2022 Apple Awards, Emergency SOS via satellite, Indie App Santa and more...

Hello fellow Apple enthusiast, entrepreneur, business owner or professional using your Mac, iPhone or iPad to make a living!

Hope you and your family are in good health and not too impacted by the global events going on right now.

This is your bi-weekly dose of Apple-related news, curated and summarised just for you ???

Before jumping in the news, here's a fun fact:

On?Dec 2nd, 1991, Apple released the first version of?QuickTime?which allowed anyone with a personal computer to play?colour?videos. Before that, only specialised computers could do it. Two years later, Microsoft and Intel hired the same subcontractor that developed QuickTime for Windows to optimise their own Video For Windows technology. Apple discovered that code from Quicktime was reused in Video For Windows and on?Dec 6th, 1994,?Apple sued the subcontractor, Intel and Microsoft. It's this?lawsuit's settlement?in 1997 that is believed to have helped Apple survive until the early 2000s and the iPod revolution.

2022 Apple Awards

Apple recognised several?developers?for?apps?and?games?distributed throughout its entire eco-system: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch (Source:?Apple).

2022 App Store Awards?recipients will receive a?blue?trophy?made from 100% recycled aluminium, with the App Store icon on one side and the winner and category engraved on the other.

Apple also announced the?2022 Apple Podcasts Award?winner: the nonfiction series "Slow burn" whose last season covered the Roe v. Wade trial (Source:?Apple).

Emergency SOS by Satellite

On Dec 1st, a man travelling by snowmobile in Alaska got stranded and subsequently activated the new Emergency SOS via Satellite feature on his iPhone 14 (Source:?AppleInsider).

This allowed the Apple Emergency Response Center to provide the GPS coordinates to volunteer searchers who located and transported the stranded person.

Luckily, no one was injured.

Indie App Santa

Since Dec 1st,?Indie App Santa?is once again offering either free or highly discounted versions of apps and games from lesser-known independent developers.

Each special offer only lasts for 1 day and, like a traditional advent calendar, the last one will be revealed on Dec 24th.

iOS 16.1.2

On Nov 30th, Apple released iOS 16.1.2 bringing improved compatibility with wireless carriers and optimisations to the iPhone 14 Crash Detection algorithm (Source:?AppleInsider)

Apple hasn't communicated yet on the potential security issues that might have been addressed with this update.

When they'll do, it will be available on this page:?https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

If your iPhone is still running iOS 15, I recommend staying on it a little while more.

If your iPhone is already on iOS 16, then make sure to do a backup (iCloud or computer) before installing the iOS 16.1.2 update.

Apple TV+

Apple won 4 BAFTA Children & Young People Awards for its Apple TV+ children's content.

El Deafo, a three-part cartoon about the life of a child who is hard of hearing won the Content for Change award.

Wolfwalkers?won the feature film category.

Finally, "Lovely Little Farm" won the Pre-School — Live Action category?while Chris O'Dowd?received a BAFTA award for his performance in "Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth."

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