It wouldn’t be Apple software update season without a bizarre fixation on an otherwise innocuous feature. Yes, everybody’s up in arms about NameDrop, because if there’s one thing you never want to share with anyone, it’s your contact details.… This story is for Six Colors members … | Continue reading
Speaking of e-readers, here’s an interesting profile of the small French e-reader company Vivlio by Romain Dillet at TechCrunch: While Amazon’s Kindle is the clear leader and Rakuten’s Kobo the obvious challenger, Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to these tw … | Continue reading
A still from Apple’s lost voice film. Apple’s latest short film focusing on accessibility, released on Thursday and directed by Oscar-winner Taika Waititi, tells the story of a character’s search for his lost voice.… | Continue reading
Turns out police departments are like some of my relatives: They see things on Facebook and uncritically pass them on without considering for one moment if what they’re posting is actually true.… | Continue reading
Castro has been a popular iOS podcast app for many years, but right now things look grim. The cloud database that backs the service is broken and needs to be replaced. As a result, the app has brok… | Continue reading
Our book-reading habits, what we do with our health data, how tech helps us around the house, and old software that we still have a crush on.… | Continue reading
What’s your BBS?… | Continue reading
“I’ll say this for him, he’s consistent.” In the surest sign that the end of the year is nearing and that whatever happens in December stays in December, Apple dropped a bunch of its annual 2023 lists on Tuesday.… | Continue reading
James Thomson joins Jason to celebrate Cyber Monday, generate an Apple Buying Guide, grapple with subscription (and human) burnout, and explore spatial videos and the current state of visionOS development.… | Continue reading
Getting OS updates installed on end user devices should be easy. After all, it’s one of the simplest yet most impactful ways that every employee can practice good security. On top of that, e… | Continue reading
Tim Cook gets put in the cold seat while 13 remains a popular number in Japan. And will Apple get coal in its stocking? If the NLRB has anything to say about it, yes.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and com … | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Designed from the ground up to protect your privacy, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances in Safari – stopping you from being followed by ads around the web.… | Continue reading
Apple released its annual holidaytime videofun thingy! Hooray! Don’t read this until after you’ve watched it. (Note to Apple Watch users: if your device starts lighting up with emergency medical alerts while you’re watching, just ignore them.… | Continue reading
Choosing between noise cancellation and excellent audio quality in headphones, the impact of an unlimited supply of one thing on the world or your life, the significance of Apple’s adoption of RCS, and recommendations for Black Friday deals.… | Continue reading
This episode features some questionable math.… | Continue reading
The possibilities that Apple will release a lower-cost MacBook, Apple’s difficulties in building a 5G radio to rival Qualcomm, Apple attempts to appease the EU by adopting RCS, and all hell breaks loose with OpenAI.… | Continue reading
Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks. By blocki… | Continue reading
The iOS 17.2 beta has brought the ability to shoot in Spatial Video for the forthcoming Vision Pro, and a handful of press participated in a demo where they could view Spatial Video on the Vision Pro headset.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get acce … | Continue reading
Imagine, if you will, an avalanche of tens of billions of beans being spilled. Such is what happened in Google’s antitrust trial. There’s big news in little bubbles this week and social networking continues to be a huge mistake.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become … | Continue reading
Time for our next monthly video Q&A, available only to subscribers at the More Colors or Backstage level. Please send in your questions at sixcolors.com/morecolorqs or by typing /ask on Discord.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusi … | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. As a native Safari extension, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – letting you experience a faster, cleaner and more secure experience across all your devices.… | Continue reading
Disney’s going to own all of Hulu. Does this uniquely position them to be the most legitimate challenger to Netflix? We also discuss the power of platforms, Apple’s “Napoleon” opportunity, and Disney’s Marvel experimentation.… | Continue reading
Apple has told Chance Miller of 9to5Mac that it will be supporting the RCS standard for messaging: Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association.… | Continue reading
Capturing spatial video on iPhone, our font opinions, whether we use journaling apps, and when we tell our non-techy friends to update their software.… | Continue reading
App Store Awards finalists, WordPress woes, AI pins and the secret identity of Dan’s benefactor.… | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: One year ago today, Apple’s groundbreaking safety service Emergency SOS via satellite became available on all iPhone 14 models in the U.S. and Canada. Now also available on the iPho… | Continue reading
Last week, the startup Humane did a marketing blitz for its forthcoming AI Pin, a $699 wearable designed by a bunch of ex-Apple people that has been the subject of a lot of tech-industry buzz lately.… | Continue reading
Amazing story from Andy Lewis of The Ankler about the real-life veterans behind the dog tags worn by Alan Alda on the hall-of-fame sitcom “MASH”: Often when he was putting the dog tags on in his dressing room, seemingly obtained by the costume designers of MAS*H, he would ponder … | Continue reading
Spatial videos on iPhone, 2024 iPad updates, the Apple Watch as a health device, Apple pausing iOS development to fix bugs, the potential of AI interfaces, and the meaning of the “pro” label.… | Continue reading
Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. It’s easy to setup, blocks all YouTube ads, … | Continue reading
The new Macs are here! The new Macs are here! But Apple would like iMac fans to go ahead and buy the 24-inch model, please. Meanwhile, remember Intel?… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and community.. | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors again this week. AI is a hot topic in lots of businesses, but most companies still haven’t come up with policies to manage AI usage—and employees are potentially handing over all sorts of sensitive data to tools that may or may not be … | Continue reading
Last week Apple announced its fiscal fourth quarter results, posting another flat sales quarter even as profits (and services revenue) continue to rise. And as usual, I filled a bunch of numbers into a Number spreadsheet, ran my little charting Automator app, and out popped out a … | Continue reading
Troublesome software bugs, our thoughts on tech companies’ involvement in standards creation, iMessage interoperability, and what we think about video game movies and TV shows.… | Continue reading
In this episode, alliances are formed and broken. Just like Dan’s trackpad.… | Continue reading
Last month I wrote about how Apple’s cascade of macOS alerts and warnings ruin the Mac upgrade experience. My point wasn’t to ask Apple to make the Mac less secure. It was for Apple to … | Continue reading
I really enjoyed this piece by Sam Byford of Multicore about how the Chinese smartphone market differs from the rest of the world: Unlike the U.S., the Chinese phone market is extremely competitive… | Continue reading
Jason has reviewed the new M3 iMac and M3 MacBook Pro, and Myke asks him for all the details. We also discuss why the large-iMac era is at an end, and review Apple’s recent quarterly financial results.… | Continue reading
It seems like every company is scrambling to stake their claim in the AI goldrush–check out the CEO of Kroger promising to bring LLMs into the dairy aisle. And front line workers are following suit… | Continue reading
After nearly two and a half years, the iMac has finally gotten its update. The venerable desktop Mac was a late addition to the first generation M1 processor, but now it’s in the vanguard of Apple’s M3 chip generation.… | Continue reading
Like the M2 MacBook Pro released earlier this year, the new M3 MacBook Pro doesn’t look particularly new. It’s the third iteration of the excellent MacBook Pro redesign from 2021, featuring flat sides and curved corners and a spectacularly clear and bright display.… | Continue reading
New Macs are here, but not everything you might have expected to get updated was. While people try to make hay over Apple’s claims about the iPhone 15, Apple makes bank on its services.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories … | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Getting OS updates installed on end user devices should be easy, but of course it isn’t. Forcing restarts without user approval will l… | Continue reading
As always, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri spend an hour talking to investment analysts about the company’s just-completed quarter. And as always, we’ve got a transcript! Here it is, update… | Continue reading
On Thursday, Apple reported results for its financial fourth quarter of 2023, covering the months of July, August, and September. The company generated $89.5 billion in revenue, down 1% from the same quarter last year.… | Continue reading
Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack has long been an indispensable tool for Mac podcasters1: this Swiss Army knife of audio utilities lets you not just grab audio from your Mac’s mics, but also from any app running on the system.… | Continue reading
Netflix adapts to selling ads, and your letters! [Downstream+ subscribers also got: Apple TV+ cancelling Jon Stewart and raising prices, YouTube’s news challenge and the value of YouTube culture, and Jason Kilar’s big idea.]… | Continue reading
Frequent contributor Joe Rosensteel writing at his own blog about the fact that Apple’s “Scary Fast” event was shot on the iPhone 15 Pro Max and that some people have taken issue with the fact that Apple still used professional lighting, rigs, and crews to accomplish that: This … | Continue reading