Over at Space Explored, Zac Hall writes about a glitch during the recent re-entry of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule that was mitigated thanks to some low- and high-tech Apple features: The issu… | Continue reading
After Steve Jobs returned to Apple in the late ’90s, he famously simplified the company’s product line by drawing a four-product grid: consumer desktop (the bulbous, brightly colored G3… | Continue reading
I’ve been a professional observer of the Mac for three-quarters of its life. Sticking around that long–27 years–has given me a deeper perspective on its history. I remember the Ma… | Continue reading
If there’s a segment of Apple’s business that seems to fly in the face of the company’s philosophy—not just in terms of making a product that is substandard or lackluster—but in terms of actually b… | Continue reading
Reading the tea leaves from Apple’s financial results. More speculation about Apple silicon processors and future Mac roll-out plans. And Jason reveals the secret project he’s been work… | Continue reading
Notoriously secret as Apple is, there are but a limited number of ways to discover what exactly the company is developing. Thanks to our current ongoing pandemic, my surefire proprietary methodR… | Continue reading
One of these quarters, Apple’s going to announce financial results that don’t result in some sort of record. Perhaps as soon as next quarter, even. But on Thursday, Apple announced the results of i… | Continue reading
On Apple’s quarterly call with analysts Thursday, Apple CFO Luca Maestri made it official — the new iPhones won’t ship until October this year. Here’s what he said: As you k… | Continue reading
Here’s a live transcript of Tim Cook and Luca Maestri’s conference call with analysts, currently in progress…. Tim Cook: [Very beginning of call missing, TBD.] Care and adaptabili… | Continue reading
Apple’s results for its most recent financial quarter are out and they’re really good. The company was up in pretty much every category. It was, once again, a record for Apple’s t… | Continue reading
Developer Felix Rieseberg has written a JavaScript virtual machine emulating Mac OS 8 running on a 1991 Macintosh Quadra. Wild. And because it’s an Electron app, it runs on pretty much any pl… | Continue reading
It’s The Rebound 300th Episode Extravaganza and we’ve got guests, songs, dancing and… | Continue reading
This week on the 30-minute tech show that’s live with no audience, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Heather Kelly and James Thomson to discuss streaming services’ Watch Together fea… | Continue reading
I love a good fisking, and Brent Simmons has done a number on a Cult of Mac piece about the App Store: [That the App Store was a much better deal for selling software than what came before] is enor… | Continue reading
This week’s Upgrade is a walk through the many icons of macOS Big Sur. Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley and I picked our favorites and least favorites. Staring at an icon at full size makes you q… | Continue reading
This week Stephen Hackett joins Myke and Jason to consider the best and worst changes to app icons in macOS Big Sur. What makes a good icon? How are books shaped? What is the origin of the term … | Continue reading
It’s hot. How hot is it, Dan? So hot that apparently I’ve taken to creating temperature-related shortcuts? It started out with a relatively simple idea: I wanted to know if it was coole… | Continue reading
Few products exert the kind of gravity on rumors and speculation as Apple’s iPhone. Every year, the process repeats itself: websites and tweets full of conjecture, hypotheses, and more about what t… | Continue reading
Regis Philbin was David Letterman’s most frequent guest, and by a lot. Letterman made a statement on Saturday about Philbin’s death: “In the same category as Carson. Superlative,” Lette… | Continue reading
Regis Philbin was David Letterman’s most frequent guest, and by a lot. Letterman made a statement on Saturday about Philbin’s death: “In the same category as Carson. Superlative,” Lette… | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high performance ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It runs as a native Safari co… | Continue reading
Last week I stared directly into the Apple marketing content and speculated about the information it was trying to impart with a WWDC slide. This week, prompted by reader David Hovis, I’d lik… | Continue reading
A commercial that features a song for a phone number that provides vehicles to children. Hot mustard and product packaging. So many puzzles. And if Apple builds a Safari extension feature, will dev… | Continue reading
Seattle’s expansion NHL franchise is now officially the Kraken. ESPN’s Emily Kaplan has the story of how the branding was executed: When NHL Seattle first installed signage on its downt… | Continue reading
I love Zach Gage’s games, especially Flipflop Solitaire and Really Bad Chess. He’s just released a new game, in collaboration with Jack Schlesinger: Good Sudoku. Now, I am not a Sudoku … | Continue reading
Recording a podcast on the road in 2019. At MacStories, John Voorhees pushes the ball forward regarding podcasting on the iPad: I wanted a solution that worked equally well when I’m sitting at my M… | Continue reading
Rolling Stone TV Critic Alan Sepinwall rightfully calls out the terrible interfaces of most streaming services: The part of the streaming shell game that I’ve never been able to fully understand — … | Continue reading
This week, on the 30 minute tech show that usually has a clever introduction line, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Sawyer Blatz and Allison Sheridan to discuss watching video podcasts, o… | Continue reading
This week we talk about the betas we’re using and streaming services before we get to our anti-picks. | Continue reading
I wrote my first story about Apple in 1993, meaning I’ve been covering Apple for 60 percent of its existence. Lately, I’ve realized that beyond a few major milestones, most people don’t really reme… | Continue reading
So much baseball, so much data! There was baseball on my television last night. Maybe there will be baseball on my television tonight, too. Who knows? While I’m not counting on Major League B… | Continue reading
Apple’s Lisa P. Jackson, in a Medium post, announces the company’s environmental goals for the next decade: By 2030, Apple will be 100% carbon neutral. Our comprehensive carbon footprin… | Continue reading
This was a thoughtful piece from David Sparks that touches a lot of issues involving people who are working from home–which is a lot of us, these days. Even if you’re not working for yo… | Continue reading
Apple’s big design changes in macOS Big Sur aren’t limited to visuals. The system’s alert sounds have changed, too. What better way to run down those changes than on a podcast dur… | Continue reading
Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high performance ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It allows you to experience a cleaner, faster web – without ads. As a native Safari content blockin… | Continue reading
Apple’s in a strange position vis-a-vis many of its biggest rivals. While the company has in the past counted many of the most prominent tech companies in the world—IBM, Microsoft, Intel—as rivals,… | Continue reading
Sobering story from Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz in the New York Times about one of the impediments to coronavirus response and tracking: the fax machine. Dr. Mark Escott, the interim health … | Continue reading
It’s that time of year again. Today is World Emoji Day, and Apple has revealed some of its forthcoming Emoji designs to Emojipedia: (Image courtesy Emojipedia.) Ninja, Boomerang, Piñata and B… | Continue reading
I’ve been thinking about this chart since it appeared in Apple’s WWDC keynote last month. On one level, it’s a meaningless bit of marketing fluff. There are no labels. The vast br… | Continue reading
For someone who makes their living writing words, I spend a surprising amount of time in spreadsheets. Sometimes that’s because it’s the best way to organize information (my nerdy quiz show Inconce… | Continue reading
That’s some powerful Kool-Aid. Apple’s uneasy competitor/partner relationships, the many eras of Apple, and Dan recommends a WordPress plug-in. | Continue reading
Writing at Vice’s Motherboard, Joseph Cox has dug into the hack of high profile Twitter accounts yesterday, including Apple’s: The accounts were taken over using an internal tool at Twi… | Continue reading
A timely little story by Hansen Hsu from the Computer History Museum about a previous Apple chip transition: Apple did this the very first time in the early 1990s, with the move from Motorola 68000… | Continue reading
Yes, you should keep your password secret and secure as much as possible. That said, almost all of us have people in our lives who we’d like to share a login with, whether it’s a partne… | Continue reading
When there’s not much Apple news, we give you our picks. So many picks. | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that does its quarterly results half way through the show, Dan and Mikah are joined by John Voorhees and Kelly Guimont to discuss the era of peak streaming services… | Continue reading
This week Myke and Jason discuss John Gruber’s essay about Apple’s App Store priorities and then assemble a list of apps that are missing key operating-system features. There’s al… | Continue reading