WWDC sessions have a way of getting more technical throughout the week, so for the laypeople among us, it gets a little tougher to pick out those aspects that the general populace might be interest… | Continue reading
The arrow covers the icon you’re thinking of clicking; the iPad’s pointer slides behind the icon, so it’s clear what you’re selecting. If you’ve ever wanted a longform explanation of how Apple buil… | Continue reading
The barrage of informative presentations continued on Wednesday, and among the most pressing question I had while watching them…what’s up with all the tchotchkes? Are they an attempt at… | Continue reading
How is it only Wednesday? It turns out that the WWDC time warp even happens when all of us are at our homes. Anyway, I watched a bunch more WWDC sessions today, and here are some observations from … | Continue reading
Apple’s conception of a table-specific App Clip Code at a restaurant. Our world increasingly expects that we’ll use apps to interact with it, but sometimes we don’t have the apps … | Continue reading
Doing unusual things at Mac startup has long required remembering keyboard shortcuts. Is it Command-Control-P-R or Command-Option-P-R that zaps the PRAM? Is that still even a thing? Is it Command-S… | Continue reading
It was the most important WWDC keynote for the Mac since the arrival of OS X two decades ago. Apple’s announcement on Monday of the Mac’s third-ever processor transition was big enough, but it was … | Continue reading
One of the best things about virtual WWDC is that sessions no longer feel the need to expand their talks to fit into a certain time slot—nor does the number need to reflect available physical space… | Continue reading
We used to have to run from room to room. These days we can sit on the couch and watch whatever WWDC sessions we want. Here are some interesting tidbits gleaned from a collection of sessions that w… | Continue reading
Apple announced many things! And we talk about them in this episode. At some point Lex leaves. | Continue reading
As always, Apple’s WWDC keynote was jam-packed with more jam than a packing plant full of jam. We all saw the big top line items: Macs switching to ARM, iOS apps running on the Mac, cats and dogs l… | Continue reading
Most people attend WWDC remotely every year, watching video sessions in the comfort of their homes and offices. But I’ve been going to WWDC since the last 90s, so today was… strange. An… | Continue reading
Myke and Jason break down the WWDC 2020 keynote, which featured changes to the Mac both expected and unexpected and some long-wanted updates for iOS. Did the iPad updates let us down? Are we ready … | Continue reading
We aren’t here. Hello from California, where I am… sitting in my office on the day of an Apple event, rather than standing outside a venue waiting to be seated. Oh, 2020! Apple’s … | Continue reading
As the curtain prepares to rise, just hours hence, on this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, there are still plenty of questions about what exactly Apple will be showing off at its annual eve… | Continue reading
Brent Simmons on arguments that the App Store is great because it exposes your app to customers: To be on the App Store is to be lost within an enormous sea of floating junk. No matter how well you… | Continue reading
Monday on the Upgrade podcast, Myke Hurley and I introduced a new membership feature for supporters of the podcast: Upgrade+. Named tongue-in-cheekily after Apple’s tendency to brand its prem… | Continue reading
We’re not usually this negative, but Apple really took the shine off of next week’s developer conference with this week’s developer-hostile actions and reactions. Also, Jason begi… | Continue reading
Mark Gurman at Bloomberg reports on the group inside Apple working on VR/AR hardware: Although the headset now in development is less technologically ambitious than originally intended, it’s pretty… | Continue reading
The operating system that drives the Apple Watch, watchOS, doesn’t get as much attention as macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. But as someone who wears an Apple Watch every day, any improvement to watchOS has… | Continue reading
It occurs to me, in this season of WWDC wish-list items, that it’s worth mentioning that perhaps my top feature request for iPadOS was fulfilled in March: The bottom line: Months before that … | Continue reading
iSH will give you a command line on iPad, but it’s Linux running on a virtualized Intel processor. With less than a week between us and WWDC, it’s a great time for wild ideas about what… | Continue reading
It’s the week before WWDC so it’s the perfect time for Apple to have a fight with developers. | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that’s anagrammarful, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests John Moltz and Christina Warren to discuss pie-in-the-sky WWDC predictions, AppleR… | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Shelly Banjo and Mark Gurman: “Inclusion and diversity are core Apple values and we deeply believe the most diverse teams are the most innovative teams,” Apple said in an emailed … | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett: When Apple added the Breathe feature to watchOS 3, I — like many of you, I suspect — turned it off pretty quickly. However, over the last six months, it has come to be one of my fa… | Continue reading
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, launched two separate antitrust investigations of Apple on Tuesday. The first deals with the App Store: The European Commission has opened for… | Continue reading
Here’s an interesting Apple press release trumpeting a study from Analysis Group that claims “the App Store ecosystem supported $519 billion in billings and sales globally in 2019 alone… | Continue reading
It’s time for our fifth annual competition regarding what will happen at next week’s WWDC keynote! Will there be a stage? Will there be enormous Mac announcements? Will iPadOS and Apple Watch… | Continue reading
Apple has updated its Apple Developer app, for the first time releasing a version for the Mac, just one week ahead of the kickoff of its annual (and first ever virtual) Worldwide Developers Confere… | Continue reading
I’ve been beating the drum for a Star Wars dogfighting game in the style of the classic X-Wing and TIE Fighter games for as long as I can remember, and it looks like it may have finally paid … | Continue reading
I’ve been beating the drum for a Star Wars dogfighting game in the style of the classic X-Wing and TIE Fighter games for as long as I can remember, and it looks like it may have finally paid … | Continue reading
We’re now just a week away from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which—in case you missed the many memos—will be held virtually for the first time in its 33-year history. Last w… | Continue reading
This week I got a little envious of Matthew Cassinelli, who was proudly posting how he’s building all these Shortcuts on iOS that let him do cool stuff involving automatically posting things … | Continue reading
After years of rumors, it appears that Apple is finally going to commit to release Macs that run on Apple-designed ARM processors rather than chips made by Intel. Based on reports, the announcement… | Continue reading
Jason did a lot of technical things this week. Web development is tricky. But we now have a new website that looks like the old one. | Continue reading
I’ve been spending a lot of time using PHP. When I started Six Colors, I built the site using the venerable Movable Type blog system because I needed to build something quickly and get it liv… | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute podcast that’s tautologically 30 minutes, Dan and Mikah welcome special guests Rosemary Orchard and Rene Ritchie to discuss whether we’d use a Mac Upgrade Pr… | Continue reading
Apple: Now in its 31st year, WWDC20 will be the biggest WWDC to date, bringing together the global Apple developer community of more than 23 million in an unprecedented, virtual way, from June 22 t… | Continue reading
I really enjoyed this post by Gus Mueller about what’s likely to happen if Apple is indeed transitioning the Mac to ARM processors: With all the recent rumors flying around about the Mac tran… | Continue reading
Arm yourselves. There might be a few ARM puns in this episode.... | Continue reading
Fantastic explainer by Ars Technica’s Timothy B. Lee about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which grants immunity to online platforms for content posted on their services: It… | Continue reading
iBooks Author, Apple’s application for creating and publishing ebooks, wrote its last chapter on Wednesday. The company announced that the app will be discontinued for new users as of July 1, 2020.iBooks Author came out back in a January 2012 ... | Continue reading
Apple announced today that it’s discontinuing iTunes U at the end of 2021. Apple has been moving away from the iTunes U concept for some time, moving iTunes U content to Apple Podcasts back i… | Continue reading
The HomePod has kind of faded into the background since its release more than two years ago, with little in the way of new features, and some notable omissions still remaining. Among all those, the one that frustrates me the most is the inability to u... | Continue reading
Apple introduced HealthKit in 2014, but the iPad and Mac are still left out.Since the launch of the Apple Watch, Apple has become increasingly focused on health technology. As someone who makes an effort to fill the rings on my Apple Watch, I appreciate... | Continue reading
With WWDC two weeks away, Myke and Jason share their wishes for iPadOS updates. They also analyze why they love certain kinds of games but are repelled by others and discuss Apple’s inevitable move into streaming live sports. ... | Continue reading