Migration Assistant, and cat. One of my favorite episodes of Upgrade is from early in the show’s run, when we spent time critiquing the experience of buying and setting up a new iPhone. I kee… | Continue reading
My new MacBook Air is proving to be all that I’d hoped, and it’s not just because of the fancy new M1 processors. Since I’m coming from a 2014 MacBook, I’m reaping the benef… | Continue reading
There’s enough new Apple gear to go around. | Continue reading
Apple’s reducing its App Store commission, new gaming consoles are here, the tech that brings us joy, and how we’re coping with celebrations in the year that is 2020. | Continue reading
The first Macs powered by Apple-designed processors are finally here. And from the outside, they’re almost dead ringers for the Intel-based Macs they’re replacing. But on the inside, they’re not li… | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: The new App Store Small Business Program will benefit the vast majority of developers who sell digital goods and services on the store, providing them with a reduced commission on p… | Continue reading
It slowly became clear that one day Apple’s processors would come for Intel. As Apple’s skill in building chips for the iPhone and iPad became increasingly apparent, Intel struggled. Do… | Continue reading
Reviews of the M1-powered Macs are starting to filter out across the web, including our own, which you should definitely read, but if you’re looking for a more nuts and bolts look at the M1 c… | Continue reading
In this special, extra-packed episode we’ve got an interview with Apple’s Tim Millet and Tom Boger about Apple’s new M1 Macs, followed by Jason’s review of the new Macs afte… | Continue reading
It slowly became clear that one day Apple’s processors would come for Intel. As Apple’s skill in building chips for the iPhone and iPad became increasingly apparent, Intel struggled. Do… | Continue reading
Photo by Stephen Hackett. What is the best Mac ever? It’s a nigh-unanswerable question, because it begs for qualifiers. The best one ever made up to now? The one that lasted the longest? The … | Continue reading
A new document on Apple’s support site details information about its Gatekeeper system the week after a server outage caused many Mac users systems to encounter issues. In particular, it resp… | Continue reading
The Mac is dead…long live the Mac! Last week marked two major shifts in Apple’s personal computing platform: the introduction of Macs built around Apple’s own custom silicon, and … | Continue reading
Low-end Macs at the high end of performance. Apple’s performance marketing. Oh, and we both bought M1 MacBook Airs. | Continue reading
After a lot of speculation, Steve Jobs finally filled in the Mac’s fourth product quadrant with a consumer laptop that was one of a kind. But what’s a “consumer laptop,” rea… | Continue reading
Back in my earliest days of using networked computers1 I quickly learned the glories of connecting to other computers, whether it was via telnet, gopher, or eventually a web browser like lynx. Whil… | Continue reading
Speaking to The Independent, Apple’s Craig Federighi (alongside Greg Joswiak and John Ternus) dismisses the idea that Big Sur’s UI changes point to a touch interface for the Mac: “I got… | Continue reading
Mac OS X was no less than a rebirth of the Mac, 16 years after it first appeared on the scene. The code it originated with, and many of the software managers and programmers who built it, came to A… | Continue reading
We’d stop recording shows if only Apple would stop having events. | Continue reading
The tasks we still do analog instead of digital, the lack of touch interfaces on Apple’s new Macs, is this the end of speeds and feeds, and whether we can live with just two ports on our comp… | Continue reading
Gui Rambo’s $10 Mac utility AirBuddy has been updated to version 2 today. I love AirBuddy because it’s very much the sort of AirPods integration that should be baked into macOS, but for… | Continue reading
The era of Macs running Apple silicon has begun. Or at least, it will begin next week with the arrival of the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini models running on Apple’s M1 chip. It’s impo… | Continue reading
When smoke blew into my region from some nearby forest fires, I needed to pay attention to local air quality in order to decide when I could go outside safely. Geof Crowl’s helpful Air Lookou… | Continue reading
Glenn Fleishman has a sensible overview of 5G at TidBITS: 5G won’t be transformative for most people or purposes. Its advantages primarily accrue to cellular carriers, even more so than 3G or 4G, w… | Continue reading
Tim Cook can sit anywhere he wants. Picking up where Dan left off and before I clock out for the night, here are some other quick thoughts about the day’s events. A first step. Apple said it … | Continue reading
Three new Macs have arrived, and they’ve brought the Apple-designed M1 processor with them. Myke and Jason break down the new chip, the new hardware, and what it all means for the future of t… | Continue reading
For a 45-minute event, Apple packed a lot in. And it was all about the Mac: new versions of the MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini, all based on Apple’s new M1 chip. And, just lik… | Continue reading
iPhone SE (1st generation, left) and iPhone 12 mini (right). Yesterday I took delivery of review units of the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max, and while the next couple of days are going to be… | Continue reading
Among the many important elements Steve Jobs brought to Apple’s culture when he returned in the late 90s was a focus on the theater of product announcements. Unlike many of Apple’s comp… | Continue reading
After years of speculation over whether it would happen, and months of rumors over how it will happen, the day’s almost here. This week, Apple is prepared to launch the third processor architecture… | Continue reading
Has the processor inside the first wave of Macs that run Apple silicon already been tested? There’s a GeekBench score that seems to have been submitted from an as-yet-unreleased Mac. Could it… | Continue reading
Apple silicon dreaming. Newsletters are forever. And Apple’s relentless pace continues. | Continue reading
There may have never been a Mac more aligned with Steve Jobs’s personal quirks than the Power Mac G4 Cube. It was a spectacular failure. | Continue reading
What has us excited about Apple Silicon Macs, the iPhones we’re currently using, our smartphone photography habits, and the tech we want but know we’ll never use. | Continue reading
A day you’ll never forget to remember. | Continue reading
The first Apple silicon Macs will be announced next week, and they will be familiar-looking MacBooks, according to Mark Gurman and Debby Wu of Bloomberg: Apple and overseas suppliers are ramping up… | Continue reading
In the very near future, the Mac will join the iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and all of Apple’s other devices in being powered by the company’s own systems-on-a-chip, and over the next seve… | Continue reading
In the very near future, the Mac will join the iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and all of Apple’s other devices in being powered by the company’s own systems-on-a-chip, and over the next seve… | Continue reading
Surprise! Jason and Myke predict what will happen at next week’s Apple media event, in the form of an impromptu draft. There’s a lot of speculation about Apple silicon, but we’ve … | Continue reading
Third time’s the charm. | Continue reading
It’s July 18, 2000, and the Macworld staff has assembled in New York City for the next day’s kickoff of Macworld Expo. We’ve got plans for online coverage as Apple makes its produ… | Continue reading
As a rule, Apple is a company that is judicious about what opportunities it takes, and which ones it leaves to others. The company is famous for saying “no” to way more ideas than it says “yes” to,… | Continue reading
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, the new iPad-Pro-style iPad Air, the remarkable state of the Mac, and David Letterman’s battery-shopping trip to CVS. | Continue reading
Big Internet news this week, as a report claimed that we might finally—finally—see some competition in the search market, after years of being subject to the tyranny of a single dominant player. Ta… | Continue reading
I had a few final observations about Apple’s fourth-quarter 2020 results Thursday that didn’t make it into my Macworld column that I wanted to make before they get trapped in my noteboo… | Continue reading
Jason outwits Big Sur by rebooting his iMac. Dan makes a telephone pole redundant. Tim Cook finds a new area of interest. | Continue reading
One of Apple’s greatest design triumphs was meant to set the company up for the next decade. Instead, it became a false start–and a rejected design direction ended up being more functio… | Continue reading
It’s tough to keep track of time in the middle of a global pandemic, but apparently three months has passed since Apple’s last quarterly earnings report. So here we are again, with Apple executives… | Continue reading