This episode might be overpriced. | Continue reading
Apple’s first attempt at the ultimate thin and light laptop was overpriced and underpowered. The second attempt resulted in the definitive Mac of the 2010s. | Continue reading
The AirPods Max lifestyle. | Continue reading
Our best apps and games of 2020, our ideal set of headphones, whether we’ll be trying out Apple Fitness+ when it ships, and our home theater set-ups. | Continue reading
Microsoft Gaming chief vice president Jerret West in a blog post: In Spring 2021, we will take the next step in our journey to reach more players around the world by making cloud gaming as part of … | Continue reading
It’s as regular as the turning of the seasons. Apple announces a new product and then the complaints that it’s overpriced start rolling in. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that selling a pair of he… | Continue reading
The world is full of web services for all manner of tasks, but sometimes what you want to do is connect two (or more) services in order to complete a single task. What do you need for that? Another… | Continue reading
In addition to its new AirPods Max, Apple also announced on Tuesday that its new fitness service, Fitness+, will launch next week, on December 14. First unveiled at Apple’s September event, F… | Continue reading
AirPods Max in green. December surprise! As rumored, Apple had one more trick up its sleeve for the “year” that has been 2020. This morning the company announced its new AirPods Max hea… | Continue reading
Warner Media moves its 2021 films onto HBO Max–what’s the future of the movie industry? And a new Mark Gurman report gives some shape to the future of Apple’s M-series processors&… | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Ian King on the Apple silicon beat: The current M1 chip inherits a mobile-centric design built around four high-performance processing cores to accelerate tasks li… | Continue reading
Apple’s first attempt at the thin, light laptop of the future happened a couple of years too soon. In early 2008, Apple introduced the original MacBook Air, a deeply compromised product. It w… | Continue reading
As 2021 peeks its head over the horizon (and with it, hopefully, an upward swing at last), it’s time to cast our glances to the year ahead. While Apple has no shortage of priorities for the n… | Continue reading
The pace of Apple’s processor development can be measured in all sorts of ways. The chart I built today is using only a single measurement, that of multi-core performance as measured by the s… | Continue reading
Our fifth anniversary spectacular! But it’s mostly about headphones and Windows. | Continue reading
Apple’s first metallic silver laptop set the company on a path that it’s been on for two decades and counting, but it also proved that the company still had a lot to learn. | Continue reading
Steven Aquino, writing at Forbes: Apple on Thursday marked International Day of Persons with Disabilities with a slew of accessibility-centric announcements, spanning the company’s website and soci… | Continue reading
Zack Sharf, writing at IndieWire: Warner Bros. Pictures Group has announced its entire 2021 film slate will open via a “distribution model in which Warner Bros. will continue to exhibit the films t… | Continue reading
Apple: The new App Store Small Business Program is designed to accelerate innovation and help propel your small business forward with the next generation of groundbreaking apps on the App Store. It… | Continue reading
Buttons, buttons, which remote has buttons? | Continue reading
How Salesforce’s purchase of Slack could affect Slack’s future, how we’re shopping and gifting this holiday season, inexpensive gadgets that impressed us, and our photo-posting ha… | Continue reading
When Apple announced the M1 processor, it highlighted the possibility of virtualizing Linux but remained coy about Windows. One of the great advantages of using Intel processors on the Mac is that … | Continue reading
This week, Apple added several machines to its list of vintage models: iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013) iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2014) iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) iMac (Re… | Continue reading
Here’s a detailed post by Erik Engheim that breaks down how Apple’s M1 chip is structured and compares it with other PC chips: In Unified memory the GPU cores and CPU cores can access m… | Continue reading
In a surprise move, Amazon has jumped into the hosted Mac world, adding Mac minis to its EC2 service. As TechCrunch reports: The target audience here — and the only one AWS is targeting for now — i… | Continue reading
This week we consider the future, and what Apple’s rumored to be doing to the Apple Watch, iPad, and MacBook Pro in 2021. Plus Jason embraces the iPhone 12 mini and reboots his complaints abo… | Continue reading
Imagine a slideshow of images of every portable Mac Apple has made, displayed in chronological order. It starts with the Macintosh Portable and ends with two M1 MacBooks. For a while, the slides ar… | Continue reading
With an unprecedented three events this fall, Apple has revamped the vast majority of its key products. We’ve seen new iPhones, a new iPad Air, new Apple silicon Macs, and even a new HomePod … | Continue reading
One of my only opportunities for solace these days is taking walks. I try to get outside every day, not just to close the rings on my Apple Watch, but also because I need a break from staring at sc… | Continue reading
It was a quiet week, but we found time to ponder the future of the Mac and complain about the cable company. | Continue reading
This is an M1 Mac show now. | Continue reading
Smart home automations, creativity in the time of pandemic, our Black Friday habits, and the impact of the latest improvements to Shortcuts. | Continue reading
If there’s a single disappointment in the release of Apple’s first wave of M1 Macs, it’s the lackluster launch of iOS apps running inside of macOS. What should be an amazing unification of Apple’s … | Continue reading
I love Rogue Amoeba’s audio apps and rely on them every day. Audio Hijack is the best. Loopback is a vital tool when I’m streaming video live. This year, though, Apple made some major c… | Continue reading
This week: We report back on using our M1 Macs, “Wonder Woman 1984” goes to streaming, and Apple makes a clever move in its PR battle over App Store fees. | Continue reading
Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin: Comcast’s 1.2TB monthly data cap is coming to 12 more states and the District of Columbia starting January 2021. The unpopular policy was already enforced in… | Continue reading
The M1 Macs have arrived. The benchmarks are in. And what we’ve seen is nothing less than mind-blowing performance from Apple’s own silicon, compared to the Intel chips that came before… | Continue reading
Samuel Axon has a really nice interview with three Apple execs about the M1 processor. Here’s Craig Federighi: The M1 is essentially a superset, if you want to think of it relative to A14. Be… | Continue reading
Calling Apple’s history with speaker accessories “mixed” is probably being kind. In 2006, the company made its first foray with the iPod Hi-Fi, a technically impressive but expens… | Continue reading
Don’t listen to them, they’re evil! Also, this is a M1 MacBook Air enthusiast podcast now. | Continue reading
What’s the best Mac of all time? It’s an impossible question to answer. Yet three well-known Mac commentators all have the same answer. | Continue reading
Migration Assistant, and cat. One of my favorite episodes of Upgrade is from early in the show’s run, when we spent time critiquing the experience of buying and setting up a new iPhone. I kee… | Continue reading
My new MacBook Air is proving to be all that I’d hoped, and it’s not just because of the fancy new M1 processors. Since I’m coming from a 2014 MacBook, I’m reaping the benef… | Continue reading
There’s enough new Apple gear to go around. | Continue reading
Apple’s reducing its App Store commission, new gaming consoles are here, the tech that brings us joy, and how we’re coping with celebrations in the year that is 2020. | Continue reading
The first Macs powered by Apple-designed processors are finally here. And from the outside, they’re almost dead ringers for the Intel-based Macs they’re replacing. But on the inside, they’re not li… | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: The new App Store Small Business Program will benefit the vast majority of developers who sell digital goods and services on the store, providing them with a reduced commission on p… | Continue reading
It slowly became clear that one day Apple’s processors would come for Intel. As Apple’s skill in building chips for the iPhone and iPad became increasingly apparent, Intel struggled. Do… | Continue reading