March 2021 • Macworld 97magic keyboard is a great accessory.
iPadOS is slowly breaking away from
iOS, and needs to go faster. The iPad
Pro update was lacklustre, though,
and the regular iPad is getting pretty
long in the tooth. Grade: BRoman Loyola: It feels like the iPad
line-up is in flux, with non-Pro iPads
feeling like Pro models, and the
Pro models not getting much with
upgrades. You can do more with the
iPad and iPad Air, which is great in
my book. Grade: BAPPLE WATCH
New products: Apple Watch SE,
Apple Watch Series 6Michael Simon:
There’s no denying
that the two watches
Apple launched this
year are the best
smartwatches you
can buy, but they
still left something to
be desired. Apple’s
cheaper SE is missing
several important
features, including
the always-on display,
EKG sensor and
blood-oxygen sensor,
and the Series 6
wasn’t much of an upgrade over
the Series 5. Sleep tracking is meh,
battery life is still an issue, and blood-
oxygen tracking isn’t integrated as
well as it is on the Fitbit Sense. And
wouldn’t recommend the £199 Series
3 to my worst enemy. Grade: BJason Cross: The Series 6 is a modest
step forward from the Series 5, with
not a lot of real tangible reason to
exist. The SE is a great idea but
should be less expensive, and Apple
should have stopped selling the
Series 3. What Apple Watch needs
more than anything is multi-day
battery life, and year after year we
get stuff we don’t need like faster2020 was a lacklustre year for the iPad.March 2021 • Macworld 97magic keyboard is a great accessory.
iPadOS is slowly breaking away from
iOS, and needs to go faster. The iPad
Pro update was lacklustre, though,
and the regular iPad is getting pretty
long in the tooth. Grade: B
Roman Loyola: It feels like the iPad
line-up is in flux, with non-Pro iPads
feeling like Pro models, and the
Pro models not getting much with
upgrades. You can do more with the
iPad and iPad Air, which is great in
my book. Grade: B
APPLE WATCH
New products: Apple Watch SE,
Apple Watch Series 6
Michael Simon:
There’s no denying
that the two watches
Apple launched this
year are the best
smartwatches you
can buy, but they
still left something to
be desired. Apple’s
cheaper SE is missing
several important
features, including
the always-on display,
EKG sensor and
blood-oxygen sensor,
and the Series 6
wasn’t much of an upgrade over
the Series 5. Sleep tracking is meh,
battery life is still an issue, and blood-
oxygen tracking isn’t integrated as
well as it is on the Fitbit Sense. And
wouldn’t recommend the £199 Series
3 to my worst enemy. Grade: BJason Cross: The Series 6 is a modest
step forward from the Series 5, with
not a lot of real tangible reason to
exist. The SE is a great idea but
should be less expensive, and Apple
should have stopped selling the
Series 3. What Apple Watch needs
more than anything is multi-day
battery life, and year after year we
get stuff we don’t need like faster2020 was a lacklustre year for the iPad.