If I were a betting man, I’d place my wager on Craig Federighi as being the most likely to be named Apple’s next CEO. Aside from Cook, Federighi is probably the most recognizable face at Apple. The public may know him as that silver-haired goofball in the company’s keynote videos, but inside Apple, he’s one of the critical components of the leadership team.
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Federighi also has another thing going for him: his age. At 56, he’s the youngest on this list. That means he’s also likely to stick around as CEO the longest. And after the 63-year-old Cook leaves, employees and investors are going to want long-term stability at the company, not a CEO who may retire just five years after being appointed.
If Tim Cook retired today, he would go down as one of the decade’s most successful CEOs. Under his leadership, Apple’s market cap has grown 700%, its iPhone business remains strong, and he has built a robust services business, with music, TV and gaming products, to bring in revenue untied to hardware sales. He also introduced the wildly successful Apple Watch and AirPods.
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But now Cook wants to add to his legacy the one thing he hasn’t done yet that Jobs did routinely: launch a truly breakthrough hardware product.
Apple is working to bring that same clarity to the iPad. For starters, it wants to reduce the confusion between the iPad Pro and the Air. The Pro is set for major changes, including an OLED screen, updated design, M3 chip and revamped Magic Keyboard attachment. That will make it unmistakably the highest-end model.
In terms of screen sizes, the two models will be similar — but the Pro will get you slightly more real estate. The iPad Air will come in 10.9-inch and 12.9-inch configurations, while the Pro will be 11 and 13 inches. This mirrors the approach with the MacBook Air and Pro, where the latter model has a slightly larger screen.
What happens is the user says “one twelve,” triggering Siri to initiate a 911 call, with the AI assistant saying, “Calling emergency services on speaker.”
Once you decide what you want to do, Permission Slip takes over and begins working on your behalf—the app sends emails and can fill out company-specific privacy request forms, while tracking the progress of your request and following up with you once the request is processed.
I have no idea whether I’ll live longer, or get better at my formal exercise endeavors, because of this new habit. But floor sitting—and its close cousins, squatting and kneeling—feels great. Something about the feedback between my muscles and joints, gravity, and the floor keeps things feeling smoother than they do when I arrange myself in a 90-degree angle in a traditional chair for hours on end.
What I meant by it being “untenable” for Apple to look the other way at Beeper Mini wasn’t that Beeper made legitimate use of iMessage insecure. That’s part of the point of end-to-end encryption. But it was untenable perception-wise for Apple to allow unauthorized client software on a messaging platform heralded first and foremost for its privacy and security. Apple had even lost control over new account signups. That couldn’t stand, and that seems so obvious to me that I found it hard to believe Migicovsky truly believed Apple would allow it.
The letter does not disclose the legal mechanism used by governments to demand this data from Apple or Google. But the court record reviewed by 404 Media does include some specifics around push notification demands. Court Watch shared the record with 404 Media. The record is a search warrant application from May 2020 related to the investigation of a person suspected of theft or bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds.
The company’s decision to say “adIOS” to leather—a cruelly obtained coproduct of the meat industry—will spare countless animals and help mitigate the climate catastrophe. The brand will instead offer leather-free accessories, allowing compassionate consumers to feel good about purchasing animal and eco-friendly products.
First, you decide if you want more features at a higher price, or less features at a lower price. Then you decide on your mix of screen size and storage size and what-have you. That's a straight-forward decision-making tree on almost every single Apple products. Phones: regular or Pro. Watches: regular or Ultra. Laptops: Air or Pro. The place where the decision-tree gets a bit complicated is with desktops, where you also have to decide if you want a built-in screen (okay, only iMacs for you) or not (Mini or Studio), or if you are really really really special (Pro then!).
And, of course, iPads. Where the equations are not simple, and more expensive versions may have less features than the cheaper version, if you happen to value certain features. It's a mess!
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