Here’s an uncomfortable fact: at most companies, employees can download sensitive company data onto any device, keep it there forever, and never even know that they’re doing something wrong.… | Continue reading
Benjamin Mayo of 9to5Mac took Apple TV’s new multi-view feature for a spin: With tvOS 16.5 beta, Apple is testing a new feature for the Apple TV app on the Apple TV 4K set-top box: the ability to watch more than one game at a time.… | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Starting today, Apple Card users can choose to grow their Daily Cash rewards with a Savings account from Goldman Sachs, which offers a high-yield APY of 4.15 percent — a rate that’s more than 10 times the national average.… | Continue reading
My old PC World counterpart, Harry McCracken, calls the time of death: The April issues of Maximum PC and MacLife are currently on sale at a newsstand near you—assuming there is a newsstand near you.… | Continue reading
My thanks to Rogue Amoeba for sponsoring Six Colors this week on behalf of its app SoundSource. SoundSource is a remarkable app that lives in your menu bar and gives you complete control over all your audio.… | Continue reading
The Steve Jobs Archive has released a book, edited by Leslie Berlin, with a small selection of Steve Jobs’s interviews, speeches, and emails–many of them to himself. There’s a lim… | Continue reading
Collecting and removing mobile apps, how we begin and end every smartphone session, our new computer migration process, and how we balance our digital and physical lives.… | Continue reading
Who trusts rumors anyway?… | Continue reading
This week we’re pondering future directions for watchOS complications and iOS Control Center, reacting to extremely early reports about future iPhone displays, and digesting Apple’s slow build of alternative manufacturing capacities outside of China.… | Continue reading
If you use audio on your Mac in any way at all, SoundSource is for you. SoundSource lives in your menu bar and gives you superior control over all your audio. Per-application control: Change the vo… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide offers a more nuanced approach to setting and enforcing sensitive data policies. At most companies, employees can download sensitive company data onto any device, keep it there forever, and never even know that they’ … | Continue reading
Like me, Andy Baio is colorblind. People don’t get how many design elements rely on color: For some people, colorblindness is a serious liability that closes doors on career dreams. It’s hard… | Continue reading
The big news this week is Tim Cook and lots of him! Also big news are things that already happened, like the Mac’s bad holiday quarter and Apple putting all its metaphorical eggs in China’s metaphorical basket.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get ac … | Continue reading
As I write this, Apple has just debuted its Friday Night Baseball broadcasts for this season–in the afternoon, thanks to coverage of a Cubs day game. And I’m happy to report that the lo… | Continue reading
Jason still can’t even with General Motors. We waste some cycles drawing trendy 3D junk while pondering (timely!) Easter eggs we have known. And is the forthcoming Apple VR headset like the Lisa, or like the Apple Watch?… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member … | Continue reading
As first reported by Reuters, General Motors has decided that the company’s future electric cars will drop support for CarPlay and Android Auto, preferring the company’s own infotainment system based on the lower-level Android Automotive operating system.… | Continue reading
Andy Baio has made quite a find: While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018.… | Continue reading
Do not adjust your volume at the beginning of this episode.… | Continue reading
Our thoughts on GM abandoning CarPlay and Android Auto, our most relaxing phone activities, how we control our TVs, and what we’ve used AI for.… | Continue reading
Back in January, I wrote about building an automation for my pal Lex that would generate a list of open meeting times for him to send to potential clients. Lex and I both use the Fantastical calend… | Continue reading
Marvel hits the brakes, Apple embraces theatrical releases, Netflix can make anything a hit, two combat sports combine forces, and Major League Baseball keeps fans confused about when you’re allowed to watch a ballgame.… | Continue reading
WWDC has been announced, but when will the Apple VR headset be ready to ship? Also, CarPlay gets the cold shoulder from General Motors, watchOS might be in for some major changes, and the iPhone could be getting its own action button.… | Continue reading
Right now, “Zero Trust” is in serious danger of becoming an empty buzzword. The problem isn’t just that marketers have slapped the Zero Trust label on everything short of breakfast cereal–it’s that for all the hype, we don’t seem to be getting any safer.… | Continue reading
INT. APPLE PARK - DAY TIM COOK (60s, ruggedly handsome) sits at his desk, eyes closed and hands folded on his lap, as though he is an android who is in sleep mode.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcasts, and commun … | Continue reading
Another seven days, three more fantastic tales of Apple! The headset isn’t even out yet and it’s already DOA, the company’s classical music app is out with the fowlest of themes, and are you prepared for…the Mystery Button?!… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a me … | Continue reading
My thanks to Kandji for sponsoring Six Colors this week, and for commissioning the Enterprise Report Card! Kandji is the Apple device management and security platform that empowers secure and productive global work.… | Continue reading
Of all the standalone devices that I couldn’t imagine I’d need in the year 2023, I would have put a digital picture frame near the top.… | Continue reading
Hey there, I’m Shelly Brisbin and I’m here to demo a new feature in iOS 16.4. Specifically, it’s in the Weather app, and even more specifically than that, it is for people who use the VoiceOver screen reader that’s part of iOS.… | Continue reading
In 2021, device-management startup Kandji approached Six Colors to commission a new entry in our Report Card series focusing on how Apple’s doing in large organizations, including businesses, education, and government.… | Continue reading
Kirk McElhearn, longtime Macworld contributor and classical music aficionado, has taken an in-depth look at Apple Music Classical over at TidBITS: I’ve long complained about the way iTunes, then the Music app and Apple Music, have dealt with classical music.… | Continue reading
The apps we use for taking notes, the iOS 16.4 features (and emoji) we’re excited about, our thoughts on Apple Pay Later and installment payments, and what we hope — and expect — to hear about at Apple’s WWDC.… | Continue reading
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference now has a date for 2023: June 5-9. The company’s developer site announced the dates on Wednesday, along with a few more details. As in previous y… | Continue reading
The podcast that dares to futz with software live on the air.… | Continue reading
Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser writing at his blog: In my dumble opinion, Apple should: • Break Passwords out into a standalone app, with an actual fully resizable window (!!), and full, proper UI f… | Continue reading
It may not have made Apple’s self-imposed 2022 deadline, but three months into 2023, the new Apple Classical app is finally taking its bow. The result of Apple’s acquisition of Primephonic back in August 2021, Apple Classical is a bit of a strange beast.… | Continue reading
With WWDC (presumably) a couple of months away, we take time to list some of our wishes for iOS 17. There’s also a lot more noise about the forthcoming Apple VR headset, and the entertainment industry and Apple are having communication issues.… | Continue reading
What have we learned? This week, it’s that Russia is not happy with iPhones, the iPhone 15 will not be the same as the iPhone 14, and that Apple has reported to Spring Training in the best shape of its life and is ready to play ball.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Be … | Continue reading
My thanks to BZG Apps for sponsoring Six Colors this week. BZG makes Unite 4, which allows you to turn any Website into a Mac app. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can … | Continue reading
A remarkable blog post by Rogue Amoeba’s Paul Kafasis uncovers a key moment in the history of Apple and the recording industry: At that time, our sales were slow enough that we often skimmed incoming orders to learn about who was buying.… | Continue reading
Hannah Miao, Gregory Zuckerman and Ben Eisen reporting for the Wall Street Journal (Apple News) about the last-ditch attempts to save Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) from running out of money: The Fed needed a test trade to be run before the actual transfer could occur.… | Continue reading
The generative AI we’ve found the most compelling, our thoughts on Spatial Audio and surround sound systems, whether we think the game console is dying out, and our social media habits in the wake of the relaunch of Gowalla.… | Continue reading
Boox Leaf 2 running EinkBro (left) and Substack (right).I love e-readers. The high-contrast black-and-white E-Ink displays, the long battery life, and the software that’s focused on reading all made be a fan of the Kindle and, in recent years, the Kobo series of ebook readers.… | Continue reading
Baseball season is almost upon us, and that means the return of Apple’s Friday Night Baseball doubleheader. As was the case last year, it’ll be a broadcast with recurring national announcers and a bunch of extra Apple flair, including drone shots and spatial audio.… | Continue reading
HBO has another hit, Jason Kilar has some advice for Bob Iger about the future of Hulu, and Sports Corner returns to discuss the ongoing saga of regional sports networks bankruptcies and the future of streaming sports.… | Continue reading
Welcome to our Ted Lasso recap podcast.… | Continue reading
Is the iPad still the future of computing, or is it the Mac (again)? This week we’re pondering Apple’s dividing lines between the iPad Pro and the Mac, and wonder if each product is limiting the potential of the other.… | Continue reading
Unite 4 for macOS allows you to turn any website into an app on your Mac. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site. … | Continue reading
AI continues to be a lot more A than I this week as Apple expands its manufacturing outside of China, and we enjoy the return of everyone’s favorite mustachioed man, Ted Lasso.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusive stories, podcast … | Continue reading