Comment: Apple's Spring Loaded Event – The Good the Bad... And Almost No Ugly

macOS Monterey's successor this Fall will be macOS Ventura and the 13th version of the operating system with yet another name of geographic origin. During yesterday's WWDC Keynote, Apple demonstrated which features it has been working on since the last update.

It won't take much longer until Apple launches 2022's WWDC. Several topics have already been discussed at length by the rumor mill, with some already receiving confirmation from Apple. The rest of this report will summarize what's to be expected and what we'll be left waiting on after the event.

Safari began as a small project for the Mac at a time when Apple possessed only a modest share of the market. Meanwhile, the formerly humble web browser has become a product with more than 1 billion active users.

Barely any CEO earned more money than Tim Cook last year. More than anything else, the executive's shares in Apple accounted for the majority of his earnings and this new statistic. Last year's list of the ten top earning CEOs includes mostly executives from major tech companies.

In just one week, Apple's Keynote for the Worldwide Developers Conference will take place – and although the event hasn't traditionally included new hardware announcements, Cupertino could present us with a new MacBook Air M2. However, supply chain problems will likely delay the announcement.

About a year ago, Apple let a bomb go off – the larger HomePod was going to be discontinued with no replacement in sight. Since then, only the HomePod mini has been available for purchase directly, but current rumors point to a new HomePod in the works.

At one point, Android quickly swept up the market, however, fears that the iPhone could see the same fate as the Macs of many years prior did not become a reality. Instead, a completely different picture has been painted in The USA – with an almost unchallenged market leader.

WhatsApp has about 2 billion active users – reason enough for its mother company, Meta, to continue supplying it with regular updates. Now, several new features have been revealed in a recent beta.

Yet again, recent coronavirus developments have forced Apple to adapt and implement some new measures – this time 2, to react to the quickly rising numbers in the USA.

It's almost a tradition at this point that a dummy model of the next upcoming iPhone makes its way into the public around 3 months before the product's release. Now, it's the iPhone 14 Pro Max's turn and the detailed dummy provides an exact impression.

Multiple reasons speak for Apple preparing a switch from Lightning to USB-C. Bloomberg has now added its own take and reports the plans – which could come with several considerable advantages for users.

At the WWDC next month during the first week of June, Apple will release the next version of iOS. That much has been officially confirmed thus far. As to the concrete updates to the OS, there are already several reports from the last few months which we will summarize in the rest of this article.

At the moment, Netflix is doing fine financially, although some numbers indicate that the company could be headed into deeper waters. To compensate for a dip in subscriptions, Netflix has prepared a few measures – including even advertising.

Apple just issued a press release concerning the future of the iPod: There will be no more iPod. Slightly more than 20 years after release of the first model, the company is burying the legendary product series and striking its last model from the Apple lineup.

The MacBook Pro 2021 has received few complaints from most users, however, nothing is ever perfect and recently reports of at least one error have increased in number. Countless users have recently complained of sound problems – thus far, there's only a temporary workaround.

When Apple's in-house processors enter the discussion, the conversation normally focuses on their efficiency and performance. Feral, a company known for porting games to the Mac for the last 2 decades also points to some other implications for the company's new chip-hardware.

It's incredibly easy to quickly spend a ton of money on in-app purchases. It's no different in the iOS App Store. Both Apple and developers have a great deal of interest in invested in easy processing or purchases. However, who carries the morale burden when the underaged find themselves taken advantage of by such a system with a financial impact upon families? Parents? Or the owner of the platform?

As we were able to uncover, Apple has significantly ramped up its internal testing of macOS 12.5. This could indicate that macOS is being prepared for new hardware which could even see a presentation at the WWDC this June.

The data reveals that the most common passwords range from "123456" to "qwerty". For the vast majority of non-tech savvy people, password protection is completely unheard of. Apple, Google, and Microsoft are now all hoping to take a step away from using passwords as a security measure.

On June 6th, the time will have come for Apple to yet again announce countless novelties and upcoming plans and projects. Some topics are considered certain and things should heat up as far as hardware is concerned. New Macs and along with an entirely new platform are possible.

On average, iPhones are considerably more expensive than their Android counterparts, with users of the latter often jokingly stereotyping Apple customers as "spoiled". However, is it possible to prove the stereotype of demanding Apple customers? A study recently tried, and the results are clear.