This week on the 30-minute show that clocks the watches, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests John Voorhees and Kelly Guimont to discuss our cloud storage solutions, why Apple News+ is among the priciest of Apple’s subscription services, which... | Continue reading
We’ve got the new iPhones and it’s time for our first hands-on impressions. How has Apple improved the upgrade experience? Could the Apple Store pick-up experience use a little more attention? Are the battery and camera improvements worth the ... | Continue reading
If you want to know how sold I was on CarPlay, you needn’t look any further than my experiences installing a new head unit in my car in order to get it. A few months later, this has proved to be an altogether excellent choice, with no real downsides... | Continue reading
This week, it’s the irreverent tech show’s FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY. We celebrate by returning to our roots of Apple Watch fandom. Then we discuss new phones, iOS 13 improvements, and, of course, Lex’s infamous review of the Cards app. Plus... | Continue reading
The new Photos interface includes Months, Days, and All Photos views.With iOS 13, the Photos app gets a major interface update, including a whole bunch of editing tools. I’ve been spending a lot of time with Photos for iOS this summer as part of... | Continue reading
I’ve got the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max in hand. Since most people get these phones tomorrow, I thought I’d take a few initial questions from Six Colors subscribers about the devices. Here’s a first set of questi... | Continue reading
I won’t say that I take a lot of video with my iPhone: a quick number crunch shows that still photos outnumber videos in my Photos library by over 80-to-1. But there’s no arguing that the iPhone hasn’t become a powerful video camera in r... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute technology show that only appreciates with age, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Ant Pruitt and Lory Gil to discuss our favorite photos taken with smartphone cameras, whether we’re selfie people, what we still w... | Continue reading
If there’s been anything in the history of iOS that one could perhaps legitimately slap with a term as strong as “debacle”, it would probably be Apple’s choice in 2012 to bid goodbye to Google as its location data provider of choic... | Continue reading
Find My lets me see the locations of my friends (center, right) as well as all the devices associated with my Apple ID (left).Very early on the life of the iPhone, I found myself wishing for the digital equivalent of the Marauder’s Map, so I cou... | Continue reading
When the iPhone’s multitouch interface first arrived on the scene, it was a testament to the simplicity and straightforwardness that touch could offer. But as the years have gone by and manipulating a slab of glass has become second nature to much o... | Continue reading
This week Upgrade turns five and we’re waiting for our new Apple hardware to arrive. But there’s still time to reflect on last week’s announcements, deal with a flood of Apple TV+ news, ponder Apple’s fragmented OS release schedule... | Continue reading
Five years ago today, Six Colors launched, along with my embargoed notes about the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and the first episode of Upgrade.For the last five years I have been privileged to be able to write and speak about my chosen area of expertise... | Continue reading
The iPhone’s software keyboard literally 1 reinvented the way we enter text on smartphones: not just because it eschewed the hardware keyboard for a software-based model, but also because of the variety of smart technologies it incorporated, su... | Continue reading
Formerly the third-party app Workflow, Shortcuts was bought by Apple and integrated with iOS last year—but it was a first step. Shortcuts has had a year to spread its roots throughout the operating system, and in iOS 13 it’s been improved and ... | Continue reading
Apple likes talking about the awesome chips it designs for its iPhones, but it hates even hinting at products it hasn’t yet announced. The new U1 chip—introduced with the iPhone 11 but never mentioned on stage at Tuesday’s iPhone event | Continue reading
So Apple is going to give a free year of Apple TV+ to anyone who buys new a Apple device capable of playing it. It’s a smart move to build a subscriber list while its offerings are limited, and all of those free family subscriptions will convert t... | Continue reading
Hey, there was an Apple event! We discuss the company’s big announcements, from new iPhones (Dan’s getting one), to new Apple Watches (John’s getting one), to Apple Arcade and Apple TV+. Plus, we discuss the wackiness of Apple’s so... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show where time is a flat circle—and so is a donut?—Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Paul Kafasis and Scholle McFarland to discuss whether smartphone updates are hitting diminishing returns, how interested... | Continue reading
The 2019 iPhone event is in the books. Before I pass out, I thought I’d do a quick run-through of some (but by no means all!) of my post-event thoughts, organized through the narrow, cruel lens of hits and misses. There will be more, I’m s... | Continue reading
Jason has returned from Cupertino, where he watched Apple unveil the new iPhone 11 models, a new Apple Watch that adds a feature we had given up hope of ever seeing, and details about when we’ll see Apple Arcade and Apple TV+. We break down the prod... | Continue reading
While Jason is out getting his hands on all these fancy new devices, I’ve been sitting at home, quietly mulling over Apple’s announcements of the day. 1So, with the understanding that I only saw what everybody else did on the stream, an... | Continue reading
Jason is in attendance at the Steve Jobs Theater! We’ll post updates at our Twitter account, @sixcolorsevent, as the event goes on.Tweets by sixcolorsevent ... | Continue reading
The sun will probably come out in Cupertino tomorrow, whether you bet your bottom dollar or not. It’s fall in the Bay Area and it’s forecast to be sunny and warm. Hmm, the Bay Area warm in September? That’s almost as predictable as Apple... | Continue reading
My thanks to Jamf Now for sponsoring Six Colors this past week. Jamf Now is a better way to do device management. With Jamf Now, you can remotely configure settings on all of your iPad, iPhone and Mac devices quickly and consistently.Jamf Now allows y... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show whose crystal ball is cracked, we delve into what might be on tap for next week’s Apple event, rumors of an iPhone SE resurrection, Apple’s cancellation of a TV show, and the exciting world of captioning.... | Continue reading
This is Tim Cook, at last year’s iPhone event.Earlier today Macworld posted my pre-event 2019 iPhone Wish List. But there’s more to an iPhone event than just the iPhone. Here, then, are some other items I’m hoping we see next Tuesday... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that’s time-stamped for freshness, Dan and Mis are joined by special guests Quinn Rose and Aleen Simms to discuss what new hardware we’d to see Apple announce next week, who should make a deal with TikT... | Continue reading
It’s time for Jason and Myke to reveal their picks for what will happen on stage at the Steve Jobs Theater next week! They draft 10 different things they expect will happen—or not happen—next Tuesday. Has Jason’s recent run of succ... | Continue reading
Trying to configure devices without a mobile device management (MDM) solution can take a surprising amount of time and effort. There’s a better way, and it starts with Jamf Now. With Jamf Now, you can remotely configure settings on all of your iPad,... | Continue reading
I’ve written extensively about how much I love my Kindle. I prefer to read on it than to read on an iPad or iPhone, which is why I keep buying Kindles even though I could definitely read on an iOS device without any trouble. The reflective E-Ink ... | Continue reading
Yes, the logic of past years has held once again—Apple’s holding its annual event to introduce new iPhones and more on Tuesday, September 10, at 10 a.m. Pacific. Be in front of your Internet streaming device of choice—or at the Steve... | Continue reading
Everybody’s excited for Mario Kart Tour, but we’ve also important ground to cover about the Apple Card, Dan’s experience with the Echo Auto and the IKEA Sonos speaker (it’s not the lamp), iOS beta woes, Apple and Disney streaming s... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that never gets the recognition it deserves, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Shelly Brisbin and John Moltz to discuss tech products we want that nobody makes, the phones we’d recommend to “ci... | Continue reading
There’s a lot that separates the U.S. and the UK, like the definition of “lemonade” and the launch date for the new Disney+ streaming service. But nothing can separate our hosts this week, as they convene in Jason’s office to discu... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show with two full-time co-hosts, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Jeremy Burge and James Thomson to discuss our systems for getting things done, where we stand on Qi charging, our thoughts on the Apple Card, and... | Continue reading
Special guest Stephen Hackett joins us to discuss the current state of the Mac in both hardware and software. We also ponder Apple’s choices in naming the new iPhones, Jason muses about whether the Apple Watch even needs an upgrade this fall, and we... | Continue reading
Jason guests hosts this week! He and Mikah Sargent discuss credit card strategies, the books we want to be made into television series, using online delivery services, and our commitment to clipboard managers with guests Ant Pruitt and Allison Sheridan.... | Continue reading
With Apple’s new operating-system releases due next month, Jason and Myke check in on how their beta experiences are going so far, especially the ups and downs of iPadOS 13. We also discuss Disney’s aggressive streaming-service bundling and ho... | Continue reading
My thanks to MailSteward for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Email is inevitable. It is a record of our lives going back decades. I still have emails from as far back as 2005 that I refer to regularly, when I can find them.MailSteward is a powerful rel... | Continue reading
Whether you’re running a business or simply your own household, you know how important e-mail is. It is nothing less than the record of your life — personal and professional — over decades. MailSteward gives you the ability to archive,... | Continue reading
Commerce is in the air as Apple reports more money for wearables and services and less money for the iPhone, and begins to roll out the Apple Card. How does Apple react strategically as a company to financial incentives, and does Apple’s success in ... | Continue reading
My thanks to Earnings Season for sponsoring Six Colors this week. It’s a brand-new app crafted by a trader especially for traders that takes the scattered and tedious process of searching for earnings dates and turns it into an efficient, personal, ... | Continue reading
The new Oasis is identical to the older second-generation model, except for its adjustable color temperature.I read all my books on a Kindle, and the $250 Kindle Oasis is the model I prefer. It’s not for everyone—the $130 Kindle Paperwhite i... | Continue reading
[Here’s a transcript of Apple’s latest quarterly phone call with analysts, updating live. Apologies—we missed the first minute or two and will add it later.]Tim Cook’s opening statement…all new Apple TV app in over 10... | Continue reading
At 1: 30 p.m. Pacific, Apple will report results for its third financial quarter for 2019, roughly spanning April through June. It is generally Apple’s smallest quarter of the year, but there’s always information to glean from Apple’s di... | Continue reading
The trouble with Apple sending Siri audio to human beings, macOS Catalina’s overly aggressive approach to app security, and the possibility of Apple introducing a $3000 laptop cast a little bit of a pall on the Summer of Fun this week. But cheer up&... | Continue reading
Crafted by a trader especially for traders, Earnings Season takes the scattered and tedious process of searching for earnings dates and turns it into an efficient, personal, and delightful experience for you. Create a custom watchlist, see verified corpor... | Continue reading