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
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
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
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
You think you know people, then you find out where they put their Dock. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Broadband in America, and hiring Bob From Down The Hall. | Continue reading
Special appearance by Lex Friedman. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Apple spent the week in court while we all wait for the iMac and iPad Pro to arrive. | Continue reading
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
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
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
Courtroom drama’s more fun with no actual lawyers. | Continue reading
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
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
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