Apple’s price hikes and our buying plans, our beta OS strategies, dealing with subscriptions, and Meta’s new glasses fees.… | Continue reading
Apple hikes prices, Dan goes down a rabbit hole, Moltz is holding confessional and Lex rightfully self-promotes.… | Continue reading
Joseph Cox at 404Media reports on a hole in Hide My Email’s security: A vulnerability in Apple’s “Hide My Email” tool lets almost anyone discover a person’s real email address that is supposed to be hidden by the feature, and Apple has failed to fix it for more than a year, ac … | Continue reading
On Monday Apple released 26.5.2 software updates for its platforms that don’t follow the company’s usual pattern, suggesting some interesting things about how it reacts to releasing security fixes.… | Continue reading
Apple raised prices! Is this a shocking move, or were Apple products just sneakily affordable before? (And can it be both?) We also parse Mark Gurman’s reports on Apple skipping over may M6 chips to go directly to M7.… | Continue reading
We live in a modern, jet-set, hyper-fast world! When we want to buy something online, boom, zoom, we use our fingerprint or face to approve the transaction, so we can grab the next Segway outta here!… | Continue reading
My thanks to Mojave Paint for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Mojave Paint is a new macOS image editor for power users that will feel really familiar (in the best possible way).… | Continue reading
Smart home reporter Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge reports that parent company Assa Abloy has folded Level, which it acquired in 2024, into its Kwikset brand and removed the company’s founders: The Verge obtained exclusive details from a person familiar with the restruct … | Continue reading
Rogue Amoeba’s Paul Kafasis is encouraged by the interface improvements Apple is making in macOS 27, but points out that there’s still one huge issue from last year that needs to be resolved, namely forcing all Mac icons to be trapped inside a single, uniform shape: Apple’s pr … | Continue reading
An Apple laptop media event. Perhaps lost a bit amid the Apple price hikes of Thursday was this surprising bit of news from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman regarding the future of Apple silicon Macs: [Apple] plans to debut a base M6 processor as early as this year for entry-level Macs … | Continue reading
Say this about Tim Cook: he always follows through. After telling the Wall Street Journal last week that Apple would have to raise prices thanks to the ravages of the memory market, the company today did just that.… | Continue reading
The Apple II makes its public debut at a landmark event in the history of personal computers, and Steve Jobs truly comes into his own.… | Continue reading
A result from the Describe a Shortcut feature in macOS 27. Since the very beginning, it’s been clear that computers provide incredible power to those who know how to use them to get work done.… | Continue reading
Our thoughts on Valve’s Steam Machine pricing, the third-party camera apps we actually use, whether we wait for tech sales before buying, and if being the “tech person” inspires others or just makes them defer to us.… | Continue reading
This week we discuss post-CEO job opportunities for Tim Cook, new TVs and our beta experiences or lack thereof.… | Continue reading
Jason returns to John Gruber’s podcast for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, Jason and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast.… | Continue reading
In the spirit of the Summer of Fun (and Apple history Kickstarters), John Siracusa joins us to discuss when Apple was forced to replace the Classic Mac OS.… | Continue reading
I stumbled on this post via Bluesky, in which Jason Hazeley was utterly baffled by this section of a printed book: The movement takes the place of a scherzo and is mainly constructed [of] the welcome datacompordinary major scale with the four lower notes shifted a semitone upw … | Continue reading
When Amazon Prime Day gets underway this Tuesday (June 23), it will be the first time in nearly a decade that I’m not involved in some tech site’s effort to go all out with coverage around the online retailer’s multiday sales event.… | Continue reading
Years ago, in the era between the introduction of the iPhone and the modern period of widespread cellular coverage, my wife and I were driving with our quite young children across the vast, unexplored expanse of north-central Pennsylvania, en route to a family wedding.… | Continue reading
Mojave Paint is a new macOS image editor. If you use layers, masks, channels, selections, adjustments and filters all in the same editing session, Mojave Paint might be for you.… | Continue reading
Basic Apple Guy has a rundown of the new icons in Golden Gate compared to their Tahoe predecessors: The colours are much bolder, several icons have been adjusted, and the refraction in the Liquid Glass effect has changed significantly, especially in icons like Journal.… | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. With over 5,000 five star reviews; Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best ad and tracker blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.… | Continue reading
In an exclusive with the Wall Street Journal, Tim Cook announced that Apple will be raising the products on its prices1 as a result of high prices for memory and storage worldwide: “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said.… | Continue reading
Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It’s an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock.… | Continue reading
James Chang has built a project that upgrades the file-sharing stack on Apple’s long-discontinued Time Capsule hardware so that it will work on modern OS versions: This is a modern Samba setup that runs directly on the Time Capsule itself; macOS 27 can connect to the Time Caps … | Continue reading
Snap’s latest smart glasses, whether we’ve tried Apple’s new Shortcuts creation feature, AI-powered pets, and who wants a dumb phone?… | Continue reading
In this episode we describe pictures to the listener for maximum hilarity.… | Continue reading
Back from WWDC, Jason and Myke have had more time to think about Apple’s announcements—and to try many of them in beta releases. Siri AI impresses, we have Snow Leopard vibes, and much more.… | Continue reading
I have a Mac Studio M2 Max with 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD in front of me. While not the most powerful personal computer you can purchase today, it is among the most computationally capable ever made—a vastly capable machine.… | Continue reading
Do you want an all-in-one solution to block ads, trackers and annoyances across all your Apple devices? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.… | Continue reading
Adam Engst at TidBITS took the time to extract every item on the WWDC 2026 keynote slide that captured our attention last week. Even better, Adam grouped the changes into operating systems, apps, and other categories.… | Continue reading
My thanks to Unite Pro for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Safari web apps and PWAs are a nice start, but they’re limited. Browser tabs are messy.… | Continue reading
Apple’s pattern of updates is often described as two beats, maybe like the lub-dub sound of your heart: a year of big changes, followed by a year of tweaks that feature just a couple of marquee improvements.… | Continue reading
This soundbite has been making the rounds this morning, from an interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on the show Mostly Human: I mean, the way that we have designed Siri, Siri really wants to say ‘Listen, that’s not what I’m here for, right?… | Continue reading
Our hopes for fixes in the ’27 platform updates, what we’ll do with our Intel Macs now that they’ve reached end of the road, whether we’ll trust the new Siri AI, and how we feel about Apple’s child safety and age verification answers.… | Continue reading
Here’s a beautiful essay by Federico Viticci about covering WWDC for 10 years: I look at the content creators who are possibly experiencing their first WWDC, and realize: how am I still here, and still taking notes on an iPad, while these younger folks are shooting videos that … | Continue reading
In a preview of our new Designed in California podcast, we travel to the summer of 1976, as Apple travels to Atlantic City for a computer trade show, the Apple II begins to form, and the fellowship between the two Steves shows signs of breaking.… | Continue reading
John Ternus and Tim Cook look on as Craig Federighi explains Apple’s AI strategy at WWDC 2026. I’m home after two and a half days down in the South Bay for WWDC.… | Continue reading
Apple’s annual software updates have implications throughout time. They reach back to older devices, some years making them more performant and usable or, alternatively, removing support for them altogether; they deal, obviously, with the products people are using and buying righ … | Continue reading
Nice overview from Jonathan Reed at MacStories of Apple’s watchOS 27 updates. Like some of Apple’s other platforms—cough, cough, tvOS—the Watch didn’t get a huge amount of time during the keynote, but there are some good tweaks there.… | Continue reading
Live from Apple Park just hours after the WWDC keynote, Jason and Myke offer their in-person reactions to Apple’s announcements, including Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, platform improvements and refinements, and features for kids.… | Continue reading
We discuss Apple’s WWDC 2026 announcements. Some of them weren’t even about AI.… | Continue reading
Siri’s long-awaited overhaul made its public debut today during Apple’s WWDC 2026 keynote, as Apple outlined its vision for a more capable version of its virtual assistant that’s powered by a new generation of Apple Intelligence.… | Continue reading
One of my favorite bits of most Apple events is picking out the little things that Apple doesn’t talk about in its keynotes. At WWDC 2026, however, a lot of those little details did get mentioned—but if you blinked, you might have missed them.… | Continue reading
Safari web apps and PWAs are a nice start, but they’re limited. Browser tabs are messy. And most tools for turning websites into apps still feel more like wrappers than real Mac software.… | Continue reading
Apple’s built-in screen sharing support for Mac-to-Mac connections has always been a help for those of us with remote setups: headless Macs acting as servers, an office and home Mac, or the laziness of having Macs in different parts of your house you want to access without standi … | Continue reading
I noted Jason’s post awhile back about his reading routine with interest. My ears perked up again at the announcement of the audio newsletter for Six Colors members.… | Continue reading