The only new service this year is
Fitness+, and it’s a fine set of workout
videos, but that’s all it really is. It
doesn’t do anything innovative, it
doesn’t remind or encourage you to
work out, it doesn’t do nutritional
tracking like MyFitnessPal... it just feels
too bare-bones.
Apple’s halo service seems to be
Apple TV+, which suffered from an
extreme lack of quality content this
year. Ted Lasso is a delight, but Apple
needs ten times the amount of new
content per year for people to find
enough good stuff to watch. Blame
COVID for ruining production, but I
very rarely found a reason to fire up
Apple TV+ this year. Grade: D
Roman Loyola: In all, Apple One is a
good deal, but TV+, Fitness+, News+
still feel like works in progress that can
be satisfying at times and frustrating at
others. Grade: CSOFTWARE
New products: iOS 14, iPadOS 14,
macOS Big Sur, watchOS 7, tvOS 14,
numerous Apple appsMichael Simon: Among the notable
software changes in 2020: macOS was
finally bumped to version 11 and got a
visual refresh to go along with it; iPad
OS continued to feel too constrained
by its iPhone roots; the overdue Sleep
app in watchOS 7 was a bit too basic;
and tvOS 14
finally brought
4K YouTube and
little else. But
iOS 14 saved the
whole year with a
significant revamp
to the Home
Screen layout
in iOS 14 that
finally let people
abandon the stale
app grid. Grade: BJason Cross: I’m
impressed by theApple One is a good deal, but TV+, Fitness+, News+ still feel like
works in progress.