Myke and Jason break down the WWDC 2020 keynote, which featured changes to the Mac both expected and unexpected and some long-wanted updates for iOS. Did the iPad updates let us down? Are we ready … | Continue reading
We aren’t here. Hello from California, where I am… sitting in my office on the day of an Apple event, rather than standing outside a venue waiting to be seated. Oh, 2020! Apple’s … | Continue reading
As the curtain prepares to rise, just hours hence, on this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, there are still plenty of questions about what exactly Apple will be showing off at its annual eve… | Continue reading
Brent Simmons on arguments that the App Store is great because it exposes your app to customers: To be on the App Store is to be lost within an enormous sea of floating junk. No matter how well you… | Continue reading
Monday on the Upgrade podcast, Myke Hurley and I introduced a new membership feature for supporters of the podcast: Upgrade+. Named tongue-in-cheekily after Apple’s tendency to brand its prem… | Continue reading
We’re not usually this negative, but Apple really took the shine off of next week’s developer conference with this week’s developer-hostile actions and reactions. Also, Jason begi… | Continue reading
Mark Gurman at Bloomberg reports on the group inside Apple working on VR/AR hardware: Although the headset now in development is less technologically ambitious than originally intended, it’s pretty… | Continue reading
The operating system that drives the Apple Watch, watchOS, doesn’t get as much attention as macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. But as someone who wears an Apple Watch every day, any improvement to watchOS has… | Continue reading
It occurs to me, in this season of WWDC wish-list items, that it’s worth mentioning that perhaps my top feature request for iPadOS was fulfilled in March: The bottom line: Months before that … | Continue reading
iSH will give you a command line on iPad, but it’s Linux running on a virtualized Intel processor. With less than a week between us and WWDC, it’s a great time for wild ideas about what… | Continue reading
It’s the week before WWDC so it’s the perfect time for Apple to have a fight with developers. | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that’s anagrammarful, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests John Moltz and Christina Warren to discuss pie-in-the-sky WWDC predictions, AppleR… | Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Shelly Banjo and Mark Gurman: “Inclusion and diversity are core Apple values and we deeply believe the most diverse teams are the most innovative teams,” Apple said in an emailed … | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett: When Apple added the Breathe feature to watchOS 3, I — like many of you, I suspect — turned it off pretty quickly. However, over the last six months, it has come to be one of my fa… | Continue reading
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, launched two separate antitrust investigations of Apple on Tuesday. The first deals with the App Store: The European Commission has opened for… | Continue reading
Here’s an interesting Apple press release trumpeting a study from Analysis Group that claims “the App Store ecosystem supported $519 billion in billings and sales globally in 2019 alone… | Continue reading
It’s time for our fifth annual competition regarding what will happen at next week’s WWDC keynote! Will there be a stage? Will there be enormous Mac announcements? Will iPadOS and Apple Watch… | Continue reading
Apple has updated its Apple Developer app, for the first time releasing a version for the Mac, just one week ahead of the kickoff of its annual (and first ever virtual) Worldwide Developers Confere… | Continue reading
I’ve been beating the drum for a Star Wars dogfighting game in the style of the classic X-Wing and TIE Fighter games for as long as I can remember, and it looks like it may have finally paid … | Continue reading
I’ve been beating the drum for a Star Wars dogfighting game in the style of the classic X-Wing and TIE Fighter games for as long as I can remember, and it looks like it may have finally paid … | Continue reading
We’re now just a week away from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which—in case you missed the many memos—will be held virtually for the first time in its 33-year history. Last w… | Continue reading
This week I got a little envious of Matthew Cassinelli, who was proudly posting how he’s building all these Shortcuts on iOS that let him do cool stuff involving automatically posting things … | Continue reading
After years of rumors, it appears that Apple is finally going to commit to release Macs that run on Apple-designed ARM processors rather than chips made by Intel. Based on reports, the announcement… | Continue reading
Jason did a lot of technical things this week. Web development is tricky. But we now have a new website that looks like the old one. | Continue reading
I’ve been spending a lot of time using PHP. When I started Six Colors, I built the site using the venerable Movable Type blog system because I needed to build something quickly and get it liv… | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute podcast that’s tautologically 30 minutes, Dan and Mikah welcome special guests Rosemary Orchard and Rene Ritchie to discuss whether we’d use a Mac Upgrade Pr… | Continue reading
Apple: Now in its 31st year, WWDC20 will be the biggest WWDC to date, bringing together the global Apple developer community of more than 23 million in an unprecedented, virtual way, from June 22 t… | Continue reading
I really enjoyed this post by Gus Mueller about what’s likely to happen if Apple is indeed transitioning the Mac to ARM processors: With all the recent rumors flying around about the Mac tran… | Continue reading
Arm yourselves. There might be a few ARM puns in this episode.... | Continue reading
Fantastic explainer by Ars Technica’s Timothy B. Lee about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which grants immunity to online platforms for content posted on their services: It… | Continue reading
iBooks Author, Apple’s application for creating and publishing ebooks, wrote its last chapter on Wednesday. The company announced that the app will be discontinued for new users as of July 1, 2020.iBooks Author came out back in a January 2012 ... | Continue reading
Apple announced today that it’s discontinuing iTunes U at the end of 2021. Apple has been moving away from the iTunes U concept for some time, moving iTunes U content to Apple Podcasts back i… | Continue reading
The HomePod has kind of faded into the background since its release more than two years ago, with little in the way of new features, and some notable omissions still remaining. Among all those, the one that frustrates me the most is the inability to u... | Continue reading
Apple introduced HealthKit in 2014, but the iPad and Mac are still left out.Since the launch of the Apple Watch, Apple has become increasingly focused on health technology. As someone who makes an effort to fill the rings on my Apple Watch, I appreciate... | Continue reading
With WWDC two weeks away, Myke and Jason share their wishes for iPadOS updates. They also analyze why they love certain kinds of games but are repelled by others and discuss Apple’s inevitable move into streaming live sports. ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show that is all out of four letter words, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Anže Tomić and Florence Ion to discuss our use of voice assistants on our phones, mass deleting content from social media, the tech we u... | Continue reading
We’ll be honest: things are not great. But we’ll talk about things and technology and then get to our picks.... | Continue reading
It’s episode 300! This week we look to the future by drafting stories we’ll be talking about over the next hundred episodes of Upgrade, and then we answer all of your questions about how the podcast got started, how we put it together, and whe... | Continue reading
Shortcuts guru and friend of the site Matthew Cassinelli has shared an iOS shortcut for users who are being detained by the police. The shortcut texts a preset message to a trusted contact, before recording a video. Cassinelli’s version tweaks an ... | Continue reading
I showed my kids a PowerBook 180 today. They’d never seen one before. In my memory it is a mind-blowingly small and light computer that, for the first time, allowed me to take my Mac with me anywhere I went. It changed my life, and that’s not ... | Continue reading
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should,” warned Ian Malcolm in “Jurassic Park.” I can relate. Sometimes I work to solve a problem using technology not... | Continue reading
A few weeks back on Clockwise, our guest (and good friend) Jean MacDonald lamented that, in this age of social distancing, there’s no really great way to watch a TV show or movie with someone online. Speaking as someone who’s been recording ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show that has no time for allergies, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Joe Rosensteel and Shelly Brisbin to discuss tech that helps us sleep, our thoughts on HBO Max, how we’d fix social media if we were in ... | Continue reading
Just a warning: this is now a podcast about British TV shows.... | Continue reading
There’s a raft of media news this week, as Spotify removes a popular podcast from the ecosystem and Apple TV+ makes more content deals. We’ve got questions about the future of podcasting and whether Apple is committed to a video subscription s... | Continue reading
This week’s charts tell the story of how Apple rolls out releases of software for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad—and when the last update of that operating-system cycle finally shipped. In the beginning, a new version of the iPhone OS arri... | Continue reading
The Rebound’s promise to you is that we will never accept tons and tons of money to take our podcast behind a pay wall. For various reasons.... | Continue reading