The very first time Apple made a laptop that compromised in numerous ways, all in the question of being as thin and light as possible. | Continue reading
Epic Games, the makers of the popular game Fortnite, doesn’t appreciate that mobile platform owners–we’re talking Apple and Google–demand that if you use their app stores, y… | Continue reading
It’s kind of tough out there right now, so if you’ve been finding it challenging to get through the days and weeks with some semblance of normalcy, you’re not alone. For my part, … | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Apple may be ready to unleash a bundle of subscriptions alongside the iPhone this fall: There will be different tiers, according to the people, who asked not to be… | Continue reading
We return to our Apple Watch roots this week and it turns out it’s Moltz’s turn to get picked on for some reason. | Continue reading
This week on the 30-minute tech show that has had a little too much gluten, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Paul Kafasis and Lory Gil to discuss Microsoft and Apple argue about cloud gam… | Continue reading
It’s hard to believe that it’s been nine years since Apple introduced AirDrop as a part of Mac OS X Lion and iOS 7. I consider AirDrop to be one of Apple’s best moves of the past decade. It’s a fea… | Continue reading
David Sparks wrote an article in VR: I recently tried out a new Oculus app that is intriguing. The app is called Immersed, and it is quite a trip. With the app on your Oculus Quest and the host sof… | Continue reading
As a person of routine, part of my morning regimen for the last several decades is settling down with my morning cup of tea and reading some comic strips. As a kid, I’d dig through the newspaper to… | Continue reading
Jason reviews the new iMac (with nano-texture display) and the public beta release of macOS Big Sur. Myke thinks Apple’s making a big mistake in keeping game streaming services off of its pla… | Continue reading
Most of Apple’s early laptops were, like today’s MacBooks, complete Macs. The premise was: “Let’s engineer a Mac that’s like the one on your desk, but put it in a single pac… | Continue reading
August tends to be right in the middle of the summer doldrums, the time when everybody goes on vacation and thus news—including tech announcements—are few and far between. Then again, 2020 isn’t yo… | Continue reading
In the summer I love to kick back with an ice-cold beta. Also, Microsoft’s in the news for weird reasons. | Continue reading
The classic “cheese grater” design of the Power Mac G5 influences the design of the modern Mac Pro, and also represents (in the worst way) the last time Apple embarked on a chip transit… | Continue reading
Pursuant to the announcement earlier this week that Microsoft would not be bringing its xCloud game streaming service to iOS, the two companies have exchanged fire over where the blame lies. First,… | Continue reading
So here we are, at the end of OS X. Two decades ago Apple parked the sixteen-year-old Classic Mac OS and leaped to version 10.0, but four years ago the company rebranded the software that drives th… | Continue reading
This has got to be the end, right? Apple has announced that it’s moving the Mac to Apple-designed processors. The design of the iMac is stale and in desperate need of reinvention–just a… | Continue reading
The Verge’s Tom Warren reports on the latest casualty of Apple’s App Store policies, Microsoft’s forthcoming cloud gaming system: “Our Project xCloud preview TestFlight period has… | Continue reading
Interesting interview (and, I think, perhaps the first major one) with Apple senior vice president for machine learning and AI strategy, John Giannandrea, along with product marketing VP Bob Borche… | Continue reading
Given the frequency with which I have to deal with audio, Rogue Amoeba’s apps are amongst the most indispensable tools in my arsenal.1 And one that I’ve grown increasingly fond of in re… | Continue reading
This week’s episode, like every week’s episode, features three Apple fellows with a decidedly lower-case “f”. | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show that’s always there for you, can Instagram Reels take on TikTok? What are our favorite low-tech pastimes? What do we think of Disney’s Mulan release? Wha… | Continue reading
With iOS 14 now humming along in beta form, many people (myself included) are excited about the possibilities of widgets. I’m excited to see what the developers of some of my favorite apps do… | Continue reading
With Tuesday’s announcement of the new 27-inch iMac, Apple seems to be clearing out some of the final major Intel Mac releases in its product pipeline. The big question is, what’s next for the iMac… | Continue reading
Apple’s automated tools mistakenly flagged developer Charlie Monroe’s account as malicious this week, wreaking havoc with his business: This is the message macOS shows to all users who … | Continue reading
The summer gets a little more serious as we discuss Apple’s newest iMacs, Phil Schiller’s job transition, Apple emails disclosed by the House Antitrust Subcommittee, and Apple’s s… | Continue reading
Phil Schiller, former senior vice president of worldwide marketing and longtime staple of Apple events, has moved on to become an Apple Fellow, following in the footsteps of other notable Apple per… | Continue reading
At Apple’s developer conference in June, Tim Cook said that the company still had Macs with Intel processors in its pipeline. It must be rapidly filling with Macs with Apple silicon, but on T… | Continue reading
Very cool look at the “user experience” of LEGO computer blocks that we’ve probably all seen since time immemorial. Design engineer George Cave runs down the various types of inte… | Continue reading
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