While Apple has launched a lot of new equipment this week, the largest news was on the software side where some of the previously announced features of Apple Intelligence Siri led to a meticulous examination of Apple actions and a discomfort among the people of the company.
This week has also seen rumors relaunched on an important design of design and future features in iOS 19, while Apple’s Mac and iPad models started to make their way in the hands of criticism and consumers, so read below for all the details of these stories and more!
John Gruber says “something is rotten” to Apple according to the delay Apple Intelligence Siri
Last Friday, Apple published a declaration announcing that it delays certain features of Apple’s intelligence around Siri’s personalization which had been initially planned for an update of iOS 18, now noting that the features will arrive “in the coming year”, which suggests that they may not make its debut before iOS 19 or an update even later in cycle iOS 19.
In the wake of news, DaringJohn Gruber shared comments strongly written on the situation in a blog article entitled “Something is rotten in the state of Cupertino”. Gruber stressed his conviction that these more advanced Apple intelligence features announced at WWDC 2024 equivalent to Vaporware, Apple has always shown no evidence that they really exist in a functional form.
While Apple has in the past delayed or canceled software and hardware projects, Gruber fears that Apple has marketed his future in AI around the features that remain concept videos, threatening the credibility of the company and perhaps representing deep problems at Apple.
iOS 19 will bring the largest overhaul of design from iOS 7
The Annual Conference of Apple Developers is only three months old and a new report BloombergMark Gurman says that the iOS 19 update which will be unveiled at WWDC 2025 will bring the largest design overhaul since iOS 7 more decades ago. MacOS will see similar changes, Apple seeking to underline a more consistent multiplatform experience with simplified navigation and peripheral control.
Although the details are light, it seems that design changes are “vaguely based” on Visionos for Apple Vision Pro, which uses a lot of depth and transparency, although 2D interfaces of more traditional devices cannot fully adopt these qualities.
M4 MacBook Air reviews have now been released, as well as sky blue unpacking videos
After their introduction last week, the new Mac and iPad models of Apple were officially launched, with the list including the new MacBook Air and Mac Studio models as well as updated versions of the iPad Air and the entry -level iPad.
Apple says that the M4 MacBook Air, which is available in a new Sky Blue color option, is up to 23x faster than the Intel -based final model of 2020, but only in a specific test. However, anyone who is upgraded from a machine to several generations of several generations should see significant speed improvements in a variety of daily tasks. For an overview of our first impressions of the new MacBook Air, be sure to consult our practical video.
The video shows the iPhone 17 Mockups based on “internal documents”
Rumors about the conceptions of the iPhone 17 family continue to firm up, with a new set of models again showing the expected conceptions.
While the standard iPhone 17 should keep a design very similar to the iPhone 16, the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max should see a significant overhaul with a much larger camera bump covering the entire upper rear part of the devices. The brand new “Ultra-Mance Air iPhone 17” should see a similar but more thin bump since it has only one rear camera compared to three on pro models.
Apple improves carplay in two ways
The next iOS 18.4 update will include two improvements that will benefit certain users of Carplay: a third row of application icons on certain largest infotainment screens and a new EV routing to help Ford Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning the charges of charges who use the North American load (NACS).
On a related front, iOS 18.4 will allow users of the European Union to define their own default navigation application such as Google Maps. The change, made in response to the EU digital market law, will be welcome for users who prefer not to count on Apple cards for navigation.
Apple presented its most controversial MacBook 10 years ago this week
Apple announced the infamous 12 -inch Retina MacBook ten years ago this week, a new experimental Mac which was as controversial as it is revolutionary.
Presented by Apple CEO, Tim Cook during Apple’s “Spring Forward” event on March 9, 2015, as a “reinvention” of the notebook, the MacBook was extremely controversial because of its undernourished performance, the USB-C port for the load and data transfer, the starting price of the unreliable battery-the same silence as a MacBook Pro and the time of the hour).
However, the 12 -inch MacBook offered an overview of what was going to happen in the MAC range. It was the first Apple device with a USB-C port, a terrace battery, a butterfly keyboard and a haptic trackpad. It was also the first MacBook with a design focused on efficiency, a retina screen in a non -pro model, several color options, and without a fan or an illuminated Apple logo.
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