This week widget mania sweeps the nation, Jason goes to an Apple Store to buy a Solo Loop, and Tim Cook ponders Apple’s work-from-home culture. | Continue reading
Photos by Stephen Hackett. People who came to Apple in the 21st century don’t understand just how different 1990s Apple was. Imagine an Apple that openly shared concept designs from out of it… | Continue reading
Services: they’re so hot right now. Earlier this year, Apple beat its self-stated goal of doubling Services revenue in 2020 with time to spare, and the company has not only recently announced that … | Continue reading
Homescreen customization, favorite iOS 14 features and bugs, the devices on which we work, and vintage tech we coveted. | Continue reading
This week, with Casey Newton’s announcement that he’s starting his own subscription newsletter, the exodus of journalists from corporate media into independent creations has become a bi… | Continue reading
You know about the Macintosh, but do you know about the sequel? The Macintosh II was huge–literally. But its compact successors might be the pinnacle of late 80s/early 90s Apple design. | Continue reading
Jason ventures outside. We like customizing our devices. And it’s the 209th of March — do you need to know where your cat is? | Continue reading
Writing at Fast Company, Jared Newman adroitly points out that a central thread of Amazon’s product announcements this week is that they’re based on fear of crime: The rapid-fire video … | Continue reading
AppleScript is an old-school scripting language, but it’s still the standard on the Mac when it comes to user automation. If a Mac app doesn’t support AppleScript, it closes a window of… | Continue reading
I bought an Apple Watch band today, which isn’t news. I’ve done it many times in the past. Today it was a new Apple Watch Sport Loop, after I discovered that a color I was interested in… | Continue reading
Epic is taking its battle with Apple to the next level by recruiting a bunch of like-minded companies for a team-up. The Coalition for App Fairness is a non-profit that counts among its members Bas… | Continue reading
Welcome to iMovie Complaints Corner. | Continue reading
Image: 9to5Mac. One of the big features of iOS 14 is the addition of home screen widgets. Combine this with a bunch of new widget apps such as Widgetsmith, designed with lots of options to add deco… | Continue reading
Last Wednesday I updated my Apple Watch Series 5 to watchOS 7. And immediately the device’s battery life dropped precipitously. I’d estimate that in the 11 months since I bought the Ser… | Continue reading
Six years in, the Apple Watch is at a bit of a crossroads. After a few years of explosive growth in terms of improving the hardware, Apple seems to have hit a bit of a lull. Last year’s Apple Watch… | Continue reading
This week’s show features an iOS 14 home-screen aesthetics revolution, some watchOS 7 follow-up, the need for a Touch ID sensor on the iPhone 12, and the horrible ways we use our keyboards. | Continue reading
Thanks to reader David for sending me this IIci earlier this year. The original Macintosh was a squat, cute beige box with a little black-and-white screen and tiny keyboard. For a couple of decades… | Continue reading
With new Apple software updates come new questions, and reader Martin has one related to an old tip of mine: Thanks for the great tip on fixing tab behavior. However, the directions on how to get t… | Continue reading
The best baseball writer ever, Roger Angell, turns 100 today: Above all, Roger Angell is best known as the bard of baseball; he was honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown, in 2014—alo… | Continue reading
New York magazine’s Irin Carmon, co-author of the book Notorious R.B.G., on the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Two visionary lawyers, the leftist feminist Dorothy Kenyon and the queer Black th… | Continue reading
The popularity of the iPod led Apple to create a Mac designed specifically to tempt people to switch from Windows. It didn’t go as planned, but the result was a Mac model that’s been wi… | Continue reading
This month Relay FM is raising money for St. Jude, a remarkable organization that is both a hospital that provides free medical care for kids with cancer, and a research institution that’s co… | Continue reading
My thanks to Mobi for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Mobi has been around since 2005 as the regional wireless carrier for Hawaiʻi, but is now bringing its rethought approach to wireless to the ma… | Continue reading
Watchers watching watches. Bundlers bundling bundles. Give to St. Jude. | Continue reading
Good news! Apple just announced a service that might actually save you money. Or you could just ignore it, and that’s fine too. It’s AppleOne, the new bundle of a bunch of existing Appl… | Continue reading
Justine Calma at The Verge: As smoke from wildfires chokes the West Coast, social media has been flooded with crowdsourced maps providing near-real time updates on just how horrendous the air reall… | Continue reading
Samuel Axon of Ars Technica: The immediate timing of the releases might seem like a positive for consumers who were clamoring for new features, but it’s been highly disruptive to developers&#… | Continue reading
On Tuesday Apple unveiled a bunch of new stuff, including two new Apple Watches, two new iPads, a new fitness subscription service, and a bundle of its many services And, oh yeah, the A14 processor… | Continue reading
Surprise! Today’s the day. We will have more coverage of all the new OSes as time goes by. In the meantime, you can read Dan’s first look at the iPadOS 14 beta and my first look at the … | Continue reading
Hey, real Apple news! | Continue reading
Nicole Wetsman, reporting for The Verge, answers a question I had about exactly how Apple is marketing the oxygen sensor in the Apple Watch Series 6: The Apple Watch’s blood oxygen sensor isn’t a m… | Continue reading
iPad Pro, you’re on the clock. Tuesday’s announcement of the new iPad Air continues Apple’s aggressive importation of iPad Pro features into the lower ends of the iPad product line. But it also bri… | Continue reading
Good, Better, Best. It’s a classic approach to selling products. Get people in the door with a low price, and then steer them upward to a more expensive model with more features. It’s a… | Continue reading
New Apple Watches and iPads! Here’s our quick reaction to the news. Shockingly, we walk away feeling pretty good about… Apple’s services? Plus: Surprise! Apple’s OS updates are co… | Continue reading
Apple’s concluded its latest event and it was a quick, efficient affair at just over an hour. Still, Apple didn’t waste too much time, rolling out a handful of expected announcements, o… | Continue reading
Apple held an event on Tuesday that focused on the iPad and Apple Watch, though there were some more products announced than that. Here’s a summary: A new iPad Air that picks up many of the f… | Continue reading
Apple’s special event live stream will begin at 10am Pacific, in less than an hour as I type this. We’ll be posting some live thoughts at the @sixcolorsevent Twitter account, which is a… | Continue reading
In the first of two episodes of Upgrade this week, Jason and Myke predict what will happen at September 15’s Apple event in the traditional form of a draft! We’ll be back on Tuesday for… | Continue reading
Most evidence suggests that birds, as unlikely as it seems, are the only surviving descendants of the dinosaurs. I’d argue that the Mac has its own analog to this unlikely relationship, a fam… | Continue reading
Mobi has been around since 2005 as the regional wireless carrier for Hawaiʻi, but we’re expanding to the mainland U.S. and rethinking how to do just about everything in wireless! We’re … | Continue reading
Sooner than perhaps any of us might have anticipated, Apple news is upon us. On Tuesday, the company will unveil its first products of the fall as it ramps up for the holiday quarter to come. A Sep… | Continue reading
One of the reasons I still gravitate toward my Mac for most of my working needs is its unparalleled implementation of multitasking—it’s one place that the iPad still hasn’t really caugh… | Continue reading
Marco Arment provides a summary of Apple’s not at all complicated rules for in-app purchases. | Continue reading
Jason’s back from a mini vacation, the sky is orange, and Apple’s launching something next Tuesday. | Continue reading
Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines to add specific rules about streaming games, in the wake of its disputes with Microsoft and Epic: Streaming games are permitted so long as they adh… | Continue reading
One of the most important developments in the history of the Mac was not created in Cupertino, but by a Mac clonemaker in a tiny town in Georgia. | Continue reading
Since Dan and I do a lot of tech podcasts in addition to our tech writing, a feature of this site since the beginning has been posting links to those podcasts. It’s been a largely manual proc… | Continue reading
Guesses and picks. As you do. | Continue reading