Via The Verge, a statement from Apple PR regarding its removal of the “free speech” trumpeting Twitter clone Parler from the App Store: “We have always supported diverse points of… | Continue reading
Mike Masonic of TechDirt about social-media moderation and why Trump’s stream needed to be shut down: The regular rules could never apply to Trump because Trump is not a regular person. And, … | Continue reading
Input reports that Apple has put right-wing social media site Parler on notice: In an email sent by Apple to Parler this morning (Pacific Time) and obtained by _Input, _the company provided numerou… | Continue reading
The ban hammer, she swings: Amid a hardening consensus that conspiracy theories emboldened this week’s Capitol Building rioters—many adorned with “Q” garments, waving Q flags, screaming about elect… | Continue reading
He’s gone: Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump on Friday, days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol leaving five dead. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @rea… | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett is spending this entire year chronicling the 20th anniversary of 2001. It was, to be fair, a huge year for Apple. First stop? Macworld Expo San Francisco: This Macworld keynote is j… | Continue reading
A lot of people are baffled when I explain that I do most of my writing on the Mac inside Bare Bones Software’s BBEdit, which is a text editor that’s loaded with features for software a… | Continue reading
We may shift gears and become a productivity podcast, because we’re tired of Apple Car rumors and are trying to put them in our rear-view mirror. | Continue reading
There’s an iOS music utility I’ve been loving for a while now, and when I praised it during the 2020 Upgradies I realized I’d never written about it. It’s Longplay, a $3 app… | Continue reading
Killer apps for AR and VR, video chat etiquette tips, how we’ll use tech differently in 2021, and the advertising and marketing decisions that we’d toss out the window. | Continue reading
Just as I wrapped up a series I worked on most of last year about the most notable Macs of all time, I received a comment on Twitter about a specific peculiarity about my list that I’d never consid… | Continue reading
I first wrote about HazeOver when Mojave’s Dark Mode debuted. It’s a utility that can change the appearance of your background windows, so in Dark Mode it’ll squelch any windows t… | Continue reading
For several years, Continuity has been a growing set of features that ties macOS to its more mobile cousins. Here’s how Apple describes these features: When you sign in to your Apple ID on al… | Continue reading
As I filed my final entry in the 20 Macs for 2020 project, I decided to dig around in my document archive to see if I could find when the project really got started. While I had been noodling over … | Continue reading
2021 has arrived, so it’s time for Jason to predict what he thinks Apple will do this year. But it’s also time for Myke to look back on his 2020 predictions and judge how well those cam… | Continue reading
Here’s the thing about being one of the most prominent—and, by some measurements most valuable—company in the world: it paints a heck of a target on your back. Apple’s long found itself… | Continue reading
Good morning! We’re so glad you could join us today, here at Apple Park. We’ve got a lot of exciting announcements to share with you, but before we get started, I want to take a moment … | Continue reading
It was the late 90s and Apple was on the ropes. Steve Jobs knew the company needed a lifeline, fast. And 10 months after Jobs took back control of the company, he announced the product that would f… | Continue reading
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Okay, for most of us 2020 wasn’t the best of times. But on the iOS front, Apple definitely seemed to be in a feast-or-famine mode. The company r… | Continue reading
2020 was a big year for the Mac—and we shouldn’t take that for granted. The first year I started predicting things in this column, I felt a little optimism about 2016, and it turned out to be an al… | Continue reading
Call me Nostradamus. Every year in this space I make a slew of predictions for the coming year, a combination of analysis and wishcasting that can be a fun exercise in gauging our expectations and … | Continue reading
Macs running on Apple silicon are pretty great. But whenever there’s a major hardware transition, many wise people point out that it’s safer to wait rather than rushing in, because ther… | Continue reading
Tech we’re looking forward to in 2021, our schedules for buying M1 Macs, favorite gadgets of 2020, and holiday tech gifts. | Continue reading
Adios, 2020. | Continue reading
It’s the 7th annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2020 across many categories. | Continue reading
You can divide Mac history in a bunch of different ways. But perhaps the clearest line of demarcation is the mid-1998 release of the original iMac. The first era of the Mac, begun in 1984, was endi… | Continue reading
The last 12 months haven’t been the year anybody expected, but as we forge ahead into 2021, we’ve all got our collective fingers crossed for a brighter future. This was a year of major moves for th… | Continue reading
The year in review–and can you believe we’re talking about Apple and cars again? | Continue reading
After the failure of the Macintosh Portable, Apple took a different approach to designing a laptop. The result helped tip the balance of power between humans and computers. | Continue reading
Politicians on Twitter, tech-related Advent calendars, Apple’s car ambitions, and how we’ve routed around 2020 for the holiday season. | Continue reading
Apple is definitely producing a car. Unless it’s not in which case it isn’t. | Continue reading
It finally happened. I picked up a regular iPhone 12 the other day and recoiled at how large it was. My month-long inculcation into the cult of the iPhone 12 Mini had done its job. I had learned to… | Continue reading
It’s the Upgrade Holiday Special! Myke reviews the AirPods Pro Max and Jason reviews Apple Fitness+. Then we get into the spirit of the season with a holiday-themed #askupgrade, and Myke watc… | Continue reading
Goodbye, 2020, we won’t miss you. Looking back over the last 12 months, it’s clearly been eventful for Apple—and that’s even without taking a global pandemic into account. The company has been busy… | Continue reading
In the early days, using a computer was something you did in a space dedicated for that task. You went to the computer lab. You sat at a computer desk. You had to get back to the office to write up… | Continue reading
Facebook wants to save small businesses from Apple and rotten cherries are back in pies. | Continue reading
The first Mac followed in the Lisa’s footsteps and had a lot of limitations–but it changed the course of the computer industry forever. | Continue reading
Great story from Sean Hollister at The Verge about the shortcomings of broadband in the U.S. And why? You guessed it: lack of regulation! In 2009, the US spent $350 million on a “National Broadband… | Continue reading
Some of us are getting fit. Slowly. | Continue reading
Web services that connect web services, HBO Max’s attempt to boost subscriptions, Apple Fitness+, and Facebook’s shot across Apple’s bow. | Continue reading
Keying off of the release of macOS Big Sur 11.1 Monday, Joe Rossignol at MacRumors wrote: Another notable change mentioned in the update’s release notes is the ability for iPhone and iPad app… | Continue reading
Ben Sandofsky of Halide has written a deep dive into understanding how the RAW image format works with a focus on Apple’s ProRAW additions and how Halide has adapted to work with it: ProRAW s… | Continue reading
Apple’s latest service, Fitness+, arrived on Monday, and over the last 24 hours I’ve pedaled to 80s hits, jumped around my living room in an introductory high-intensity interval trainin… | Continue reading
On Tuesday Microsoft announced that it’s releasing new versions of Microsoft Office that run native on Apple Silicon: The new Office apps are Universal, so they will continue to run great on … | Continue reading
Warner Media blowback, Apple’s Gawker show gets cancelled, Disney fires off its Death Star, and Apple announced a $550 pair of headphones. | Continue reading
My friend John Siracusa is disappointed in me because I didn’t put the Macintosh 128K–the original Macintosh–at number one in this list of the 20 most notable Macs of all time. I … | Continue reading
When it comes to Apple differentiating itself from its Big Tech rivals, there’s one area in which the company has spent a lot of time touting its record: security and privacy. From the App St… | Continue reading
SwiftBar lets you disable plugins without dragging files around. One of my favorite features of iOS 14 is its support for home-screen widgets. They’re supported on macOS Big Sur, too, but I d… | Continue reading