Category: Apple

Mark Gurman, with some big news:

Apple Inc. is canceling a decade-long effort to build an electric car, according to people with knowledge of the matter, abandoning one of the most ambitious projects in the history of the company.

Apple made the disclosure internally Tuesday, surprising the nearly 2,000 employees working on the project, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the announcement wasn’t public. The decision was shared by Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, a vice president in charge of the effort, according to the people.

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Jason Snell:

When I got my first demo of the new Apple Sports app, I admit to being a little surprised: didn’t Apple already do live sports scores? Hadn’t I just seen the Arsenal score and play-by-play on my iPhone on Sunday morning when I was in the kitchen making breakfast?

I had. And it has led to a lot of confusion about what the Apple Sports app does and doesn’t do, which highlights just how scattered Apple’s current effort to bring information to sports fans really is. I imagine that it wasn’t planned to work this way, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple connects all of its disparate sports pieces eventually, but in the meantime things are a little confusing.

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Today’s the opening day of MLS, and Apple has a new iPhone app out for sports lovers. Here’s a bit from the company’s press release:

Apple today introduced Apple Sports, a free app for iPhone that gives sports fans access to real-time scores, stats, and more. Designed for speed and simplicity, the app’s personalized experience puts users’ favorite leagues and teams front and center, featuring an easy-to-use interface designed by Apple. Apple Sports is available to download now in the App Store in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada.

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Zach Knox has published a very insightful article exploring the accessibility ramifications of Apple’s new platform:

I have low vision. A kind you can’t really correct for with glasses or contacts. I also bought Apple Vision Pro at launch. Why would I do this? Well because I’m a nerd who wants to see the future, but also because I was fascinated to see how Apple would handle accessibility for this new product. Apple’s track record on accessibility in the past decade has been stellar, in my opinion, with their teams adding powerful options every year and ensuring every new platform has accessibility support built in from the start.

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I think John Voorhees has played just about every game out for visionOS, but it’s interesting that the software isn’t the biggest issue:

In the final analysis, the trouble with the Apple Vision Pro is its lack of ports. Unless you’re relying on the games available on the App Store, that means you’ll have to contend with some sort of wireless connection. And, although there are some fun games on the App Store, the selection is far more limited than on iOS, iPadOS, or macOS, so it’s worth casting a wider net.

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Jason Snell posted his excellent Six Color Report Card this morning, and I have done before, I thought I would share my complete answers here:

The Mac: 4/5

2023 marked the end of the transition to Apple silicon. It may have taken longer than Apple anticipated, but it’s hard to argue with the results. Macs are running faster, cooler and longer than they ever could with Intel inside.

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Jason Snell is back at it:

It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple.

This is the ninth year that I’ve presented this survey to a hand-selected group. They were prompted with 12 different Apple-related subjects, and asked to rate them on a scale from 1 to 5 and optionally provide text commentary per category.

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Shelly Brisbin, writing at Six Colors:

I know a number of blind or visually impaired folks who are excited about the Vision Pro. They’re Apple enthusiasts and embracers of new tech like most of us hanging out at Six Colors. But when I’ve asked blind colleagues what they want from Vision Pro, the conversation almost always moves to the future—not the opportunity to do computing tasks on a head-mounted device or even to watch a movie in the headset. Many blind people want Vision Pro to be an eyesight alternative or assistant, a way to see the world, identifying both the wondrous and the mundane.

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As pointed out by Chance Miller, Apple has published a new white paper about the privacy it has built into the Vision Pro. Here is a bit from its introduction:

We built visionOS from the ground up to protect your privacy and the privacy of people around you. Apple Vision Pro is the first Apple product that uses advanced always-on camera streams of your eyes and the world around you to enable spatial experiences. And where you look can reveal what you are thinking, such as links you almost clicked or apps you thought about downloading. To keep your thought process private, where you look before you interact with content is not shared with Apple or the apps you are using, and does not leave your device. Similarly, because Apple Vision Pro blends digital content with your physical space on-device, the apps you use cannot access information about your surroundings by default.

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Apple Support:

After you’ve contacted Apple for service, you’ll receive a replacement product with instructions to return your original product to Apple.

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I would love to know why this wasn’t in 1.0, but it’s there now!

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Apple Vision Pro is here. This week on Mac Power Users, David and I share our initial thoughts on Apple’s first new platform in ten years, talk about how it performs in entertainment and productivity and then answer some listener questions about the device.

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