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The MGM Hack and what it means for Device TrustBy Jason Snell for Macworld
Why Apple’s AI push may sell a lot of new hardware
I have an admission: Though I frequently review new Apple products, I don’t always buy them. Like many of you, I can’t afford to update every bit of Apple hardware every time the company does a revision—so I have to carefully measure when the old stuff has now become too old and needs to be replaced with the shiny and new.
Of course, Apple would love us to buy new stuff all the time. But the company has to earn its sales the hard way. I might buy a new iPhone because of an upgraded camera or a new MacBook Air because of a new design and a faster processor. I might bypass a new Apple Watch because the new features just don’t matter to me.
As the heat from the iPhone’s huge acceleration of growth begins to cool down and iPad and Mac sales drop from their pandemic-driven heights, Apple is looking for reasons to sell new hardware. And now, it may have found a big one in a somewhat unexpected place: AI.