Macworld UK的March 2018目录

If iPhone X is slumping, it’s sure not affecting Apple’s bottom line. In the quarter ending December 31, 2017, Apple reported a record revenue of $88.3 billion, a 13 percent increase over last year’s $78.4 billion (which was also a record). Additionally, Apple posted an all-time record quarterly earnings per diluted share of $3.89. And that’s with one less week of sales over last year’s first quarter. Leading the way was the iPhone, but not due to unit sales. Apple moved 77.3 million iPhones in the three-month holiday quarter, about a million less than last year, but revenue grew by more than $7 billion to $61.6 billion. While Apple didn’t break out the different models of iPhone, it’s clear that the higher price of iPhone X contributed to the gains.…

RATING: £319 inc VAT from fave.co/2rRVNWv The HomePod is Apple’s smart speaker that’s controlled using Siri and designed primarily for high-quality music playback. It’s taken its sweet time to arrive, but arrive it has and our ears have decided that it was worth the wait. Naturally, this isn’t merely an AirPlay speaker. With Siri built in, you can use it for many other tasks – just as you can with Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant. From checking the weather and sports scores to setting reminders, alarms and timers, Siri is a pretty capable assistant. It can also control all your HomeKit devices, such as lights, heating and switches. As you’d expect, the HomePod is very much an Apple product. It’s designed to work within the Apple ecosystem and it does…

It’s clear that Apple is building a video service. That much was obvious the moment it hired veteran entertainment executives Zack van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht. But you can’t flip a switch and create a streaming service – not even if you’re Apple. (You could buy one, but Apple has apparently chosen to build, not buy, at least for now.) What has to happen between now and the day we all sit down and watch the first episode of van Amburg and Erlicht’s first major acquisition to play through our Apple TVs or on our iPads and iPhones? Make the deals Apple hired van Amburg and Erlicht away from Sony because they’re well-respected executives with great connections. (Apple has since hired several other impressive execs from production companies and Amazon…

To many of us, backing up a Mac means setting up Time Machine and forgetting about it until we need to recover data. But, while Time Machine is a great resource, it’s not perfect, and relying on it alone to keep your data safe is a mistake that could have disastrous consequences. An ideal strategy consists of at least two separate backup schedules, with at least one of those backing up to a drive that’s stored offsite. At the very least, if you use Time Machine to back up to an external hard drive or network device, you should also have another tool running regular backups to a different drive. That means buying a backup application and using it, before you lose data. There are a number of different options…

We’ll fix it in post. It’s a long-standing joke in the podcast community – when somebody fluffs a line or stutters during recording, we just kick the can down the road and repair it in editing. (For programmes that actually do editing, anyway.) But lately it’s started to seem like a more common occurrence across the tech industry, and even Apple’s jumped aboard the train. We’ve seen a number of places where Apple announced a particular feature shipping in a product – whether it be a new hardware device or a major software update – only to eventually release the product without said feature, promising it in a subsequent software update. The most recent example is the HomePod, which will lack support for multi-room audio, stereo pairing, and AirPlay 2…

It’s time to update all your Apple gear! A relative minor point release update has just been released for iOS, tvOS, and watchOS. When you get the time, you should update all your iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, and Apple Watches. What’s new in iOS 11.2.5 You won’t find dramatic changes or really big new features in iOS 11.2.5, but it does add support for HomePod (coming February 9th) and the ability for Siri to play audio news. That last one is a little odd, because the feature went live last week and worked fine on earlier versions of iOS. Here’s what Apple lists in the release notes: HomePod support • Setup and automatically transfer your Apple ID, Apple Music, Siri and Wi-Fi settings to HomePod. Siri News • Siri can…

The last time Apple updated the Mac Pro it made a big deal about how it was revolutionary and proof that Apple could still innovate. That Mac Pro is now four years old and Apple hasn’t been able to upgrade it since because, in the words of Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineer, Craig Federighi: “We designed ourselves into a thermal corner”. This revelation was made at a briefing with a select few journalists in April 2017. At the meeting Apple admitted that it had made a bit of a mess of the Mac Pro and explained that it was “completely rethinking” the design and its approach. Creatives cheered, or at least those ones who were still listening. What went wrong with the Mac Pro The 2013 Mac Pro…

WHY DOES A SAFARI COOKIE REAPPEAR AFTER YOU DELETE IT? Safari for macOS lets you view the kind of data cached locally by websites in your browser. Select Safari > Preferences > Privacy, and then click Manage Website Data, and you can see the kind of data stored by every site. It can include Cache, Local Storage, Databases, Cookies, and much more. You can select items to remove them, or even go nuclear and click Remove All. Those are different categories of local storage, but they’re all managed by the Web site with the permission and mediation of the browser. Cookies is the most likely one to see, as cookies contain a login token used to keep a session going as you navigate among pages, or tracking data used by…

If it’s still cold and miserable outside where you live, then why not find a fun new game to play on your Mac? We’ve some critically acclaimed indie games and other compelling curiosities in the mix. Subnautica is one of the highlights, as it drops you into a gorgeous underwater paradise… that is unfortunately filled with vicious alien creatures. Meanwhile, Celeste and Iconoclasts are both modern-day gems that look like retro classics, and there’s plenty more in the pages ahead. 1. Subnautica Price: £19.49 from Steam (fave.co/2BLuSzz) If you crash-landed on a mysterious ocean planet, without dry land or other humans in sight, what would you? You’d probably freak out, but after that, you’d better figure out how to stay alive. That’s your prompt in Subnautica, a survival game that…

Three months ago, Apple boldly asserted that the holiday quarter of 2017, its first financial quarter of this fiscal year, would be the company’s biggest in history. They weren’t wrong. In fact, Apple’s holiday quarter generated $88.3 billion in revenue, blowing past even the high side of Apple’s estimates. By just about any way you measure it, this was a great quarter for Apple. But of course, the devil’s in the details, whether it’s line items in the corporate reports or in tidbits revealed during the company’s regular phone call with analysts. So here’s a look at four tidbits we learned about Apple’s big quarter. The long and short of it Apple’s previous holiday quarter (which was in fiscal year 2017, but calendar year 2016) saw solid results, with slight…

HomePod (£319 from fave.co/2rRVNWv) may be the first new Apple device since Apple Watch nearly three years ago, but for many of us, it’s not the oh-my-god-I-need-to-have-it gadget we wanted it to be. Unless you’re specifically looking for a way to play Apple Music in your house, you’re probably on the fence about whether to buy one. If that’s the case, here are 11 things you might want to consider before placing your order. 1. You’ll need iOS 11.2.5 Before you consider buying a HomePod, you’ll need to make sure you have the proper hardware: • iPhone 5s or later • iPad Pro (all models) • iPad (5th generation) • iPad Air or later • iPad mini 2 or later • iPod touch (6th generation) If you are an Android…

The iMac is a direct descendant of the very first Mac, and it’s often the computer that longtime users think about when they think about the Macintosh. The iMac’s all-in-one design is popular and iconic. The iMac is great for both novices and demanding users. It can handle general-purpose and heavy-duty tasks equally well. It’s ideal for someone who needs to buy a complete computer setup (keyboard, mouse or trackpad, and display) and wants to maximize workspace efficiency. The current iMac line-up was released in June 2017 during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, and the iMac Pro was released in December 2017. If you’re in the market for an iMac, this guide will help you make the right choice. Apple has two versions of the iMac: the standard iMac and the…

Apple Pay Cash has now launched in the US and looks set to launch in the UK soon, lets you pay your mates over iMessage, or by using Siri. Here’s everything you need to know. Requirements For starters, both the money sender and receiver need to be running iOS 11.2 or later. Apple Pay Cash was added in iOS 11.2 beta 2, and is in the final release as well. According to Apple’s support page, you’ll need to meet the following requirements: • A compatible device with iOS 11.2 or later. • Two-factor authentication for your Apple ID. • An eligible credit or debit card in Wallet, so you can send money. • Be at least 18 years old. Setting up Apple Pay Cash Before you can send or receive…