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what if you use a particular set of apps for your work
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horrendously wrong during the update process and you
lose important data? This is why, as macOS High Sierra
and iOS 11 are rolled out, we have provided an essential
guide to help you get your Mac and iOS devices fighting
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Also this issue we turn the spotlight on the iPhone.
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Why we can’t wait
for HomePod
Apple’s new iPhone might be grabbing all the headlines, but here are five reasons why
HomePod could be the best new release of the year
Samsung is the Bixby virtual assistant software. (cid:90)(cid:87)(cid:76)(cid:74)(cid:80)(cid:196)(cid:74)(cid:72)(cid:91)(cid:80)(cid:86)(cid:85)(cid:3)(cid:83)(cid:80)(cid:90)(cid:91)(cid:3)(cid:72)(cid:85)(cid:75)(cid:3)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:90)(cid:76)(cid:91)(cid:3)(cid:86)(cid:77)(cid:3) Marketing Philip Schiller said
latest tech giant But, even with a non-exploding features that made everybody at the time. “HomePod packs
to enter the battery, Samsung face an uphill stand up and listen when it powerful speaker technology, Siri
home speaker battle to make headway in a was announced during Apple’s intelligence and wireless access
race. Following market that they’ve been left 2017 Worldwide Developer to the entire Apple Music library
in the footsteps of Amazon, behind in quite badly. Conference. To say we’re excited into a beautiful speaker that is
Google, and of course Apple, You could say the same about about it is an understatement. less than seven inches tall, can
Samsung’s speaker is already in Apple’s HomePod speaker, but “Apple reinvented portable rock any room with distortion-free
production so we can expect to its pre-Christmas release date music with iPod and now music and be a helpful assistant
see it sometime next year. Expect looks set to make it the number HomePod will reinvent how we around your home.”
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bundled with some of Samsung’s wish list. That’s in no small our homes,” Apple’s senior why we can’t wait to get our
smartphones and feature the part due to an eye-catching vice president of Worldwide hands on HomePod…
HomePod delivers a perfect
listening experience whether
placed on a shelf, in a corner
or in the centre of a room…
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tastes and helps users discover in a corner, on a table or in a
new music – and it even pushes bookshelf, and within seconds
that information to your other is perfectly optimised to deliver
devices. HomePod can handle an immersive music listening
advanced queries as well. Ask experience wherever it is placed.
“Who’s the drummer in this
track?” or create a shared Up 5: HomeKit hub
Next list with other users in the HomePod naturally comes with
house and Siri gets to work. built-in support for HomeKit-
There are six microphones controlled smart devices,
onboard, which means your which means you can ask Siri
requests will always be heard, to perform all manner of tasks
even with loud music playing. It’s around your home. For example,
ad free too, unlike its rivals. get Siri to turn the lights on, close
the blinds or select a scene. And
4: Spatial awareness the best bit? HomePod works as
As we alluded to earlier, the a hub to provide remote access
technologies inside the HomePod via iOS 11’s Home app.
are advanced and innovative. HomePod will be available for
Apple’s A8 chip is the brainpower $349 in white and space grey in
behind the audio technologies December initially in Australia, the
on show, but it’s the automatic UK and the US (Australian and
spatial awareness that really UK prices haven’t been released
raises the eyebrows. Automatic yet), and you’ll need to have an
Use HomePod with Siri from room-sensing technology allows iPhone 5s or later, running iOS
across the room to listen to
HomePod to quickly learn its 11. Start saving now because you
Apple Music, control HomeKit
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1: Siri support has been HomePod’s key selling At just under seven inches tall,
HomePod can be placed almost
You need Apple Music point. HomePod is packed with
anywhere in the home and is
membership to make the most sophisticated technologies to available in white and space grey.
of HomePod, but Siri, Apple’s provide the best possible sound
digital personal assistant, has – and the reports from those who
much more up its sleeve than had early hands-on access have
the ability to control your music been overwhelmingly positive.
collection. Siri can handle a There’s a custom array of seven
range of queries, including beamforming tweeters at the
sending messages, setting base of the speaker, each with
alarms, offering weather updates, (cid:80)(cid:91)(cid:90)(cid:3)(cid:86)(cid:94)(cid:85)(cid:3)(cid:72)(cid:84)(cid:87)(cid:83)(cid:80)(cid:196)(cid:76)(cid:89)(cid:19)(cid:3)(cid:91)(cid:86)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:89)(cid:86)(cid:93)(cid:80)(cid:75)(cid:76)(cid:3)(cid:72)(cid:3)
making calendar entries, well-balanced and smooth
performing language translations sound signature. A four-inch
and so much more. Apple has Apple-designed woofer sits at the
built HomePod for the security top of the casing, which delivers
conscious too, ensuring that deep and clean bass with little to
none of your conversations no distortion.
around the house are listened in
on. HomePod isn’t activated until 3: Apple Music integration
it hears the “Hey Siri” command, Apple Music gives you access
and then all communication is to a music library in excess of
encrypted and anonymised to 40 million tracks, which in turn
protect your privacy. makes HomePod a real music
powerhouse. And when you
2: Sound quality combine it with Siri commands
While voice control isn’t anything like “I like this song”, HomePod
new, having a home speaker that provides deep knowledge of
actually sounds good is. And this personal music preferences and
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Apple continues to invest High Sierra support for
in China virtual machines
Apple Mac
It’s no secret that the Chinese market is a huge growth The latest sets of virtualisation Start menu. Fusion 10 can run hundreds of
opportunity for Apple, and the Cupertino company has software for Macs have been operating systems, ranging from the latest
strengthened its hand in that market by appointing Isabel announced, with both offering Windows 10 versions to lesser-known
Ge Mahe as managing director of Greater China. Mahe support for macOS High Sierra Linux distributions.
has been promoted to this brand new role after nine years working as when it gets released later this autumn. Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac has also
vice president of Apple’s wireless technologies, having played a major VMware announced Fusion 10, which also been announced, also with Touch Bar
role in the emergence of Apple Pay and HomeKit, and Tim Cook includes support for the latest Touch Bar support, and a new Picture-in-Picture
seems delighted with his appointment. Apple’s CEO says: “(Mahe) MacBook Pros. That means quick access mode that aims to let users monitor their
has dedicated a great deal of her time in recent years to delivering to Outlook, Cortana and the Windows virtual machine with ease.
innovation for the benefit of Apple customers in China.”
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