In many places in Spain we are having storms that make life a little more complicated, but there is always room to read the compilation of Soy de Mac. This week has been somewhat hectic and Apple has had problems in some Apple Stores, the Intel problem continues to be talked about or they continue to arise rumors of the HomePod being released.
Be that as it may, in Soy de Mac We always have a compilation of the news that has been read the most this week on our blog.
It seems that lately Apple grows dwarfs and it is that in their Apple Store altercations do not stop happening that make the news. In this case, it was the turn of the Zurich Apple Store, which has had to be evacuated after a fire outbreak.
The Apple Store with about 50 customers has had to be completely evacuated with all the employees after the smoke alarms went off in front of an outbreak of fire whose focus was on the device battery change workshop. As if that were not enough, days later, something similar happened in Spain at the Apple Store in Valencia.
According to new reports, Apple will become this year 2018 the most valuable company in the world, reaching a value of $ 1 trillion. With a steady growth of around 11%, Apple has been climbing year after year the top positions in companies considered the most valuable in the world. Now, the first place is within reach.
According to the popular magazine Barrons, thanks to the sales of the new iPhone X, the growth of the brand in the Asian market and the increasing use of the services offered by the Cupertino-based company, Apple could this year be the No. 1 in the world.
A new error has been detected in the current version 10.13.2 of macOS High Sierra. In this case, it has to do with managing the preferences of the application store on the Mac. The fact is that this window can be unlocked by inserting any password, so the security of that part of the system is compromised.
This is a error that Apple has already detected and that it has been fixed in the last betas that have been made available to the developers, so if you follow the steps that we are going to tell you, you could check that, indeed, that bug is present.
The security measure has been extended since last January 5 when the use of personal mobile phones was already prohibited inside and now also affects wearables and the like, among the ones who evidently the Apple Watch stands out.
The president's own spokesperson, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was in charge of communicating that the restriction is firm today and that it affects all employees, visitors and other personnel who access the West Wing of the White House. This particular place in the building is where the president works and must be protected from any external threat. "The security and integrity of technology systems in the White House are a top priority for the Administration."
Apple advanced the mac OS 10.13.2 update to incorporate the patch that would protect Macs from vulnerability Specter and Meltdown, just as he told you Soy de Mac, and you can check it in the link in this paragraph.
Although Apple does not talk about a decrease in performance of Intel processors, which are in our Macs, the forums commented a performance drop by having to isolate a part with confidential data from us. On the other hand, This drop in performance affects more, the older our Mac is. Apparently, Apple would have started with this vulnerability in update 10.13.1.
The problems for the chip company Intel, do not stop. To the demands received due to the vulnerability they present Specter and Meltdown now joins the lawsuit filed by some shareholders of the company after the fall in the share price, before possible millionaire compensations that Intel faces.
Up to four law firms have filed lawsuits in recent days. Based on these lawsuits, the company was aware of design and manufacturing flaws. But the company kept this information, so that it was not known by users, manufacturers and shareholders. The latter have seen the price drop in recent days.