Macworld Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too. Jam tomorrow One of our most widely read articles last week was an exploration of early iPhone 16 rumors. Reflecting on reports of larger screens, better battery life, solid-state buttons, and more, the article mused that the best course for customers might be to skip the iPhone 15 generation entirely and wait for the big update in 2024. I don’t…

Macworld The countdown to Apple’s Developers Conference has begun, and reports say that it’s time for major changes with watchOS 10. We talk about the new face of the Apple Watch in this episode of the Macworld Podcast! This is episode 841 with Jason Cross, Michael Simon, and Roman Loyola. Listen to episode 841 on Apple Podcasts Listen to episode 841 on Spotify Get info  Click on the links below for more information.  watchOS 10: Everything you need to know about the next Apple Watch update Subscribe to the Macworld Podcast You can subscribe to the Macworld Podcast—or leave us a review!—right here in the Podcasts app. The Macworld Podcast is also available on Spotify. Or you can point your…

Visionary Steve Jobs created breakthrough versions of the personal computer, portable media player, music store, smartphone, and tablet that people actually wanted to use — sending Apple on its way to becoming the $2.7 trillion juggernaut it is today. Now, just as everyone seems to be tiring of the metaverse, Steve Jobs’ successor comes up with the company’s first mixed-reality headset. Designer Marcus Kane’s conception Apple’s mixed reality headset (via Yanko Design) Dave Lee for Bloomberg Opinion: [Tim Cook] is yet to come up with a bold new idea of his own. Tim Cook, the steady-handed supply chain expert, has instead built on top those existing successes. Even the Apple Watch, which came out almost four years after Jobs’ death,…

Visionary Steve Jobs created breakthrough versions of the personal computer, portable media player, music store, smartphone, and tablet that people actually wanted to use — sending Apple on its way to becoming the $2.7 trillion juggernaut it is today. Now, just as everyone seems to be tiring of the metaverse, Steve Jobs’ successor comes up with the company’s first mixed-reality headset. Designer Marcus Kane’s conception Apple’s mixed reality headset (via Yanko Design) Dave Lee for Bloomberg Opinion: [Tim Cook] is yet to come up with a bold new idea of his own. Tim Cook, the steady-handed supply chain expert, has instead built on top those existing successes. Even the Apple Watch, which came out almost four years after Jobs’ death,…

Even if Apple does not necessarily call its features “artificial intelligence” (A.I.) or have a generative A.I. product, the company plays a prominent role in the field and will very likely continue to do so. Apple Park in Cupertino, California Will Healy for The Motley Fool: Indeed, one could describe all of Apple’s current products as AI tools. The iPhone, which accounts for the majority of Apple’s revenue, is the company’s most prominent AI device. Unsurprisingly, much of its AI revolves around language, applying machine learning (ML), a subset of AI, for systems to develop their intelligence. It first incorporated AI into the iPhone in 2011 when it introduced Siri. The speech-based personal assistant relies on AI to recognize and…

Even if Apple does not necessarily call its features “artificial intelligence” (A.I.) or have a generative A.I. product, the company plays a prominent role in the field and will very likely continue to do so. Apple Park in Cupertino, California Will Healy for The Motley Fool: Indeed, one could describe all of Apple’s current products as AI tools. The iPhone, which accounts for the majority of Apple’s revenue, is the company’s most prominent AI device. Unsurprisingly, much of its AI revolves around language, applying machine learning (ML), a subset of AI, for systems to develop their intelligence. It first incorporated AI into the iPhone in 2011 when it introduced Siri. The speech-based personal assistant relies on AI to recognize and…