Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast newspaper column , which let in all the Apple news you miss last hebdomad in a ready to hand snack - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we reckon it run low majuscule with a Monday morning cup of coffee or teatime , but it ’s cool if you want to give it a read during dejeuner or dinner party hour too .
There must be more to life than this
There ’s exactly one week to go until the biggest event of Apple ’s twelvemonth , and the hype is almost unbearable . Most of that plug , inevitably , is direct at theiPhone 16 , which is graspable because the iPhone makes more money than most companies ’ total product ranges . But will the raw model actually live on up to the charge ? That ’s debatable .
It ’s been a while since we got a truly exciting young iPhone . ( I meditate this interrogation in anApple Breakfast columnin 2023 , and settle on the iPhone X as the last role model peopleat the timeagreed was a big mint . ) And at this stage in the product ’s evolution , it ’s aim increasingly unlikely that we ’ll see one again .
Most of the critical ontogenesis were made in the first three coevals ( 3 chiliad , the App Store , copy and spread and other user interface basics ) , and Apple ’s designers and engineer pass the next decade or so steadily stripping the tree bare of higher - hanging fruit . There merely is n’t much depart to shift about the iPhone , other than update the processor immensely beyond the penury of current mobile apps and improving the camera immensely beyond the needs of material - world photography . The iPhone 16 will get more random access memory , Apple Intelligence , and a bunch of raw colors , but there probably wo n’t be much else to write home about .
fortuitously , however , the Glowtime upshot is n’t just about read us a young iPhone . And Apple has plenty of other announcement up its sleeve to make this an entertaining and informative presentation .
The Apple Watch , for exemplar , is used to sit around in the fantasm of its more lucrative smartphone cousin at decline event but looks lay out for a more memorable showing in 2024 . The very first Apple Watch was unveiled on September 9 , 2014 , so this month ’s result will precipitate incisively on its 10th anniversary … and given how seldom Apple holds an event on a Monday , it ’s concentrated to trust that ’s a coincidence .
Expect an Apple Watch X to keep the 10th anniversary ( which thanks to a few delays in the early years coincides with the tenth genesis of the ware ) , and Apple will want the mathematical product to be just as compelling as the iPhone X in 2017 . We have a bun in the oven a larger exhibit and a slight profile as part of the product ’s first significant design refresh ; there could also be new health sensors . We should be able to agree that it ’s a big deal .
And the evening ’s announcements may not stop there . We ’re also expect not one buttwo raw sets of AirPods , include an entryway - level “ Lite ” model which believably wo n’t be called that but could institute these iconic earbuds within the budget of far more customers . And suspicious stock shortages suggest theiPad miniis set for a long - delinquent update too . Give it an one thousand - class mainframe with 8 GB of RAM , a FaceTime television camera on the landscape bound , and a bit more entrepot , and we could have ourselves the perfect Apple Intelligence twist .
All in all , we ’re expecting a fun event with plenty of highlights ; it ’s just that the highlights may not tally to the constitute pecking order of Apple ’s marketing department . Then again , we already cognize that this is going to be an event thatbreaks all the rule ; perhaps the troupe will surprise us all by announcing the iPhone 16 first , just to get it out of the way , and save the novel iPad miniskirt for “ One more thing ” at the end . And if that would n’t be an exciting twist of upshot , I do n’t know what would be .
Foundry
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Podcast of the week
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The rumor mill
Apple’s‘Glowtime ’ eventis come on Sept. 9 to introduceiPhone 16 and more .
iPhone 16 , Apple Watch X , iOS 18 , andeverything cominginApple ’s great month .
Noise cancelation in thenext AirPods Promight begetting even best .
hint of Modern iPad minias stock of old model runssuspiciously teetotal .
TheiPhone 16 Prois rumor to get a massive48MP ultra - wide photographic camera acclivity .
Software updates, bugs, and problems
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