This week we talk the future of the Apple Watch–new materials, new shapes, and all the sensors Apple wants to put on your body–and the risks Apple might face by not learning the right l… | Continue reading
To my surprise, as much as anybody’s, I’ve ended up using Apple’s Notes app a lot over the last several years. I use it when I want to jot down things about my novels, when I’m taking notes f… | Continue reading
WWDC hangovers, the Globe key, and some live pinging. | Continue reading
I’ve seen the future of the iPad, and it’s hidden under a key. The future of an entire platform is a lot to pile on a single plastic square, but here we are. Down in the bottom left cor… | Continue reading
If you’ve spent any amount of time troubleshooting network connections, you’ve probably used good old ping. But as I discovered recently, sometimes you need a little more information ou… | Continue reading
This episode is brought to you by internet interruptions. | Continue reading
Apple’s new podcast subscriptions, our favorite under-the-radar WWDC news, the last game we got into, and which big tech companies we’d break up. | Continue reading
WWDC 2021 is over! This week we discuss a lot of the hidden details of Apple’s announcements, and share our first reactions to using the first developer betas. (Jason isn’t mad at Safar… | Continue reading
TechCrunch’s Mathew Panzarino got an interview with Apple marketer Bob Borchers and exec Sebastien Mariners-Mes in which they addressed the changes to multitasking in iPadOS 15: “It was a ver… | Continue reading
When Apple’s annual updates ship this fall, Safari will be at version 15. Each new version of Apple’s browser is marked by security and performance improvements, but this year Safari is… | Continue reading
Did anything happen this week? Oh, just a few things. | Continue reading
My thanks to Coherence X4 for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Coherence X4 allows you to turn any website into a chromium-powered app on your Mac. You pick a site, enter a name, and pick an icon, … | Continue reading
Apple announced the winners of its annual design awards today, and it’s a really impressive collection of iPhone and iPad apps1. Here are the winners: Apps Inclusivity: Voice Dream Reader Del… | Continue reading
For many years, power users have been able to use plug-ins to extend the capabilities of macOS’ built-in Mail application. And for years, those users have been accustomed to those plug-ins br… | Continue reading
The early years of smart home tech have been a morass of competing standards and technologies, often hindering broad adoption by consumers who don’t want to figure out which devices work with… | Continue reading
John Voorhees provides a really good overview of how far Shortcuts has come: The second thing that struck me about Monday’s announcement is how well Shortcuts has been set up to succeed on the Mac.… | Continue reading
If you thought the addition of precipitation alerts and a redesigned Weather app in iOS 15 meant that Dark Sky, which Apple acquired back in 2020, was not long for this world…well, it’s… | Continue reading
When iOS and iPadOS 15 launch later this year, the App Store will have new tools for developers to optimize their product pages to better stand out in the busy marketplace. The first tool to do thi… | Continue reading
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