John Siracusa has Opinions on video streaming apps: I subscribe to a lot of streaming video services, and that means I use a lot of streaming video apps. Most of them fall short of my expectations.… | Continue reading
Finding a common time when a group of people can meet has been a recurring theme of my life for a couple of decades now. Back in the old days, it was often finding common times for project meetings… | Continue reading
Jason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards. | Continue reading
This week Jason and Myke both revive some classic hardware that hits them right in the feels. Also, there’s a confusing set of Apple event rumors, and Apple tries to address AirTag security c… | Continue reading
People make us laugh, challenge us to improve, support us when things are tough, and celebrate with us once they get better. They’re core to our personal and professional success, but being m… | Continue reading
The Six Colors Report Card for 2021 is in the books, but nerds being nerds, there’s always a clamor for more statistical slicing and dicing of the data. This year I’m happy to present a… | Continue reading
Taking a stroll through the Apple Newsroom, and how some Apple press releases are like takeout shots in curling. | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors again this week. Kolide believes that the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation is the “average&… | Continue reading
Apple just posted a statement about AirTag that addresses a batch of issues: We’ve become aware that individuals can receive unwanted tracking alerts for benign reasons, such as when borrowin… | Continue reading
Writing about podcasting! Is that all that I do? Well, technically sometimes I also podcast. Which feeds the writing about podcasting. Really, it’s a vicious cycle. For more than a decade, I&… | Continue reading
Whether we’re still using the iPad to its fullest potential, how we’re watching the Winter Olympics, AI-generated music and art, and the ways we digitally send cash to friends. | Continue reading
Finally, Grant the poodle tells us what he’s really thinking. | Continue reading
The future of CNN+ is called into question, the Oscars recognize streaming services of all kinds, and did Peacock finally get the Olympics right? | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: The new capability will empower millions of merchants across the US, from small businesses to large retailers, to use their iPhone to seamlessly and securely accept Apple Pay, conta… | Continue reading
It’s time for our annual dive into the Six Colors Apple Report Card, as Jason and Myke interpret the scores and comments of several dozen Apple-watchers and add their own views on where the c… | Continue reading
At Kolide, we believe the supposedly Average Person is the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation. So do the hundreds of organizations that send impo… | Continue reading
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful… | Continue reading
A podcast about dating in the Netherlands. | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide connects device security and Slack together in a clever way–by sending people important, timely, and relevant recommendations a… | Continue reading
I have to search for a lot of movies to watch on my Apple TV because I have a movie podcast. If a movie is located within a service that I’m already paying for, then I’d like to get tha… | Continue reading
Everybody’s got tech problems this week. | Continue reading
How we manage notifications, our thoughts on Crisis Text Line’s data collection, our password management setup, and how we’re feeling about the Wordle acquisition by the New York Times. | Continue reading
Dan and I joined Matthew Cassinelli earlier today to discuss and show off our Podcast Note shortcut and discuss Shortcuts and automation in general. It was a good time, so if you’d like to se… | Continue reading
Speaking of David Letterman, here’s a special episode of The Incomparable from May 2015, when Letterman retired from hosting a late-night talk show. This is not the usual panel discussion. It… | Continue reading
40 years ago, “Late Night With David Letterman” aired its first episode. While unofficial archivist Don Giller has filled his YouTube channel with old clips, as of today there’s a… | Continue reading
Apple made a ton of money and released a ton of betas with new features. Face ID works with masks, Universal Control causes the soul of the Mac pointer to leave its body, the iPad relies on legacy … | Continue reading
Kolide is a SaaS app that sends employees important, timely, and relevant security recommendations concerning their Mac, Windows, and Linux devices, right inside Slack. At Kolide, we think end-user… | Continue reading
Deep inside the gleaming white innards of Apple Park, protected by multiple factors of authentication and the most sophisticated technological security known to humanity, lies the most coveted of a… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for once again sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide focuses on honest, user-focused device management and security, with informed consent, opt-in style enrollment, and commit… | Continue reading
Apple makes money, releases betas, does not reveal roadmap. Also: We did a live stream about Apple’s financial results and the audio’s tacked on the end of this episode in case you pref… | Continue reading
Here’s a partial, in-progress transcript of Apple’s conference call following its announcement of its first-quarter 2022 results… Tim Cook: Thank you Tejas and good afternoon. Tod… | Continue reading
Apple’s latest quarterly results are out. And they’re big. It was an all-time revenue record, at $123.9 billion. The company made a record $34.6 billion in profit. Mac revenue also reac… | Continue reading
Apple will announce its FY22 first quarter results later today, followed by its usual conference call webcast at 2 PT, 5 ET. This will be the results from Apple’s holiday quarter just gone by… | Continue reading
When you’re automating something, sometimes you run into a roadblock. On iOS, that roadblock is often impassable, though that happens less often now than back in the day. On macOS, there̵… | Continue reading
Come to the show where we hardly talk about technology and the jokes are bad. | Continue reading
How Apple should address AirTag misuse, the techniques we use for cleaning out our inbox, whether Twitter’s “Close Friends” feature interests us, and our applications for a smart … | Continue reading
Rogue Amoeba has announced that my favorite audio utility, Audio Hijack, is getting a huge update: Perhaps the single most notable change, however, is something making a return from years back: scr… | Continue reading
Netflix’s latest quarterly report makes us wonder: Is it a tech company or an entertainment company? Julia experiences live sports streaming success–and failure. HBO Max takes a victory… | Continue reading
Most of Apple’s software is proprietary. Some of it, though, is based on open-source projects. WebKit, which powers Safari, is an open-source project. Which means that Apple is not the only s… | Continue reading
Myke and Jason discuss the mysteries of Apple’s car project, and express confusion about Apple’s 2022 product release schedule. And at last, France makes a big box-related move. | Continue reading
Kolide provides teams unprecedented ground truth across their Linux, Mac, and Windows devices. Powered by osquery, our honest approach to obtaining device visibility via informed consent, opt-in s… | Continue reading
James Fallows has essentially built an FAQ file about what’s happening between airlines and wireless companies that could have a huge impact on the U.S.: This post is a basic who-what-why pri… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors again this week. Kolide believes that the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation is the “average&… | Continue reading
When to repair and when to retire old tech, networking adventures, and green bubbles. | Continue reading
With the advent of Shortcuts on macOS, automation on the Mac has become more accessible than ever. There is no part of our workflows that we can’t automate and thus there is no part of our wo… | Continue reading
The decommissioned weather station, with cloudy solar panel, spiderwebbed shield, and mossy anemometer. It’s rare that a piece of technology lasts so long and serves you so well that it’… | Continue reading
John Paczkowski at Buzzfeed: Apple has tapped a new head of PR: longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet. She’ll replace Stella Low, former communications chief at networking giant Cisco,… | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett at 512 Pixels thinks Apple should bring back Dashboard: Apple killed off Dashboard at exactly the wrong time. Just one year after Catalina killed Dashboard, Apple started allowing d… | Continue reading