The new Oasis is identical to the older second-generation model, except for its adjustable color temperature.I read all my books on a Kindle, and the $250 Kindle Oasis is the model I prefer. It’s not for everyone—the $130 Kindle Paperwhite i... | Continue reading
[Here’s a transcript of Apple’s latest quarterly phone call with analysts, updating live. Apologies—we missed the first minute or two and will add it later.]Tim Cook’s opening statement…all new Apple TV app in over 10... | Continue reading
At 1: 30 p.m. Pacific, Apple will report results for its third financial quarter for 2019, roughly spanning April through June. It is generally Apple’s smallest quarter of the year, but there’s always information to glean from Apple’s di... | Continue reading
The trouble with Apple sending Siri audio to human beings, macOS Catalina’s overly aggressive approach to app security, and the possibility of Apple introducing a $3000 laptop cast a little bit of a pall on the Summer of Fun this week. But cheer up&... | Continue reading
Crafted by a trader especially for traders, Earnings Season takes the scattered and tedious process of searching for earnings dates and turns it into an efficient, personal, and delightful experience for you. Create a custom watchlist, see verified corpor... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech podcast that never stops recording, the gang’s together again as they discuss Apple’s unsurprising plans to buy Intel’s modem business, the awakening of the antitrust leviathan, and why everybody whoR... | Continue reading
This week, on the half-hour tech show where we have our show, Dan is joined by special guests Lisa Schmeiser, Kathy Campbell, and James Thomson to discuss whether big fines and antitrust investigations have their effects on tech companies, how often we cl... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that’s been away for a little too long, we discuss some new sneak peeks at Apple’s upcoming TV shows, why we’re not eager to let Elon Musk put anything into our brain, ridiculous reports of iPhone l... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that’s got a whole lot of heart, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Florence Ion and Jeff Carlson to discuss the best photo-sharing site for group events, how we use the multiple lenses on our smartphones, Ap... | Continue reading
50 years ago, humans first set foot on the moon. The work of the crew of Apollo 11 has inspired people for five decades, and their legacy continues to shine on today. In this episode, Stephen and Jason discuss three aspects of the mission that aren’... | Continue reading
We answer a lot of your #askupgrade questions, then break down how Apple’s changing its laptop line and retail stores. Also, Warner Media makes a big bet on the HBO brand name, and Apple News+ is unsurprisingly not succeeding. Then we start the show... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that has absolutely no time to spare, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Jason Howell and Heidi Helen Pilypas to discuss FaceTime Attention Correction and the future of AR, how we imagined future tech as kids and w... | Continue reading
So a security reacher noticed that business videoconferencing app Zoom was doing a bunch of bad stuff that left Mac users potentially vulnerable to privacy and security breaches.My guess is that Zoom’s original sin comes out of its corporate c... | Continue reading
Time for a game of laptop musical chairs. Apple made some adjustments to its portable line-up this morning, with a cheaper price point for the MacBook Air and improvements to the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro. But the 12-inch MacBook? It’s gon... | Continue reading
Guest Marco Arment joins Jason and Myke to discuss the possibility of new Apple laptop keyboards at last, his Overcast priorities over the next year, and the future of podcasting. There are also some mild opinions about Jony Ive, the streaming-video wars,... | Continue reading
Apple’s Texas Hold’em game is so old it was originally developed for the iPod. While it eventually made the jump to iOS, it eventually folded in 2011. But now it’s back! With updated gameplay, graphics, and “new characters.”[... | Continue reading
This week the Summer of Fun goes old school, as two of Jason’s colleagues from back in the 1990s compare Apple’s many transitions over the years to the ones Apple and its developers and users face today. Also, we wonder what happens to the mov... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that puts the “stop” and “watch” in “stopwatch,” Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Lory Gil and Casey Liss to discuss Jony Ive’s departure from Apple, whether or not we re... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show where we’re all staying put, we discuss Jony Ive’s departure from Apple and what it all means, an interview with Eddy Cue and what he means, Dan’s new Synology NAS, and James’s new app.... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show that requires more than one movement, we’re diving deep into betas, or at least, the iPadOS beta, which Dan and John have installed. Plus, Lex has a new smart addition to his household for a dumb task, we learn... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech podcast that’s hit 300 and is still going strong, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Dan Sturm and Aleen Simms to discuss Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the tech we won’t use in public, our experience wit... | Continue reading
Apple releases public betas a bit earlier than we expected, Bill Gates muses on Microsoft’s missed opportunity and the power of tech giants, WebOS just keeps on keeping on, and we’re all going to need a fuzzy puppy update this week because thi... | Continue reading
Against my very own advice, I set out to install the public beta of iPadOS on my 10.5-inch iPad Pro. But even before I installed the software, I ran into a problem. I may be unwise enough to install pre-release software, but I’m definitely not unw... | Continue reading
It’s Public Beta season, and Jason’s spent the last week reviewing macOS Catalina. Are the Catalyst apps better this year? And what features were pleasant surprises? We also discuss JJ Abrams’s big new streaming deal, share our own iPhon... | Continue reading
There’s a lot going on in macOS Catalina, version 10.15 of the software that runs the Mac, which arrives today with its first Public Beta release. This begins the era of third-party developers bringing their iPad apps to the Mac for the first time | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech podcast where we’ve got our complaints, Dan runs down some recent frustrations with Instagram and Time Machine backups. John, meanwhile, has problems with his giant mixed-platform group chat. And James runs through ... | Continue reading
In June 2018 at WWDC Apple trumpeted changes it was making to the Mac App Store to welcome back some major apps to the store. Panic’s Transmit returned in November, Microsoft Office arrived in January and BBEdit arrived in June.Who’s next?... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute podcast that boldly goes where no podcast has gone before, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Brianna Wu and John Voorhees to discuss our storage strategies, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, AR try-on features, and ... | Continue reading
After a brief commentary about Twitterrific 6 and the difficult world of App Store pricing, we kick off the The Upgrade Summer of Fun by building the official Upgrade iPhone home screen. 28 apps will be picked! Four will win coveted spaces in the dock! Ru... | Continue reading
For the last week Six Colors has been sponsored by Sanebox. I use Sanebox every day and want to thank Sanebox for the support.SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters toget... | Continue reading
New Twitterrific 6 features include new color themes, user-editable custom themes, a new display font option, and better presentation of inline media.The Iconfactory’s Twitterrific is my go-to Twitter client and has been for years. Version 6 of t... | Continue reading
My initial thought, when sitting in the audience at Apple’s WWDC keynote, was that iPadOS 13 was going to present me with a remarkable number of items from my iPad wish list. And that’s not wrong—it looks like this release is going t... | Continue reading
This week, on the irreverent tech show where two out of three hosts still wear their Apple Watch, Dan and John catch Lex up on WWDC announcements. But we also discuss Dan’s CarPlay update, help John pick a new input device, and Lex’s parents | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show that goes down the rabbit hole, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Joe Rosensteel and Lory Gil to discuss Apple’s new hearing health push, how we use technology in our morning routines, our use of CarPla... | Continue reading
When I bought my Volkswagen GTI in 2012, I loved everything about it—except the audio system. In fact, it was so bad that I even felt the need to pen a screed about its shortcomings, which included a terrible, unresponsive interface; unreliable playba... | Continue reading
Myke and Jason get over their WWDC hangover with a discussion of our favorite new iPadOS 13 features. Then we take a look at the future of Apple’s platforms with a discussion of Catalyst and SwiftUI and an exclusive interview with Apple’s Wile... | Continue reading
SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks. Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription.SaneBox works on top of your existing email ... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that can barely contain all the news, Dan is joined by host emeritus/permanent villain Jason Snell and special guests Myke Hurley and Alex Cox to run down all the announcements from WWDC. We discuss our favorite iOS 13 fea... | Continue reading
From Apple’s podcast studio within its Worldwide Developer Conference, we’re joined by John Siracusa and Shelly Brisbin to discuss iPadOS, iOS, Catalyst, SwiftUI, and Apple’s new pro hardware. ... | Continue reading
It’s all WWDC all the time this week, as Dan and John welcome special guest James Thomson to help them break down Apple’s announcements. We discuss James getting mildly sherlocked, whether or not you can plug in your legacy SCSI drives to an i... | Continue reading
It’s not an Apple event without strong opinions all around, and there were no shortage of those at WWDC this year. Apple showed off updates to all of its major platforms—yes, even tvOS!—and there are very few, if any, products that won’t be af... | Continue reading
A few Mac tidbits I picked up at the McEnery Convention Center on Monday after the WWDC Keynote….macOS Catalina: Sidecar and CatalystWhen Apple showed off Sidecar, the new feature that lets you connect an iPad and use it as either an additiona... | Continue reading
It’s that time again, everyone. Apple’s WWDC 2019 Keynote kicks off at 10am PDT that’s 1pm EDT, 1900 UTC. Jason and Dan will both be in attendance. Apple will livestream the event as usual, but if you’d like to follow along with ... | Continue reading
My thanks to Erik Hanberg for sponsoring Six Colors this week to promote his tech-savvy sci-fi adventure series, The Lattice Trilogy.It’s got high-stakes action, thought-provoking dystopian themes, and gripping twists, all set in a future where pr... | Continue reading
This week on the irreverent tech podcast that is more irreverent than usual, Dan plays co-host roulette. First, he and Lex discuss Apple’s new iPod touch, rumors about future iPhone features, the headphones Lex wants but won’t buy, and getting... | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute show that’s (hopefully) more talk than ticks, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Rosemary Orchard and Megan Morrone to discuss iOS apps we want to see in dark mode, our thoughts on the new iPod touch, the competit... | Continue reading
Looks like rumors of an update to Apple’s odd-man-out iOS device were not just sound and fury: the iPod touch has gotten speed-bumped to an A10 Fusion chip—a significant improvement over the old A8. Apple says it now support features like AR and Gro... | Continue reading
It’s time for our fourth annual competition regarding what will happen on stage next week at WWDC! Will there be new hardware? What will macOS be called? How many times will we see Tim Cook? This week we guess, but next week reality will be our judg... | Continue reading