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If Apple had its method, the true information of October 2022 could be the launch of the brand new tenth technology iPad, the refreshed iPad Professional, and the decrease price Apple TV 4K.

Apple could not know that this was going to be a very dangerous time to launch pricey iPads that did not have sufficient to distinguish them from final yr’s fashions. Engineering plans like this may take years and solely everybody voting for Brexit ought to actually have seen how delicate the economic system is.

But Apple did make a nod to the world’s scenario by conserving the ninth technology iPad on sale. It is led to the bizarre scenario the place, evaluating efficiency, options, and particularly value, the gem within the iPad lineup is final yr’s mannequin.

Apple was luckier in its timing with the Apple TV 4K. Whereas it nonetheless would not run on the most recent processors, and whereas it nonetheless works precisely because it has for years, this time Apple lower the price.

True, it did so by eradicating the Ethernet port, however you did not even understand there was one.

Apple’s extra damaging launch

Possibly the brand new iPad is ideal for you, through which case you purchase it. And if it is not, then you do not. It is not like now we have to purchase every little thing Apple launches.

Besides in October 2022, you had no alternative however to see what turned one of many month’s largest controversies. Apple launched an expanded promoting service and if that ought to solely have been an enormous deal for advertising and marketing individuals, it turned an issue.

For Apple’s growth of its advert enterprise in any respect prices got here at one excruciating price. At one level in October 2022, you might frequently see adverts for playing apps — positioned within the itemizing for apps which might be supposed to assist gamblers give up.

Growing new enterprise fashions

Apple switched its advert growth off after complaints, however you already know it is coming again and you already know it is just going to develop. Hopefully it is at the least going to be completed with extra care in future.

Although it wasn’t simply Apple making an attempt to increase and get some new income. All through the month, there was a backwards and forwards as YouTube experimented with making an attempt to get some money by charging individuals to look at movies in 4K.

By the tip of the month, although, the experiment was formally over and 4K movies stay as free to look at as they at all times have been.

Do not wager on it staying that method, although, because the experiment can’t have been a technical one, it has to have been a advertising and marketing trial. If it may be turned again on with the faucet of a button, YouTube funds solely must get so poor earlier than that button will likely be pressed.

Designers coming and going

YouTube has the benefit that it makes cash off hundreds of thousands of movies uploaded with out the creators’ consent, but it surely additionally has a drawback. There’s not so much you may add to how YouTube works, and definitely not a lot which you could persuade individuals to pay for.

So there is no method to, as an illustration, design your self out of issues by discovering distinctive and compelling new solutions. That is at all times been the Apple method, however then Apple’s design staff took a success this month because it misplaced Evans Hankey.

She wasn’t as a lot a family title as Jony Ive, however she did substitute him and she or he has been key to Apple. Not any extra, although, and if Apple has a succession plan, it wasn’t revealed in October 2022.

EU passes new regulation

Whoever takes over from Hankey as chief {hardware} designer, they will must cope with a big change to the iPhone. In October 2022, the European Union lastly handed a regulation that can require all smartphones to make use of a standard charger.

Particularly, it is USB-C, and whereas there’s so much to reward concerning the concept of a standard charger, the regulation launching it’s flawed. Nonetheless, Apple’s going to must swap out Lightning for at the least Europe, and extra possible the world.

It may well relaxation straightforward concerning the UK, although, because the nation has stated it will not comply with the EU in implementing this requirement. Simply think about the reduction at Apple Park.

However again to design chiefs

By likelihood, the exit of 1 design chief was introduced across the similar time because the very transient return of one other one. Jony Ive was once more concerned with Apple, or at the least Apple TV+.

It is unlikely that it entailed him popping again in to Apple Park, although. Ive is among the government producers on “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.” The animation is because of be screened first on BBC1 within the UK on Christmas Day, then streamed worldwide on Apple TV+.

Workers strikes

As Ive was being CCd on emails with Apple TV+, and as Hankey was searching for the door, workers at different companies have been having a very dangerous time. Everybody at Twitter spent October questioning whether or not they would nonetheless have a job in November, as an illustration.

That was as a result of the unimaginable went by hoops within the month, solely to land on the finish on sure, Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. On his first day, he fired many of the firm’s executives, then went to city on the workers.

It is clearly been most scary for Twitter staff, an amazing a lot of whom are actually going to be spending a variety of time engaged on lawsuits.

An issue is that when you labored for Twitter, you clearly had a Twitter account and there wasn’t a variety of cause to have the rest. So simply as workers there usually found they’d been laid off by shedding on-line entry, it is also been arduous for mates to remain involved with them.

Consequently, to not single one worker out, however Nigel, tell us when you’re nonetheless there and okay, would you?

Workers motion

There was a worse place to work at than Twitter in October 2022. Should you have been a employee at Foxconn’s foremost iPhone plant in Zhengzhou, China, as an illustration, it is 50/50 whether or not you have been working — or fleeing.

Someplace between the 2, come Apple Retailer workers. Clearly the situations weren’t as dangerous as they allegedly have been in Zhengzhou with COVID lockdowns and an absence of meals, however there they have been worse than Apple would really like you to suppose.

October noticed extra anti-union efforts from Apple, which simply mainly underscored why retail workers now want unions. Apple repeatedly says that it’s happy with its staff, and does say that it pays greater than different companies.

But on this month Australia noticed what’s claimed to be the primary nationwide strike by retail workers within the nation’s historical past — and it was workers at Apple Shops.

Apple will get consideration

If this historical past strike had been by staff at another Australian retailer, nobody studying YourNextApp would have even heard about it. This was a real case of Apple getting consideration it deserves — however as ever, there have been examples of it being made a scapegoat.

Similar to Mark Zuckerberg blaming Apple for his making an costly VR headset. Or one thing like that.

In Zuckerberg’s thoughts, Apple is aggressively making strikes to regulate the metaverse. Similar to fully failing to launch a headset and even admit that one is coming.

If Apple is concerned, it is information

Equally, the Degree Lock+ got here out in October and a few Apple Shops stocked it. That is sufficient to make it information, and ideally dangerous information, so long as you can also make Apple look dangerous.

On this case, the Apple-is-bad information cycle centered on how a YouTuber revealed that it is doable to interrupt a Degree Lock+ through the use of precisely the identical methods that can break the common lock in your entrance door proper now.

If something, the Degree Lock+ is in the end safer than common locks as a result of, sure, it may be damaged — however it should ship you a notification if somebody does it.

That could be a excellent characteristic and also you’d hardly learn about it from the press protection.

Up within the air

However then there was additionally Lufthansa, which allegedly made up stuff about Apple. The airline banned AirTags from its flights as a result of they’re unlawful underneath Worldwide Civilian Aviation Group pointers — and so they’re not. Not within the slightest, and earlier than the month was out, Lufthansa had backed down.

Simply to emphasize this, not one pixel of Lufthansa’s printed argument in opposition to AirTags was true. And simply to emphasize it nonetheless additional, if Apple designed AirTags to have batteries that have been unlawful on flights, it would not simply be Evans Hankey heading for the door.

Far be it for YourNextApp to query why an airline wouldn’t need individuals to have the ability to observe the place their baggage goes. However subsequent time you fly Lufthansa, we might perceive when you solely took carry-on.