Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2019 i Macworld UK

Trading for Apple stock halted briefly in January as Tim Cook issued a letter providing revised guidance for the company’s first-quarter 2019 earnings estimates. The new estimates are as follows: • Revenue of approximately $84 billion • Gross margin of approximately 38 per cent • Operating expenses of approximately $8.7bn • Other income/(expense) of approximately $550 million • Tax rate of approximately 16.5 per cent before discrete items Most of the numbers are not very different from the guidance the company issued back in November, but there is one big change – revenue is projected to be down about $5- to $9bn from the company’s previous $89- to $93bn estimate. Why Apple’s revenue is expected to dip In his letter, Cook details four reasons for the expected dip. First, the…

Apple is well known for its centralized approach, not just in terms of hardware and software, but also in geography. The company has previously pushed hard to locate as many of its non-retail employees as possible in its hometown of Cupertino, in large part because of its belief that its employees work better on physically proximate teams. Look no further than its enormous new home base, Apple Park, which opened there earlier this year. But the company recently announced that it would be expanding its footprint in several US cities outside the Bay Area, most notably in Austin, Texas, where it already has its largest non-Cupertino presence, but also in a few other key locations. In particular, Apple projects that in the next three years it will exceed 1,000 employees…

As we show here, plenty of developers still take the Mac seriously as a gaming platform. We as Mac gamers enjoy quality at the expensive of quantity, and standout titles like Subnautica and Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire serve as proof of that. Nor did I have to struggle for this list. There are plenty of new enjoyable games like The Banner Saga 3 that deliver hours of entertainment but fall a tad short of the greatness of the following entries. Whether you’re looking for blockbuster action or retro-styled platformers, this crop of games has many wonders to choose from. 1. Rise of the Tomb Raider Price: £39.99 from Steam (fave.co/2VEz1vY) Rise of the Tomb Raider is easily the most graphically impressive of this year’s Mac releases, to the point…

If 2017 was a year in which Apple let some products stagnate while over-aggressively trying to update others, 2018 was the exact opposite. Long-neglected favourites like the MacBook Air and Mac mini were finally refreshed, and iOS 12 focused on addressing long-standing complaints. For the most part, Apple didn’t wow us in 2018 with breakthrough designs or never-seen-it-before features. Just as iPhones have ‘S’ years (iPhone 4s, 5s, 6s, and so on) where the design stays the same but everything is just better, this was an ‘S’ year for Apple as a company. With the exception of the Apple Watch Series 4, most of 2018’s product and service releases were safe and predictable. Apple didn’t launch major new services. It didn’t drastically change the designs and features of products we’re…

All anybody is talking about in the office is Apple’s admission that it’s going to miss its guidance for the first quarter of 2019. We won’t get any more information until its next quarterly financial results, due out on 29 January, and the winter is genuinely a dreary time for any other significant Apple news. So let’s jump right in. The China syndrome Apple has been betting big on China for the past few years, a fact borne out both by Tim Cook’s repeated visits to the region and his fairly consistent declarations of the fact on those quarterly conference calls. The reason for that is pretty simple: the biggest opportunity for Apple’s growth is in the world’s second-largest economy, where there’s a rapidly increasing middle class that is looking…

If you’re in the market for a Mac notebook, there are basically two options: the 15in MacBook Pro, which offers a range of options to satisfy the most demanding of users, and everything else. Apple offers no less than four MacBooks with 12- or 13.3in screens, and deciding between them can be enough to give up and buy a Dell XPS 13. We’re here to help. Whether you’re shopping for yourself or someone else, we’ve considered every angle, colour, spec, and port to help you cut through the confusion and make sure you make the right choice. Price Apple’s pricing matrix for its smallest MacBooks isn’t much of a help when choosing which one to buy. While £300 separate the entry-level MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro, the MacBook Air…

The Apple Watch is great right out of the box, but you’ll want to add a few apps to really make it sing. Apple’s wearable is a true marvel, especially the Series 4, but you’ll never know just how useful it can be if you don’t expand your horizons a bit. When we think about the Apple Watch apps we just can’t live without, these are at the top of the list. Some are free, some are not, but every single one is worth your while. 1. Pillow Price: Free from fave.co/2VEcBuZ If there’s one major feature missing from the Apple Watch, it’s automatic sleep tracking. Fortunately, it’s not that hard to add with an app like AutoSleep or Pillow. Of those two, we think Pillow has a better interface…

FREE UP STORAGE BY DELETING iTUNES BACKUPS OF iOS DEVICES If you use iTunes to back up your iPhone, the actual backed up data starts to pile up. Backups often run from gigabytes to tens of gigabytes, retaining anything unique on an iOS device that isn’t synced via iCloud or available from the App Store. For example, if you have iCloud Photo Library enabled, the iTunes backup doesn’t include the Camera Roll. Apple oddly doesn’t have an automatic ‘garbage cleaning’ routine, or prompt to delete, or ask you if you want to delete these backups. You can easily fill up your drive with iOS backups, and it will feel mysterious as you won’t even know why you’re running out of storage. However, you can find these backups and delete older…

Apple’s new year isn’t off to a great start. Instead of celebrating another stellar quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote a lengthy letter to investors warning about subpar iPhone sales and an overall dip in revenue to the tune of about $6 billion. That mean Apple is only going to make around $84bn in revenue over the three-month holiday quarter, an impressive number for sure, but one that represents a 5 per cent dip from the same quarter last year and confirmation that all is not right in Cupertino. But while the news today is certainly grim, it could represent something of an opportunity for Apple. With some of the pressure of both the stock price and its streak of quarterly earnings growth, Apple could use this as a chance…

Price: £19.97 per month from fave.co/2AGeG0j Photoshop CC, Adobe’s flagship image-editing app, remains an industry standard because of its innovative vision of how the software can assist photographers and graphic designers in doing their jobs. While technically, Photoshop’s subscription model frees it from the tyranny of yearly upgrades, Adobe still announces high-profile updates on a yearly schedule. Having dispensed with commercial version numbers (it is now version 20), Adobe now renames the app according to the prospective year. If you already use Photoshop CC, then you are either a Creative Cloud or a Photography Plan subscriber, which means that the Photoshop 2019 update is automatically available. If you are not a subscriber, new features in the 2019 version may inspire you to give the app a try. The 2019 version…

When many professional photographers finish a job, they go to a Mac and use the sophisticated, $150 (around £117 from fave.co/2QDrE46) Photo Mechanic to copy, review, and cull photos quickly. Unlike a tool such as Adobe Lightroom (£9.98 per month from fave.co/2VHkQ9v), which manages a photo library for you, Photo Mechanic is a media browser that reads whichever Finder folders you point it at. That’s overkill, though, for most of us who simply want to manage their photos in the Finder, or review the images before importing them into Apple’s Photos app. Even when you view items in a Finder window as icons and scale them to their largest size, they are still not large enough to really evaluate which shots are keepers. Using the Finder’s Quick Preview (press the…

2019 is shaping up to be a big year for the Mac, and I don’t just mean a year where there are a bunch of new Mac models released, along with a macOS update, like almost every other year. This could be the year that everything changes. It’s potentially the most tumultuous year since the transition from the original Mac OS to Mac OS X. So here’s my annual mix of prediction and wishcasting for the Mac in the coming 12 months. The Mac Pro arrives at last Apple has done all 2019 look-ahead columns the great service of pre-announcing the new Mac Pro (in 2017) and, this year, admitting that it would arrive in 2019. The company has also said that it will be releasing its own external display,…