(Podcast) The Rebound 344: The Question Is, I Don’t Know What’s Going On

Conservation of Internet quality: Moltz’s connection is getting better, Dan’s is getting worse. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple in the Enterprise: A 2021 report card

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 355: The WWDC Keynote Draft 2021

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The Back Page: My witness, your honor (Member Post)

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Inline Markdown links ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The smart TV business model ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: May 27, 2021

Clicky remotes, Apple TV apps, and iPad anxiety. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Inside Apple’s new palazzo in Rome ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 400: You Win a Basket

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 343: Technology Already In Progress

Tim Cook pleads ignorance and Lex finds a new exercise rig. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Amazon to acquire MGM ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Flexibits rolls Cardhop into Fantastical subscription ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Stephen Hackett compares orange iMacs ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The new Apple TV 4K is better, but still an imperfect product ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 354: Even Safari Knows It’s Yellow

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple details parts of WWDC schedule ↦

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

iPadOS approaches the edge of desktop computing (Member Post)

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: May 21, 2021

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


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Pok Pok Playroom arrives ↦

Pok Pok Playroom, the new software toy for young kids (ages two to six) from an eponymous studio spun out of game studio Snowman, has arrived. I’ve had a chance to play with it, as has John V… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Report: Home app to finally let you set timers on HomePod ↦

9to5Mac’s Filipe Espósito reports that iOS 14.7 will bring a feature long-awaited by me and many other HomePod owners: With this new version of iOS, users will be able to set timers on the Ho… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 399: Especially the British Wolf

Lossless and spatial audio on Apple Music, improved Pixel photography for people of color, Google’s AI dermatology tool, and moving from voice to video calls. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 342: Side Docker

You think you know people, then you find out where they put their Dock. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Restyling Numbers charts in Affinity Designer

Recoloring Numbers chart bars in Affinity Designer. If you haven’t noticed, I leaned into the name of this site by color-coding all Six Colors charts by Apple product category. iPhones are bl… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

2021 iPad Pro review: All systems go, but where?

It’s probably safe to say that the iPad Pro is a product in transition. Sales of iPads have returned to the heights of its heady early days, and the low-end iPad and the mid-range iPad Air re… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Bloomberg: New Macs featuring better chips may debut as early as summer ↦

Mark Gurman’s latest piece at Bloomberg lays down a pretty thorough look at what is likely coming down Apple’s Mac pipeline: Redesigned MacBook Pros are expected to debut as soon as ear… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 353: Orange iMac in My Orange Office

Jason’s been using an orange 24-inch iMac for the last week and we’ve got his review. Also, Apple Music goes for high quality and spatial audio, WarnerMedia is on the move again, and Je… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

24-inch M1 iMac review: She’s a rainbow

The original Bondi Blue iMac was a computer designed to draw attention, in an era where ugly beige-box PCs were designed to fade into the background as much as possible. And for a few years, the or… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple’s troubling relationship with China ↦

Lengthy article in the New York Times by Jack Nicas, Raymond Zhong and Daisuke Wakabayashi about Apple’s relationship with the Chinese government: Behind the scenes, Apple has constructed a b… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Apple Music adding Spatial Audio, Lossless at no extra cost in June

As expected, Apple has announced that it will be upgrading its Apple Music streaming service with better audio quality. The improvements comes in two forms: Spatial Audio with Support for Dolby Atm… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

High-quality Apple Music announcement imminent? ↦

Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac: Apple Music has started teasing a special announcement coming soon, on the main Browse tab in the Music application. The teaser comes as Apple is rumored to announce a new… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The state of my Apple hardware (Member Post)

I’m used to having an Apple product to covet. It’s a little weird right now, having just been through an Apple event, and having WWDC around the corner that there’s nothing that I… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: May 14, 2021

Broadband in America, and hiring Bob From Down The Hall. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 341: Coming Soon in June

Special appearance by Lex Friedman. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 398: A Dongle Don’t Do It

How we deal with spam calls and texts, whether we’ll be subscribing to Apple TV+, the dongles we do and don’t use, and our thoughts on tech recycling and ecology. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

How Apple’s new MacBook can avoid the same old mistakes (Macworld/Jason Snell)

The Apple rumor mill has been churning lately with reports that Apple is readying a new consumer laptop that’s thinner than the MacBook Air, available in various colors, and possibly has the next g… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

New smart-home tech alliance is ‘Matter’ ↦

Stephen Shankland of CNET reports that the CHIP smart-home alliance announced back in December 2019 by Apple, Google, Amazon, and others, has a new name and is going to start rolling out publicly l… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Snowman introduces Pok Pok ↦

John Voorhees of MacStories has the details about Snowman’s big announcement: Today, Snowman, the studio behind some of our favorite games on Apple platforms like Alto’s Adventure and Odyssey… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Upgrade 352: Living Inside an Orange

This week Myke and Jason debate the form of future Mac laptops, discuss Apple and Epic’s first week in court (complete with angry emails!), and then imagine what’s next for iOS and iPad… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

The good times may stop rolling as Apple faces tough questions (Macworld/Dan Moren)

With a blockbuster quarter in its rear-view mirror, Apple seems like it’s sitting pretty right now. But the problem with results as astounding as those Apple recently posted is that it can be chall… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Kobo Libra H2O: Liberated from Amazon?

The Kobo Libra H2O is $100 less than the similar Kindle Oasis. This past year I’ve been spending more time reading books on a Kobo ereader, rather than on my Kindle. The Kobo, a 2016-vintage … | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

6C Podcast: May 7, 2021

Apple spent the week in court while we all wait for the iMac and iPad Pro to arrive. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Good night, sweet hedgehog ↦

When I started Six Colors in 2014, one of the first tools that I adopted was Nuzzel. Nuzzel looked at my Twitter feed, and even my Twitter lists, as well as the feeds of other people, and turned th… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Why isn’t Apple Podcasts showing you the latest podcasts?

ATP Episode 429 is out… everywhere but in Apple Podcasts. I’m getting a lot of tweets and emails saying the same thing: the latest episode of (some podcast I’m involved with) hasn… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

Overwhelming majority of public comments for FCC net neutrality debate were fake ↦

Protocol’s Issie Lapowsky summarizes the findings of an investigation into the public comments during the net neutrality debate before the FCC in 2017: In a new report, New York Attorney Gene… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) The Rebound 340: Mark Suckerberg

Courtroom drama’s more fun with no actual lawyers. | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 397: Stewing in Bitterness

How we feel about sideloading apps on our iOS devices, thoughts on AirTags and privacy, the importance of email to our daily workflow, and what software changes the iPad desperately needs to match … | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

What could Apple give up to put off greater legal threats? (Macworld/Jason Snell)

Apple does what it wants to do, and nothing else. At least, that’s the company’s preference…but sometimes courts and laws and governments get in the way. And at the moment, as some Apple executives… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago

All hail consumer hardware (Member Post)

Three years ago, I wrote about how far Apple has strayed from its once-iconic Grid of Four product strategy: To quickly recap, this is what Jobs and company came up with after his return to Apple a… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 years ago