March 2021 • Macworld 57

A

pple’s no stranger

to introducing and

popularizing new

technologies. The original

iMac wasn’t the first to use USB, but

it drove adoption of the standard.

Multitouch displays existed before

Apple has been building its ultra-wideband technology into devices,

but it still doesn’t do much... yet. Dan Moren reports

Will 2021 be the year

Apple’s U1 chip goes wide?

the iPhone, but it was the first real

commercial product offering it.

Sometimes those technologies take

a while to gestate, though. And there

may be no better example in recent

years than Apple’s take on ultra-

wideband, or UWB.

March 2021 • Macworld 57

A

pple’s no stranger

to introducing and

popularizing new

technologies. The original

iMac wasn’t the first to use USB, but

it drove adoption of the standard.

Multitouch displays existed before

Apple has been building its ultra-wideband technology into devices,

but it still doesn’t do much... yet. Dan Moren reports

Will 2021 be the year

Apple’s U1 chip goes wide?

the iPhone, but it was the first real

commercial product offering it.

Sometimes those technologies take

a while to gestate, though. And there

may be no better example in recent

years than Apple’s take on ultra-

wideband, or UWB.