It’s been a year since the Vision Pro arrived, and its impact on the world has been nearly nonexistent. Is this a surprise? At the time, I wrote that it was “speculative and impractical.”… | Continue reading
You are cordially invite-d.… | Continue reading
Weird apps Apple should make, the strangest looking tech we own, what will it take for Vision Pro to go mainstream, and the discontinued tech products we’d revive.… | Continue reading
Apple on Tuesday took the wraps off a rare brand-new app: Invites. And it’s more like an Evite competitor, not something designed for business meetings. Invites lets you create events to which you can — yes, you guessed it — invite guests, complete with a playlist and a shared ph … | Continue reading
I’m a Six Colors Subscriber and someone who likes to draw pictures of data, and Jason Snell kindly asked me if I wanted to have a crack and drawing some additional graphs based on the 2024 Report Card.… | Continue reading
Jess Weatherbed at The Verge has some very interesting breaking news: The first “Apple approved” porn app for iPhone is rolling out in Europe, via AltStore PAL’s alternative iOS app marketplace. … | Continue reading
We discuss the results of the Six Colors Apple Report Card for 2024 in depth, with our opinions on every category. Also, Apple had another record financial quarter, and there’s a little bit of Rumor Roundup.… | Continue reading
Every year we ask a collection of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people for their opinions about how Apple fared in the year just gone by.… | Continue reading
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple.… | Continue reading
Really interesting interview from The Verge’s Nilay Patel with Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter on a wide range of topics, including the company’s recently launched ebook initiative.… | Continue reading
Magic Lasso Adblock: 2.0x faster web browsing in Safari Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.… | Continue reading
Every quarter after releasing financial results, Apple CEO Tim Cook and its CFO—now Kevan Parekh, since the semi-retirement of Luca Maestri—hop on a conference call with analysts to detail the quarter gone by, give a peek at what’s to come, and creatively avoid answering any poin … | Continue reading
Apple reported its financial results on Thursday for its first fiscal quarter of 2025, which covers the last three months of 2024. As expected, it was an all-time revenue record at $124.3 billion, up 4% from the year-ago previous recordholder.… | Continue reading
Existing in my weird in-between status as a tech journalist and an author, I was intrigued by the announcement this week from Bookshop.org that it would now be selling ebooks.… | Continue reading
Today’s the day: Apple will be announcing the results of its fiscal first quarter of 2025, which covers the holiday quarter of 2024. This is traditionally Apple’s largest quarter of the year, and has a chance to break the all-time revenue record of $119.6 billion set during the p … | Continue reading
After a couple of seasons as an Apple exclusive, Major League Soccer and Apple are broadening the reach of MLS Season Pass for this season. The company is making MLS League Pass available to Xfinity subscribers, who can add it to their package and stream it on Apple devices or on … | Continue reading
Seems like a waste of an iPhone. So Apple is apparently taking the smart home seriously. Apparently the company is working on a new home controller that looks like a small iPad, and is exploring security cameras and smart doorbells.… | Continue reading
Reading the California Sun in Readkit. About four years ago I wrote about how I caught up with all my email newsletters by routing them into an RSS reader: I love newsletters, but checking email is a drag—and reading long emails an even bigger one… My newsletter consumption has s … | Continue reading
The how often we use our non-default smartphone cameras, the tech or techniques we use to stay focused at work, where we buy and read ebooks and whether supporting indie bookstores appeals to us, and our least favorite thing to troubleshoot.… | Continue reading
Casting schadenfreude.… | Continue reading
The best time for Apple to truly embrace smart-home tech was five or ten years ago. The second best time, of course, is now. The good news is that, according to reports from reliable sources such as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple seems to have finally embraced the home as an area … | Continue reading
TikTok troubles; Apple Intelligence to be turned on by default; the UK moves toward its own DMA; Apple leans into the smart home; and Samsung joins Apple in the chase for the ultra-thin smartphone.… | Continue reading
Joe Adalian joins Jason to discuss Netflix’s big moves, price hikes, and what drove Jason to cancel it. Also we answer your letters and make some TV picks!… | Continue reading
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. With over 5,000 five star reviews; Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best Safari ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.… | Continue reading
Apple enabling Apple Intelligence features by default, the AI summaries that work for us, Samsung’s boring new phones, and our cable management predilections.… | Continue reading
Trying to stay positive.… | Continue reading
Two office views from 2014. Left: My final docked work setup at IDG. Right: My first setup in my garage. When I started Six Colors more than a decade ago, I maintained continuity with my corporate job in a bunch of ways.… | Continue reading
FFX artist and movie fan Todd Vaziri, in a post from 2018 that he updated Monday with new information that debunks the myth that there was an “actual shooting star” in a couple of shots in the movie “Jaws”: I reached out to film historian Jamie Benning about this issue. … | Continue reading
Summing up Apple’s devil’s bargain when it comes to AI features; what TikTok says about the chaotic future of tech regulation; Apple TV+ in the era of “Severance” and “Silo.”… | Continue reading
Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.… | Continue reading
Chance Miller of 9to5Mac reports that in the latest iOS 18.3 betas, Apple has changed how it handles summaries, presumably in response to criticism of inaccurate headline summaries: When you enable notification summaries, iOS 18.3 will make it clearer that the feature – like all … | Continue reading
Sometimes a solution is simpler than you think it’s going to be. I was trying to figure out a way to write a shortcut to take a folder and have all of its sub-folders compressed into individual archives—i.e.,… | Continue reading
In the past couple of weeks, two different projects of mine have been released that were powered, at least in part, by a Python script that eliminated enormous amounts of labor from a process that used to take hours of drudgery.… | Continue reading
Sticking it to the man.… | Continue reading
Our use of CarPlay, Android Auto, or other systems for navigation; creative AI problem-solving cases we’ve encountered; thoughts on Sonos’s struggles and future as a customer; and whether we use TikTok amid its potential US shutdown.… | Continue reading
The Camera Control button control on the iPhone 16 family seemed like a good idea, but the devil’s always in the details, isn’t it? Apple made too many promises, all of them in conflict with one another because they all rely on using the same tiny hardware feature to function.… | Continue reading
Bonnets off to the BBC, the trouble with headlines, Socrates on mountain skis, some slight existential dread about Mac software, irrational love of old computers, Apple’s smart home strategy for 2025, and the long wait for some AI features.… | Continue reading
The Verge’s Abigail Bassett profiles Watch Duty, the remarkable nonprofit app that’s become a must-download utility during the Los Angeles fires: Watch Duty is unique in the tech world in that it doesn’t care about user engagement, time spent, or ad sales. … | Continue reading
One of the consequences of switching to a laptop from a desktop is that my old method of cloning my disk daily has been thrown out of whack.… | Continue reading
Will Carroll joins for a mega Sports Corner: Fubo meets Hulu to enable Venu, Netflix goes full force into live sports, how football dominates American TV, NFL announcers, and our TV picks!… | Continue reading
Meta ditches third-party fact-checking, making unsightly TVs more attractive, the tyranny of always-on phone displays, and the robot vacuum of your nightmares.… | Continue reading
We’re not mad, Tim, we’re just disappointed. Also, we’re mad.… | Continue reading
Lex Friedman’s dual-desk setup, now (again) with treadmill. I’m writing this article at 2.6 miles per hour. Fifteen years ago(!), I wrote an article for Macworld about upgrading to a standing desk.… | Continue reading
I was literally using Script Debugger yesterday to inspect variables. Mark Alldritt & Shane Stanley of Late Night Software: We are announcing the retirement of Script Debugger as a product. … | Continue reading
On Monday I complained about Apple’s response to Apple Intelligence making mistaken summaries of news headlines. But here’s the funny thing: large-language models are actually pretty good at writing news headlines.… | Continue reading
The BBC, following up on two reports of Apple Intelligence summaries that transformed its own headlines into factually inaccurate text, got a public response from Apple: Apple has said it will update, rather than pause, a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that has generate … | Continue reading
A new year dawns! We consider what it has in store for Apple and why the company’s A.I. features need to be judged critically. Then we turn back the clock to 2000 and consider the moment when Mac OS X changed everything.… | Continue reading
Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the unveiling of Mac OS X, and yeah, I wrote the cover story for Macworld. While I was working on a forthcoming piece celebrating that anniversary, I asked my friend James Thomson if he had a good link about his time working on the Dock, which … | Continue reading