Our thoughts on Spatial Audio in Apple Music, if we’re excited about Shortcuts on the Mac and our other WWDC favorites, if SharePlay will convince us to use FaceTime, and how we feel about Un… | Continue reading
Last year Apple introduced Car Keys, which allows Apple devices to unlock and start cars that are equipped with the proper technology. While it was clear that the first wave of cars to support this… | Continue reading
Apple made a lot of WWDC announcements…but first we talk about Nintendo, Playdate, and audio. | Continue reading
Steven Aquino, writing at Forbes, has an excellent round-up of all the things that Apple announced which have implications for accessibility. In particular, Steven does a good job of looking at fea… | Continue reading
I bet there’s nothing you like more than dealing with passwords. Coming up with strong passwords, remembering them, saving them to password managers, entering verification codes. Is there any… | Continue reading
I’ve sort of fallen in love with SF Symbols, Apple’s library of thousands of iconographic representations that’s intended to let app developers build interfaces without custom art… | Continue reading
Web extensions got a big overhaul for the Mac last year, and though the uptake has not exactly been gangbusters, the potential for a bigger impact landed this year when Apple announced that they wo… | Continue reading
How one can define what a “Mac app” is has gotten more complicated as time has gone on. In the early days of Mac OS X, developers could choose between Cocoa, Carbon and even Java. As th… | Continue reading
I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more machine-learning based audio analysis. The bulk of Tuesday’s WWDC session, “Discover built-in sound classification in SoundAnal… | Continue reading
TestFlight on the Mac at last. Apps don’t spring, full-featured, onto our devices. App developers have to put the code and all the other assets together and create that thing–and itR… | Continue reading
With watchOS 8, Apple isn’t setting out to radically change the experience of using an Apple Watch, but the new capabilities the release will give developers will make it feel more dynamic an… | Continue reading
Shazam! It ain’t just a movie starring Sinbad.1 Apple integrated the song-recognition service into Siri back in iOS 8; four years later, it bought the whole company. Last fall, iOS and iPadOS… | Continue reading
Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin: The FBI teamed up with Australian Federal Police to target drug trafficking and money laundering. They “strategically developed and covertly operated an encr… | Continue reading
Now that Apple has shipped an improved remote for the Apple TV, it might seem like your tvOS woes are over—but even with a better input device, entering login credentials by picking one letter at a… | Continue reading
When Apple’s latest operating systems debut this fall, many of their users will benefit from a whole new kind of built-in privacy protection in the form of iCloud Private Relay. While your ac… | Continue reading
For years, automation on the Mac has been an onion of sorts. Automator and its ability to create Quick Actions, Folder Actions and even Applications has given Mac users the ability to create workfl… | Continue reading
Last month I wrote about how I’ve been building automations on iOS that were hard to replicate on macOS, and why that led me to believe the Mac needed to adopt Shortcuts: The more I use Short… | Continue reading
Coherence X4 allows you to turn any website into a chromium-powered app on your Mac. Simply pick a site, enter a name, and pick an icon, and Coherence will turn the app into an isolated application… | Continue reading
There was a time when Apple rolled out the next versions of its operating systems and the story went like this: The iPhone and iPad added a bunch of new features, and the Mac got a few of its own a… | Continue reading
Myke and Jason break down the WWDC 2021 keynote, which brought Apple’s various devices together in some surprising ways. Were the changes to iPadOS exciting or disappointing? Are we excited a… | Continue reading
Speaking to Fast Company’s Michael Grothaus, Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi detailed a little more about the privacy-related announcements Apple made at i… | Continue reading
While Apple’s keynote focuses largely on the company’s consumer audience, the Platforms State of the Union is where things start to get technical, really targeting the core WWDC audienc… | Continue reading
Even with a nearly two-hour keynote, Apple didn’t have time to discuss all the new features coming to its platforms in the next major updates. So I’ve gone through and pulled out an eve… | Continue reading
With just hours to go before the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off, I find myself wondering if Apple—a company that has long maintained an unparalleled mastery of sto… | Continue reading
Anticipation on the precipice of WWDC week. | Continue reading
If you ask a bunch of people in Apple community if WWDC is a hardware event or not, you’ll get a bunch of different answers, but I think most people consider WWDC to be a software event mostl… | Continue reading
Will new MacBook Pros be announced at WWDC next week? Your guess is as good as mine. I’m sure Apple wouldn’t mind thrilling developers with new power laptops, since they are so often th… | Continue reading
Apple says it’s adjusting how AirTags deal with privacy implications, in a statement provided to CNET’s Ian Sherr: The tech giant said Thursday it’s begun sending out updates to i… | Continue reading
Twitter: Starting today, we will be rolling out our first iteration of Twitter Blue in Australia and Canada. Our hope with this initial phase is to gain a deeper understanding of what will make you… | Continue reading
Our hopes and dreams for Apple’s WWDC, feelings on the iPad’s Center Stage feature, ephemeral social media feelings, and who we’re rooting for in the Apple Design Awards. | Continue reading
Conservation of Internet quality: Moltz’s connection is getting better, Dan’s is getting worse. | Continue reading
Back to school. (Shutterstock) For the last six years, we’ve compiled a report card covering how Apple’s been doing across numerous categories of interest to users and developers. It… | Continue reading
It’s time for our sixth annual competition regarding what will happen at Apple’s WWDC keynote! Is this the year iPadOS gets all the love? Will there be Mac hardware? Can Myke and Jason figure… | Continue reading
It could have been so much worse. It’s not often that you see the CEO of the world’s biggest company on the witness stand of a trial brought by the maker of a game that features a naked… | Continue reading
Speaking of John Gruber, he wrote about Markdown links today: I know inline links [like this]( are overwhelming more popular with Markdown users, but I personally much prefer the reference style fo… | Continue reading
Via Daring Fireball comes this Engadget story about TV-maker Vizio’s finances: Issuing its first public earnings report earlier today, the company revealed that in the first three months of 2… | Continue reading
Clicky remotes, Apple TV apps, and iPad anxiety. | Continue reading
If you, like me, are generally uninterested in loving photo tours of new Apple retail locations, make an exception for Federico Viticci’s story about Apple’s new store in Rome: The uniq… | Continue reading
New iPadOS features we think Apple will announce, the remote controls we use regularly, our digital — and physical — wallets, and recent acquisitions that have brought us joy. | Continue reading
Tim Cook pleads ignorance and Lex finds a new exercise rig. | Continue reading
Amazon: Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and MGM today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire MGM for a purchase price of $8.45 billion. MGM has ne… | Continue reading
I love Flexibits’s Fantastical 3, which I use across all my devices. But I have to admit I never really warmed to Cardhop, the company’s contact-management app. Still, I’m open to… | Continue reading
Stephen Hackett and I had the same idea — namely to celebrate the return of colorful iMacs by comparing the original colorful iMacs to the new models. This is a delightful video, and it’… | Continue reading
Joe Rosensteel, podcast host, VFX artist, and Apple TV connoisseur, has an excellent and in-depth look at the recently revised Apple TV 4K, including the new Siri Remote: I can confidently say that… | Continue reading
Jason reviews the new iPad Pro, Myke reviews the new 24-inch iMac, and the future of Apple silicon might be coming into focus. | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: Today, Apple unveiled the lineup for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, including keynote and Platforms State of the Union timing, and shared more information on how develo… | Continue reading
An iPad Pro attached to a Pro Display XDR, in an Apple promotional video. For a few years now, it’s seemed like the iPad has been on the precipice of a huge change. It can drive external disp… | Continue reading
Jason unboxes a new Apple TV 4K–but nobody can see it because it’s a podcast. Oh, and iMac and iPad Pro thoughts. | Continue reading