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.