It’s Myke’s last episode before paternity leave, so he and Jason draft Apple things they think will happen between now and his return.… | Continue reading
Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks.… | Continue reading
Matt Gemmell on switching back to the Mac after being iPad-only for a very long time: Suffice to say then, that this was not a dalliance. … | Continue reading
Just yesterday on our Six Colors podcast, I suggested it was high time for Apple and Netflix to make a deal to get Netflix content in the Apple TV app.… | Continue reading
Emma Roth at The Verge: Amazon’s Prime Video app just got a big update on Apple TV. The app is now better optimized for tvOS, allowing you to swipe on the Siri Remote to scroll through Prime Video’s shows and movies as well as use touchpad gestures for fast-forwarding, rewinding, … | Continue reading
The robots are coming.… | Continue reading
Improvements we’d like in Apple’s Photos app after acquiring Pixelmator and Photomator, thoughts on Apple renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps, a realistic task for a robot, and whether we use AI tools and which ones.… | Continue reading
Unless you’re looking at tiles in the Sports tab, Apple’s TV apps would prefer to pretend that live TV is not a thing that exists. This is bad.… | Continue reading
Last year I read this piece by Brendon Bigley at Wavelengths about two low-cost handheld game emulators: I’d argue the Miyoo Mini Plus is the best handheld for the most people at any price point, as its form factor feels comfortable in the hand while still being a device that fit … | Continue reading
I didn’t want this one to pass unremarked upon, especially given that Stephen Hackett recently discussed this issue on Connected: Apple has finally unveiled a tool to merge Apple Accounts: You can choose to migrate apps, music, and other content you’ve purchased from Apple on a s … | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: This new longitudinal, virtual study aims to understand how data from technology — including Apple and third-party devices — can be used to predict, detect, monitor, and manage changes in participants’ health. … | Continue reading
Is the era of tech giants allowing their customers to secure their data coming to an end? We also discuss AltStore picking a fight with Apple, and Apple’s calculated response, rumors of robots, a rumor source’s apology, and the future of Ted Lasso.… | Continue reading
I had a problem. I wanted to put a stray E-Ink device, which I had sort of given up on, back into action. It has a color screen, but my attempts to write out color graphics were coming up empty.… | Continue reading
Jason was on Allison Sheridan’s CCATP podcast last week to discuss how he creates his Apple financial charts. It’s full of nerdy fun like how he decides when to use a serape chart vs.… | Continue reading
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Sobering story from the Washington Post‘s Joseph Menn (paywalled, unfortunately) that the United Kingdom’s government has mandated Apple provide a backdoor for access to end-to-end encrypted data in every country, combined with a gag order preventing the company from disclosing t … | Continue reading
Will Carroll returns on Super Bowl week, and we discuss Super Bowl 4K, Tubi, and the enduring power of communal live events. Also: ESPN Flagship and Fox’s streaming play, a new RSN is heard from, Apple and MLS make tweaks, your letters, and TV picks!… | Continue reading
What a wild story. While it’s been rumored that Apple researchers have been working on robots, now those researchers have published their results, including a pretty amazing video.… | Continue reading
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
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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
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