The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is just around the corner, so in a few weeks we will have to talk about the latest software for the different devices that Apple has on the market. While we wait for the celebration of WWDC 2018, we continue to share with you the most popular articles during the last week.
This week has been a week in which, if I am honest, there has not been much to comment on regarding the Apple ecosystem and it is always the weeks before a conference the news that we can comment on are few, except for the news of the movements that Apple is giving in different countries.
Apple's 0% interest financing ends this month of May, so if you were thinking of buying a product from the company and paying for it in installments, now may be a good time to do so. This zero cost financing offer has lasted a few months and will officially end on the 31st of this month of May. It could be that Apple extended the term a little more but normally when they put an end term they do not usually extend it. Now that we are in the middle of May, it is important to remember this possibility in case you are thinking about buying a Mac, since we will get the financing for free.
One more week we have new versions available beta for developers watchOS 4.3.1 and tvOS 11.4. In this case, it is beta 5 and some improvements and bug fixes are added to make the version as stable as possible. We can also tell you that beta version 5 of macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 for developers and it is expected that by tomorrow users who are in the public beta program will have the option to install them on their Macs.
Everything that has to do with voice assistants is evolving in an exponential way and we can see it with the advances that Amazon has included in Alexa or Google in the Google Assistant, without underestimating what is evolving, although much slower Apple's assistant, Siri.
Well, what I want to transfer you today is a mere comparison of data about parents who decide to put their daughters the name Siri or Alexa, which after all in the United States are widely used.
This is undoubtedly surprising news for several reasons, but the most obvious is that are preventing French children from enjoying of these courses that are held in the Apple Store. The French government finally makes a drastic decision in the face of a problem with some parents and finally it prohibits the excursions of the students to the Apple Store of the country. Promoting the code is basically what is done in these excursions of the children to the stores of the Cupertino firm, in addition to learning, the children take some details of the company such as a T-shirt or an Apple USB, but it seems that this Some parents did not like it and after a report published last April in the country to promote the activity in which these children could be seen in Apple stores, it is decided to cancel this type of event.
As you may already know, AirPods are Apple's smart headphones, headphones that have turned out to be a marvel and with which you can enjoy incredible audio with very achieved bass and extreme simplicity. They connect to the iPhone or any other device via bluetooth, so if you have a phone other than iPhone you will be able to use them although not with all the Siri options. However, what if you want to use your AirPods with a device that does not have bluetooth, what if you want to use it on an airplane with the possibility of listening to music or sound of an internal line where a 3,5 mm jack plug must be plugged?
If you own a MacBook Pro from mid 2012 or early 2013, Apple expands stock of 2012 and 2013 MacBook Pro batteries. The reason has been a lack of stocks of the batteries of these models. Specifically, it was not a problem of the lack of batteries itself. The part that was not in stock was the assembly of the upper part, where the batteries of the Mac were glued, in the 15-inch models, with retina display. This part is made of aluminum and at the same time houses the keyboard, the trackpad and has the slits to locate the computer speakers.