need to attach artistic endeavour to a single genius , not a committee . Which is why Sir Jony ’s sombre white - way monologue were such a key part of Apple ’s 2010s hardware launches : Apple tell us this was art , not commercialism , and here is the artist himself .
A glance at Apple ’s product portfolio from 2019 to 2022 shows the company is in safe hands , plan - Isaac Mayer Wise . ( Not everythinghas been pure , of course , but that ’s straight aboutany era . ) But there is a with child question about perceptual experience . Who will take the genius gap leave behind first by Steve Jobs , and now by Jony I ve ? With Tim Cook perceive as a logistical safe yoke of hands and Craig Federighi focused on software package , who will customers focus on as the computer hardware stardust - sprinkler in chief ?
perchance that person is Hankey or Bergeron or Alan Dye , who replaced I ve as VP of human user interface purpose . Or maybe it ’s someone we have n’t cope with yet . But whomever it is , Apple has been preparing for their arrival for a long time .
Macworld’sM2 MacBook Air reviewis here , as Apple ’s everyday laptop computer has itsGoldilocks moment .
But now for the bad news . The M2 MacBook Air’swebcam is so terrible , Apple’sonly result is an iPhone .
Jason Snell offersone small reasonwhy he wo n’t beupgrading to an iPhone 14 .
These fivelittle - bed AirPods featureswillamaze your capitulum .
pretermit out onPrime Day ? TheseApple dealsare still going strong .
The rumor mill
The iPhone’smost counter television camera featuremay beexclusive to the Pro Max model .
Do n’t be in such a rush to getself - driving car . The next big thing from Apple is stilljust around the corner , reckons the Macalope .
Atitanium Apple Watch Prowith a walloping $ 1,000 price tag could be on the direction , according to one expert .
Do theApple Watch Series 8rumors full stop toa new aim ?
Podcast of the week
Apple has done a major update to its popularMacBook aviation laptop computer , and we got our hands on one . Is the MacBook Air progress to fresh heights ? Or does it leave us yearning for the honest-to-goodness Air ?
you could catch every episode of the Macworld Podcast onSpotify , Soundcloud , thePodcasts app , orour own site .
Software updates, bugs & problems
tempt toinstall the iOS 16 genus Beta ? Hold your horses : here are5 reason to wait until crepuscle .
But if you’renot convincedby that disputation , here ’s how tograb the iOS 16 genus Beta . ( And here ’s how toinstall the macOS Ventura beta . )
And assuming youhaveinstalled the genus Beta , here ’s whyyour iPhone ismissing some feature film .
We explain how Apple hasrevamped System PreferencesinmacOS Ventura .
Apple this calendar week release therelease campaigner for macOS Monterey 12.5 . There are n’t any obvious Modern feature , suggesting it focuses onoptimizations , security patch , and intercept fixes .
Similarly , iOS 15.6 release candidateisnow available .
