Last week I provided a lot of tough love to Major League Baseball’s apps on Apple’s platforms. The MLB visionOS app is really buggy and lacks some key features.… | Continue reading
We often cite anonymous reports about Apple’s future, but where do those reports come from? We discuss of the value and ethics of Apple rumor coverage.… | Continue reading
Welcome to a world where your reading list becomes your listening playlist. We are thrilled to introduce you to ListenLater.net—an innovative service that turns articles into podcasts, making your favorite reads accessible in your favorite podcast app.… | Continue reading
Matt Birchler’s got an excellent and quick primer on what it means to turn on federation on your Threads profile: I know I’m drilling this in a lot, but you literally do not need to have a Mastodon account. … | Continue reading
Play… ball? A few years back I reported with delight that you could now use the MLB iPad app on Apple Silicon macs. While MLB’s TV streaming service works on the web, it was nice to have everything in a separate app.… | Continue reading
On Thursday Apple debuted its first immersive video since the Vision Pro launched, a five-minute-long compilation of highlights from the MLS Cup playoffs late last year.… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Kolide helps its customers keep their devices in compliance, which keeps their company data safe. Kolide has seen a rise in cyber liability insurance issues recently.… | Continue reading
You can’t close the main window, and that’s not the worst of it. As is typical for one of Apple’s best sports partners, Major League Baseball had a demo app for visionOS ready to go for the debut of the new platform.… | Continue reading
Lots of Disney this time! We talk Disney’s big succession question, Taylor Swift’s Disney+ numbers, and Disney’s deal in India. Also, a quick Sports Corner on NFL streaming rights, Spulu, and ESPN as a streaming aggregator.… | Continue reading
Apple announced today that the first Apple Immersive Video documentary for Vision Pro, featuring highlights from last year’s MLS playoffs, will debut tonight (March 28) at 6 p.m.… | Continue reading
All things begin with the Department of Justice.… | Continue reading
Our use of tethering for Internet, Mac buying advice, our notification styles, and the TikTok ban.… | Continue reading
It’s that time of year, when young developers’ fancies turn to thoughts of platform updates. Probably because Apple has announced the dates for its 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, which will take place between June 10 and 14.… | Continue reading
My younger child’s MacBook Pro was unsalvageably full. Only a complete wipe would suffice—and then Time Machine failed us. I love my children, but they do sometimes forget what I do for a living: answer questions and write books about the most troubling problems people have with … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Justice joins the European Commission in contributing to Apple’s legal troubles; and in a surprise, pre-emptive move, we attempt to predict the future of the iPad via a draft!… | Continue reading
When MGM Resorts suffered a $100 million hack in September, CEO Bill Hornbuckle wasn’t too worried about the lost revenue, because cyber insurance would cover the tab.… | Continue reading
Europe’s Digital Markets Act continues to be the gift that keeps on giving—a gift Apple probably wishes it could return. The European Commission today announced that it was opening a slew of investigations into big tech companies over their non-compliance with the DMA, including … | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.… | Continue reading
Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin has an excellent (if technical) rundown of a recently unearthed security vulnerability in Apple’s M-series processors. Basically there’s a system that tries to predict what memory addresses are going to be used in order to speed up processing, but Apple’ … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Justice, 15 states, and the District of Columbia sued Apple on Thursday. While I am not a lawyer, I’ve written extensively about Apple for 30 years and just read all 88 pages of the full complaint.… | Continue reading
When I wrote about Apple’s new Sports app, I heard from several people who pointed out that maybe Eddy Cue had done his job a little too well.… | Continue reading
How we search online, our tips for minimizing vehicle data tracking, the GenAI features we’d like to see added to Apple’s platforms, and what features we’d want to see in a future iPad.… | Continue reading
This is the ad-free version.… | Continue reading
Jason recently reviewed the new M3 MacBook Air, and a key feature of the new models is Wi-Fi 6E support. Wi-Fi 6E is a big deal because it adds the 6GHz spectrum to the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands we’re all used to.… | Continue reading
Since 2021, Six Colors has been compiling an annual report card focusing on how Apple’s doing in large organizations, including businesses, education, and government. We formulated a set of survey questions that would address the big-picture issues regarding Apple in the enterpri … | Continue reading
Developer Steve Troughton-Smith watched all of today’s workshop between Apple and the EU on the Digital Markets Act and posted some highlights on Mastodon. Of particular interest was an exchange between Apple’s representatives and Riley Testut, the developer of AltStore, an exist … | Continue reading
Quite a scoop from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone, according to people familiar with the situation, setting the stage for a blockbuster agreement that would shake up the AI industry. … | Continue reading
Is Apple working with Google on its A.I. strategy? We break down what that might mean for the future of Apple’s platforms—and why it might make a lot of sense.… | Continue reading
Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.… | Continue reading
My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors this week. None of us are as good at clocking deepfakes as we think we are. Even your mom, or your boss, or anyone in your IT department might not be able to tell the difference.… | Continue reading
Hugo Barra, former head of Oculus at Meta, has a lengthy review of his Vision Pro experience that’s well worth reading. Don’t let the somewhat inflammatorty first headline (of four?!)… | Continue reading
Sticky scrolling through a Python project in Nova, complete with a terminal tab and an SFTP sidebar. I’ve been writing scripts in Python for a few years now, and it’s taken over a lot of my remote automation.… | Continue reading
Eating before podcasting was a mistake.… | Continue reading
The Europe-mandated tech changes we’d like to see in the US, circular vs. square smart watches, how often we completely reset our devices, and the extent of our home automation pursuits.… | Continue reading
It’s been a seismic few weeks for Apple in the European Union, and the company’s approach to distributing iOS apps continues to evolve. On Tuesday, Apple announced a few further changes to its rules, all of which stand to make significant changes to the marketplace for iOS apps.… | Continue reading
We discuss Apple’s latest embarrassing and unnecessary policy stumble in Europe, and then explain how Jason’s full review of the M3 MacBook Air managed to kill his home network.… | Continue reading
Now, don’t get offended, but–you aren’t as good at clocking deepfakes as you think you are. And it’s not just you–nobody’s that good at it. Not your mom, or your boss, or anyone in you… | Continue reading
My workspace is what is apparently called an “unconditioned space,” in that it’s a lighly insulated garage with no access to my home’s central heating system. In the winter … | Continue reading
This week has been a heck of a roller coaster for Epic. After the game-maker’s Sweden branch reportedly had its developer account restored so that the company could launch its alternative app marketplace in Europe, the company was subsequently banned again by Apple.… | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. As a native Safari extension, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – letting you experience a faster, cleaner and more secure experience across all your devices.… | Continue reading
It’s not pretty—but it never was. The point is, it runs! Last month, Dan wrote about getting PC games up on Mac using Apple’s game porting toolkit and the Wine API translation tool, all via an easy to use free app called Whisky.… | Continue reading
The first major visionOS update was released Thursday, with a bunch of security fixes as well as some more substantive interface updates: Personas are improved, and there’s a new accessibility mode you can use to capture a Persona hands-free.… | Continue reading
Here’s a ruling that isn’t music to Apple’s ears: the European Commission this week levied a fine of $2 billion against the company for violating antitrust regulations in the EU, specifically in terms of the distribution of music streaming apps.… | Continue reading
If you haven’t already seen it, well, this is a sentence that happens early in Federico Viticci’s opus about exploring differently shaped macOS and iOS devices: Alright, so obviously the first step of the process is to physically remove the screen from a MacBook, right?… | Continue reading
A midnight M3 MacBook Air driving two Studio Displays in lid-closed mode. Apple’s definitive laptop of the last decade, the MacBook Air, finally got an exterior redesign in 2022 with the release of the M2 MacBook Air.… | Continue reading
Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett of Bloomberg have a detailed story about the rise and fall of Apple’s car project. This was my favorite small bit: The new design also incorporated a more traditional automotive interface: a steering wheel and pedals.… | Continue reading
The importance of encryption in messaging services, the topics we’d want to see in a prediction market, how many monitors we use, and our preferred podcast app(s).… | Continue reading
Don’t put our words in our mouths.… | Continue reading