When Steve Jobs died in 2011, many pundits said it was the end of Apple: in the popular imagination, Steve Jobs was Apple and Apple was Steve Jobs. Who could fill such iconic shoes? Tim Cook? But Apple’s logistics wizard is not a man you should underestimate, and under his watch Apple became a trillion-dollar company in 2018. It was Cook who turned Jobs’ ideas – the iPhone, the iPad, and projects begun during the Jobs era such as the Apple Watch – into globe-conquering successes. But the question that dogged Apple from the day of his succession was simple: what would happen when Jobs’ ideas ran out? Those questions got louder when design guru Jonathan Ive left Apple in 2019, apparently frustrated by Apple’s move to a less design-focused company.
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MacBook Pro M3
With a choice of M3, M3 Pro or M3 Max chipsets inside, this MacBook Pro is the most powerful mobile Mac that Apple has ever made – and yet it looks barely bigger than the MacBook Air.
It’s an astonishing machine that delivers exceptional power, but Sonoma means it’s also exceptionally easy to use – and it has ports aplenty.
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