Welcome to our weekend Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed this week in a handy bite-sized summary. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a cup of coffee or tea in the morning, but it’s cool if you want to read it during lunch or dinner hours as well.
The year without spring
Humans are creatures of habit, and we love the comforting predictability of routine. For Apple fans, that means the seasonal procession of press events. The major launches of the year usually start with a spring event in March or April, followed by software news at WWDC in June, before the announcements end with the iPhone and Apple Watch releases. in autumn. So it has been, and so it will remain more and more.
In fact, Apple’s event cycle has never been more predictable than all this. The iPhone’s September launch seems so established that the first spec sheets might as well have been carved on stone tablets, but that tradition didn’t begin until the launch of the iPhone 4s. The first four generations were unveiled at WWDC this summer or at the igamesnews conference (remember that?) in January. Fall announcements, by the way, have sometimes occupied just one event, sometimes two, and on one memorable occasion three. WWDC was held regularly in May and shockingly held in August. And there have been many years without any spring events. Including, most likely, 2023.
Questioning Apple’s plans is a wild ride, and the company could still surprise us. But I suspect we won’t see any Apple executives frolicking around a stage, virtual or otherwise, until WWDC.
The problem is that Apple’s mixed reality headset wouldn’t be ready in time for an event in March or April. This exciting but slightly cursed project keeps getting pushed back; at one point it was expected in January, then in the spring, then at WWDC, and now an expert thinks it will accompany the iPhone 15 in the fall. Setbacks are understandable when you’re launching a whole new ecosystem of products, and as I wrote last week, better to be late than garbage. But that leaves Apple without a headliner for its spring bonanza.
This does not mean that there are no products, their time has finally come, slumped towards Cupertino to be born. A new, larger MacBook Air, for example, seems very imminent indeed, and Apple is also reportedly working on a faster Apple TV as part of its smart home push. There’s also the Mac Pro, which could arrive at any time. But the question remains: is one of them big enough to be the announcement of a press event followed by millions of people around the world? Apple knows it can get our attention anytime it wants, but doesn’t like wasting that attention on something minor. That’s why the new second-generation Mac M2 and HomePod were released by press release last month and not to much fanfare on a virtual stage.
So no, I don’t think Apple will care about a spring event this year, barring some last-minute miracles that mean the AR headset is ready after all. Of course, I could be wrong. Because the last thing you can call Apple is predictable.
Foundry
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In our latest Different Think column, Michael Simon says the unspeakable: Intel may be the only way to save the mac pro.
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The rumor mill
Apple may have just released its own big spring surprise macbook.
Apple would be to tear out the entire initial 3nm offering for iPhones and Macs.
These ‘exclusive’ iPhone 15 leaks might as well be a iPhone 14 with a USB-C port.
THE iPhone 15 Pro can have as much RAM as a MacBook.
A new report sheds light on one of Apple’s most secret projects: non-sting blood glucose monitoring for the Apple Watch.
Podcast of the week
Just when you thought he was dead, the HomePod is back! And we have HomePod 2.0 in the house! We’re talking about HomePod in this episode of the igamesnews podcast! Stay tuned!
You can watch every igamesnews podcast episode on Spotify, Soundcloud, Podcasts app or our own site.
Software updates, bugs and issues
A “new large class of bugs” left messages and photos vulnerable in iOS and macOS.
Pirated copies of Final Cut Pro can infect your Mac with crypto-mining malware.
Apple released a stealthy security update for macOS this week. There is a new version of XProtect anti-virus utility.
Apple just gave us another reason to update our Macs and iPhones as soon as possible.
Linux 6.2 works on M1 Macs but still lacks many key features.
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