It’s not hard to imagine someone in a hurry clicking madly along only to find themselves a subscriber through haste.
Are we all being coaxed and tranquilized into accepting as a norm, the idea that the computing tools we pay for are not things we own anymore?
The best OS versions to target are Sonoma and Sequoia because these systems are still receiving minor security and improvement updates.
This computer can’t be upgraded after purchase. You have to choose your specs on purchase and live with it
Apple’s new design cues such as the new icon styles are limited to its own apps and the interface seems to drop some flourishes on slower processors
By Apple’s own yardstick an app that shares usable data across three devices is acceptable one that synchronises with four is a winner.
Mixing and matching the two rival ecosystems is essentially impossible, so it’s the utility of the products combined that makes the biggest difference.
Every Apple device has a Photos database and every image that’s taken with a mobile iOS device or imported into the desktop Photos app gets added to it.
Siri, at 13, gets an upgrade with Apple Intelligence, promising a significant upgrade on Siri’s smarts in a small language model that functions on device.
A premium configuration of the M4 iPad Pro, which is clearly being positioned as a laptop replacement, costs US$2,700.
Apple’s services, including AppleTV, Apple Music and Apple Pay, account for 22 per cent of the company’s revenue and it’s drawing the lion’s share of the concern articulated in the 88 page document.
The Vision Pro is nose-bleed expensive at US$3,499. Meta’s Quest Pro retails for US$999 by comparison (down from an introductory price of $1,499).
On several occasions, I couldn’t find what I was looking for in System Settings, which replaces System Preferences and had to use the search function like a noob.
In this perfect world where you can get thin, light and powerful in a Mac laptop, how do you get your stuff from here to there?
How well does the new Mac Studio stack up against its real competition, the tower systems that Apple sold between 2006 and 2012?
