Apple reported the results from its fiscal fourth quarter Thursday, saying it generated $62.9 billion in revenue, with Services revenue reaching an all-time high of $10 billion. iPhone sales were up slightly over the same quarter last year, but iPhone rev... | Continue reading
In the fall of 2014 the big question was: What is the Apple Watch good for? The company’s expansive answer was, essentially: What isn’t it good for? The result was a product that was new and interesting and weird and entirely unfocused.In co... | Continue reading
There we go. I’ll be reporting live from Cupertino on September 12, as Apple unveils… who knows what? The iPhone, for sure. Apple Watch? Sure. iPads? Macs?... | Continue reading
The Apple financial numbers are out, and the company set a new record for its financial third—wait, where are you going? Don’t you want to hear the same old story about how Apple is a company that continues to generate billions in revenues and... | Continue reading
After a week of controversy following the posting of a video that claimed the new 15-inch MacBook Pro could experience massive slowdowns, Apple on Tuesday acknowledged that the slowdowns exist—and that they’re caused by a bug in the therma... | Continue reading
For a few years now, it’s seemed that any forward movement macOS might make was coming in lockstep with Apple’s other platforms, most notably iOS. What was new to the Mac was generally something that was also new to iOS, or was previously avai... | Continue reading
Intel NUC server sitting atop my old Mac mini.Over the past year I’ve written frequently about my love of the Mac mini. There has been a Mac mini running as a server in my house basically since it was first introduced in 2005. The specific uses ... | Continue reading
Here’s a bit of numerology for you. Today marks 17 years, one month, and 29 days since Mac OS X 10.0 was released on March 24, 2001. That’s a strangely odd number—6269 days—but it also happens to be the exactly length of time b... | Continue reading
The original iMac. (Photo courtesy Stephen Hackett.)20 years ago today, Steve Jobs (the interim CEO of Apple) stood on the same stage from which he introduced the original Macintosh, and spent the first half-hour of his presentation trying to convince t... | Continue reading
If there’s one thing I’ve learned writing about tech, is that’s if I mention using any sort of accessory in passing without providing details, people will ask for the details. And so I was already planning on writing this when a reader... | Continue reading
Among the casualties of the impending transition to 64-bit apps is one long-lasting oddity: QuickTime 7 Pro. What makes this app so unusual are a few factors. For one thing, it’s one of Apple’s own apps. For another, it was first release... | Continue reading