This week is all about what’s next, as we discuss the ramifications of A14 benchmarks, ponder the challenges of Apple succession planning, and prep for our interview with Apple execs. | Continue reading
In the 1980s, using a computer was all about sitting at a desk. Mobility in computing meant putting your files on a disk and taking the disk to a different (but compatible) computer. When I was in … | Continue reading
The great joy of technology is in what it can do for us—especially those tasks that we don’t want to spend our own precious time on. Over the last few years, Apple has taken strides to bring … | Continue reading
Hartley Charlton reports at MacRumors that someone’s been uploading A14 processor scores to the GeekBench website: A GeekBench benchmark for an “iPad13,2” with the motherboard num… | Continue reading
I’ve had it on my agenda since iOS 14 was released to write about my favorite widgets, and I somehow haven’t gotten around to it. I imagine that as different apps ship new versions with… | Continue reading
AppleScript, ambient data, productivity and motivation. | Continue reading
In an era where Apple liked to show concepts from its design lab in public, one weird Mac prototype somehow became a real product, and was unveiled at the end of the worst Apple keynote in history. | Continue reading
Amazon’s Ring’s Always Home Cam drone, how the pandemic has affected our social media habits, our thoughts on online services outages, and a technology retrospective. | Continue reading
It’s been a contentious year for Apple. With spats against the likes of Basecamp, Microsoft, and Epic, it seems like every month brings a new battle for the folks in Cupertino. Let’s be… | Continue reading
The people have spoken. Apps like Widgetsmith and Color Widgets sit at the top of the App Store charts. iOS 14 has provided users with the ability to customize the look of their devices like never … | Continue reading
Just naming board games. No reason. | Continue reading
Saw this post by Juli Clover over at MacRumors about email aliases not working correctly in iOS 14: Those aliases are not working as intended as of the iOS 14 update, with the Mail app on iPhone an… | Continue reading
Patrick McGee, a reporter for the Financial Times, live-tweeted yesterday’s hearing for the Epic v. Apple case in a lengthy thread that’s well worth reading if you’re interested i… | Continue reading
This week widget mania sweeps the nation, Jason goes to an Apple Store to buy a Solo Loop, and Tim Cook ponders Apple’s work-from-home culture. | Continue reading
Photos by Stephen Hackett. People who came to Apple in the 21st century don’t understand just how different 1990s Apple was. Imagine an Apple that openly shared concept designs from out of it… | Continue reading
Services: they’re so hot right now. Earlier this year, Apple beat its self-stated goal of doubling Services revenue in 2020 with time to spare, and the company has not only recently announced that … | Continue reading
Homescreen customization, favorite iOS 14 features and bugs, the devices on which we work, and vintage tech we coveted. | Continue reading
This week, with Casey Newton’s announcement that he’s starting his own subscription newsletter, the exodus of journalists from corporate media into independent creations has become a bi… | Continue reading
You know about the Macintosh, but do you know about the sequel? The Macintosh II was huge–literally. But its compact successors might be the pinnacle of late 80s/early 90s Apple design. | Continue reading
Jason ventures outside. We like customizing our devices. And it’s the 209th of March — do you need to know where your cat is? | Continue reading
Writing at Fast Company, Jared Newman adroitly points out that a central thread of Amazon’s product announcements this week is that they’re based on fear of crime: The rapid-fire video … | Continue reading
AppleScript is an old-school scripting language, but it’s still the standard on the Mac when it comes to user automation. If a Mac app doesn’t support AppleScript, it closes a window of… | Continue reading
I bought an Apple Watch band today, which isn’t news. I’ve done it many times in the past. Today it was a new Apple Watch Sport Loop, after I discovered that a color I was interested in… | Continue reading
Epic is taking its battle with Apple to the next level by recruiting a bunch of like-minded companies for a team-up. The Coalition for App Fairness is a non-profit that counts among its members Bas… | Continue reading
Welcome to iMovie Complaints Corner. | Continue reading
Image: 9to5Mac. One of the big features of iOS 14 is the addition of home screen widgets. Combine this with a bunch of new widget apps such as Widgetsmith, designed with lots of options to add deco… | Continue reading
Last Wednesday I updated my Apple Watch Series 5 to watchOS 7. And immediately the device’s battery life dropped precipitously. I’d estimate that in the 11 months since I bought the Ser… | Continue reading
Six years in, the Apple Watch is at a bit of a crossroads. After a few years of explosive growth in terms of improving the hardware, Apple seems to have hit a bit of a lull. Last year’s Apple Watch… | Continue reading
This week’s show features an iOS 14 home-screen aesthetics revolution, some watchOS 7 follow-up, the need for a Touch ID sensor on the iPhone 12, and the horrible ways we use our keyboards. | Continue reading
Thanks to reader David for sending me this IIci earlier this year. The original Macintosh was a squat, cute beige box with a little black-and-white screen and tiny keyboard. For a couple of decades… | Continue reading
With new Apple software updates come new questions, and reader Martin has one related to an old tip of mine: Thanks for the great tip on fixing tab behavior. However, the directions on how to get t… | Continue reading
The best baseball writer ever, Roger Angell, turns 100 today: Above all, Roger Angell is best known as the bard of baseball; he was honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown, in 2014—alo… | Continue reading
New York magazine’s Irin Carmon, co-author of the book Notorious R.B.G., on the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Two visionary lawyers, the leftist feminist Dorothy Kenyon and the queer Black th… | Continue reading
The popularity of the iPod led Apple to create a Mac designed specifically to tempt people to switch from Windows. It didn’t go as planned, but the result was a Mac model that’s been wi… | Continue reading
This month Relay FM is raising money for St. Jude, a remarkable organization that is both a hospital that provides free medical care for kids with cancer, and a research institution that’s co… | Continue reading
My thanks to Mobi for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Mobi has been around since 2005 as the regional wireless carrier for Hawaiʻi, but is now bringing its rethought approach to wireless to the ma… | Continue reading
Watchers watching watches. Bundlers bundling bundles. Give to St. Jude. | Continue reading
Good news! Apple just announced a service that might actually save you money. Or you could just ignore it, and that’s fine too. It’s AppleOne, the new bundle of a bunch of existing Appl… | Continue reading
Justine Calma at The Verge: As smoke from wildfires chokes the West Coast, social media has been flooded with crowdsourced maps providing near-real time updates on just how horrendous the air reall… | Continue reading
Samuel Axon of Ars Technica: The immediate timing of the releases might seem like a positive for consumers who were clamoring for new features, but it’s been highly disruptive to developers&#… | Continue reading
On Tuesday Apple unveiled a bunch of new stuff, including two new Apple Watches, two new iPads, a new fitness subscription service, and a bundle of its many services And, oh yeah, the A14 processor… | Continue reading
Surprise! Today’s the day. We will have more coverage of all the new OSes as time goes by. In the meantime, you can read Dan’s first look at the iPadOS 14 beta and my first look at the … | Continue reading
Hey, real Apple news! | Continue reading
Nicole Wetsman, reporting for The Verge, answers a question I had about exactly how Apple is marketing the oxygen sensor in the Apple Watch Series 6: The Apple Watch’s blood oxygen sensor isn’t a m… | Continue reading
iPad Pro, you’re on the clock. Tuesday’s announcement of the new iPad Air continues Apple’s aggressive importation of iPad Pro features into the lower ends of the iPad product line. But it also bri… | Continue reading
Good, Better, Best. It’s a classic approach to selling products. Get people in the door with a low price, and then steer them upward to a more expensive model with more features. It’s a… | Continue reading
New Apple Watches and iPads! Here’s our quick reaction to the news. Shockingly, we walk away feeling pretty good about… Apple’s services? Plus: Surprise! Apple’s OS updates are co… | Continue reading
Apple’s concluded its latest event and it was a quick, efficient affair at just over an hour. Still, Apple didn’t waste too much time, rolling out a handful of expected announcements, o… | Continue reading