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
Photo by Stephen Hackett. What is the best Mac ever? It’s a nigh-unanswerable question, because it begs for qualifiers. The best one ever made up to now? The one that lasted the longest? The … | Continue reading
A new document on Apple’s support site details information about its Gatekeeper system the week after a server outage caused many Mac users systems to encounter issues. In particular, it resp… | Continue reading
The Mac is dead…long live the Mac! Last week marked two major shifts in Apple’s personal computing platform: the introduction of Macs built around Apple’s own custom silicon, and … | Continue reading
Low-end Macs at the high end of performance. Apple’s performance marketing. Oh, and we both bought M1 MacBook Airs. | Continue reading
After a lot of speculation, Steve Jobs finally filled in the Mac’s fourth product quadrant with a consumer laptop that was one of a kind. But what’s a “consumer laptop,” rea… | Continue reading
Back in my earliest days of using networked computers1 I quickly learned the glories of connecting to other computers, whether it was via telnet, gopher, or eventually a web browser like lynx. Whil… | Continue reading
Speaking to The Independent, Apple’s Craig Federighi (alongside Greg Joswiak and John Ternus) dismisses the idea that Big Sur’s UI changes point to a touch interface for the Mac: “I got… | Continue reading
Mac OS X was no less than a rebirth of the Mac, 16 years after it first appeared on the scene. The code it originated with, and many of the software managers and programmers who built it, came to A… | Continue reading
We’d stop recording shows if only Apple would stop having events. | Continue reading
The tasks we still do analog instead of digital, the lack of touch interfaces on Apple’s new Macs, is this the end of speeds and feeds, and whether we can live with just two ports on our comp… | Continue reading
Gui Rambo’s $10 Mac utility AirBuddy has been updated to version 2 today. I love AirBuddy because it’s very much the sort of AirPods integration that should be baked into macOS, but for… | Continue reading
The era of Macs running Apple silicon has begun. Or at least, it will begin next week with the arrival of the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini models running on Apple’s M1 chip. It’s impo… | Continue reading
When smoke blew into my region from some nearby forest fires, I needed to pay attention to local air quality in order to decide when I could go outside safely. Geof Crowl’s helpful Air Lookou… | Continue reading
Glenn Fleishman has a sensible overview of 5G at TidBITS: 5G won’t be transformative for most people or purposes. Its advantages primarily accrue to cellular carriers, even more so than 3G or 4G, w… | Continue reading
Tim Cook can sit anywhere he wants. Picking up where Dan left off and before I clock out for the night, here are some other quick thoughts about the day’s events. A first step. Apple said it … | Continue reading
Three new Macs have arrived, and they’ve brought the Apple-designed M1 processor with them. Myke and Jason break down the new chip, the new hardware, and what it all means for the future of t… | Continue reading
For a 45-minute event, Apple packed a lot in. And it was all about the Mac: new versions of the MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini, all based on Apple’s new M1 chip. And, just lik… | Continue reading
iPhone SE (1st generation, left) and iPhone 12 mini (right). Yesterday I took delivery of review units of the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max, and while the next couple of days are going to be… | Continue reading
Among the many important elements Steve Jobs brought to Apple’s culture when he returned in the late 90s was a focus on the theater of product announcements. Unlike many of Apple’s comp… | Continue reading
After years of speculation over whether it would happen, and months of rumors over how it will happen, the day’s almost here. This week, Apple is prepared to launch the third processor architecture… | Continue reading
Has the processor inside the first wave of Macs that run Apple silicon already been tested? There’s a GeekBench score that seems to have been submitted from an as-yet-unreleased Mac. Could it… | Continue reading
Apple silicon dreaming. Newsletters are forever. And Apple’s relentless pace continues. | Continue reading
There may have never been a Mac more aligned with Steve Jobs’s personal quirks than the Power Mac G4 Cube. It was a spectacular failure. | Continue reading
What has us excited about Apple Silicon Macs, the iPhones we’re currently using, our smartphone photography habits, and the tech we want but know we’ll never use. | Continue reading
A day you’ll never forget to remember. | Continue reading
The first Apple silicon Macs will be announced next week, and they will be familiar-looking MacBooks, according to Mark Gurman and Debby Wu of Bloomberg: Apple and overseas suppliers are ramping up… | Continue reading
In the very near future, the Mac will join the iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and all of Apple’s other devices in being powered by the company’s own systems-on-a-chip, and over the next seve… | Continue reading
In the very near future, the Mac will join the iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and all of Apple’s other devices in being powered by the company’s own systems-on-a-chip, and over the next seve… | Continue reading
Surprise! Jason and Myke predict what will happen at next week’s Apple media event, in the form of an impromptu draft. There’s a lot of speculation about Apple silicon, but we’ve … | Continue reading
Third time’s the charm. | Continue reading
It’s July 18, 2000, and the Macworld staff has assembled in New York City for the next day’s kickoff of Macworld Expo. We’ve got plans for online coverage as Apple makes its produ… | Continue reading
As a rule, Apple is a company that is judicious about what opportunities it takes, and which ones it leaves to others. The company is famous for saying “no” to way more ideas than it says “yes” to,… | Continue reading
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, the new iPad-Pro-style iPad Air, the remarkable state of the Mac, and David Letterman’s battery-shopping trip to CVS. | Continue reading
Big Internet news this week, as a report claimed that we might finally—finally—see some competition in the search market, after years of being subject to the tyranny of a single dominant player. Ta… | Continue reading
I had a few final observations about Apple’s fourth-quarter 2020 results Thursday that didn’t make it into my Macworld column that I wanted to make before they get trapped in my noteboo… | Continue reading
Jason outwits Big Sur by rebooting his iMac. Dan makes a telephone pole redundant. Tim Cook finds a new area of interest. | Continue reading
One of Apple’s greatest design triumphs was meant to set the company up for the next decade. Instead, it became a false start–and a rejected design direction ended up being more functio… | Continue reading
It’s tough to keep track of time in the middle of a global pandemic, but apparently three months has passed since Apple’s last quarterly earnings report. So here we are again, with Apple executives… | Continue reading
Times are tough. And then in rolls Apple with a record fourth fiscal quarter, complete with $64B in revenue, and all-time record Mac and Services revenue. It’s enough to make Tim Cook sheepis… | Continue reading
Every quarter Tim Cook and Apple CFO Luca Maestri spend an hour on the phone with financial analysts. And we transcribe it all. Here’s our transcript, currently updating live… | Continue reading
Apple announced its quarterly financial results today, with record Mac and Services revenue and a big drop in iPhone sales. Despite the tough iPhone quarter, revenue was a record for the company… | Continue reading
Wayyyyy back in March, when this whole global pandemic thing was just getting started, I wrote a piece about streaming games with friends and the tools I used to make it happen. Well, in the ensuin… | Continue reading
Who’s got two thumbs and is meh about new phones? Look at these guys! | Continue reading
Our search engine habits and whether we’d change them, our thoughts and fears re: autonomous driving, rumors of reverse charging on iPhone 12, and how we feel about Facebook logins for Oculus… | Continue reading
Tim Bradshaw and Patrick McGee, writing at the Financial Times (syndicated at Ars Technica): Apple is stepping up efforts to develop its own search technology as US antitrust authorities threaten m… | Continue reading
In a big coup for Apple TV+, the service has signed a deal with longtime “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart to host a series of hourlong single-subject TV shows. Lacey Rose of The Hollywood … | Continue reading
For all the sound and fury about how iPhone updates are boring and incremental–and make no mistake, incremental improvement year over year is how Apple plays this game–it’s import… | Continue reading