Welcome to our weekend Apple Breakfast column, which incorporates all the Apple information you missed this week in a helpful bite-sized roundup. We name it Apple Breakfast as a result of we predict it goes nice with a morning cup of espresso or tea, however it’s cool if you wish to give it a learn throughout lunch or dinner hours too.

In protection of the iPhone SE

In no different job is it a superb signal when individuals begin telling you off. However that’s on-line journalism for you, a area through which aggressive emails are an indication that one in all your articles has taken off. (Such emails don’t even essentially imply your opinion was controversial since individuals very hardly ever write in to strenuously agree. It simply means lots of people learn it.)

This week I used our Totally different Suppose column to specific an opinion that I believed can be comparatively uncontroversial: that Apple ought to let the iPhone SE die. I reasoned that the SE made sense when the all-screen iPhone design was pretty new and older designs supplied a suitable compromise, however that the window had lengthy since closed, and the machine now not represents good worth.

It seems–and that is all the time a shock to me–not everybody agrees. A sequence of (truly very well mannered and articulate) emails from followers of the SE highlighted its measurement, value, and lack of Face ID as factors in its favor, and expressed dismay on the thought of its being discontinued. One other reader, in the meantime, detected an ulterior motive that Apple might need for holding the SE round: as an entry-level drug to hook tech freshmen and former Android customers earlier than they purchase into the Apple ecosystem as a complete.

If solely Apple may rely upon 100 million extra clients this loyal to the iPhone SE! However sadly, I think my correspondents are within the minority… and the numbers of SE supporters might dwindle additional when the fourth-gen SE is unveiled subsequent yr. It’s anticipated to be primarily based on the iPhone 14 chassis, and meaning a minimum of two and possibly all three of these benefits will disappear: it gained’t be as small or anyplace close to as low cost because the iPhone SE from 2022, and is prone to have Face ID too. (Though Apple may put Contact ID within the energy button, because it does on the entry-level iPad.) Even the SE’s most loyal followers might discover it’s now not the telephone they’re in search of.

Nonetheless, it’s a superb signal for Apple that even its least glamorous handset can nonetheless encourage this a lot ardour; I’d be shocked if many readers would write in to defend a price range Samsung telephone primarily based on a four-year-old design.

Thanks for the emails, everybody. Aside from that one man. He was simply impolite.

IDG

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The rumor mill

Does the mysterious Studio Show firmware imply a new Mac Professional is imminent?

Apple has a staff engaged on tasks extra secret than the subsequent iPhone.

The iPhone 15 Professional may lastly exhibit the long-rumored ‘sundown’ shade.

The iPhone 15’s USB-C port is perhaps as locked down as Lightning.

Extra ‘Ted Lasso,’ a 15-inch MacBook Air, and extra: Right here’s every part we anticipate (and hope) Apple to launch this month.

Podcast of the week

It could be chilly within the U.S. and the U.Okay., however that’s not stopping the iPhone rumors from heating up! We’ve got a flurry of iPhone hypothesis and we discuss all of it on this episode of the Macworld Podcast.

You possibly can catch each episode of the Macworld Podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud, the Podcasts app, or our personal website.

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