Welcome to our hebdomadal collection of all the Apple news you lack this week , in a ready to hand bite - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we imagine it move great with a morning cup of coffee bean or tea , but it ’s cool if you require to give it a read during luncheon or dinner hours too .
The rumors that won’t die
Some of Apple ’s crueller fans used to express joy at poor old Gene Munster , the otherwise well-thought-of psychoanalyst who blotted his copybook by predictingoverandoverthatthis yearApple would finally establish a tv set . It was later revealed that Apple had indeed beenworking on precisely that , but this belike was n’t much solace .
Not even Munster eff the brake drum for the iTelevision these days , but there are good deal of other long - running rumors which refuse to die . Such as the foldable iPhone , which we ’ve been writing about sinceat least 2017 , and has been the field of study of patent activitysince 2011 . That gadget isstill years aside , according to the late rumor .
Or the Apple Car , which we cognize a team has been make on for some fourth dimension but may never result in an actual product , according to this workweek ’s rumor from Volkswagen ’s CEO , oddly enough . VW ought to know a thing or two about Apple saga , having negotiate with Steve Jobs about a possible quislingism as far back as 2007 and actually delivering theiBeetlein 2013 .
The great thing about these rumors , whether you ’re an analyst writing investor musical note or an SEO - savvy web issue , is that they have a bun in the oven on generating mouse click and pageviews for geezerhood and almost never necessitate to be officially decline . If Apple does n’t announce the iPhotocopier at this twilight ’s launch event , you could simply say it ’s been “ delayed , ” resulting , if you ’re lucky , in sight of societal booking from disappointed readers – and mirthfully start predicting it again the undermentioned give . It ’s cognitive content without consequences .
Aside from which , it ’s fairly well established by this point that Apple ’s R&D department experiments with lots of product designs that will never seem in world . chore famously said focus means saying no to a thousand ideas for every one that you decide to proceed with , but the company ’s engineers like to mess around with hundreds of No before making that determination . you could claim that Apple is working or has influence on almost any tech construct , within reason , and the prospect are you ’re not amiss .
To be reasonable , it ’s also deserving stand in mind that long - running rumour sometimes come on-key . The first iPhone foretelling waswritten in 2002 , five years before it come out , and the AirTag was the subject of years of pre - launch speculation . And who bang , mayhap the Apple Car and the fold iPhone will join that tilt at some point in the hereafter .
But the most potential candidate is Apple ’s long - rumored mixed - reality headset . The well - have it away psychoanalyst Ming - Chi Kuo , at risk of doing a Munster , call in 2019 that this would launch in 2020 , and in 2021 that it would launch in 2022 – and is now saying it will be herein January 2023 . But you ’ll note that the last of those forecasting is considerably more specific than the previous single , while Tim Cook himselfdropped a strong hintthis week that something is in the cards . The chance are reckon good .
Then again , who cognise ? Looking back on this tower a yr from now I ’ll probably be citing it as a woefully mistaken past prediction . “ But this yr , ” I ’ll add , “ is last to be different … ”
We ’ve survey thenew MacBook Pro ! Roman Loyola calls it apowerful tweener .
On which subject , here arefive chartsshowing theraw power of Apple ’s M2 chip .
Io 16 containsdozens of young lineament , but will you really use them ? We round up five that willchange the way you habituate your iPhone .
In this week’sDifferent Think tower , we ask Apple to please stopkilling the thing we hate .
Apple’slatest competitorsareNothing at all … literally .
Take a strollthrough thehistory of Mac OS , from 1984 ’s System 0.97 to this year ’s Ventura .
The rumor mill
TheM2 roadmap is exciting , but the next stopmight not be till 2023 .
A reference point to anew Siri remotein iOS 16 suggests theApple TV will be updated in the fall .
Podcast of the week
Apple ’s up-to-the-minute laptop is here , and there ’s a lot to be excited about — or is there ? The raw encounter the former in the new 13 - inch M2 MacBook Pro , the topic of our discussion in this episode of the Macworld Podcast .
you’re able to get every instalment of the Macworld Podcast onSpotify , Soundcloud , thePodcasts app , orour own web site .
Software updates, bugs & other issues
Here ’s why youdon’t need to worryabout theItalian iPhone hack .
The secondiOS 16 developer betahas come : here’show to get it . Among other things , it brings amessy workaroundfor a message editing government issue .
Google has announcedsecurity and interface updatesforChrome on iPhone .
And with that , we ’re done for this hebdomad . If you ’d like to get regular roundups , sign up forour newssheet . you’re able to also follow uson Twitterfor breaking news stories . See you next Saturday , enjoy your weekend , and stay Appley .
