Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2019 i Macworld UK

i Phone sales might be levelling off, but Apple is doing just fine. Apple has announced its second quarter results for 2019, and it’s clear that the shift in it business model is in full swing. While it still posted revenue of $58 billion, iPhone sales were relatively flat, posting just $31 billion compared to $37.5 billion in the same 2018 quarter. Apple stopped breaking out unit sales last quarter, but it sold 52 million units in the year-ago quarter. Elsewhere, Apple is looking stronger than ever, particularly when it comes to Services. Apple reported a record $11.5 billion tally for the category (which includes Apple Music, digital sales, and Apple Pay) versus $9.2 billion last year. It was the first time Services broke the $11 billion mark. Paid subscriptions…

Just when their legal battle was beginning the trial phase, Apple and Qualcomm have ironed out their differences in a surprise settlement. The terms of the agreement include the dismissal of all litigation between the two companies, as well as any pending cases brought by Apple’s global contract manufacturers. It basically returns the relationship to the way it was before the allegations started flying. Most notably, Apple has agreed to pay Qualcomm a one-time payment of an undisclosed sum, as well as royalties going forward. Both companies issued short press releases to announce the agreement, but it’s hard to find much good news in it for Apple. Qualcomm is getting paid and keeps Apple as a customer, and there’s no indication they will be changing their business practices. Why this…

Price: £479 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2KXYbnY As we reported last month, the Air is back. Apple unexpectedly revived its old iPad Air branding (discontinued in 2017) in a surprise announcement in March, unveiling a powerful, mid-priced, mid-sized tablet with an A12 processor and support for the Apple Pencil. But will the Air float your boat? In this review we put it through our rigorous speed, graphics and battery tests, and evaluate design, specs and pricing, to find out if Apple has hit the sweet spot. Price The 9.7in iPad (2018) is still on sale, starting at £319 from fave.co/2Dyf6HG, and that remains the benchmark for a budget iPad. The new Air is pitched a little higher, while remaining more affordable than the iPad Pro models further up the scale. £479:…

We’re still a long way away from hearing anything official about Apple’s next system-on-a-chip. The A13 is likely to be unveiled in September, along with the new iPhones it will power. But the design, manufacture, and testing of these chips takes years, far too long for Apple to suddenly make radical changes. The A13 design is likely, for all intents and purposes, set in stone by now. By looking at past A-series chips and extrapolating from what we know of the manufacturing process Apple will use this year, we can get a reasonable picture about what to expect from the A13 chip. It will almost certainly be the fastest SoC Apple has ever developed for iPhones, but exactly how fast can we expect? Built on an improved 7nm process For…

Tim Cook is not one of Time’s 100 most influential people of 2019. Nonetheless, as a three-time honouree of that list, he was invited to be interviewed by Nancy Gibbs at the Time 100 Summit. As expected, Cook didn’t reveal any details about new products, software, or services. Instead, the questions posed and answers given were broad, touching on Cook’s and Apple’s values, and how technology fits into the world we live in. Here’s some of what he said about a variety of issues. Quotes have been lightly edited for clarity. On Apple’s values “I’ve always deeply felt that people should have values, a corporation is nothing more than a collection of people, and therefore by extension a corporation should have values. “We’ve always had a set of things that…

Price: £1,749 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2DFsg5C The iMac is 21 years old in August, and we had been hoping for a redesign of the iconic all-in-one Mac to mark the occasion. Sadly that is not to be, but there are some significant changes to what’s on the inside. And it’s what’s on the inside that counts, right? The 27in iMac (2019) has more powerful processors with 6 cores (and an 8-core build-to-order option), improved graphics cards (including the Radeon Pro Vega) and faster RAM, making it a much more impressive machine than its 2017 equivalent. In this review we are looking at the bottom-of-the-range 27in iMac, with its 3GHz 6-core 8th generation i5 processor. We’ve also benchmarked the build-to-order 3.6GHz 8-core 9th-generation Intel Core i9 model, which could be seen…

Price: £399 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2DyVlQ9 This wasn’t meant to happen. The mini hadn’t been updated since 2015 and was left out in the cold, costing more than the larger 9.7in iPads that were released since. We thought Apple had left it for dead. The introduction of this 2019 model is a surprise – it’s barely different on first glance and yes, those bezels sure look huge after the past four years of consumer technology working towards bezel-less displays. But I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the mini, finding that I pick it up far more often than I do with a larger iPad. Using devices more is sometimes a bad thing, but this iPad lends itself to reading far more than it does scrolling through endless timelines. It’s not an…

I fell in love with the Mac nearly 30 years ago, in the autumn of 1989. It’s been the centre of my tech world ever since, and I’ve been writing about it professionally for 25 years. And yet these past months, I’ve noticed something strange creeping into my thoughts occasionally while I sit at my desk working on my iMac Pro: iOS does this better. It’s disconcerting, after three decades, to suddenly find that manipulation of files and folders in the Finder has gone from being business as usual to seeming like it’s more fuss and effort than is necessary. And yet that’s where I am now, thanks to a couple of years of using an iPad Pro rather than a MacBook Air whenever I’m away from my desk. I’m…

Apple has announced that it is recalling a number of wall plug adaptors due to safety concerns, including the kind used here in the UK. According to the tech giant: “In very rare cases, affected Apple three-prong wall plug adaptors may break and create a risk of electrical shock if touched.” It says that the risks are only associated with adaptors that shipped with Macs and some iOS devices between 2003 and 2010, in addition to the three-pronged plug included in the World Travel Adaptor Kit. Is your plug is included in Apple’s recall? While it’s a long time since these particular adaptors were sold, it’s possible that you are still using one, so it’s worth checking. Apple says that the affected three-prong plug adaptors are white and have no…

Price: £1,149 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2IQCqop We’d love to be starting with a celebration of a new-look iMac for the 2019, but unfortunately the latest iMac looks just the same as it did back in 2012 when Apple slimmed down the design that was first introduced in 2007. As we mentioned in the previous review, it’s the longest Apple has gone without giving a Mac a design refresh. However, there are changes to the processor, graphics card options and the RAM. We’ll look at these in more detail below. But, suffice to say, they do mean that the iMac (2019) is a much more powerful machine than its 2017 equivalent. And, chances are, what matters to you is how well your Mac stands up to the demands of modern day…

A fascinating report at 9to5Mac offers a sneak peek at some of the announcements Apple has in store for developers at WWDC in June. Previous reports have focused on changes coming to iOS 13 and macOS 10.15, but this leak is all about the tools developers use to make apps and services on Apple’s platforms. If they prove true, it could mean a big improvement in the way we use our iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Siri stretches out We’re certainly not the only ones lamenting the current state of Siri and the way Apple squandered an early lead in AI assistants. Apple’s got a lot of work to do to make Siri better in many ways, but the 9to5Mac report gives us a clue that at least some of Siri’s…